JON OLIVA'S PAIN to release "Festival"

Festival, the fourth full-length from JON OLIVA'S PAIN, will be released in North America on April 12, 2010 via AFM Records! The CD, issued in Europe on February 19, entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 87. Festival was recorded at Morrisound Recording with Tom Morris. Check out video footage of OLIVA commenting on the recording and the first three tracks here (cover art included): http://tinyurl.com/ycxgbuy.

Festival track-listing:

01. “Lies”
02. “Death Rides A Black Horse”
03. “Festival”
04. “Afterglow”
05. “Living On The Edge”
06. “Looking For Nothing”
07. “The Evil Within”
08. “Winter Haven”
09. “I Fear You”
10. “Now”

In related news, the Savatage mastermind and his bandmates — guitarist Tom McDyne, former Circle II Circle members Matt LaPorte (guitar), Kevin Rothney (bass), John Zahner (keyboards) and Chris Kinder (drums) — have begun to announce their headlining Fall tour in support of the new release. Highlighting the trek will be the live-DVD concert filming at the 013 in Tilburg, Holland on October 15. Tentatively due in early 2011, it will mark the first official live DVD release with OLIVA handling all the vocal duties. It promises to be a once-in-a-lifetime show featuring an assault of Savatage classics and the four JON OLIVA'S PAIN CDs.

The band has two US dates confirmed later this month with more TBA. The JOP summer festival season is also taking shape with Graspop and Bang Your Head confirmed (and more to come).

Check our TOUR DATES section for a list of dates and cities.

http://www.jonoliva.net

Darren Cowan

Darren Michael Cowan is a veteran Heavy Metal journalist for over twenty years. He has written for over a dozen publications including print and the Web. Cowan has interviewed hundreds of bands including King Diamond on Metal Centre. Cowan runs his own publicity company; Shapeshifter PR. Cowan is a bass player and song writer.