In 2007, Malmsteen was honored in the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II . Players can receive the “Yngwie Malmsteen” award by hitting 1000 or more notes in succession. February 2008 saw the replacement of singer Doogie White with former Iced Earth and Judas Priest and current Beyond Fear…
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Kent released the compilation Box 1991–2008 , featuring all their previous studio albums and previously unreleased material, in all Nordic countries on 29 October 2008.
In October 2008, their 2002 song ” VinterNoll2 ” was included in Guitar Hero World Tour , becoming the first and to date only Swedish-language song to be included in a Guitar Hero game.
At a concert in Norrköping on 1 August 2008, Berg said: “This is perhaps the best song that has ever been written in Swedish, it’s called “Mannen i den vita hatten”.”
On 23 July 2008, Europe did a co-headlining concert with Whitesnake in Padua , Italy. During Whitesnake’s performance of their encore ” Still of the Night “, Joey Tempest joined David Coverdale on stage for the last chorus. In August 2008 Europe was the opening act for Deep Purple for…
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Kent’s 2008 summer tour began on 27 June.
Easy Action reunited for a gig at the Sweden Rock Festival in 2006. This was followed by several shows in late 2007, including opening for Twisted Sister . In April 2008, the band went in the studio with producer Chris Laney to record a new studio album. In 2011, bassist…
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On 30 March 2008, guitarist Anders Göthberg committed suicide in Stockholm by jumping from the Västerbron bridge. The band performed together for the last time at the Way Out West Festival in Gothenburg in honour of Anders Göthberg. During the concert, they played their newly written song “Hold On to…
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On 26 January 2008, Europe did a semi-acoustic live concert at Nalen in Stockholm, calling the event Almost Unplugged . The band was accompanied by a string quartet and played reworked versions of its own songs, as well as cover versions of songs by bands that have influenced Europe’s sound…
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During the summer, Kent toured Scandinavia, first with a short spring tour at the end of May (24 May–2 June) and then at festivals and own concerts in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark during June, July and August. During this summer tour they started their concerts with an old unreleased…
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