After a splitting during the 1990s, the band, led by sometime Co Wicklow resident Joey Tempest, are back with an album recorded at iconic Abbey Road studios and an upcoming Dublin date. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).Further hits would also follow for the Swedes, including ‘Carrie’ and ‘Rock the Night’. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. You can also send an e-mail to with pertinent details. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. Read the entire interview at Sleaze Roxx.īLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. But, of course, it's flattering and it brings people into the band and people get curious about more songs so that's cool. Yeah, we knew it was special but we never had an idea that it would have a life of its own and there and still be played so much around the world. When we did our third album which we called "The Final Countdown", we thought it was special though and we wanted to open the album with it. I wrote it when I was still in college and that was only a small part of it - the riff, the main theme. Joey Tempest: Yeah, we were surprised and I was too. Sleaze Roxx: Did you ever think the song "The Final Countdown" would be a hit single when you finished it. David Cobb was very instrumental too in finding a vibe for the record that you could listen back on in a couple years and you know that album has got the sound. We did pan keyboard and guitar more left and right on this record like they used to do more in the '60s and '70s so small changes like that make us evolve and make us do different things. It sounds better, and it sounds better in our music on the radio. We use organic sounding keyboards, not synthesizers, which has been a natural progression for us. We used Hammond a bit more than normal keyboards. On the last record, for instance, we introduced the mellotron which is an old keyboard and we just vibed on a new version of it. So they're slightly different - all of our records. We dig deeper and find other ways of doing it. Joey Tempest: It's like an organic natural progression in a way because we get tired of certain sounds and we move on. What goes into the differences in sound that you've accommodated over the years? Sleaze Roxx: Over the years, I've noticed that there's been a change in EUROPE's sound. I don't want to do it to trick people or anything like that. We can't stop." And there's a lot of fans coming to see you and they change their minds. I understand some bands - they think they're going to do their final tour and then they feel like, "Oh, no. But you never know! If we do it, it will be the final tour because we don't believe in saying something and then doing something else. I doubt if we're ever going to do something like that. We're going to keep going as long as we feel like it's fun. We've said we're never going to say we're doing the final tour. Joey Tempest: Now, we've sort of been joking about that a little bit because there are so many bands that have said they've done the final tour for twenty years now. What keeps a band like EUROPE going together and if you ever decided on a final tour would you announce it like that? How does that look for you? Sleaze Roxx: With bands like MÖTLEY CRÜE, for example, calling it quits and going out publicly. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Metal Headz Media of Sleaze Roxx recently conducted an interview with vocalist Joey Tempest of Swedish hard rockers EUROPE.
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