TAROT: How To Celebrate 25 Years?

2011 will mark a quarter century since the release of Finnish metallers TAROT's The Spell Of Iron debut. To commemorate the event, the Hietala brothers plan to re-record said album. Bassist Marco Hietala (who also "moonlights" in NIGHTWISH) jokes that the artwork, where a hand holds a tarot card should be updated as well, to just a skeletal hand, "after all this time, that's all that's left!" At this point in time, they'd like to close out 2011 with a North American tour (their first)! Stay tuned for further developments.

Last April, Tarot's latest album, Gravity Of Light, entered the Finnish charts at #2, the band's highest ever chart position in Finland.