Lord of the Lost’s Chris Harms at ESC 2023
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After the last place at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, the German participants Lord Of the Lost are in a good mood in a Facebook post – and thank you on their social media accounts for the “great experience” in Liverpool, UK. For the group around frontman Chris Harms it is now, so to speak, from the ESC world back home to the metal world – and there are some bigger things on the program for the Hamburg team that have nothing to do with the Eurovision Song Contest .
Shows with Iron Maiden, Amon Amarth and festival concerts
“So we’re going back to our old lives and looking forward to an amazing summer of festivals, lots of sold out shows and a second tour with IRON MAIDEN,” the band wrote on Facebook. According to the tour calendar of the official Iron Maiden website, Lord Of The Lost will be opening up for the British heavy metal icons ten times — once in Tampere, Finland, seven times in England and twice in Germany (June 29 in Frankfurt, August 1 in Germany). Munich). The tour schedule for 2023 is already full in other respects too: shows such as those at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig as well as festivals in Poland, Austria, France, Germany (including Wacken Open Air), the Czech Republic and Finland are on the agenda Program.
Shows with Swedish melodic death metal band Amon Amarth and German power metal group Powerwolf are also scheduled for this year. A slew of headlining shows are also on the touring schedule — after all, it’s to promote the late 2022 album Blood & Glitter (released via Napalm Records). All dates of the band can be found on their site.
Sporting losers
In any case, Lord Of The Lost take the defeat in a sporty way. “We leave Liverpool tomorrow knowing that we couldn’t have put more effort, time and love into competing here! And now the big question remains: Who will Germany send next year to break the curse?” writes the band — and wishes all of this year’s participants all the best. The Facebook comments seem to agree that this loss had nothing to do with the band or the song itself. Seems there’s no need to worry that the group will be overly hung over by the ESC fiasco (or shall we say ESC curse?).