On August 26th Edguy will release their long awaited new album "Age Of The Joker". The journalists who have been given the chance to listen to the new songs have already gone crazy.  Now the time has come for your exclusive chance to check out excerpts from the new album. All you have to do is register here at the official site with a valid email address and login to the Hellfire Club section to stream the first part of the listening session. If you're already registered, just login, choose "Hellfire Club" on the menu bar and then click on "Music".  It's as simple as that!

The album will feature 11 songs with a total running time of over one hour. The limited edition Digipack will contain a bonus disc with 6 additional songs.

The album tracklist reads as follows:

  1. Robin Hood
  2. Nobody's Hero
  3. Rock Of Cashel
  4. Pandora's Box
  5. Breathe
  6. Two Out Of Seven
  7. Faces In The Darkness
  8. The Arcane Guild
  9. Fire On The Downline
10. Behind The Gates To Midnight World
11. Every Night Without You

Tracklist for the limited edition bonus disc:

1. God Fallen Silent
2. Aleister Crowley Memorial Boogie
3. Cum On Feel The Noize (Slade-Cover)
4. Standing In The Rain
5. Robin Hood (single version)
6. Two Out Of Seven (single version)

A few weeks ago a few journalists were given the chance to listen to a couple of songs from the forthcoming new Edguy masterpiece "Age Of The Joker" (in stores on August 26th). Below you can read what the journalists had to say right after the musical journey:

"Soft and heavy, memorable and noble. The "Age Of The Joker" is a really vivid age." Rock Hard (Ger) / Andreas Stappert

"Surprising and renowned moments follow one another. Edguy flip the bird at the Metalworld and record the album they want to. Cool!" - Metal Hammer (Ger) / Marc Halupczok

"Edguy step the Blues - variety is a top priority on "Age Of The Joker".  Heavy (Ger) / Martin Römpp

"A supremely diversified album, top-notch in both fields: high musical aspirations and entertainment." Rock It (Ger) / Andreas Schöwe

"Edguy master the balancing act between aspirations and catchiness with honors. A grand display of fireworks with catchy chorusses, great melodies and exciting details galore. Heavy guitars, excellent vocals and exciting songs make "Age of The Joker" a hit." Legacy (Ger) / Andreas Schulz

"First impression? Amazing! You keep waiting for something that you have heard before, but I just couldn't find anything. Trademarks? Yes! Repetition or copy? No! To sum it up: Amazing album, but I didn't expect anything other than that!" Hardline (Ger) / Jenny Klünder

"It’s time to rock the charts again!“ Scream (Nor) / Anders Odsberg

"A suitable epic mix of Edguy’s power metal roots, contemporary rock choruses and enough experimentation to keep things fresh.“ Powerplay (UK) / Sam Khaneka

"In between two massive epic length tracks, lies a paradise of catchiness. Their experimental parts are skinning, but they took care about proper needs of the fans in accessible songs as well.“ Rock Tribune (BE) / Vera Matthissens

"The "Age of the Joker" album is a really solid, well composed, filled with variations, work. It will most certainly be a highlight of the year for all Heavy Metal fans. Much better than "Tinnitus Sanctus" and with an interesting 80s rock touch. Edguy follows its own way, and this is good.“ Rock Hard (F) / Francois Blanc

"Very different, but very similar to anything they’ve done before. They will surprise you… again.“ Metal Hammer (ES) + The Metal Circus (ES) / Sergi Ramos

"Cool and funny record with Sascha on board. Everybody can expect smash songs from heavy Metal to Folk Medieval Music. This is Edguy that we love. Tobi is a unique metal person!" Spark (CZ) / David Havlena

On August 26th Edguy's new studio album "Age Of The Joker" will hit the stores. The album was produced by Sascha Paeth and Edguy at Peppermint-Park Studios in Hannover and Gatestudio, Wolfsburg.

  1. ROBIN HOOD
  2. NOBODY'S HERO
  3. ROCK OF CASHEL
  4. PANDORA'S BOX
  5. BREATHE
  6. TWO OUT OF SEVEN
  7. FACES IN THE DARKNESS
  8. THE ARCANE GUILD
  9. FIRE ON THE DOWNLINE
10. BEHIND THE GATES TO MIDNIGHT WORLD
11. EVERY NIGHT WITHOUT YOU

The album has a running time of well over one hour. To receive more information soon register at the "Hellfire Club section".

"The "Age of the Joker“ album is a really solid, well composed, filled with variations, work. It will most certainly be a highlight of the year for all Heavy Metal fans. Much better than "Tinnitus Sanctus“ and with an interesting 80s rock touch. Edguy follows its own way, and this is good!“ Rock Hard (F) / Francois Blanc

This is your chance to be among the first fans worldwide to see the amazing new cover artwork for AGE OF THE JOKER. All you have to do is register now to get access to the mysterious, forbidden, and wicked section of this website: The Hellfire Club! It's all free, and if you sign up now you will also be able to have an exclusive pre-listening of the album shortly, we will keep you updated on what's going on in the Edguy camp (it's called a newsletter, we will NOT spam you with bullshit, only with real news!).

Furthermore you will get access to a lot of features that other people don't have access to, such as unseen photos, you will get the new album tracklist shortly, and as soon as concerts are confirmed you will always be informed first, BEFORE the shows are sold out! So, if we'd be you, we'd immediately click here and register now!

The time has come: In September EDGUY, one of Germany‘s biggest internationally acclaimed guitar driven bands in recent music history will set out on the road again in support of their forthcoming album “AGE OF THE JOKER“ (worldwide release in August 2011). What is going to be EDGUY‘s 9th studio effort will also mark the band‘s first ‘real‘ album in almost three years; three years in which the band has toured Europe, Asia, Australia, North-, Central- and South America. And it‘s been the activities in those years that had a determining influence on forthcoming tour plans: After last year‘s chart-breaking collaboration between EDGUY vocalist Tobias Sammet and Klaus Meine of the SCORPIONS in “AVANTASIA“ and EDGUY‘s successful arena tour as the SCORPIONS' special guest, now it‘s time for another ‘family internal‘ constellation to kick ass:

“Kottak“ (the band fronted by legendary SCORPIONS drummer James Kottak) will be supporting EDGUY during the European leg of the tour. More updates coming soon...

Metal Hammer, Rock It & Musix present:

EDGUY - AGE OF THE JOKER EUROPEAN TOUR 2011

Special Guest: Kottak (feat. James Kottak, Scorpions)

Sept 23 - SWE - Malmö, KB
Sept 24 - SWE - Gothenborg, Trädgarn
Sept 25 - SWE - Stockholm, Tyrol
Sept 27 - GER - Hamburg, Docks
Sept 28 - GER - Berlin, Columbia Club
Sept 30 - GER - Essen, Grugahalle
Oct 01 - GER - Fulda, Wartenberg Oval
Oct 02 - GER - Bamberg, Arena
Oct 04 - GER - Filderstadt, Filharmonie
Oct 06 - CZE - Prague, KD Vitavska
Oct 07 - GER - Langen, Stadthalle
Oct 10 - ITA - Milan, Alcatraz
Oct 11 - SUI - Pratteln, Z7
Oct 12 - FRA - Lyon, Transbordeur
Oct 14 - ESP - Madrid, Heineken
Oct 15 - ESP - Barcelona, Apollo
Oct 16 - ESP - Bilbao, Rock Star
Oct 18 - GER - Saarbrücken, Garage
Oct 19 - FRA - Paris, Bataclan
Oct 21 - GER - Memmingen, Kaminwerk
Oct 22 - GER - Straubing, Messehalle
Oct 23 - CZE - Zlin, Rock Cafe

Tickets for the German shows at www.metaltix.de

After a successful world tour with more than 100 concerts all over the globe in support of their latest release "Tinnitus Sanctus" in 2008, Edguy have entered the studio to record a new album. Still under the influence of their arena tour as special guests of "the Scorpions" and the latest "Avantasia" world tour (featuring Tobias Sammet and Felix Bohnke), Edguy feel it's about time to squeeze their energy on tape in a recording studio again. This time the band has chosen the famous Peppermint-Park in Hannover (Scorpions, Phil Collins), according to the band " a recording temple with a tremendously great sounding room". Tobias comments: "We have chosen the Peppermint Park to record the basics there. I had done a few little bits and pieces for Avantasia there, but it's so great to record drums and stuff like Hammond B3 with a big bad fat mean Leslie there. The room is big and the sound is mean! We were always striving for a powerful but natural sound. I guess we had a good sound recently, but I think there is always room to improve. The more I listen to what's going on in the Heavy Metal world these days, the more I long for drums that sound like drums. I want them to sound powerful without sounding like Atari. Sascha and I came to the conclusion that we have to start from scratch and do things the way they have to be done, not the fashionable way. I don't want a distorted master-copy, just so it is loud enough on an iPhone or on PC-speakers. If you talk to your most fancy producer he will say something like: "Well, it's the sign of the times, you have to be able to compete in the loudness war..." What the fuck?! If I want it to be loud I turn up the stereo. I want dynamics, room, a real big sound, not that distorted trendy compression. Why don't we all move back a little and record great sounding music, not loud sounding music? Do a Google search for "loudness war" and you'll see what I mean. Whatever, the new songs sound great, we have thirteen of them, and we'll pick maybe ten and put them on the album. We have anthemic melodies, although it's not kitsch. When you record anthemic music, you tend to be dangerously close to kitsch, it's a fine line and I think we balance on that fine line pretty well. To cut a long story a little insignificantly shorter: I just think it is great, and that's what counts. Real music, you know? We'll keep you informed, if you want it or not! ;-) - Tobi