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"Frank Bittermann's Ironage" (= F.B.I.) was a kinda solo project from southern Germany (Stuttgart area?), initiated by the bass player Frank Bittermann during the early 90's. Ex-Tyran' Pace/Gammaray shouter Ralf Scheepers followed the sign, as well as former MSG drummer Bodo Schopf and ex-Rough keyboarder Mats Ulm. Armin Sabol played the guitars on the MCD "Hell on wheels" (500 copies), recorded in February '93, whose title track sounds slightly like Priest's "Ram it down". The rest of the 4 songs tends into a more classic Heavy Rock direction though. Doesn't look like the project got continued afterwards.

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Minotaur's Jörg Bock during 1990 tried to start a solo project with the name Faceless and wanted to record a Promo 7" till the end of that year, together with other local Hamburg musicians. Seems, the project was just shortlived as that single was never released as we do know. Further info is welcome nevertheless.

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Another promising band from Sande that was just around for a too short time, but at least could produce two classic Metal LP's in the mid 80's, surprisingly featuring a female guitarist. The band was founded in June 1983 and already in November had plans to record a single. But being already in the studio, the guys quickly recognized that drummer and vocalist had to be exchanged quickly. Peer "Michael P. Cube" Würfel (drums) and Reent "Randy Son" Fröhlich (vocals) was added and already in February '84 the "Heavy Metal power play" Demo was recorded, that was good enough for Mausoleum Records to sign the band immediately. In a way "As a matter of..." could be seen as the Heavy Metal version of Accept, due to Reent's voice that sounded close to Udo Dirkschneider's, but Fact just acted way heavier, delivering in places NWOBHM sound combined with the well known german heaviness. Same picture on the band's second album "Without warning", that Axel Thubeauville produced for his Earthshaker label in Roctober '85. Raw typically german Metal noise, heavily Accept influenced is swinging the scepter and might be the right equivalent for all those who like the Accept-ish Metal but Accept themselves still was too much Hard Rock rooted. After the album it became silent around Fact, but in 1987 one final, lesser known 4-song promo demo was recorded with a new singer, only known as Mike so far. Supposedly it was a bit more melodic in style without being considered 'commercial' and included titles like "Locked Up In A Cage", "Chinese Wall" and "Lawless". In early '88 ex-Brainfever Horst Neumann replaced their vocalist Michael Feyer, who went on to sing for Fandango. Later that year then parts of the band united with ex-Diamond Breaker guys to form the successful Crossroads, white guitarist Michael Otto formed the slightly less remembered Douglaz AM.

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As far as I know these guys from the greater Coburg area only released a single in 1987. It's more or less a privately pressed vinyl since MG Studios is the name of the studio where they recorded that 2 trax in May '87. The title track has a slightly epic touch and is a midpaced kept metallic number, but "I need you" is delivering the full power. That one is fastpaced with melodic NWOBHM touch, a little bit like Virtue sounding, but the vocalist has had it's problems. Unfortunately both songs are rather short. Michael Schmitt would later join Thrashers Justice. Holzmann and Graap started the James Blast Orchestra (J.B.O.) in 1989 to make us all laugh.

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This band was founded 1990 in Hannover by Ule Ritgen and Tommy Heart (Thomas Conrad) and basically could be seen the post-Zeno band as Tommy Heart (ex-Heartlyne/V2), Jürgen Behrens and Ule Ritgen (ex-Black Angel/Electric Sun), all had been in Zeno previously. Behrens before he joined Zeno 1988, was member of the Pop band Silent Circle. The guitarists Helge Engelke and Andy Malecek (ex-Ballantinez/S.A.D.O.) completed the line up. Their debut, released 1992, featured archetypical melodic US style Hard Rock, just like Zeno used to play with either a touch of the classic Def Leppard sound. The album went quite popular in Japan, where the lads got voted the newcomer of the year. The success of the album made them touring through Europe and Japan, where the CD "Live in Japan" was recorded 1993. Behrens quit in '93, but that didn't diminish the band's wave of success. The next album "Rainmaker" (1995) sold again about 140000 copies and more successful albums would follow, till the band at last dissolved in the 2000's.

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The ex-Badboy drummer Jens-Uwe Nobst (ex-Gelee Royal, Stahlwerk, Quido, Weissheim) was shortly playing in a band called Fairplay at around 1988, when most of his former acts had been already history, though there’s not much info conveyed the past of how this troop from Leipzig (ex-GDR) sounded like.

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Fairywhite was formed in 1986 in Gütersloh, Nordrhein-Westfalen and only released one Demo in 1987, said to be very much in the style (and class!) of early Queensryche. Frank Ullrich previously played in Charger and later in Stainless Steel/Mendacious Messiah/Living Death/Holy Moses and Attack ... which makes me suspect that this Christian Riepert might very well be the "Chreddy" Riepert who also joined the Attack line-up in 1988? If you have more info, please get in contact.

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Faithful Breath was founded already in the early year 1967 by the two teenagers and ex-The Magic Power members Heinrich (Heinz) Mikus and Horst Stabenow in Bochum together with Reinhold Immig, Walter Scheuer and Jürgen Fischer. Either Ulrich Bock (saxophone, flute) joined the group, but Immig already quit in spring '69. In Autumn '70 Jürgen Fischer left the guys as well due to his required army service. The band moved to Witten and found Jürgen Weritz (ex-Mama Werwolf) to replaced him early 1971. Ulrich Bock was forced to leave as well due to a tuberculosis disease and late '72 either Walter Scheurer went his own path. Manfred von Buttlar (ex-Mama Werwolf) was hired on organs and the band's sound changed sides to a more symphonic, spacy Prog Rock sound with the line up Mikus, Stabenow, Weritz and von Buttlar, that recorded Faithful Breath's debut album "Fading beauty" in late '73, while the album was manufactured and published independently on their own label FB Music in a limited edition of 1500 copies. 1975 the guys had to press another edition with different sleeve. After two years of heavy touring, vocalist Jürgen Renfordt joined the band and October '77 one more private 7" (Stick in your eyes") appeared on their label FB Music and parallel to the single release, Faithful Breath recorded the "Back on my hill" LP 1978, that was introduced during a radio show, but the guys hadn't even found a label yet. Aladin Records signed the band, but didn't publish the album at all, which resulted in Faithful Breath to judicially cancel the contract, which took some time and could finally publish the LP on Sky Records in 1980. Still the album has to be counted to the Prog Rock genre and shouldn't be of interest for us at all. After the "Die Mörderbiene" 12" 1981, Manfred von Buttlar, Jürgen Renfordt and Jürgen Weritz left Faithful Breath to concentrate on their personal professional careers. Mikus and Stabenow started from zero with drummer Uwe Otto on the "Rock lions" LP, that introduced Faithful's Breath stylistical change towards the Hard Rock and Heavy Metal business. Originally the trio had planned to change the band name to Hurricane by the release of the album, but Sky Records didn't allow that at all. But the lads from this day forward screwed on the horns on their newly bought helmets and optically transformed into Germany's answer to swedish Heavy Load, while musically Faithful Breath's music had nothing in common with the old Prog Rock anymore. Classic Hard Rock with 70's touch incl. Boogie and AC/DC influenced songs heralded a new era of the band's career. Uwe Otto already left the band late '81 and Jürgen Düsterloh joined 1982, to record the once again heavier sounding "Hard breath" album 1983. Faithful Breath was moving closer to real Heavy Metal step by step and finally succeeded that aim 1984 with "Gold'n'Glory", that featured the ex-Bullet guitarist Andy Hönig, and adopted several Judas Priest and Accept influences. "Gold'n'Glory" became Faithful Breath's best selling album, but Stabenow quit the same year and Peter Dell took his part. Horst Stabenow would later in 1988 found the band Magic Power and record an album with Syntra. Due to Mausoleum's financial problems Faithful Breath was forced to search for a new label to release the album "Skol", and ended up on a follow up label of one of the Mausoleum Records guys, Ambush Records, who sadly couldn't promote the band the way they needed it to gain the big breakthrough in Germany. The album was hardly available at local shops nationwide and therefore the co-operation got ended right after one album. "Skol" just like the previous "Gold'n'Glory" delivered just typical mid 80's german Metal, somewhere between Accept and Judas Priest. Thilo Hermann on the LP replaced Andy Hönig, who went back to Bullet in 1984 and two years later formed the band ABH/Spitfire. Still benefiting from "Gold'n'Glory"s success, Faithful Breath subsequently signed a contract with Noise in the meanwhile and published a live album 1986, that was meant to bypass the time till the release of the new fullenght. But it shouldn't happen this way anymore. After a tour through Poland the lads early 1987 once again changed their musical direction, outfits and band name to Risk and heralded once again a new era as Speed Metal act. Faithful Breath songs also appeared on numerous compilations, that we don't list here at all.

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Falcon is a Rock band from Altentreptow/Neubrandenburg (ex-GDR), that was formed by ex-Comets members late in 1973, who started playing cover versions of western bands like Santana, Titanic or Jethro Tull. 1975 the line up had changed completely, while Falcon now consisted of Manfred Stoldt (guitar, vocals), Rüdiger Heuer (guitar), Siegfried Kisser (bass), Jürgen Skibnewski (keyboard) and Wolfgang Lihs (drums), who stayed together till 1978, when another upheaval happened. Manfred Stoldt and founding member Jürgen Skibnewski left Falcon that year. Bernd Finger (vocals), Günter Säger (guitar) and Erwin Lange (keyboard) joined in and from that day forward Falcon's sound got heavier and actually the new Uriah Heep, Foreigner and Deep Purple favorizing program of the band is the reason we added this band here. Their Hard Rock phase just lasted till 1983 when a 3rd reorganization happened and only Siegfried Kisser on bass remained of the old line up. With new members Norbert Riessner (keyboard), Wolfgang Chudaske (vocals), Klaus Hönig (guitar) and Günter Berndt (drums) and the connected stylistical change on to softer sounds, Falcon could produce a few songs for the national broadcast service during 1985, that though are not of interest for us anymore. After the political change the line up changed every now and then till their end in 2007, working first with female vocalist Antje Kühne and since 1993 with Katrin Thorke.

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Probably since the Hammerschmitt LP didn't get so well reviews by the german press, Eduard Keller and Ralf Deutscher (ex-Booster, both ex-Hammerschmitt) joined Falcon Prey from Oberursel, near Frankfurt. The band was originally founded by Alex Weckler (guitar) and Helge Rühl in November 1985. Deutscher already joined the band in March '86 and Bernhard Stöckler plus Eduard Keller in August. Last one to join was keyboarder Lars Niedereichholz. And indeed that band was a step forward musically with it's epic yet melodic Power Metal. The 3 Demo songs sounded pretty contemporary, slightly Maiden influenced (Seventh son era), almost ahead of their time as many bands from around 1989 adopted that sound as well. This demo was also "re-released" as part of a split-tape with (of all possible, random bands) the fem-fronted UK post-nwobhm band Siege a few years later and distributed by the Belgian Skullthrasher Promotions tape-label. There is another recording with 4 more tracks known (seems not official), that fully continues that melodic way, with epic refrains and slightly more pounding beats a bit more influenced of glammy US bands. By this time, Manfred Reckendorfer (a.k.a. Freddy Astor) formerly of the Austrian familiars Blowin Free had replaced Ralf on drums and Gerhard Konieczny from Renegade had replaced Bernhard on guitar.

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This band is rather unknown, but their vocalist and songwriter Matthias Reim later in 1990 had a superhit in Germany, selling millions and millions of copies and yet he's still active as solo artist.
Fallen Dice from the Kassel/Göttingen area was founded most probably already during the late 70's or sometime around 1980 and recorded in total 3 albums during the early 80's at the Bunker Studios in Bad Wildungen, all 3 being entitled "Pasch 1", "Pasch 2" and "Pasch 3", though just “Pasch 1" was officially released under the studio's own label Bunker Records in 1981, while the other 2 remained unreleased. Fallen Dice’s sound could be ranked a sort of Kraut and Hard Rock with different grades of heaviness, falling more or less under the Classic Rock category. “Pasch 2” went slightly heavier then, but as mentioned above, these songs remained unreleased. The band already split up around 1983/84, while Reim instantly went solo paths producing own poppy material in 1984 under his own name. During 1986 he returned with Fair Fax, another Pop trio, besides composing songs for several german artists, before then in 1990 his very own breakthrough with the song “Verdammt ich lieb dich" eventually would happen.

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Fame was somewhere from the Frankfurt/Main area and released a quite obscure and unknown 7" with the two tracks "I wanna go" and "Machine woman" in 1981, that offers a pretty heavy sort of Hard Rock with a few AOR touches and powerful sound, that just like Journey at the same was ahead of it's time and completely threw the old Kraut Rock influences, that most other german bands of that time had to struggle with, over board. A little gem...

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A Metal band that was originating from Alzey (south of Mayence), and was active during 1987. Stefan Heintzelmann was previously playing with Depression from Worms and their guitarist Frank Heeb should be known from Black Metallers Antichrist. Fanatic most probably was just a shortlived project, coz Heeb still in 1987 would team up with the band Races from Mayence. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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An obscure german Hard Rock band with independent single from 1982. The lads used to play a quite melodic classic Hard Rock with heavy guitars and kinda spacy touch. Looks like the band was heavily influenced by the Scorpions. Seriously one of the better early singles. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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An AOR band from Koblenz that was featured with the 2 songs "Same old story" and "Rock'n Roll star" on a local compilation LP, but just "Rock'n Roll star" sounding listenable. "Same old story" still contains other influences (Jazz Rock) that's not worth to mention here, quite forgettable band. 1986 they also appeared on the Compilation "Music Live Vol. III" with the track "Stand up" and they are still active nowadays.

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A kinda melodic oriented Hard Rock/Metal supergroup from the Cologne area, that was active since the mid 80's, gathering ex-Fargo/Sinner Bernie van der Graaf on drums, british NWOBHM pioneer John Lockton (ex-The Next Band/Wild Horses) and Mario Volker Timme (ex-Rizzo/Rated-X) on guitars. Further members participating on their track featured on the rather unknown swiss compilation “Hard & Heavy” being Roger Gierschmann on bass and Muff June on vocals. Mario Timme who directly came from Rated-X, returned to his former band Bernward Büker Bande and afterwards formed Ellis Island in 1987. Michael Feyer fronted the band early '88, after leaving the heavier Fact. Roger Gierschmann also released an album with Die Härte in 1991. Fandango has also released a CD during the early 90’s featuring ex-Brainfever/Fact Horst Neumann on vocals.

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A Power Metal band orginating from Dortmund from the late 80's, which actively played live during 1989. The band changed name to Rhûn (Rhun) in the following year. If you got further info, please get in touch.

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The band Fargo was founed in 1972 in Hannover by Peter Korn, Peter Ladwig, Hanno Großmann and Frank Tolle, but it would take until 1977 to release a first single. 1979 due to good contacts to the other Hannover bands Eloy and Jane, Fargo recorded their first album in the own studio of the band Jane, while Eloy guitarist Frank Bornemann convinced the label of his band to release Fargo's debut. The "Wishing well" entitled LP featured a still Southern Rock inspired sort of Hard Rock, a style which basically would also get carried over to the band's second effort "No limit" from 1980. Drummer Frank Tolle got replaced by Rudi Kaeding (ex-Firehorse) on the band's breakthrough album "Frontpage lover" 1981, that opened several doors for the band's further career. On "Frontpage lover" Fargo had eventually fully turned into a classic Hard Rock act and the lads could support AC/DC and April Wine during their tours, which ended in the fact that Hanno Großmann left the guys to concentrate on his studies. Tommy Newton played the additional guitar on Fargo's 4th album simply entitled "F" in 1982, that might be the heaviest of the bunch, celebrating a solid typical early 80's Hard Rock sound in the vein of Kiss, orientated towards the future. Nevertheless, Fargo was disbanded in early '84 due to band internal problems concearning the musical direction, but that either was the birth of another band called Victory. In 1984 when Tommy Newton and Peter Knorn of Fargo was preparing another album and looking for new members, their long time friends the Scorpions organized a new management from the US, that immediately started preparing a big career for the band with the first step being to change the band name to Victory. The rest is history...

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Utterly obscure HM act from Troisdorf, between Bonn and Cologne, whose even more scarce single "Hot Metal nights" we've never ever have heard about earlier yet. It seems a little misleading at first that the band chose the name Fast Eddy, as one immediately thinks of the master himself, Fast Eddie Clarke. Also very interesting is the outrageous fact that this 7" is a demo EP, which means that there shouldn't really be many copies in circulation. Musically, both trax "Hot Metal nights" and "Hell is breaking out" offer a strong NWOBHM sound, the latter even reminiscent of Crucifixion's "On the run". One source mentioned the year 1989, but there is no information on the single itself.

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A strongly AC/DC influenced Hard Rock band with bluesy touch, that even though you hardly will recognize, used to have a female vocalist. Their sound compared to other bands of that time appears quite antiquated whenalso the production is kept rather modern.

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A Metal band originating from Werne, north of Dortmund, that was actively playing since already 1976 and had to fight several line up changes throughout the years. Formerly a Hard Rock formation, the band reformed during late 1983, now featuring female vocalist Gitta Jägermann plus the old members Heinz Vertgewall (guitar) and Klaus Nowack (drums), while bassman Thomas Koppe newly joined the group late '83 as well. During the fall of that year this foursome also recorded a 6 song Demo tape, that offers a kinda Hard Rock/Metal mix with some pretty heavy edges here and there, providing an obviously NWOBHM influenced sound as well. During 1984, the band played several gigs in the Dortmund area, but then Feedback's traces trail away nevertheless. If you got more info, please contact us.
(Thanx to Rumblefist for the info and pictures)

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Heavy Rock band from Horn/Bavaria playing gigs in around 1985/86. If you have more info please get in touch.

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These Feedback originating from Wiesbaden (Hessen) shouldn't get mistakenly confused with the other bands of that name from Werne and Horn. These guys either was active during a later part of the 80's and early 90's and recorded just one quite nice sounding Demo tape in 1991, entitled "Savage tracks". Their sound in contrary to the other two Feedback bands featured a melodic sort of Power Metal, but looks like they disappeared quickly after either. More info are welcome.
(Thanx to Rumblefist for the heads up)

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Originally formed as a Rock band by Marco Pohl, Ralf Jaschob, Jürgen Hegner, Bernd Dratzkowski and Mathias Senst 1985 in Berlin-Marzahn (ex-GDR), Felsenfest during the following 2 years transformed into a real Heavy Metal troop, after exchanging the whole team piece by piece till 1987, now consisting of Thomas Botsch (vocals), Ralf Jaschob (guitar), Jürgen Hegner (guitar), Jens-Uwe Strutz (bass) and Frank Fuhrmann (drums). The band was either invited to perform at a national TV show December 31th 1988, but furthermore couldn't really take advantage of that success anymore. After the political change around 1990/91, Felsenfest disbanded as well, while Ralf Jaschob, Jürgen Hegner and Jens-Uwe Strutz fomed the band Crystal Palace.

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A female fronted, professional sounding Melodic Metal band originating from Mannheim, founded in early '87 and actively playing live during 1988. Late summer 1988 due to their explosive live performances, the band was invited to record Demos for ZYX Metallic, to decide for a possible future collaboration, which didn't succeed, so their native US american born Christine Black later joined the band Monsters and recorded an album with them, while Femine changed name in mid 1989 to Sanvoisen. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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The Fermenting Innards originally formed in Fürstenwalde (east of Berlin) during early 1990 as Bonesawer, a Death Metal troop with Fred " Flitze” Wollenberg on guitar, Marek Kassubeck - drums and Rico Spiller on vocals. A rehearsal tape entitled “The Pionierhaus Session” was still recorded in December '90, though never officially released. During March ’91 a guy named Nico joined as new vocalist, while Rico Spiller moved on the second guitar instead and with the same breath the guys changed their name to Fermenting Innards. In August '91 the band eventually recorded their first official Demo „Premature autopsy“, but a while later Flitze and Nico already quit, so that Mike on guitar and Mario Weinhold on bass/vocals had to be added soon. During the fall of 1991 Marek and Rico also had a shortlived Noisecore project in the vein of Anal Cunt running, called A.M.W., and a split tape with Fermenting Innards was originally planned for 1992, but never realized at all. During almost the same time the Fermenting Innards took an offer for a Split 7” with Entrails Massacre into consideration as well, but neither this undertaking would end in any physical format. Guitarist Mike neither remained a permanent member of Fermenting Innards at all, so for the second Demo "Only shred remain", Rico Spiller was responsible for all guitar parts. That tape was recorded in August 1992, featuring 3 studio trax and 3 live songs, quite swedish sounding to be honest, with the help of Heino on bass during that short recording session. A second edition, limited to just 25 copies, either contained the old unreleased Bonesawer rehearsal on the B side. Rico Spiller beside playing guitar for his main act Fermenting Innards, also joined Golem during 1993, who had been plagued by permanent sorrows about accidentally deceased members. To return the favor as it seems Golem’s guitarist Andreas Hilbert took over the second guitar on the short “Drowned" MC, which during the following year got re-released as MCD by Invasion Records. Then during 1994/95 the guys apparently got optically infected by the growing scandinavian Black Metal wave, now posing with corpsepaint. Musically still performing their swedish influenced Death Metal not unlike Unleashed, Entombed or Dismember, the vocals went much more Black Metal typical, which made the whole album “Myst” (1995, Invasion Records) sound like a rather Death Metal version of Marduk or something. The band afterwards disappeared, but still independently spread a compilation tape with several different recordings, entitled "Svartfoldet Hat" during the late mid 90’s.

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A hard rock band from Bremen. They broke up in November 1983, and some members came to form the Heavy Metal band SERMON. If you have more info, please get in contact.

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Death/Thrashers from Phillipsburg in Baden-Wuerttemberg with just one Demo that shows some similarities to Pestilence due to John Morier's voice sounding close to Martin van Drunen here. The Death Metal influences are minor, just a few midpaced parts incl. some Celtic Frost alike impressions are included as well. Both guitarists show that they was able to add some melodic solos as well, that's why I believe that the vocalist doesn't really fits to their style. But all in all solid and raw stuff.

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A "gory Deathmetal band" from the Düsseldorf-area, influenced by Master, Morbid Angel, Death, Repulsion etc. A demo was planned to be released before the end of 1989, but it's unknown if this ever came to be. If you have more info, please get in contact.

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Although Feuerstein from Halle/Bad Dürrenberg (ex-GDR) refer their birthdate officially to August 1986, the very first incarnation goes back to already 1984, when Karsten Slansky (vocals) and Thomas Hildebrand (drums) founded the band in Halle with Sven "Lemmy" Büttner (guitar), Andreas Ohme (guitar) and Jörg Göldner (bass), playing classic Heavy Metal inspired by bands such as Motörhead, Iron Maiden, Accept, Judas Priest, Saxon, Black Sabbath and Metallica. In 1986 after Kai Büttner had replaced Göldner on bass and Christian Sorge came for Ohme on guitar, Feuerstein was participating at the Werkstattwoche Suhl, Oktober '86 and could record there the track "Sag ich will", that got airplay in the national broadcast. Shortly after another song ("Sie sieht mich an") was produced at the studio of Gunther Wosylus in 1987. Afterwards the guys recorded another 2 heavier sounding songs at the Farmlandstudio of Sieghart Schubert ("Die bösen Jungs kommen" & "Teufelsbraut"), with especially "Teufelsbraut" (Devils bride) paying homage to Motörhead, both musically and vocalwise and being Nr. 1 hit at the Beatkiste radio show. Sven Büttner their guitarist was a Lemmy double and also has been responsible to sing the Motörhead songs due to his voice sounding similar to Lemmy's. All other trax was sung by Karsten Slansky who offered more clear vocals to sing the Maiden, Saxon and Priest stuff on stage, and later in 1987 when Slansky was out, Büttner and Sorge shared vocals. "Teufelsbraut" was even featured on the Rockbilanz '88 Compilation, a series featuring famous songs of that special year that made it high in the national hit parades. Also in 1988 they recorded "Nie zu laut" and "Haste Geld" again for the national broadcast service this time at Jürgen Matkowitz' studio and their style had developed towards a more thrashier Metal, mixing midpaced Metal with Speed/Thrash parts. But that's been the last life sign, Feuerstein became another victim of the political change in the country, they didn't survive it at all like so many other bands. 1990 M.A.D.'s Christian Ludwig shortly replaced Thomas Hildebrand, but returned due to personal reasons to M.A.D. after just a few weeks in the band, who split up still in 1990.

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A band from Eberbach/Schönbrunn, east of Heidelberg, that was formed during 1985 by Wolfgang Haselberger and Dirk Klapprodt, who both built the core of the band. Wolfgang and Dirk invited a befriended bassplayer to a jam session and this way recorded Fierce's only Demo in the basement of Dirk's parent's house, while he was still handling vocals himself beside the drums. What some other undergrounds of that era tried to achieve as well with their DIY style Metal in trying to ape the classic Hellhammer sound, the Fierce guys executed in an impressive way. Songs like "The hunter", "Holocaust" or "Carrick Glenn" seriously could be own Hellhammer/early Celtic Frost creations with compared to all the other basement bands a clear raw sound. After the Demo Holger Gramlich (vocals) and Stefan Wilhelm (bass) permanently became members of Fierce and kept the band going till after they finished school in early 1987, when they all went differents paths. Dirk and Wolfgang though living in different cities now, continued making music in other bands in the meanwhile, till they reactivated the old band under the new monicker Fyerce in 2017 and played some of the old songs in new versions. Tristan Andres (vocals) and Luc Schwarz (bass) joined them and the foursome worked out a stage program and already organized first gigs, till Corona kinda stopped them in 2020.
(Thanx to Dirk Klapprodt for the info and material)

You may check out some songs of Fierce/Fyerce here

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A Speed/Thrash Metal band from Hamm, near Dortmund. The guys was active during the early 90's and according to own their own words was was stylistically influenced by Riot and also Slayer. Studio recordings was in the planning phase during 1991. Further info is needed.

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A Thrash band from Erfurt, that formed during the political changing times inside ex-GDR. A 4 track Demo is known, recorded in 1993 plus an obscure (most probably selfproduced) CD from 2001, with the title "Nemo", released on Headless Records. Further info is needed.

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This Bremen band started out first as Prophet in late 1987/early 1988 and quickly later became Prophecy, formed by ex-Sweet Cheater and Victory/Invader guitarist Michael Sebastian. In time for their one and (sadly) only Demo release came the name change to Final Prophecy due to judicial issues. This release is certainly belonging in the upper part of the tragic "Why the HELL didn't they get signed???"-list and stand out as a German underground classic - something most mags and zines at the time wholeheartedly agreed on. Imagine a tight and energic mix of Holy Terror, Agent Steel and any classic German Power/Speed-act of your choice and you get "Beyond Reality". Unfortunately the band broke up about a year later, but Michael continued in bands like Perfect Crime in the late 90's and Eternal Reign in the 00's. If you have more info, please get in contact.

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If you wanna try Final Shower, you'd better start with the "A matter of habit" Demo, because then you will know it can be only worse than that. This band from Bonn released 3 Demos from 1989-91 that better would remain unreleased. Especially the first tape "World's end" belongs to the worst Demos in the Thrash sector and "No need to be human" doesn't stand too far behind. Their style was Thrash Metal with grunted vocals and certain death/thrashing parts with in places even good approaches but I guess the "production" and the drummer in the band pretty much killed it all for them. With a real vocalist who knows how it would have looked then, but all in all it didn't really fit together here what they tried. In 1999 they released a CD called "Injustice".

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After being part of Stonehenge throughout the late 80's, the former Cutty Sark drummer Michael Schmitt tried to form Firebird during spring 1990 to return to the old Metal sound of the early days. Further info is welcome.

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A Hard Rock band from Munich that could contribute the 2 trax "Rock the night away" and "Hold on" for the Feierwerk Split LP "Rock Feierwerk Sieger 89" with other Munich bands Bad Hoven, Burning Heat and The Comics. Both trax was taken from their 7 track Demo tape that contains even more outstanding songs. Firefox are interesting for the US influenced Melodic Metal/Hard Rock faction who like it melodic and heavy both at same time. Pole Position, Lifeline, Vera Cruz, Burning Heat are all of the same sort and quality. Highly recommended material with awesome vocals.

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I'm not sure if this indeed was a real band and not just a studio project, but this Hannover based band released only one album in 1980 that was featuring the Fargo guitarist Peter Ladwig, as well as the later Fargo drummer Rudi Kaeding. Either Manfred Wieczorke was member of Jane and Eloy, while Jürgen Baumann came from Madison Dyke. Nevertheless, the album contains hardrockish Prog Rock, that in places even shows similarities to Fargo when they still didn't fully turn into a Hard Rock outfit. But after all for friends of the late 70's/early 80's heavy Prog/Hard Rock stuff surely worth a try.

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A Hard Rock/Metal band from Attendorn from the early/mid 80's, featuring the later Fulcrum/Twixt guitarist Klaus (ex-Rosalie). If you got more info, please get in touch.

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A female fronted band from Frankenberg, north of Marburg, with a privately released single, recorded in March '88. Though there is a male vocalist mentioned in the line up, both songs on the vinyl was sung by Sabine Romeyka. The single is also known under the title "Cry for love" and this particular track could be either labelled Heavy Rock, that sadly due to the poppy keyboards gets an typical AOR touch. The flipside track then features a slightly softer tune with R'n'R edge. If you got more info, please get in touch.
(Thanx to emosteel for the recommendation)

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Flacmans Port was founded in autumn '88 in Lebach and published their debut 4 track Demo in June 1991 that, just like their sole album "Afterlife" released on West Virginia Records, contains a late 80's style Power/Thrash Metal, that's often reminding of Metallica in a way. The main material is midpaced but here and there the lads raise the tempo, though for my taste it could have happened a bit more often. The guys changed name to Horrorscore afterwards and recorded one more Demo in 1993.

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These prog-Thrash underground darlings were formed in 1984 as they mentioned during mid 80’s interviews, they though claimed to be founded in early 1986 in Dortmund at around 1990, when spreading their info sheets to the underground magazines. Shortly later the band relocated to Bochum. During those early years (1985/86) the lads also recorded a first self titled Demo tape, a fairly straight-forward Thrash-affair, that though according to the band wasn’t ever released officially. In 1987 Flaming Anger would contribute the songs "Tantalus" and "Lunatics revenge" for the complation tape "Skullthrasher - A Second Blast!" and recorded their first official "Fall of Pnom Penh" cassette from 1988, that the band started receiving some attention and favourable reviews. Well, apart from some taking note that the vocals occasionally go a little 'crazy' (to put it politely). It was recorded in the familiar D&S Recordings studio and musically F.A's closest cousins would be Mekong Delta and later Deathrow (there's no coincidence that they even used to cover the former live back in the days). There's mention of them about to get signed on the then brand-new Century Media label around this time, but the deal fell through, whenalso their debut LP already got announced for June '89. Consequences of this caused the split of the band in April 1990, but rather in early 1991 Frank Witte (bass vocals) emerged with an entirely new line-up, with Volker Rummel and Frederick Tönnesmann on guitars and one Elmar on drums. The "Humaniced" Demo was the result, recorded in August '91, and I'd say it was an improvement, but Elmar due to his change in musicial interests already left Flaming Anger afterwards. After that it took them until 1996 to get another promo tape out and the year after their one and only album, "Biospheres II" was released. The rest is silence..

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Post-Flennes, a very well known local Metal act from Kempenich. They changed name to Flanez in 1989 and recuited Mark Butz (ex-Trashed) as new vocalist before they released their only vinyl, a 12" entitled "Fast foodt" that most collectors of german Metal get wet panties from nowadays. The sound on the 12" is quite melodic with many speed elements, similar to super acts such as Helloween, Noisehunter or the lesser known but also great Chroming Rose. But with "Stand up" and "Without you" the vinyl also featured 2 more midpaced numbers, that pretty much getting an advantage by Butz' magnifique vocals.

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A young band from Troisdorf, formed in 1984/85. They released a 7-song live Demo in 1985, described as Blues-influenced Hard Rock. If you have more info, please get in touch.

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The Kempenich based Flennes was the pre-Flanez band that started already in 1983 and having the first steady line up to start playing live with Manni Nürenberg (vocals), Dirk Wilms (guitar), Uwe Rademacher (guitar), Gerald Gros (bass) and Thorsten Grabnitz on drums. This young Heavy Metal band recorded the first Demo in February '86 while Grabnitz on drums got replaced by Markus Maldener. 2 of the 3 trax was still sung by former vocalist Manni Nürenberg while the booklet already mentioned Guido Krämer (later in Vanilla Rex) on vox. Their first album was planned for 1987 with the working title "Words of fire". But the LP was never released, instead they kept on playing under the name of Flanez since 1989.

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Basically Fleshcrawl are Suffocation who changed their name 1991 with the first 7" "Lost in a grave" (red vinyl), as there is still a sticker on the sleeve "ex-Suffocation". But also musicwise they slightly changed stylistically, the old southern Europe Death Metal influences are still audible but their sound had moved a bit towards the US and swedish style, adding even some Grind parts now. Black Mark Productions signed them to release the debut "Descend into the absurd" in June '92. Gero Schmitt (ex-R.U. Dead?) had replaced Alfred Handke on guitar and the music became even more swedish style Death Metal with some early 90's influences of Death and the US scene. 1993 Loud Out Records released a Split Tape including their 7" plus the EP's of french Supuration and R.U. Dead?. After "Descend into the absurd" Fleshcrawl kept on releasing albums till nowadays. You may check out their Homepage for further info.

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Notorious Noise fanatics from Haldensleben north of Magdeburg, similar to early Napalm Death, despite worlds divided them, who could slightly benefit of the newly earned freedom in the ex-GDR during 1989, when the guys recorded a 60 songs covering Demo with the title „Trauma“, that might indeed express the emotional state of the listener when he or she’s done listening. The lads afterwards wasn’t seen anymore at all and disappeared after 1990, just the old label Frei zum Abriss resurfaced a few years ago and did publish some vinyls, incl. Fliegeralarm’s „Trauma“ Demo as well.

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Fliehkraft was a Hard Rock band from Plettenberg, that was active since 1978 and changed name to the more well known Gator, shortly before they recorded Gator's sole but essential album for the german Heavy Metal history in 1982. As Fliehkraft the lads also published a quite obscure 7" entlitled "Take a joint" on their own label at the end of the 70's, that features pretty rough and heavy Hard Rock like the later Gator stuff.

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A local Hard Rock band from Wetter, near Marburg, who appeared with the track "All I need" on the underground compilation "Rock von der Lahn", performing a lightweight Heavy Rock, reminding slightly of 80's Kiss. Further info is needed.

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Cologne based Heavy Metal pioneers who got inspired as school kids by Kiss, Motörhead, Iron Maiden, Saxon, the Sweet and Judas Priest to form their own band, initiated by Roland Saager (guitar), that at last took form in late 1980 under the name of Skull. Their first gig would happen in 1982, still using German lyrix, but it happened that Achim Nohl would front the band right away on it, but singing in English by that time. Between 1982/83 they played exactly 3 live shows and then subsequently added the word “Flying” to their name during early 1984 and became Flying Skull, inspired by a local motorcycle gang. Still without any own material ever to be recorded yet, the youngsters organized an own small “Invasion” tour through Cologne and surrounding areas in 1984, that remarkably lasted 3 weeks and included 14 shows. In the beginning of 1985 Roland and Achim had been the only guys, who remained of the old line up and both needed several months to add fresh blood to revive the band. Guitarist Rudi Becker and also Elmar Birlo (bass) then joined during mid 1985, as well as the new drummer Werner Renner was found, while the lads entered a studio one year later in July to record a 3 track Demo with the title “The first flight”, which due to the poor quality remained unreleased and wasn’t sold officially at all. Drummer Werner Renner got replaced in the fall of ‘86 by Ralph Blankart, while somehow the D&S Studio guys got hold of a Demo copy and offered Flying Skull a spot on their underground compilation "Break Out - German Metal Tracks No. 5" in 1987, featuring both trax „Race to hell“ and and one of the band’s first songs ever „Lonesome child“. In October ‘88 they recorded 4 more songs for the second Demo "You're my fan no. 1!" at Studio Airfort in Cologne incl. "Lonesome child" that was already featured on the Compilation. The speed got raised a bit and more power was added either, sounding quite typical for the time now like Noisehunter f.e. with high pitched screams, gaining Flying Skull bigger support gigs for Holy Moses and Thunderhead. But despite everyone’s searching for the big deal, the guys wanted to keep their independency and rather made plans for an own independently produced album. In the meanwhile Rudi Becker had to be replaced by Stefan Uschwa in the beginning of 1990, and joined Thunderstruck instead, so Flying Skull recorded their first album "Darkness" still in 1990 and released it firstly on tape (1990) and shortly later 1000 CD’s being made as well (1991). "Darkness" could be compared to the previous Demo, even featuring songs of that tape, typical german melodic Power Metal like Noisehunter/Helloween. On "Revelaton", their second effort 1993 produced independently as well and pressed in a 1500 copies edition, they also kept on performing that 80's style Power (in places kinda Running Wild-ish now), but compared to the previous stuff, the production now appears more powerful than ever, which fit perfectly their creations. With “Revelation” in their backpack, Flying Skull started a smaller independent tour across Germany in autumn ’95, Björn Geske had replaced Achim Nohl in the meanwhile, who couldn’t afford any longer to combine the band with his profession and had eventually quit in March. Also Stefan Uschwa had been already asked to leave during September ‘94 and that’s why Simon Lozo played all leads on tour. Thorsten Schüller then fully joined in as second guitarist after the tour and remained a member until they ultimately disbanded in December 1997. Nevertheless, fully unexpected Roland Saager returned with Flying Skull and the MCD "Sign of the brave" in 2014. Besides their last vocalist Björn Geske and early member Elmar Birlo (bass), there was Roland’s son Florian Saager on guitar as well. Their new album “Obscurita” was just freshly produced and will be released in summer 2023, featuring the band’s most recent line up: Björn Geske (vocals), Roland Saager (guitar), Florian Saager (guitar), Kirsten Saager (bass) and Fabian Arenz (drums).

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A Hard Rock band from Munich that could contribute the 2 trax "Eyes of a child" and "Love may reign" for the Feierwerk Split LP "Rock Feierwerk Sieger 91" with other Munich bands Das Leben, Earthtribe and Luca & The Groovy Band. Both trax fully integrate in the well known Munich melodic Hard Rock sound that Firefox, Burning Heat and Bad Hoven on the previous issue of this compilation delivered. Good arrangements, rough sounding and well executed stuff.

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A Heavy Metal band, that was actively playing gigs during 1987. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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This female fronted Melodic Metal band from Stutensee near Karlsruhe released just one Demo as far as I know. It's great if you got your own "eye catcher" in the band and if that "eye catcher" can even sing, then the doors to the Metal world are open for ya. Danny's vocals could be compared to Doro Pesch's, but musically For Sale was way more influenced by the US Glam stuff. On "Sacrify" they play in a pretty cool melodic US Metal style but sadly don't keep that high level. The other tracks tend to a more midpaced Hard Rock style like for example Dio's "Holy diver" or "Rainbow in the dark" but with a glammy edge. Hard Rock fans will love this tape I'm sure, especially since the guitar work is in places quite extraordinary but sadly the guitarists only show their skills during the solos what they was able to play on their instruments.

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A Metal band from the area of Hessen or Aschaffenburg (Frankfurt/Hanau area), that was actively playing live during 1990 and who we are guessing is the same band also featured on a local sampler around this time. If you got further info (or love proving people wrong on the internet), please get in touch.

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After the split of the bands Stainless and Red Hot in the mid 80's, both originating from the Bonn area, Rüdiger Blindert, Achim Meyer (both ex-Red Hot) and Willi Schwäbig (ex-Stainless) formed the band Forced Entry during summer '87 in Düsseldorf, after Blindert's short intermezzo with Matrix in 1986. November 1987 the lads also recorded a 4 track Demo tape and could subsequently sign a contract with the Atom H label, who seemed to enjoy Forced Entry's midpaced melodic Power Metal. "Forced Entry" was finally availabe in 1988, featuring very playful songs with certain influences of the heavy Queensryche stuff and diverse hints of what later would be known from STS 8 Mission's debut album. Within the same year, right after the release of the debut, band internal changes caused line up changes as well, so the ex-Matrix bassist Ronald Wedel came for Achim Meyer, while Xaver Drexler (ex-Capital Rose) replaced Harry Amthor, who joined the band Energy. After another Demo with lotsa Speed Metal material, that was recorded with their new shouter in January '89 to impress their record company, the band was shortly firming as The Pakk, till the name STS 8 Mission was picked up to lead the guys through their following career, playing speedy guitar oriented Power Metal with new entrant Thomas Schmitt on guitar.

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A local Power/Thrash band from Bavaria (Burghausen/Rosenheim area), that actively played live during 1990/91. A Demo tape exists as well dating from that time. Further info is needed.

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Being the undisputed number 1 amoung the Heavy Metal bands from ex-GDR, the band Formel 1 was activated in 1981, when previous members (Norbert Schmidt, Wolfgang Densky, Peter Fincke) of the defunct Joco Dev Sextett from Berlin, that was active since the late 60's and was playing proggy Kraut Rock in the beginning, but moved on musically towards an Hard Rock inspired sound during the last phase of their career, formed a new band with the aim to worship their new heroes Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. Caused by their previous more than 10 years the lads had been in the business, they gained a huge advantage to the other young Metal bands and soon after officially got promoted from governmental side, which allowed them to appear in national TV shows and to participate on vinyl compilations, that helped spreading the name Formel 1 throughout the whole country and climbing the top. Detlef Dudziak joined them soon on bass and also the slovakian guitarist Andrej Horvath was added 1982. But the latter just stayed for a short time and was replaced by Bodo Kommnick still in '82 first and in 1983 Reinhold Heß was permanently hired. Schmidt, Densky, Dudziak, Heß and Fincke would build the classic line up of Formel 1, and after becoming professional musicians, the band started recording several songs per year for the national broadcast service. The very first appearance on a sampler was with "Eddie" in 1983 on the "Heiße Würstchen" LP, shortly after followed by "Hiroshima Kranich" on the "Denke daran" Split 7". The success on the national hitparades earned the guys a first own single, that was produced in 1985 and as the very first Heavy Metal band of the GDR ever, Formel 1 could release a full (live) album right in 1986, which was entitled "Live im Stahlwerk". Funnily besides their own well known creations, they was allowed to feature coverversions of Maiden and Priest on the LP either. The band's sound got even heavier during the mid 80's, new songs like "Kreuzritter" and "Hart wie Stahl" was composed, but early '87 Reinhold Heß quit and the ex-Mephisto/Vantom guitarist Michael Sündermann replaced him for a very short time. Though a second album was planned, the officials didn't really want to co-operate with the band, as the influence Formel 1 had on the Heavy Metal fans wasn't much liked by the government's fat cats. Due to the bullying from official sides, two of the members had officially requested to leave the country, which resulted in Formel 1 disbanding in December of the same year. Fincke and Schmidt left the country, Densky joined Babylon, while Dudziak and Sündermann hooked up with Pharao. Formel 1's sound was tightly connected to the NWOBHM, especially the classic Iron Maiden sound with massive twin lead attacks built the backbone of Formel 1's music.
Here you can watch a clip of Formel 1

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Another Fortress band, this time hailing from Düsseldorf which exists since late 1984. These guys have been active around 1986/87 doing live gigs and offered an early Priest/Accept influenced Metal with many twin leads. If you have more info please get in touch.

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One of the countless Fortress bands, this one hailing from Hagen/Dortmund and playing a quite epic proggy Metal with some pure Prog Rock parts included. The keyboard played a big role in their sound and I guess without keyboards this band wouldn't sound that good. They quite had an own vision and I cannot compare them to any bands at all. The vocals could have been done a bit better perhaps, but after all their mystic Prog Metal will get a thumb up from me. I have no clue what happened to them later.

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Heavy Metal band from Mayence that formed in autumn 1981 and is known to play live shows since at least 1985. 1987 the band started searching for a new bass player, while their californian vocalist Mark Dusan left Fortress in late 1988, but still sung on the band's 2 track Demo from 1987, that delivered fast Metal with slightly party feeling. Early 1990 the guys had not found any replacement for Dusan yet. If you have more info please get in touch.

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A Heavy Metal band from Neuenhaus (near Münster), formed in autumn '84, that released a Demo tape in 1985, before they changed name to Fortuner and recorded their sole album "Two sides of the Metal" for the Metalvoice label in 1986. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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Fortuner was a shortlived act from Neuenhaus/Münster, that originally formed under the name of Fortune in autumn '84 and recorded a Demo the following year. The young label Metalvoice Records, that was owned by the HGM Studio from Bielefeld, where their sole album "Two sides of the Metal" was either recorded, picked up the band, who already had changed name to Fortuner in the meanwhile. In contrary to the typical southern Germany bands that was all picked up by Gama, the style of Fortuner was different. The lads used to play a very fresh sounding Metal with melodic touch, but not forgetting to add a healthy portion of speed. Especially the fast twin leads are giving the material a quite special touch. Basically Fortuner's style could be described as a mix of late 80's Maiden, Mortox and Invader, but the young band lasted only 3 years and disbanded already in 1987. The Eilts brothers then joined Charger.

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A Melodic Rock/AOR band with slightly proggy touch hailing from the eastgerman city of Werdau in the south of the ex-GDR, that formed during 1980. The line up naturally changed during the first few years of Forum’s existence, but during 1984 the band eventually consisted of Thomas Martin (vocals), Holger Kaniß (guitar), Reinhard Pestel (bass), Jens Schmidt (keyboard), and Klaus Fechtner (drums), who got rewarded for their successful participation on the “7th FDJ Werkstattwoche Jugendtanzmusik” happening in Suhl during 1984, and could produce the song “Die letzten Stunden” in a professional studio. This song that reminds kinda of Berluc’s material at that time (especially the vocals), appeared on the sampler “Auf dem Wege 4” the following year as well. Forum’s kind of melodic AOR with Hard Rock guitars could entrap the officials to push the future career of the band and therefore more studio recordings happened during summer of 1985. In the meantime guitarist Holger Kaniß was replaced by Anselm Riess (ex-Dialog/Block) and within May of the same year also ex-Dialog Günther Franz (vocals) and the new drummer Jörg Markgraf joined. One song („Verraten und verkauft") of that mentioned studio session from summer 1985 appeared on a split single entitled “Startschuss”, featuring other GDR newcomers like Perl, Condor and MEX. But the higher expectations couldn’t really get complied by the band and so Forum slowly disappeared. Anselm Riess had the duo Projekt M with former Forum singer Thomas Martin running for a while but later went own paths.

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A Hard Rock band from Dormagen, that's featuring the later High'n Dry guitarist Detlef Kowalewski. The band was founded in the late 70's and used to play an early Status Quo/Black Sabbath inspired Hard Rock style with Boogie edge on their sole album from 1980. After the album no more lifesign surfaced, but Kowalewski would form the Heavy Metal band High'n Dry at around 1987 and recorded one more highly regarded album.

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A Heavy Rock band from Würzburg that appeared the first time ever on vinyl on a self financed obscure single from sometime in the early 80's. The band's sound marked a sort of Classic Rock inspired Hard Rock (like early Survivor f.e.) at this time but that would change with the coming years, just like the track "Straight through the heart" on the local compilation "Musik aus Würzburg" proves, where they for sure have been the best band featured with their Melodic Metal, that had some Hard Rock edges as well. They afterwards released a 7" privately once again in the fall of the 80's, but now fully had turned into melodic Hard Rock with metallic solos. Just the B-side track "This must be magic" features a rather poppy sounding ballad.

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A Hard Rock band from Andernach featuring Marco Lauer of the Hard Rock band Blue Sky. They played several live shows around 1987/88. Norbert Strauß in late 1989 joined the band Black Jack of ex-Stainless/Trans Am guitarist Ronny von Assel. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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A local Hard Rock band that was featured with the Kiss inspired Hardrocker "Don't stop" on the Rockactive I sampler in 1983. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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The band and label both was originating from Bad Kreuznach, so I guess the only vinyl of Foxx was produced privately. The Übersong on the album without doubts is the opener "Girl", that sounds kinda like Deep Purple when they returned with modern sound in the mid 80's. During the following tracks that impressions gets pretty much confirmed and one could attest the band an over all solid executed Hard Rock performance with ups and downs. Drummer Alexander previously played in prog rockers ICE, while Willi and Dirk came from local hardrockers Y-SHAPE and BLOWJOB respectively.

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A R'n'R influenced Hard Rock band from Aalen, which was active during 1987/88 and called the classic AC/DC sound one of their main influences. If you got more info, please get in touch

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Fractured Mirror was a local Hard Rock band from the Bonn/Cologne area, initiated by Ronny von Assel and Heinz Weisbarth during 1978. Klaus Opree a little later on was forced into the band as vocalist, when he accidentally rehearsed AC/DC songs with the guys. The musical influences of all of the members could be seen from Kiss, AC/DC, Accept etc. The guys though changed name to Vision in the early 80's, while Opree and von Assel joined locals Stainless during 1983, who somehow would then become famous as Trans Am.

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Duisburg Thrashheads that had been around in the wider Essen area during the beginning of the 90's till the mid 90's. Their debut Demo "Labyrinth" was partly recorded in summer '92 and early '93 at the Franz K. Studio and BWS Studio and the title track either made it on the "Deathophobia II" underground CD compilation in the following year, when the band already split up after releasing their second Demo "Extended mind" 1994 too. Frame Of Mind's Death/Thrash sound and vocals reminded in places of raw late 80's Sepultura, but also merged melodic parts with the brutality of Thrash and could be also compared to swedish Thrashers Leprosy. Drummer Klaus Spangenberg 1995 resurfaced in Krefeld's Vernissage, so we guess Frame Of Mind split up around 1994/95.

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Not to be confused with the Thrashers from Holzwickede, these Frantic originated from Duisburg and seem to only have put out a scarce 7" not providing any further info at all. It features some nice Heavy Metal with typical 80's sound and style on the title track, slightly showing a few glammy US influences though like Icon f.e., while the flipside track is rather forgettable Hard Rock. The band was initiated by ex-Stallion/Airwolf guitarist Markus Mulders around 1988/89 and made their first live gig during summer '89. Further info are welcome.

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Another obscure local Hard Rock act hailing from Bremen, with one of those obscure singles that was manufactured by Memphis Tonträgerproduktionen around 1990/91. Like other Memphis singles, also Frantic Blue's had these standard labels with the "Promotion only" tag, but at least came with a picture sleeve. Nevertheless the sound of these guys was a typical early 90's style metallic Hard Rock, with especially "Don't you remember" rocking pretty hard, but with sleazy touch. The title track sadly features some ugly funky undertones among the heavier parts, so we better leave this one off. Further info about the band is needed.

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A Hard Rock/Metal band with US touch from Ostfildern/Stuttgart, that won the local Landesrockfestival Baden-Wuerttemberg in late 1986. The band also had a Demo tape available during 1987. If you have more info please get in touch.

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A Metal revival band that was actively playing live during 1988, performing cover versions of Metallica, Motörhead, Savatage, Wild Dogs etc. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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Frontal was an early Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band from Stollberg/Saxony (ex-GDR), that was already active since 1982 and only performed cover versions of f.e. bands like Saxon, Judas Priest or Black Sabbath. The guys was only playing live in the southern part of the country, but when Thomas Steinz during 1986 joined the Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) based Hardrockers Rübezahl (that shortly after became Charon), while all of the other guys except of vocalist Andreas Männer, went to join Rübezahl as well. When Männer met ex-No-One drummer Kalle later in 1986, they both decided to join forces and relocated with Frontal to Meerane/Saxony to reform the band with new members Olaf Voigt (guitar), Finger (guitar) and Ronny (bass). The newly reformed Frontal played several gigs, but then because of internal discrepancies about the musical future, Finger left the band already in 1987, while the remaining guys went into a much more Crossover inspired direction. Already in May '88 Kalle and Ronny was forced to join the army, which caused the end of that chapter as well. Andreas Männer during 1989 then formed the Power/Thrash band Danger, who became very well known in their area.

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A Hard Rock or Heavy Metal band from southern Germany (most probably from the Stuttgart area), that was active in the late 80's/early 90's. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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A Deathcore band from Siegen that released a Demo in 1986 "in fucking Noise Quality" according to their own info. If you have more info please get in touch.

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One of the more infamous (not counting the RAC-crap) Metal Enterprises projects, though mostly due to the name and album sleeves. Once again we're talking about a pure studio-project, or in this case, we're guessing projects as the two Fucker albums couldn't be any more different musically. On the eponymous debut we're presented with straight-up generic HC/punk and on vocals we recognize Patrice "T-Bass" Jones, known from the much kulty Kalaschnikov debut. The riffmanship and lyrics does bare some similarities to that album, but otherwise there's really no HM-appeal at all to be found here. The "Making Love On Electric Chair" from a few years later is pure ME-filth - maybe not quite as all-out bonkers as the infamous yet highly entertaining triptych of the Kalashnikov-, Killer Fox- and Thrash Queen-sophomores, but it has some fun moments and the 'classic' "Robot Of Love" must surely count as one of the highlights of Metal Enterprises dementia! Otherwise it's the same weird, robotic and strangely jerky Metalrock-from-Mars (think a really lame Gwar) as on the previously mentioned trio of mock-albums - it's certainly the same vocalist. Other possible musicians could be Woodland Studios-owner and familiar ME-collaborator Holger Schmidt and the unknown Peter Wanagat, who are credited as writers.

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A Hard Rock/Metal band from Attendorn, that was active in the mid 80's. Guitarist Klaus was also playing with Firestone and Rosalie, and drummer Willi with Dr. Shorties, Q-Tips and Braincrash. After changing name to Twixt around 1987, the guys recorded a Demo in 1988/89 with ex-Black Fate bassist Frank Sondermann. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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A shortlived Black Metal project from Niederwern, that was maintained by Asar and the Baxaxaxa/Ungod guitarist Ancient Blasphemic Grave Invocator and focussed on a quite occult sound. The Fulgor duo published a handful of Demos between 1993 and '94 that featured a keyboard dominated mystic Black Metal style, often reminding of the slow Ungod parts. But either ambient tunes played a huge role in these guys vision to create dark horror sounds. 1995 when Fulgor already was history, the "Eyequinox" 7" in purple vinyl was published on Merciless Records, while the song material itself had been recorded already in 1993.

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A female fronted Hard Rock band from Schleswig-Holstein that's active since 1984 and played many live gigs. They are featured on a local compilation LP with 2 boogie influenced Hard Rock numbers ("Without you" and "Your mama don't dance"). If you got more info, please get in touch.

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A Kraut Rock band from Bad Kreuznach, that appeared with the odd "Es tut wintern" on the local underground compilation “Kreuznacher Rockszene '84”, mixing NDW and Hard Rock sounds.

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Funworx was the band of the ex-"Mosh" (Metal TV show) moderator Stefan Neumeier, that should be originating from Cologne and was active during the late 80's. Further info is needed.

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A Hard Rock/Metal act, most probably originating from the local Hannover scene, that played live at the "All Areas Excess" event, happening at the Leine-Domicil Hannover in Novemver '84. Further info is needed.

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A Hard Rock band from Moers/Duisburg, that wasn't so easy to find any background info about at all. A very obscure single with the songs "Say goodbye" and "Queen of Scotch" exists and though there is no year printed anywhere, another source once mentioned the year 1981. Musically this would fit perfectly, as both of the trax deliver a proggish sort of Kraut/Hard Rock with either some rare NWOBHM influences, but mainly of these early british bands that wasn't purely Metal and neither pure Rock at all. The single pops up just very seldom nowadays, only a really few copies surfaced so far. Further info is welcome.

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A Hard Rock/Metal band from Ludwigsburg, that was featured with the track "Hot for your love" on a local CD sampler in 1990.
If you got more info, please get in touch.