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An all female Hard Rock band founded 1979 in Dresden (ex-GDR) under the name "Dresdner Mädchenband" but the girls changed it in 1983 to "Na und" (So what). They started covering international Hard Rock classics. Still in 1983 during a tour a tragic car accident happened that ended in Susanne Rahm and Marion Häußler losing their life. They both got replaced by Sylvia Tuch (bass) and Joane Rekitt (keyboard). In 1984 Ina Morgenweck took over the vocals and the band's most successful period started. They could produce a few songs for the national radio broadcast (f.e. "Mädchenrock") and also a live gig was broadcasted in 1985. But then Angela Ullrich left to form her own band Agentur Null, and shortly after Ina Morgenweck as well to sing for the band Charlie. That meant the end for Na und. Na und's style was a mix of classic Rock, Hard Rock and Metal with "Atlantis" probably being the highlight in their set, a great epic Metal Rocker with kinda Dio-ish flair and galopping guitars. Galina Semenichina joined the band St. Metal during 1988 and played on their second Demo.

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Nadir was a progressive Power Metal troop from Barmstedt, north of Hamburg. They formed in 1989 and used to work with female vocalists in the beginning, but switched over to a male singer in 1992, before they recorded their 4th tape "Industrial deliverance" the following year. The Demo "Don't believe in grey suits!" was recorded already in spring '91 with Chany Stainbank singing, but February '92 the guys updated the recordings once again, most probably because Chany had left Nadir and they wanted to introduce new singer Bärbel Glowacki. The whole material had a quite doomy and melancholic touch, but lives from the rawness of the production. Bärbel Glowacki then left Nadir too and Dieter Mieling took her job. Guess they split up during the mid 90's. There are 2 more previously recorded Demo tapes available as well, so further info is needed.

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Nameless from Pössneck formed 1991 originally as Asmodis, with members being Patrick Engel, Uwe Rödel and Daniel Steinbrücker, but changed name to Cenotaph pretty soon and recorded several rehearsal tapes, till in late 1992 the lads changed name to Nameless, introducing the new line up consisting of Ricardo I. Peterlein, Jens Halter, Daniel Lapsch and Patrick W. Engel. In January 1993 the "Illusions" Demo was recorded and offered respectable Death Metal with different influences ranging from Pestilence, Desecrator, Death to also melodic and either Thrash parts. In September '93 Daniel Lapsch quit, but the guys nevertheless started recordings for their debut album just one month later. Originally "The final decision", as the album was entitled, was planned to be available on CD, but the costs pretty much did exceed the band's financial ressources. Therefore to not lose any more time, "The final decision" in the end was published on vinyl, in a limited edition of 300 copies only with neutral sleeve, but including a booklet with info, and continuing musically the direction of the previous Demo with probably slightly more thrashy edge. Early 1994 the bandname once again was changed to Final Dezision and im summer '94 Andreas Kaufmann (ex-Krypta) joined on bass. Another EP was planned for late '94 but due to band internal trouble never realized, so the guys did a few more gigs and eventuall split up in 1995, while Patrick Engel and Andreas Kaufmann joined the Black/Death Metal band Impending Doom. Jens Halter appeared in Buried God's line up in the fall of the 90's.

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A melodic Hard Rock band from Hamburg, whose roots are originating back to 1980, when Knut Junghans and Frank Sander met drummer Götz Sücke (ex-Brainstorm) and decided to found the band Namenlos, that during the following years played several venues in the Hamburg area, till in 1986 the now to a five pieve grown band changed name to Tangua. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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Young thrashers from the small southern town of Bankholzen, close to the Swiss border and having no relation whatsoever to the infamous Extreme Napalm Terror grind-spoof'sters mind you. Around the time of recording their 6-song "First Attack" demo, the average age of the members should have been abouts 16 but it has still been described as relatively competent stuff, reminiscent of Protector with some angry HC-vibes added. If you have more info, please get in touch.

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A local Hard Rock band from the Offenbach/Frankfurt area, that actively played live during 1990. Further info is needed.

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Hardrockers from Ibbenbüren (near Osnabrück) with kinda sleazy touch like some of these R'n'R influenced L.A. rockstar bands, but musically petty, since their song "Let's dance", that these lads could place on the local compilation "Pink Pop presents Rocktage 86" lacks somewhat of originality and any musical ideas. Who knows if that had changed on their 14 song debut CD "Rock 'n' Roll", published on the local label Gemelo Records in 1991. Further info is welcome.

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The 1983 in Saarbrücken registered band Natchez couldn't really leave an enduring impression with their sole single "TV-Show". Though the lads are posing with leather and rivet adorned bracelets like Heavy Metal superstars on the cover, both their trax "TV-Show" and "Hell on wheels" (the better number of both) are pretty below average sounding Hardrockers with almost a poppy NDW touch. Not the usual Hard Rock that one might expect, so better beware. Micha Schneider was previously in 1978 playing with firstly Raganan and changed over to Fun in 1979, before he formed Natchez with other local Saarbrücken guys. After the single the line up oft he band slightly changed with ex-Sad/Luca Brasi Gerhard Hoff replacing Uwe Battis and Schneider’s mate Joachim Hammerschmidt (ex-Fun/Lancelot) joined on drums as well. But Natchez nevertheless would split up already in 1985 and Micha Schneider instead formed Extasy during 1986.

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A band from the Heidelberg/Mannheim/Frankfurt area that surprised with an US Metal style influenced album in the mid 80's and never has been seen again afterwards. The musicianship was quite experienced in terms of skills and songwriting and delivered a consistent good, above average sounding melodic Heavy Metal style, that was obviously influenced by the early Ozzy albums.

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A classic Heavy Metal band from West Berlin, formed around 1989. Nation X seems to be just a shortlived case, but the guys at least recorded a 4 song Demo in March '91, that featured british influenced Heavy Metal, interesting for fans of Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. Further info is needed.

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Female fronted Hardrockers from Sandhausen in the Mannheim area, who performed live at the "Rock aus der Penne” festival (“Penne” is slang for school) happening on September 17th 1983 in Heidelberg. Their song "Behind the curtain" was recorded live and got featured on the same called compilation LP, that was released on blue vinyl. Dunno why they needed a cellist in the band at all, but these lads delivered a highly energetic kind of heavy Prog/Hard Rock with galopping riff and outstanding performance at that gig.

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Necrocorpse was an early Black Metal duo from the Bielefeld area, starting still in 1993, but Lord Dark Wintermoon and Baalberith recorded their only Demo "Army of doom" early 1994, then soon afterwards vanished quickly. The tape didn't feature much essential stuff, just some randomly and chaotic mixed riffs. Baalberith during 1995/96 then formed Mysterion.

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Necrology from Gundelsheim/Heilbronn originally started as very young Thrash/Crossover quintet with 2 guitarists in the fall of 1987, but the second axeman left the guys during 1989, who then only featured members: Andre Achziger (vocals), Nico Kramer (guitar), Kai Schindelar (bass) and Norbert Remmler (drums), who at least recorded one Reh/Demo between 1989 and 1990, which though didn’t receive positive reviews at all. By continuously doing the next step and gaining live experiences on stage in the meanwhile, the skills of the foursome improved until their first studio recording ”For all we hate”, recorded in Juni 1991, while either the style of the boys went into Death/Thrash fields, with influences taken from Kreator, Morgoth, Sodom and Death. For unknown reasons the whole didn’t work out as planned as it seemed, since their Demo is still widely unknown, though reviews in the underground press was relatively overwhelming. Necrology disappeared unheard afterwards…

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Necromance from Spremberg (ex-GDR) started originally as Secret Attack still in 1987, covering mainly NWOBHM bands like Iron Maiden, Motörhead or Judas Priest in the beginning. Their own material was rather Power Metal inspired and the guys either played a few live gigs at that time. But during 1988 Secret Attack split up and Runhardt Scheffler learned to play guitar instead in order to form something more brutal sounding. He tried several times to gather musicians for that purpose but always failed, till he met drummer Jean Schulze in early 1990 and both formed Necromance. Mario Eckert joined both on bass in July ‘91. 3 months after the Demo “Slow death” was released, the band went to a studio once again to records 2 more songs for the Split 7” with Enslaved, published within the same year 1991 as well on Morbid Records. These guy's early style was rather primitive and average, but just typical early 90's Death Metal, personally inspired by Pungent Stench, Death and Repulsion as they claimed, till the trio went into a completely different Gothic Metal/Rock direction around 1994, with the “The parable of the weed” Demo. They were able to release 3 albums until 2001, before the band eventually split up during 2002.

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A local band from the Dortmund area, seen playing live in their area during 1990. Further info is needed.

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A Thrash band "..with melodic guitarwork" from Ahrensburg, Hamburg area, who released a 70 min Live Demo "Metalstorm over Lübeck" in 1986. The guys were previously active as Regardless since 1981 and changed name to Anesthesia during early 1988. If you have more info please get in touch.

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A Power/Speed Metal troop of the late 80's with either Power/Thrash tendencies, that was originating from Hannover. The guys consisting of Mickey "Dizzy" Peiers (vocals), Thorsten "Heavy" Loll (guitar), Albert "Dr. Bass" Melles (bass) and Carsten "Pete" Loll (drums) recorded a 4 track Demo in November 1988, entitled "Victim of lust", that mainly due to the vocals reminds not infrequently of a heavier version of Salem’s Law. If you got further info, please get in touch.

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The Thrashers Necronomicon formed in 1983 in Weil am Rhein, with members being Volker Fredrich, who was playing in the Punk band Total Rejection since 1981, Lars Honeck (bass) and Axel Strickstrock (drums). Jürgen Weltin became second guitarist in the following year. Necronomicon's main influences in the beginning was more or less Punk/Hardcore bands like Discharge or The Exploited and basically that could be even heard on the bands early Demos "Total rejection" and "Blind destruction", but the guys turned more and more into Thrash Metal and debuted on the "Break Out" sampler with "Possessed by evil" and "Blind destruction" in 1986. But seriously the band's untight performance and hilarious songwriting skills leaves a big questionmark in my mind, how they could land a record deal with Gama Records. The debut LP, released in the same year, wasn't any musical progress at all and even worse, illustrated the band's less than average instrumental skills. Sure, the lads acted brutal and Fredrich sounded exactly like Schmier, but is that enough to justify an album?
The "Apocalyptic nightmare" LP represented a band that had refined their raw Thrash style, but still tried to play way too technical as if their recent skills would have had allowed that at all. But I need to admit that in terms of underground Thrash, "Apocalyptic nightmare" meets all neccessary requirements, especially since Necronomicon keep a constant raw level. "Escalation" from 1988 kinda marked a new beginning. Lars Honeck was out and Jürgen Weltin in addition to his guitar job also handled the bass parts, while Necronomicon had developed their earlier limited skills and delivered a technical Thrash Metal album with similarities to early Destruction and Vendetta's debut, that didn't leave any questions unanswered anymore. Unfortunately for a long time this album should remain the band's last release as due to financial problems with Gama, the guys quit co-operation, but got forced to leave all rights to Gama and couldn't sign any other contracts for 10 years. After solving that judicial issue in the early 90's and the "Lucky strikes" Demo 1992 with Bernhardt Matt on bass, Necromonicon ended at the same label that gave them their first chance, D&S, to produce the "Screams" CD in 1994.
An old NECRONOMICON interview can be found in The Corroseum's interviews-section.

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A Death Metal band from Cottbus (ex-GDR), that was formed by Markus Lehnigk (guitar), Dirk Olesch (bass) and Gerd Zaunig (vocals, drums), whose first steps as a real band (yet no name was given at that time) are dating back to May 1990. 6 months later the guys picked up the monicker Necrophenistic Nightmare and additionally added Birk Hübner on vocals to the line up. During January ‘91 the fourpiece eventually recorded their first Demo “Tales of insanity”, but being absolutely unhappy with the final result, they buried the recordings. After several live gigs where they amongst other local acts also could support Sinister and Disharmonic Orchestra, they decided to change the band’s name to Enslaved in July '91.

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Necrophiliacs was a Grindcore act from Lindewitt in northern Germany, featuring Norris, the drummer of W.B.I., on vocals. The band formed in around 1990 and recorded 2 Split singles and a MLP until 1993, that all featured typical early 90's Death/Grind/Noisecore with either a few doomy parts. Unfortunately the vocal performance wasn't that exciting and marks the weak point of Necrophiliacs sound. After 1993 two more Split EP's was published with the Meat Shits and Incisive plus the "Hardcore psychos" 7" in 1995.

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Necrophobia from Frankenberg, north of Chemnitz, still formed during the ex-GDR's last breaths in 1990 but existed just for a very short period, before the band already split up after the release of their only Demo "The lost souls” in 1992. This Doom/Death Metal trio consisted of Marco Kluge (guitar, vocals), Frank “Lommi” Lommatsch (bass) and Thomas "Halloween" Helbig (drums), whose material got compared to stuff like early Cathedral, Goatlord or early Paradise Lost, performing a very slow kind of Death Metal with extreme vocals. Marco Kluge afterwards joined Deface on drums.

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We don't have further info of this bavarian band based in the wider Würzburg area, except that they've been active at least during 1992. Due to the name of the troop we don't expect an AOR band in this case. If you know the band just get in touch.

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Necropsy from Braunschweig released a pretty cool Demo tape at the peak of the second Death Metal wave in 1990. "Pay with your life" features 5 trax with influences of Asphyx and Death, that are all carried by a quite gloomy atmoshere. Unfortunately the quartet couldn't reproduce the same dark feeling on the "Some dark impressions" single, that was released on Century Media 2 years later with new guitarist Jens who replaced Unne, and represented Necropsy from just a typically US american style influenced common Death Metal side.

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Inofficially Necrosist from Prenzlau up in the eastern north of the ex-GDR was created by Ron Schaffer in 1990, after he just had left his former band T.M.K. But it took a while till he could gather enough musicians around himself to officially start a real band eventually in 1991. Drummer Mike “Heini” Hein f. e. came from the then defunct band “Dorn im Auge”. The other guys completing the band had been Stephan “Wölfi” Roll (guitar), Jahn “Janni” Junghans (guitar) and Sven “Plogy” Plog (bass). Right during early ’92 Necrosist recorded their debut Demo “Faces of death”, that featured classic and slow Doom/Death Metal. Within 1992 as well the second Demo “Power of darkness” was released, continuing the path of the debut. Plogy left afterwards and Guido Hausohn entered instead to play the bass. During 1993 a 3rd Demo “Traumatic” was recorded, delivering 6 songs before the band’s style went into a rather Gothic/Death Metal direction with keyboards. A 5 way split CD entitled “Children of tomorrow Vol. II“ and featuring Necrosist together with Desertion, Senistro, Sadistic Feast & Diarrhea was released in August 1996, though the band member carousel spinned several times. On their late debut CD from 1997 “Lost time’s” (AFM Records) the band line up already featured Ron Schaffer (guitar, vocals), Michael Grambow (guitar), Guido Hausohn (bass), Cornelia Thiel (keyboard) and Mike Hein (drums). But nevertheless it led to nothing than pure stagnation. One more Demo was recorded in 2002 with the same result, although they dropped the Gothic Metal influences and returned to their Death Metal roots. So the newly reformed Necrosist with now both guitarists Ron Schaffer and Michael Grambow still being on board, yet got supported by new members Nico Lüttschwager on bass and Fabian Reimer behind the drums to start recordings for the second album “When day dies” in 2003. In the end the album was selfreleased by the band independently on vinyl just 3 years later in 2006. Once again the line up changed. Felix Müller (bass) and Martin Hempel (drums) joined Necrosist who simply walked down a road wihout any end, that led into nowhere. Plogy eventually returned on bass during 2008 and formed a steady line together with Ron Schaffer both on guitars when Eva-Maria Dahlmann (Püppi) came in 2011 to play the bass guitar. One last change happened with Cannibal Kurt taking over the vocals 2013, leaving Schaffer on guitar only by now. The actual future of the band yet is undecided, they seem to still keep the band alive, but no further releases appeared at all.

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Obscure local DIY Thrash combo from Neunkirchen/Siegen that was active during 1988 and only rehearsed in a garage. The duo was Karsten „Blasphemer“ Menk on drums and Holger „Mayhem Angel“ Büchel on bass and doing vocals as well, who never played any gig at all, but recorded a private rehearsal tape in early ’88. They refered their style themselves like "poor Hellhammer".

(Thanx to Karsten + Tatjana Menk for the info and pictures!)

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A melodic Heavy Metal band built around ex-Darxon guitarist Michael Hebestadt and the ex-Street Fighter singer Roland Micheli, who founded Nero together with Marcel Buddenbrock at around 1987. The guys recorded a 3 track tape in 1988, that featured 2 melodic yet epic, slow Metal hymns and a 3rd more commercially influenced number, that got often compared to Dokken. For August '88 a MLP on No Remorse Records got either announced, but looks like the vinyl was cancelled for unknown reasons, while the recordings got finished already during summer as far as I'm concearned and still in late summer '89 once again a short note was seen that the LP will be available soon. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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A local Rock group from Haßloch/Mannheim, who appeared with 2 trax on the underground compilation "Seven's Up". Just "Beatastone forever" features AOR/Melodic Rock, the other number "Now the rain keeps falling" offers ordinary Pop/Rock.

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Local Heavy Rock foursome, kinda playing in the Kiss vein and originating from Neckargemünd in the Heidelberg area, who performed live at the "Rock aus der Penne” festival (“Penne” is slang for school) happening on September 17th 1983 in Heidelberg. Their song „It’s getting alright” was recorded live and got featured on the same called compilation LP, that was released on blue vinyl. Apart of the weak vocals the guys seemed to know how to handle their instruments, but couldn’t set any new heavy priorities at all.

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New Deal was Hardrockers from Offenbach, who got the idea in fall of 1984 to produce an own record at the Tonstudio Bieber (TSB) and that 12" was ready in 1985, published under the banner of the studio, which was also responsible for the Main Rock Sampler that the band participated on. The guys also produced their fullenght independently 1989 ("Get Bananas!") as well as a Live CD in 1992 and finished their career with the "Director's cut" CD in 1998. New Deal's style was highly AOR inspired Melodic Rock, but the lads also was working with several Hard Rock influences either. I guess the tracklist of the Live CD shows best what bands had an personal impact on the New Deal musicians. You can find cover versions of Toto, Bon Jovi, Gary Moore, Deep Purple and even Billy Idol there.

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This album from the "shit to gold blacksmith" of Metal Enterprises was recorded in August '90 and seems to be recorded by a real band this time, though the stylistical width was pretty much disastrous. While the opener still features ok Heavy Rock, right with the following material you'll dive into a seemingly neverending nightmare made of Hard Rock, Alternative Rock and what do I know else. Without a doubt one of the worst releases of the label, so better beware and try to listen first if you got the opportunity.

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This band was founded in May '85 in Oldenburg and their aim was to provide Oldenburg with heavier tunes. Keith Ellis was an ex soldier of the british army who stayed in Germany. According to their own info their repertoire was ranging from Rock to a few Heavy Metal riffs and their track on the local Oldenburg compilation pretty much proves that. Heavy melodic Hard Rock/AOR with Metal solos is what they delivered and the song isn't even bad. Quite well arranged.

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A Heavy Metal band from Landshut, that was previously active as Reckless in the 80's. The lads produced privately a single in 1992 that features listenable typical 80's midpaced rocking Metal on "Deathride to glory", but sadly just the mellow ballad "Tears never lie" on the flipside.

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Obscure Karlsruhe locals who contributed the track "I fly" to the underground compilation "Karlsruher Rockszene 84", initiated independently by the Andromeda studio, while most of the participating musicians entered a studio the very first time ever. Although due to problems with the time management on the vinyl, Nightcoast's track had to be shortened, but the band performed a mix of Prog Rock and AOR here. Further band info is required.

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Nightcry was a well known Hard'n'Heavy band of the Hamburg clubscene in the early 80's but never made it big. At least they released a private single in 1983 that features 2 melodic, slightly NWOBHM influenced Hard Rock/Metal trax with good songwriting, which proved that these guys knew what they was doing. The epic B-side track "Darkness in your eyes" strongly reminds me of the superb Lucifer MLP.

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Munich's Nightfall seems to be a rather obscure troop, and the pseudonyms of the musicians aren't very helpful to track down possible footsteps these guys left back in the day. Musically the lads performed a strongly symphonic touched Power/Heavy Metal, occasionally not unlike Helloween sounding. After a little research we seem to have uncovered a few of the guys, being most possibly Bernd Intveen (Bernard de Sade?) of StormHammer on guitars, Michael Behnke of Eisbrecher/Darkseed on bass and Kay Wintermeyer of Private Secret behind the drumkit. Robin Bizarre's surname was Schulze. Any further info could be helpful.

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Not to be confused with Munich's Nightfall act, these guys came from Sulzbach, north of Saarbrücken and only released one Demo in 1992. Unlike the metallic Munich outfit, these Nightfall offered just 2 Hardrockers plus a ballad of average quality and afterwards lost their singer, that probably moved the guys into trouble. Further info is welcome.

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Nighthawk released an album on the Megavolt label that tried to establish a vinyl dynasty in the fall of the 80's but just could produce 3 albums, till the label folded again. The Nighthawks has been active since 1983 already in the area around Lüneburg and offered a quite varied styled melodic Heavy Metal, mixing influences from different genres like on the speedy opener "Do you wanna play" with british edge. The main material though was mainly midpaced well done melodic stuff, with slightly american and of course in the first a german touch, whenalso I wish there would have been more bangers like "Do you wanna play" or the titletrack featured. The guys called it quits already in 1990, but I'm pretty sure, there was any earlier Demo material available as well.

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A Metal band from the Speyer area, that was active in the mid/late 80's. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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Dunno if this band from Heideneim is called Nightmare or Nightmare Project. On the booklet of the Demo they are called Nightmare Project, on the booklet of the Compilation LP too but either the logo on the Demo says just Nightmare as well as the tracklist of the Compilation LP. So wether they are being called Nightmare Project or just Nightmare, I can't 100 % tell. This band as well as Amnysha from the same Compilation is hard to put in any special drawer. Some huge dose of Prog Rock, some Hard Rock, some rare Metal influences and many keyboards mixing an epic instrumental brew that's hard to swallow. Both trax ("The immortals" and "Believe in yourself") featured on the Demo from 1990 also appear on the HDH Rock 91 Compilation. This band is just for instrumental fetishists who like it progressive.

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Not much info of this band is known, they was from Dortmund and there is a live cut known from January 21st 1984 (in Dortmund) containing the 2 songs "The bitch" and "We rock every night" that deliver a pretty huge NWOBHM feeling. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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Take a look at these Nightmare's logo and you know what kind of bands influenced them. I pretty much wonder what Iron Maiden would say, if they'd behold this infamous "borrowing" of their logo font. Nevermind, these 3 guys and 1 girl hailed from Essen and just are still being recalled because they left us a selfproduced obscure single that was recorded in August '81. The lads tried with NWOBHM influenced Hard Rock and "Black angel" in places indeed shows a few very early Iron Maiden hints as well as a littly punky edge during the refrain, that slightly reminds me of the Manimals/Misfits style. The B-side Hardrocker "Mandy" is more or less forgettable. I think the band's main fault was that their guitar sound wasn't heavy enough distorted. I've also seen the single once with a big logo sticker in the upper right corner, though you won't see copies of it that often I can promise.

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This short lived affair formed in Hagen during October 1982, initiated by Siegfried Schwarz and Ergün Tasli. Jürgen Tetzlaff, Reinhold Durand and Hanni Plattke completed the quintet a bit later on, who claimed for themselves to be the most tough Heavy Metal band of Hagen. But after just one year and a 3 song Demo, the band was history already, while most of the guys, except of Reinhold Durand (later in Hard 'n' Heart and Universe), would form the well known Nytemare in '84. The songs "Drive out the demon", "Down town" and the ballad "Tears in your eyes" of the tape already gave a short impression of what would later become Nytemare. Same style, with a few Maiden influences as well, just the production was quite terrible.

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Nightmission is a Heavy Metal band from Düsseldorf, that though being founded already during 1987, never managed to record any Demos during their first phase of existence, that ended 1997, before the band got restarted by Dieter Hendemann in 2002 once again. If you got further infos, please get in touch.

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These guys was haunting the Düsseldorf area since 1981 and debuted with a 2 track Demo in 1984, before they grabbed all their saved money and produced a 2 track 12" independently on their own label Prowler Records. The EP comes with incredible artwork and features 2 post-NWOBHM influenced Metal numbers, that adopt the spirit of british acts such as Persian Risk or Cobra. The Nightprowler guys kept on playing throughout the whole 80's and tried with several other drummers, before they eventually disappeared in around 1992.

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Heavy Rockers from Kraichtal, between Karlsruhe/Heidelberg, who's been active since the early 90's and released the CD "Here we are" in 1992 on the House Master label. Their sound featured melodic as well as commercial elements from all over the Hard Rock/Metal spectre, including Glam influences of early Cinderella, Bonfire etc. with in places a R'n'R touch. For fans of the common US stuff of the late 80's a nice affair nevertheless. Two of the CD trax namely "Here we are" and "If you don't like me" also appeared on the local compilation CD "1. Bruchsaler Sampler", most probably released during 1992/93. The band after the "Thunder & lightning" CD (1994) mainly became a live act, playing coverversions of bands like Whitesnake, Aerosmith, Metallica, AC/DC and and and ...
When their vocalist Jörg Schultheiß died, the remaining Nightrain members in 2017 released a DCD with some of their coverversions under the title "Reloaded - Recovery" and got officially disbanded.

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Not much to say about this band, no clue where they came from and their album from 1989 is only available as testpressing in a very limited quantity as you could imagine. Musically it's not really a loss, Nightwolf belong to the Rumpel Metal faction, homemade Power Metal, too early for a recording session and over all pretty annoying vocals made their songs quite a challenge for common ears. In places the guys even managed to compose a few real power bangers, but there's the hook, as soon as one part sounds listenable they switch over into a break or strange part or that guy that they call vocalist kills those moments. The use of keyboards gave at least certain song parts a nice atmosphere. But in the end one year longer would have had a real impact on the material. Guess that was the reason that this album was never officially released. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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Not a real band in the common sense, but one more Ingo Nowotny fake project with hired musicians to get some money into the till. This time you can listen to some Rock coverversions of Mother's Finest, Steely Dan, Fox The Fox, Ned Doheny and some more 70's artists done the typical Metal Enterprises way, which usually means HANDS OFF!

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Wuppertal locals that formed in November 1986 with Holger vom Scheidt (ex-Mordor), Martin Reinert, Ulrich Siefen (ex-Black Jack), Jörg Lennartz and drummer Christoph Segreff. After a first 4 track Demo tape in March '87 the D&S label picked them up in July '88 and produced their superb debut LP "Invincible" in August. Though these lads loved the melodic side of Heavy Metal (like Nytemare f.e.), their sound was pretty neat and heavy as fuck with also Accept influences, entering Power Metal fields more than just once. Holger vom Scheidt's vocals in places was sounding close to Living Death's Toto or Chris Boltendahl. 1989 Segreff and Siefen both left Ninja and got replaced by Bernd Rohde (guitar) and Andrè Hilgers (drums), and Ninja recorded the "Liberty" album privately in 1992 with the line up Hilgers, Rohde, vom Scheidt, Reinert and Lennartz. The material was almost close to their furious debut, Accept influenced Heavy/Power Metal with melodic touch that just deflagrated disregarded during the Death Metal wave. The guys called it a day a year later and Holger vom Scheidt teamed up with ex-guitarist Ulrich Siefen to form US Force. They returned in 1997 shortly with the "Valley of wolves" album, but quickly would surrender again.
(Thanx to Rumblefist for correction)

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In the band info is noted that Nitribitt was meant to be former Cetan Mani drummer Ingo Nowotny’s (yeah, the satan of Usingen, owner of Metal Enterprises) answer to Blondie and Straßenjungs and well there’s indeed a sort of late 70’s Punk influence on the band’s material, which on the other side mainly features a quite typical german Kraut/Hard Rock sound, known to be performed by many acts of that era as well. Nitribitt appeared on a handful of compilations, but couldn’t really surprise any major label bosses at all with their standard sound. Nowotny then focussed on his labels and begun to produce Punk albums and a bit later on of course too many faked Metal records as we all do know.

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A Hardcore band from West Berlin, featuring the founder of Destiny Records and former Sick Pleasure vocalist David Pollack, that was founded as Porno Patrol back in 1983. During summer 1985 the guys changed their name to No Allegiance and recruited Ilja on bass, before their debut was recorded 1986. The guys kept on playing that US american NY style Hardcore with Metal edge, that Porno Patrol already used to play earlier and notoriously seemed to follow the musical steps of Agnostic Front, since "MAD" and especially the great raging follow up album "No cash value" seemed to copy that band's sound. No Allegiance already split up afterwards during 1988, but Pollack continued with Destiny Records and released a number of cool albums that all seemed to follow that metallic Hardcore/Crossover scheme. Dietmar Jahr and Klaus Budach recorded an album with The Rest in 1986, before their ways split and Jahr joined Abratzk, while Klaus Budach recorded albums with Die Seuche around 1990. David Pollack in the meanwhile resurfaced in the band Happy Hour.

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A female fronted melodic Hard Rock/AOR band that was founded in mid 1987 and contributed the track "The demons of the night" to a local sampler from Neumünster in 1987. Unfortunately the drum sound appears a bit too poppy. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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A progressive Power Metal act from northern Germany featuring several musicians of the Kiel/Bremen scene, namely Alex Zasso (Sascha Trödel) of Secrecy, Gerrit Schulte (Strykken) and Paul Neville Larkin of Dee Tail. The band appeared with the trax "Pride" and "Games" on the obscure sampler "Ride on the Underground - A heavy Compilation" and that's everything we'd find out yet. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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The No Credit Band was a Melodic Rock band from Heilbronn. All of their releases starting from the first single released in 1985 up to their last effort, the "Interrelated" CD from 1992 (released as "No Credit"), do feature typically 80's first class Melodic Rock/AOR with hit character and cool guitar solos. On the later albums like on "Ready for surprise" (without Uli Bau) and "Interrelated" the lads also adopted melodic Hard Rock influences like f.e. Europe. The earlier works featured a bit more the Melodic Rock thing like Survivor or Starship, but on an above average level. For Melodic Rock/AOR fans highly recommended stuff!

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A self-proclaimed "Heavy `n` Roll" band from Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony, who started out already in 1985 but didn't release their first demo until 1992 and thus sadly missing the chance to jump on the original wave of German 80's HR/HM by a fair margin. Another demo in 1994 plus a CD in 1995 ensued, until the name-change to Still No Doubt in 1998, after which several CDs followed. While there's been some line-up changes through the years (the debut demo line-up is represented here) the band is still around today and you can check them out at their home page.

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Most probably a sort of Thrash/Crossover band from Wolfsburg, featuring ex-Access vocalist Michael Wehram. The guys formed the band most probably during 1990/91 and recorded a 5 track Demo in 1991 with the title "Unjustified war", before they already split up again, as Michael Wehram joined Scapegoat in 1992. Further info is needed.

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A Heavy Metal band from Essen, that was active during 1987. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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Early Heavy Metallers from Hamburg, not to be confused with the mysterious southern (?) act with the same name who released an LP in 1981. These guys were formed by brothers Andree and Peter Blankenstein in 1979, with the line-up slowly stabilizing in the coming years with Michael Frenzel on guitar and ex-Black Mirror Reiner Weber on bass. In July 1983 Rolf Krogmann, formerly of Airless and the Hamburg edition of Rampage, replaced Peter on drums, who instead became the band's manager. The band was planning to go into the studio in late October '83 and recorded some tracks that was soaked with a classic NWOBHM sound, much influenced by bands such as Judas Priest and Saxon. Another recording session happened during 1985 featuring at least the 3 tracks "Evil face", "Deep into your heart" and "Ready for the action", before the band already split up again. If you have more info, please get in touch.

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It's not really confirmed what city these guys hailed from, as the contact address on their only album, that was recorded in January 1981 in Freiburg, is the one of the label. And the label was from Heilbronn. At least we know, the lads came from southern Germany. Musically this vinyl relic delivers highly NWOBHM influenced Hard Rock and early Heavy Metal. In places some AC/DC hints might appear as well, but that's not really a surprise as they've influenced almost every troop of the first Heavy Metal wave. So all the NWOBHM mongers out there, go and get it!

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A band from Rodenbach that was featured as the only german band on the compilation "United Bands of Europe", but to label their style it isn't easy at all. The guys mixed fastpaced Heavy Metal with AOR, creating a somewhat pompish sound, like old Grave Digger/Noisehunter would be drowned in keyboards or something. Not that uninteresting at all. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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A prog/aor/hr-type outfit from Bad Kreuznach, that was active during the early/mid 80's and featured a tune on a local amateur-Rock compilation. If you have more info, please get in touch.

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No Request were formed in 1981 in Westheim, Bavaria. At the time of recording their first 4-track demo in 1983, their line-up had stabilized as to your left/top. They are mostly known from the Metal Hour sampler where they contributed the two good trax "Shadows of the future" and Ride hard". "Ride hard" has an Accept-ish touch and "Shadows of the future" is a nice typical german banger. Both trax spread a healthy dose of power and are more than solid efforts. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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A Speed Metal troop which was originating from Miltenberg/Bavaria, west of Würzburg. The band was founded in April 1986 as classic Heavy Metal act but turned later into Speed Metal and afterwards recorded 3 Demo tapes between 1988 and 1992, that contain a technically experienced, but nevertheless ordinary sounding Speed Metal style on the first 2 two tapes and a rather progressive touched Speed/Thrash on the last one "Dreams of immortality" from 1992, that also introduced Tommy Reis on the bass, who replaced the former bassist Jochen Trunk. The second Demo of No Silence ("Tell the answer") was produced by Michael Wehner of Vendetta. One of the songs from their last Demo was also used for the underground compilation "Peace-Eater Vol. II". Some of the guys later resurfaced with the Crossover band Miss Marple. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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A Heavy Metal band that was actively playing live during 1989 and participated at the festival "1. Bergisches Rockkonzert" in April '89. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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These guys from Sulzbach in the greater Frankfurt/Main area, has been active as No Trouble since August 1980, and vocalist Harald Markart joined in July '81. On the "Germany's Rock Sensation No. I Vol. II" vinyl sampler, No Trouble debuted with the NWOBHM influenced tracks "Are you ready" and "Devil wizard" plus the instrumental "Hard times", which all was recorded in fall of 1981. With the Accept-ish track "Sound of today" the lads also appeared on the "Rockactive I" sampler. Toni Giancristofaro (vocals, keyboard) replaced Harald Markart and Uli Namaschk (guitar) joined the band as well in mid '83, so the guys prepared a 3 track studio Demo in December '83, featuring the trax "Don't play", "Light a light" and the early Maiden/Priest inspired NWOBHM rocker "Need to be free", that except for the latter, included mainly mainstream Heavy Rock stuff. If my tape is legit, then the demo had no booklet at all. After some time the Gama label took them under their control and produced 2 albums in the mid 80's that represented the typical Gama Heavy Metal sound, exactly the stuff that comes to mind when someone mention the name Gama Records. No Trouble performed a solid but sadly just average style of slightly Rock'n'Roll influenced Heavy Metal with Hard Rock hints either on their debut "Looking for trouble", that wasn't really able to concurrate with other labelmates albums that year like Stranger or Tyrant at all. On "Watch out!", the whole looked a bit better, they mainly focussed on the classic Metal thing, but also with this album seriously couldn't break out of the middle league. Due to the man with the epic name, Toni Giancristofaro, who's vocals reminded in places of Stephen Pearcey, certain songs like "Get ready" got a little early Ratt touch. But the lads wasn't really sure if they should fully walk the powerful way or better join the melodic faction and instead produce commercially influenced material, so the quality level changes from Metal bangers to Heavy Rock over and over again. The powerbanger "Rock 'n' Roll heart" was used for a handful of compilations, even long after 1987, when No Trouble disbanded. Giancristofaro joined Viva in the late 80's.

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No-One was a shortlived Hard Rock/Metal band from Meerane (ex-GDR), that only existed from 1983-86, without having ever composed own material. The guys just focussed on coverversions of bands like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Krokus and Accept and already split up during late 1986. When their vocalist and bassist all together had to join the army during autumn '86, their guitarist Udo tried to illegally escape the country and eventually got busted in Hungary. The last survivor Kalle joined forces with Frontal vocalist Andreas Männer, who had just lost his band as well and both subsequently revived Frontal with new fresh musicians. If you got more, please get in touch.

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A Metal band from Markneukirchen/Saxony (ex-GDR), that is active since already 1982, initiated by Rainer Wild (vocals, guitar), Gerd Knoth (guitar), Rene Reiner (bass) and Tino Koch (drums), musically influenced by bands such as Judas Priest, Saxon, Deep Purple, Accept and Iron Maiden. The band was playing many live gigs with either the use of selfmade pyrotechnics, which sometimes caused stage bans for the guys. After achieving the upper class classification by the national comission, the guys recorded the song "Komm zurück" in 1986, which basically is a cover version (or rip off) of Judas Priest's "Jawbreaker" with different german lyrics. During an ordered stage ban phase the band got heavier and adopted several Power Metal and Thrash cover versions of Metallica, Slayer and also Running Wild into their repertoire, which made Rainer Wild leaving during 1987. Also Tino Koch was forced to leave due to expected army duties, so the band was forced to search for new members, who in 1988 completed the new line up, now consisting of Oliver Glas (vocals), Uwe Wunderlich (guitar), Gerd Knoth (guitar), Rene Reiner (bass), Ralf Scherzer (drums). But soon Glas left again to form the band Voice with former Nobody axeman Rainer Wild. Uwe Wunderlich took the micro afterwards and Jens Meinl (ex-Space) got hired as 2nd guitarist. Musically the guys also added trax of Sodom, S.O.D and Celtic Frost into their playlist, causing another stage ban 1989, because of playing Sodom's "Bombelhagel". After playing two gigs during 1989 in the Soviet Union, Rene Reiner left the country shortly before the fall of the wall. Further attempts to continue with Nobody didn't succeed at all. 2002 some of the guys found together and nowadays are on the road again as a cover band.

Check out Nobody's Homepage

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Noise from Dormagen started back in 1976, founded by the 13/14 years old teenagers Hanni Vasiliadis (guitar, vocals), Erwin Perle (guitar), Reiner Hormel (bass), Ronny Lewandowski (drums) and the lads played Status Quo inspired Hard Rock that would change later in the following years to a more heavier style, when Noise started composing own songs. 1979 Noise participated on a grand newcomer band contest in Essen, that gave them the possibility to play in front of a huge crowd and helped spreading their name in the area. When the newly created label Noise Records entered the scene in 1983, Noise was forced to expand their band name to Noisehunter, as Noise Records fully had the rights on Noise and didn't allow the further use of that monicker. As Noisehunter the guys recorded a Demo at the Dierks Studios around 1984/85 and got signed by Gama Records. The rest is history. As far as I'm concearned, Noise never recorded any studio material at all.

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A Death Metal band from Wiesloch who could place 2 tracks on a Split 12" with the bands Charterflug Tschad, Mortify and Metamorphosis, that was sponsored by the local youth center. Their style was a grinding sort of Death Metal with some doomy parts and similarities to Cadaver or Carbonized.

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Noisehunter from Dormagen started back in 1976, founded by the 13/14 years old teenagers Hanni Vasiliadis (guitar, vocals), Erwin Perle (guitar), Reiner Hormel (bass), Ronny Lewandowski (drums) as Noise and the lads played Status Quo inspired Hard Rock that would change later in the following years, when Noise started composing own songs. 1979 Noise participated on a grand newcomer band contest in Essen, that gave them the possibility to play in front of a huge crowd and helped spreading their name in the area. When the newly created label Noise Records entered the scene in 1983, Noise was forced to expand their band name to Noisehunter, as Noise Records fully had the rights on Noise and didn't allow the further use of that monicker. At around 1984/85 Noisehunter began to record Demo material at the Dierks Studios, that was sent to several labels (except probably Noise Records ^^) and gained them a 3 years deal with Gama Records who immediately produced their debut "Time to fight" in 1986 for their sublabel Sri Lanca, that contained a for Gama quite archtypical midpaced german Heavy Metal style but the lads also didn't really dissemble, that they've been able to produce speedbangers like the title track f.e., that was close to Running Wild's early sound. With the newly joined Matthias Nicklas on bass, they recorded the second album "Spell of noise" in 1987, that was more up to date in terms of speed than the debut and established the name Noisehunter in the inner circle of the german melodic Speed Metal hopefuls. The Noisehunter guys in the next years played a number of live shows, either in several european cities like Paris, Vienna, Brussels, East Berlin or Budapest infront of a crowd of 15000 people. The ZYX Metallic label signed them in the fall of the 80's and the last Noisehunter album "Too young to die" was recorded in 1989, and released early 1990. Though the album featured with "In the city" and "Ruler of the dark" speedy rippers of the same caliber like the most songs of the "Spell of noise" album, Noisehunter completely throttled the speed and added commercial elements and songparts, to enter a way more Hard Rock influenced melodic Metal direction than in their early days, which wasn't much appreciated by the old fans. Subsequent ZYX dropped Noisehunter, but though the guys recorded several Demos, no more label showed interest, so Erwin Perle and Matthias Nicklas therefore quit in 1992 and the remaining guys changed name to Union Rox and tried with a different vocalist till 1997. The recorded unreleased material of the 90's was later re-released on Karthago Records as the "Rock shower" album in 2005. Here you can watch a Noisehunter TV clip in front of a still shocked crowd.
An old NOISEHUNTER interview can be found in the interviews-section of the archived version of the old metalpage.de-site.

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An Andernach Grind/Crustcore band that was around from the very beginning of the 90's till the later 90's and could release their debut album "Greed" in 1996 on D.I.Y., featuring classic Crustcore. During the earlier days Noiseslaughter had several Grindcore influences that appear on their early releases.

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A Hard Rock/Metal band from Andernach that was probably influenced by the Glam style. Jürgen Hörth was previously singing for Vötca and later Rain 'n' Steel. Wulf Brücher is ex-Razzle Dazzle and Alex Mannebach came from Vanilla Rex and Rinnsteinkatzen. The band was playing live in 1992/93. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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A Heavy Rock band from Bad Buchau (south of Ulm) that was active during 1987/88. The band at least recorded one Demo tape during December '87 or January '88. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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Not Fragile belong to Hamburg's oldest Metal formations and their birth goes back till summer 1980 already when Torsten Buczko, Matthias Belter and Arnd Stronkowski started playing together, till Markus Köhn completed the line up. When these lads still started as Hard Rock band, their sound delevoped into NWOBHM influenced Heavy Metal with every year that passed by and after releasing several Demo tapes between 1983 and '85, the whole thing started to fructify, when 2 trax of their "Made in Metal" tape appeared on international compilation albums, while the D&S label also featured Not Fragile on the 1st of their "Break Out" samplers with the trax "Hard to be alive" and "Too fast", that marked the band's advancement to the classic german Power/Speed Metal sound like early Helloween f.e. One weak point though in the whole 80's history, should remain the rather weak vocals of Torsten Buczko. In autumn '87 Raico Ebel (ex-Ill Prophecy) joined Not Fragile for Arnd Stronkowski (later in Bleedfort), who left the band a bit earlier. In February '88 the lads prepared a 4th Demo, when Metalother Records, who already had featured them on their "Metal Warriörs" sampler, contacted the band and offered them to rather produce a vinyl of the recordings instead of a Demo. "Who dares wins", as the MLP was later entitled, featured a grown Speed Metal band, that fully continued there where Helloween stopped after "Walls of Jericho", celebrating the melodic highspeed Metal thing with smoking fingers. Due to Metalother financially ripped them off, Not Fragile in fall of '88, reinforced by Ralf Salpius as second guitarist, recorded 3 new songs for the "Lost in a dream" 12", released by their management Hellion Records in all kinds of possible vinyl colors in a limited edition of 1000 copies. Raico Ebel quit Not Fragile still in 1989 due to internal trouble and started his own project Mad Alien. Torsten Buczko handled the second guitar from this point again and the album "One way to glory" was recorded in summer 1989 at Delta Studio in Wilster, which wasn't released before 1992 in Japan only as "Hard to be alive", including the "Who dares wins" EP as well. In Germany that album was released just 1 year later as the "Lost in a dream" CD, including different bonus trax. Their sound was still following the classic Power/Speed Metal scheme like on the previous releases and this album could have had probably marked Not Fragile's breakthrough on the Metal market, but it just shouldn't be probably. Not Fragile though had called it quits already in 1990, but returned 4 years later and since then recorded lotsa more albums.

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A female fronted Power Metal band with Speed edge that was originating from Heilbronn and formed back in 1989. After just half a year they already went into a studio to record their debut Demo "Madness is coming", that easily fits the common standards of the recent german Speed Metal scene. After the Demo in late '91, Tanja joined Battlefield, who just was in need for a new vocalist, so Bruno Bozoki took the micro position as well and the band, though rumours said they had split up in the meanwhile, returned impressively with the tape "Forgotten years" in 1992, featuring 3 varied trax rooted in the Power Metal genre with additional Speed parts like before, but much more technical songwriting. The guys released their selftitled CD in 1996 before they disappeared the following year.

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A Blues/Hard Rock band from Koblenz, founded in mid '84. They played many gigs in the area till at least 1989. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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A Thrash/Crossover band from Rickert/Rendsburg, south of Flensburg, that started in December 1987. Their first Demo "Human race in graves" was recorded straight in May '88, while the second one "...kind of life", still recorded with Dennis on guitar as a fourpiece, was ready in Apil 1989 and offered more straight raw Thrash, but already on "...is this life?" from 1990 the band was just a trio, and vocalist Marc Zölk also shared guitar/bass parts with Sven. For the music of the band it meant a slightly stylistical change into a more controlled direction with some breaks than on the debut. Some of their Demo songs also appeared on a number tape samplers during that time like "Is this life?" and "Sandman" on "Schreie der Angst" and "Is this life?" and "Suffering earth" on "More Noise Tape Compilation", before the band changed name to Gainsay! during the beginning of the 90's.

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A Noise combo from Bochum that was formed spring '87 by ex-members of Gebølze. Not to be confused with the band from northern Germany.

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Nucleus, a Heavy Metal band Marburg, started back in 1985 playing under that name for about 2 years before they changed name in 1987 to Transitional and right in the same year to Lewd Preacher. For further info check out the Lewd Preacher entry. If you got more info about Nucleus itself, please get in touch.

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Number Nine from Würzburg debuted with a nowadays pretty rare single, that was recorded in January '87. The guy's sound in the beginning (they are still active nowadays as a cover band) was very AOR connected and only the B-side "I'm for bad" could be called a sort of poppy Hard Rock at least. "It's me" pretty much reminds me of Melodic Rock like Toto and noone else. But fortunately on their selfproduced album "Everybody's crazy" from 1990 with ex-Darxon/Cacumen/Bonfire/Kymera Dominic Hülshorst on drums, the lads finally added that portion of missing power and delivered an US influenced Melodic Metal/Hard Rock album, that didn't need to hide behind other german bands like Wishes Burn, Vice, Bonfire, Vamp or similar acts of the late 80's, though the instrumental "Hocus Pocus" is ripping off Blitzkrieg's "Blitzkrieg" in a major way! On the other hand that song's a coverversion of Focus' song "Hocus Pocus" from their 71er album "Moving waves", so ... ehem...
(Thanx to Frank/Powerprillipator for additional info)

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A classic german Heavy Metal band that started in '84 and only lasted for 3 years. The guys previously was active with Nightmare since 1982. This Hagen based act managed to get a record deal and released one of the better german Metal albums. Their selftitled MLP contains melodic Heavy Metal with good vocals and powerful sound without any weak parts featuring the good semi ballad "Black Jack". Most of the songs delivering quite pounding Metal smashers though the opener "We're on the road again" and "Love is a game" are uptempo numbers with some Gravestone/Tyrant hints. Most of the members except of Siggi Schwarz would later after a last Demo approach in 1989 to get the name Nytemare back in music business, be found in the also great band Salvage.