Greece's FIREWIND belong to the most impressing and hard-working melodic metal bands of our time and their brand-new album "The Premonition" is sure to reinforce the band's unstoppable rise to the worldwide top within their scene. Accompanied by flawless media and fan reactions, the band's 2006 album masterpiece and 4th album all-together, "Allegiance", could be seen as their break-through release: "Allegiance" managed to enter official sales charts in Japan as well as peaking at 10 in the band's home-country Greece, remaining in the charts for a solid 9 weeks, while the album's two singles "Falling To Pieces" and "Breaking The Silence" climbed up to positions 11 and 16 respectively in Greece.

The band's incessant string of touring for "Allegiance" all over Europe, North America and Japan alongside bands such as Dragonforce, Angra, All That Remains, Kamelot or Sonata Arctica, has not only lead to add worldwide profile and an excellent reputation as class live-act to FIREWIND but also added significant power to the band's songwriting skills and will to continue co ... (read more)