We wanted you to perform to our cover song »Rebellion«. We received very cool clips and present the result today. Even Chris Boltendahl from Grave Digger joined the clans! This is the perfect introduction to our Wacken show tomorrow (friday) evening. Rain or shine!
In October we will have our first gig in Moscow. Awesome! See Dates for Details.
Tomorrow we play at Dong Open Air. Our stagetime is 8 pm. See you there!
2010-07-11 // Van Canto is singing along
BLIND GUARDIAN
We covered the Bard’s Song on our hero album. We recorded our last two albums in Blind Guardian’s Twilight Hall Studios and had the honor to have Hansi joining us on Take to the Sky. In October we will tour together.
Now it’s the other way around and a VC voice found its way on the new Blind Guardian Album: Stef is singing the background choirs, very bombastic, as expected! It’s quite hard to sing BG choirs 6 days long! Find some impressions in this youtube video.
The new Blind Guardian album will be released July 30th, you can prelisten all songs on this e-card.
TARJA TURUNEN
We have a special appearance on the opener of Tarja’s new solo album. A very bizarre vocal part, arranged and performed by Van Canto. The album comes out on September 3rd.
GRAVE DIGGER
Stef and Basti did the background choirs on the new Grave Digger album together with Hacky Hackmann. This will be an awesome heavy metal album. We are really looking forward to join the stage with Grave Digger on Wacken 2010.
2010-06-02 // New Festivals
We’ll play our first show in Italy! We are confirmed for the Gods of Metal Festival in Turin. Furthermore we’ll play this year’s SummerBreeze-Festival. See you there!
2010-04-23 // Blind Guardian Support
Wir will support Blind Guardian on most of their German Tourdates. Great thing!!!! Rakkatakka!
Fr 01.10.2010 Germany Ludwigsburg Arena
Sa 02.10.2010 Germany Trier Arena
So 03.10.2010 Germany Langen Stadthalle
Fr 08.10.2010 Germany Bamberg Jako Arena
Sa 09.10.2010 Germany Duesseldorf Philippshalle
So 10.10.2010 Germany München Zenith
Mi 20.10.2010 Germany Berlin Huxleys
Do 21.10.2010 Germany Osnabrück Halle Gartlage
2010-04-21 // Festivals and Shop
We added some cool festival dates, e.g. the Blue Balls Festival together with Apocalyptica and the Wacken Open Air where we’ll play as special guest for Grave Diggers Anniversary Show.
Furthermore our shop is online again with nice new stuff. Check it out.
2010-04-15 // After the Tour of Force
The Tour of Force has been a great success. We had fantastic crowds on all 13 gigs. 5 venues were sold out completely, so was the final gig of the tour in Zeche Carl, Essen in front of more than 600 crazy Van Cantians.
Thanks to all metalheads joining the tribe. We will now focus on festivals and put up more gigs in the second half of the year.
We’ll put many tourphotos online in the next days, you can allready check Andrea’s Page now.
2010-03-23 // Last Night of the Kings
Springtime is there. Great thing when we think of our Tour of Force starting this Friday.
If you want to have a look at what we’ve done during the winter, take this: Last Night of the Kings auf Youtube
2010-03-14 // Charts
TRIBE OF FORCE entered the german official album charts on rank 83. Thanks to all fans buying an album and not just copying it. You keep us going!
2010-03-08 // Festivals
We updated our „DATES“-Section with our festival gigs on Metalfests Europe, Dong, RageAgainstRacism and Ragnarök. See you there!
2010-03-02 // Tribe of Force
Tribe of Force, our third album was released in Europe on Feb 26th. Worldwide release will be March 9th.
If you want to own the LIMITED EDITION (including a Bonus DVD with our show at Wacken 2008) should order the CD now! Tribe of Force at Amazon
2010-02-06 // Rebellion in our minds!
Be part of the Van Canto Rebellion videoclip!
We are looking for the greatest clan, the most powerful tribe!
Listen to our cover version of Grave Digger’s Rebellion in our current widget. Then make a movie of yourself and your friends performing this song and send us your clip!
One word about our releaseparties. On these parties our album will be played and the wacken-vid will be viewed. VAN CANTO WILL NOT PLAY ANY GIGS THERE! Even if we wanted we couldn’t be at three places at a time ;-) If you want to see us live, join our Tour of Force, starting end of march. See you there.
We confirmed the first two festivals!
Our appearance on Fiesta Pagana will be our first date in Switzerland since October 2009!
Furthermore we are happy to visit RockHarz again! A special gig for us, because the RockHarz team was the first to give us a chance to play in front of a big audience 2007! Thank you! Tickets: ticket69.de.
2010-01-19 // Tourdates
Hi there, our german tourdates are fixed now.
We are currently working on some shows in other European Countries and even overseas for the second half of the year. Stay tuned. We’ll meet somewhere!
2010-01-18 // Tribe of Force Details
Here is the tracklist and some details concerning our new album:
1) Lost Forever
2) To Sing a Metal Song
3) One To Ten (featuring Victor Smolski / Rage)
4) I am human
5) My Voice
6) Rebellion (Grave Digger Cover, featuring Chris Boltendahl)
7) Last Night of the kings
8) Tribe of Force
9) Water.Fire.Heaven.Earth.
10) Master of Puppets (Metallica Cover)
11) Magic Taborea (new Soundtrack of Runes of Magic with Orchestra)
12) Hearted (featuring Tony Kakko / Sonata Arctica)
13) Frodo’s Dream
2010-01-12 // Kings of Metal
For all those waiting for the release of TRIBE OF FORCE in feb / march we published our video of KINGS OF METAL. Much metal, a giant stage and a lot of fire. That’s how the metal gods like it. Enjoy!
2010-01-08 // From TV to the stage
Happy new year to all Van Cantians!
After our TV show yesterday (with quite a strange sound without our vocal-guitarsolo?!) we are happy to focus on our club tour, which leads us through Germany in the first step. We will visit some festivals later this year and try to play gigs in other countries as well. Stay tuned. Thanks!
2009-12-16 // Tribe of Force
Our third album will be called TRIBE OF FORCE and it will contain 13 songs. Take a look at the front cover here.
The album will be released on the following dates:
24.02.10 – Finland, Spain
26.02.10 – Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, France, Italy, Sweden
01.03.10 – Rest of Europe
09.03.10 – USA/Canada
We’ll be starting our tour on March 26th, 2010 (take a look on our tourdates) and in summer 2010 we’ll be playing some major festivals.
2009-12-16 // Van Canto on German TV
2010 will be at least so exciting for us as 2009 has been so far. On January 7th you can see us on German TV station „Pro7“. At „Quatsch Comedy Club“ show, German comedians will see what it’s all about metal a capella.
2009-10-27 // And the winner is… Van Canto!
After a great show at female metal voices festival 7 in Belgium, we recieved the METAL FEMALE VOICES AWARD for the BEST NEWCOMER. Thanks to Phil (the founder of this great festival), to all our fans voting for us and of course to Inga for being female.
After Belgium we did a short trip with 3 more gigs in Switzerland and Germany. Great shows. We have the best fans in the world. Thank you!
We are now finishing recordings and hope to see you all on our gig with DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER (6.11. Schlachthof Wiesbaden).
2009-08-21 // New Album, New Label
We’re back in the studio again! After our successful tour we started working on our third studio album. Back in Twilight Hall Studios we are recording together with Charlie Bauerfeind.
The album will contain at least 11 own songs, and perhaps one or two bonus tracks. We will not do as many covers as on the last album, but at least one cover will find its way.
Napalm records will take care of the worldwide release in the beginning of 2010. Our first two albums finally will also be released worldwide then!
As soon as we have more information about songtitles, release and the next tour you will be able to read it here.
Until then we’re sending a message from the studio:
2009-07-23 // End of Tour
Our Hero Tour has ended with a terrific gig at the MCF. Thanks to all our fans for the power you gave us on our shows. For the rest of the summer we’re taking a vacation, but soon we’ll be back with fantastic news! Rakkatakka!
2009-05-30 // Live Details
Our gig on Bochum Total is scheduled on sunday, 5th july, 7.30 pm on the “Ringbühne”. Be there, the complete festival is free!
Soon we will be able to post more details about our gig on Manowar’s MagicCircle-Festival (July 18th, Loreley).
2009-05-12 // Metal Female Voices Awards
We’re playing Metale Female Voices Festival in Belgium on October 18th 2009. We are nominated for the Metale Female Voices Award in categories “best band” and “best newcomer”. Please visit www.metalfemalevoicesfest.be to vote for us. Thanks!
