{"id":16930,"date":"2017-03-03T08:17:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T13:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=16930"},"modified":"2017-03-03T08:17:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T13:17:11","slug":"the-jurassic-invasion-hevisaurus-plan-to-take-over-north-american-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=16930","title":{"rendered":"The Jurassic Invasion: Hevisaurus Plan to Take Over North American… and Beyond!"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you get when you cross epic power metal and dinosaurs?\u00a0 Easy.\u00a0 You get HEVISAURUS<\/strong>.\u00a0 I wrote about Hevisaurus late last year<\/strong><\/a> as they were a band that really captured me.\u00a0 My good friend in Finland, Maria, has been taking her grandkids to see Hevisaurus<\/strong> and she told me all about them and since then I haven’t been able to put them down.\u00a0 Since their inception in 2008, Hevisaurus started to become somewhat of a global phenomenon.\u00a0 The band already has a spinoff in Argentina, a hotbed of metal fans. That band is called \u201cHeavysaurios\u201d and sings versions of the Finnish songs in Spanish. According to the Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/a>, this year Sony Music Finland, the band\u2019s label, will launch both an English-language Hevisaurus in the U.S. and a German version, with local performers singing translated versions of the songs. The original band plans to tour China this spring.<\/p>\n

Hevisaurus<\/strong> was formed in 2008 by a group of friends in Finland\u2019s heavy metal scene, including producers Nino Laurenne and Pasi Heikkil\u00e4 and their songs address such critical issues as food, drinking milk, and taking a bath.\u00a0 Over the course of seven albums, musicians from many of Finland\u2019s best-known metal groups, including HIM<\/strong> and Nightwish<\/strong>, have played with Hevisaurus<\/strong>. Their top hit features a riff from Gus G., the Greek guitarist who plays with Ozzy Osbourne<\/strong>. Speaking of Ozzy Osbourne, Hevisaurus lead singer (who does his interviews in character as Mr. Hevisaurus) had this to say in a recent NME<\/strong> <\/a>interview:<\/p>\n

“Heavy metal is simply the best music on the planet! I think Ozzy Osbourne is great. He looks like us!”<\/em><\/p>\n

I can only say that you can bet your ass that I will be up front jamming out at the first Hevisaurus show that I can.\u00a0 According to my wife, at least I will be among a room full of kids with the same mentality as mine!\u00a0 Let’s get Hevi!!!!<\/p>\n