Latvian Pagan metal masters SKYFORGER have been honoured in the "best rock album" category at the 15th annual Latvian Music Awards "Gada Balva" ceremony (the Latvian equivalent to the Grammy awards) for their latest album Kurbads, released on Metal Blade Records in the April of 2010!
The largest and oldest Latvian music awards show was held February 22, 2011 at the National Theatre in Riga, Latvia and was broadcasted live on the Latvian channel TV3.Check out the award moment here: http://goo.gl/jqw1M
It´s the first time a metal band has won this respectable Latvian music industry prize!
The Gada Balva music awards have been presented since 1994. A full list of nominees and other information about the awards are available by visiting http://www.gadabalva.lv
On the 18th of March there have also been the Latvian Metal Music Awards, organized by the local metal community and the results were determined by all Latvian metal fans via Internet voting.
SKYFORGER won the two categories they were nominated at:
1) BEST METAL ALBUM OF 2010
2) BEST METAL BAND OF 2010
Comments the band: "SKYFORGER would like to greatly thank everyone who voted for us and appreciated our music! Paldies visiem faniem!"
In other news SKYFORGER announce a line-up change. Guitar player Martins is too busy with his new job and therefore could not make any further commitments to the bands activities. Welcome new axeman Egons, who is also member of world famous Latvian post-folk band ILĢI ( http://www.myspace.com/ilgimusic).Comments SKYFORGER: "Egons is a professional musician who also works as a producer and recording engineer. He has a great working attitude and the band is already busy working on new songs."
Egons has already played his first major concert in France where SKYFORGER performed two shows in one day.
See some live videos from the Cernunnos festival in Paris:
Acoustic set: http://goo.gl/pGJG6
Metal concert: http://goo.gl/7Rscc
SKYFORGER summer schedule:
21/05/11 – LV - Liepaja - Liiv Riek etno/folk Festival
03/06/11 – DE – Bornstedt - Black Troll Festival
04/06/11 – HU – Budapest - Metalfest
18/06/11 – FR – Clisson - Hellfest Open Air
24/06/11 – LT – Varniai - Kilkim Zaibu Festival
08/07/11 – LV – Saldus - Saldus Saule Festival
13/08/11 – CZ - Jaromer - Brutal Assault Festival
20/08/11 – DE – Barth – Barther Metal Open Air
