As promised we put the signed tour drumhead on ebay. We had more than 50 participants and got a final result of more than 1000 Euro! To be exact: It has been 1030,01 Euro that we already transfered to Medecines Sans Frontieres. Thanks to all to helped us with this and special thanks to Malte and Lisa. We met them to hand over the drumhead last Saturday.

Meanwhile, there are no real news concerning Peer at the theater, it seems we have to wait a little bit more. Nevertheless we already chose a winner for the „A storm to come“ canvas poster. Friederice looks very happy with her new picture on the wall. We hope that we can present more news concerning Peer Returns soon.

Happy new year, Van Cantians! ;-)

Our wintertour is over. Thanks to all fans coming to our concerts, we had more than 3500 visitors at 6 shows!

We are very proud of what we have created since 2006 and we are happy that we are allowed to enjoy all these unbelievable moments. We have never expected such a huge response to our music. At the last show in Düsseldorf we played in front of 1000 people, some of them from Sweden, Norway, Holland and Poland. That’s awesome! Thank you Van Cantians!

Special thanks to our special guests from Orden Ogan and In Legend and of course thanks to the crew for making the days thrilling and relaxed at the same time. Watch our surfing Front-Sly on the photo!

As promised we put our drumhead online at ebay. We want to donate the final price for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for which Basti is working in times he is not drumming like a maniac. We are happy for every bid!

We will now take a live break, but we’ll be back soon with news from the Van Canto universe. Rakkatakka!

Looking for a Christmas present? We’re on tour in Germany end of December, beginning of January, together with Orden Ogan and In Legend. Tickets at Metaltix.

Thanks to all Van Cantians voting for us. We reached 2nd place!!! As soon as we have new information about if and how the whole theater thing is going to happen, we will post it here.

You all know A Storm to Come, the bonus track of the current album Break the Silence which is a preview for our transmedia project Peer Returns. We’ll provide some news on our ideas of a multimedia production on this one in December. But now we also have the chance to bring this work on stage in a german theater!

The famous Thalia-Theater in Hamburg runs a voting, which pieces should be played in the next season..

If you want to support us (and bring metal a cappella to the theater’s stage), write an Email to spielplanwahl@thalia-theater.de. Tell your name, your adress, the german name of our piece „Peers Heimkehr“ and the names of the authors (Hopf, Schmidt, Emig).

Among all those who send us a copy of their Mail to thalia@peer-returns.com we will raffle the poster picture of „A storm to come“, printed on canvas and signed by all participants.

Rakkatakka!

Get tickets for our winter gigs with Orden Ogan and In Legend at Metaltix.

• 28.12.2011: Pirmasens, Quasimodo (D)
• 29.12.2011: Augsburg, Spectrum (D)
• 04.01.2012: Ludwigsburg, Rofa (D)
• 05.01.2012: Osnabrück, Rosenhof (D)
• 06.01.2012: Hameln, Sumpfblume (D)
• 07.01.2012: Düsseldorf, Zakk (D)

Watch the winning video of the RockTaborea contest here:

Second and third place are also great clips:
Betrayed - 2
Betrayed - 3

The Out of the Dark Tour is over! Thanks to all Van Cantians, especially the new ones from countries we have never been before. You rock! And thanks to Tristania, Serenity, Xandria, Amberian dawn and the Crew for having a great time together.

We will play some german dates and the end of the year, together with Orden Ogan and In Legend. Check the Dates Section for Details.

Hello from Milano!

We are in Italy and really looking forward to the show tonight. Prague and Budapest have been great and we met many new Van Cantians. Good news from Germany: Break the Silence entered the German album charts at rank 23! Thanks to all those who bought an album and not just copied it.

We had a great start of our Out of the Dark tour in Karlsruhe. Now we are in Prague and are really looking forward to playing in this sold out venue. In the meantime, you can check our new video: Primo Victoria

Our out of the Dark Tour starts on Friday. The show in Prague is sold out. The show in Paris was cancelled by the local promoter due to production reasons.

Tomorrow Break The Silence will be released officially.
We are happy to share our voices with you and hope to see you on tour.

Check our international tourdates:

1.10.2011

Abaton, Prague (CZ)

2.10.2011

Club 202, Budapest (H)

4.10.2011

Alcatraz, Milan (I)

5.10.2011

Z7, Pratteln (CH)

6.10.2011

Le Bataclan, Paris (F)

7.10.2011

Patronaat, Haarlem (NL)

8.10.2011

Biebob, Vosselaar (B)

9.10.2011

O2 Academy Islington, London (GB)

Download our song BETRAYED for free and create your own video

Hello,

watch our brandew videoclip „The Seller of Souls“:

The album „Break the Silence“ will be released September 23rd and can be preordered at Amazon .

Hi,

watch the first teaser for our new album:

If you own a smartphone, download the Napalm Records App and have a listen to a complete song - The Seller of Souls. IPhone, etc. Android

And watch this Trailer of the Out of the Dark Tour.

You can preorder the limited Edition (incl. 3 Bonustracks + Posterbooklet) at Amazon.

…until BREAK THE SILENCE will be released.

To get the Limited Edition, you can preorder at Amazon now: Break the Silence at Amazon

Van Cantians!

Our new album is called „Break the Silence“
and will be released by the End of September.
Here is the tracklist:

1. If I Die In Battle
2. The Seller Of Souls
3. Primo Victoria (feat. Joakim Broden / Sabaton / Sabaton Cover)
4. Dangers In My Head
5. Black Wings Of Hate
6. Bed Of Nails (Alice Cooper Cover)
7. Spelled In Waters (feat. Marcus Siepen / Blind Guardian)
8. Neuer Wind
9. The Higher Flight
10. Master Of The Wind (Manowar Cover)
11. Betrayed (Bonus Track)
12. Bad To The Bone (Bonus Track / Running Wild Cover)
13. A Storm To Come (Bonus Track)

Hope to see you at Wacken!

Hi Van Cantians,

we finished drum recordings for the new album and are currently recording vocals. The new one will be released by the end of September.

The release will be followed by a European Tour with 4 other bands. So we finally hope to get to see all Van Cantians in France, England, Hungary, Czech Republic, Italy, Holland, Belgium and so on! See the Dates page for details!

Hi,

we have finished songwriting and will start with the drum recordings in 2 weeks.

To prepare our festival appearances, we will play our 100. gig as a Van Canto Fanclub private party in Bad Kreuznach (Germany) on May 28th. If you want to join this event you should become a member of our fanclub. Visit www.rakka-takka.de or write an email to info@rakka-takka.de for more info. See you!