On saturday, november 2nd the American bands Savatage and Vicious Rumors will be playing in hardrockcenter Scum in Katwijk. This 'concert of the year'will be opened by Vicious Rumors, a band, in existence since 1985, that has delivered four incredibly great albums. One of them was "Soldiers Of The Night', in 1985 on Mike Varney's Shrapnel label.

A spectacular album thanks to the presence of the at the time still unknown star guitarist Vinnie Moore.
But following the release of this LP Moore left the band and was replaced by Mark McGee.
Singer Gary St. Pierre also had to step out and was followed up by Carl Albert.
With this line-up the next album "Digital Dictator "was recorded, followed by an extended US tour and a sublime performance on the Aardschokdag in 1989.
The next album by the San Francisco quintet was simply entitled 'Vicious Rumors', again a very strong album that got them a spot at the Dynamo Open Air festival.
Recently, their latest work was released which was also the reason for the world tour, 'Welcome To The Ball'. Fans of great hardrock with lots of guitars can't afford to miss this one !

After Vicious Rumors, it's time for Savatage (see picture), a band that has been around for several years, but hasn't yet had a breakthrough.
The brothers Criss and Jon Oliva are the creative brain behind Savatage; together with drummer Steve Wacholz they form the core of the band.
Apart from the fact that bassist Keith Collins was replaced by John Middleton in 1985, the line-up has been constant.
Savatage already have an entire list of albums to their name, amongst them the legendary debut 'Sirens", 'The Dungeons Are Calling', 'Power Of the Night', 'Hall Of The Mountain King', 'Fight For The Rock'and 'Gutter Ballet'.
With the last one brand new in the record stores, they performed as headliner at the prestigeous Dynamo Open Air Festival in 1989.
Before this tour will start an up until now nameless LP will be released, that will be promoted during this smashing Double Bill.

Starting 8:00 pm the doors of our new building at the Noordduinseweg in Katwijk will be open, and tickets will be only Dfl. 17,50. Make sure you're not too late !

[ translation: Ellen Bakvis ]