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A local Hard Rock outfit from Bad Kreuznach, that was active during the early/mid 80's and featured a tune on a local amateur-Rock compilation. Willie Fett later released a mini album with the band Foxx in 1989. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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Lightweight, poppy AOR/Classic Rock in the vein of ELO or Toto is what these guys from Mönchengladbach offered on their track featured on the local sampler “Rock-Szene Mönchengladbach” from 1987.

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Originally the Hamburg-Meiendorf based Yetih was initiated by producer Thomas Meik around 1984, who gathered local Hamburg musicians around himself in order to produce something new in the Hard Rock genre. After a soon produced 4 track Demo, the first steady Yetih line up crystallized with Jörg Leiding (vocals) Thomas-Mario Cristiani (guitar), Andreas Glummert (bass), Jörn Ellerbrook (keyboard) and Andreas Olofsson (drums), while the band in winter/spring 1985 started playing live in the wider Hamburg area. Meik produced an album that year with Michael Keuter on vocals, trying to establish the name Yetih in the music business, which was announced to be finished in June '85. The first letters that yet surfaced, coming with the LP's was dated from January '86, though I don't understand why Yetih did not release their Demo Vinyl in a regular way with printed cover etc. officially. Instead they decided to press just a few Promo's to mail them to radio stations and labels in order to find someone to release it for them. I can't say how much they manufactured of it, I'd say maybe 100-200. It turns up from time to time, so at least 100 was pressed. They themselves called their style "Hard Rock with classical elements" and basically it's true. Yetih played a sort of metallic Hard Rock with a few keyboards that gave their songs a slightly 70's touch. In places they do get heavier also but metallic Hard Rock would be the best description I guess. The 2 songs "Lady" and "Miles away" of the album was also pressed as a 7" on Rats Records from Hamburg (the label of their producer). But nothing helped, nobody wanted to released the album, so at least these Demo vinyls are available for some die hard collectors. One interesting fact, Yetih was kinda "related by marriage" over 3 corners with Helloween coz Michael Keuter (ex-Sunburst) and Andreas Glummert are ex-Powerfool members, the band that Michael Weikath used to play in before he joined Helloween. Olofsson came from a band called Boa. Michael Keuter was later singing for Tscallenger, that evolved into Sterling, while one of their bassists, Jens Potent, was found in Hamburg Heavy Metal band Exit and joined Snakebite during early 1988.

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Ygramur was a band from the late 80's, originating from Sulzbach-Rosenberg, east of Nuremberg, that recorded just a single Demo during 1989, containing ordinary and due to certain info, less interesting Heavy Metal (poor vocals was only one flaw mentined). If you got more info, please get in touch.

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A Hard Rock band from West Berlin, that was active during 1989/90. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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An AOR/Melodic Rock band from Schleswig-Holstein with a topnotch song ("Up and down") on a privately pressed local compilation, that could easily be a number in the hitparade sung by any famous AOR band. And they recorded it at home and not at any famous studio. The second track "Jenna" isn't much different sounding to be honest.

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A Heavy Rock/AOR band from Kiel with female vocalist. Their sole LP "Rocking through the night" features 10 well produced melodic Hard Rock and AOR numbers that partly do sound like somewhere between Van Halen and the Scorpions on "Savage amusement" I'd say. Some songs are "heavier", some less, though I prefer the heavier songs on the album. For Melodic Rock fans surely a find nevertheless.

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A Hamburg based Heavy Metal band that released at least one Demo during 1986. Two of the trax ("Hot, wet and willin'" and "Get ready") was featured on the Total Massacre Vol. 2 underground compilation tape. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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These hardrocking guys formed during the mid 80’s and hailed from Asperg in the Ludwigsburg/Stuttgart region. With the line up Joe Maas (vocals), Andreas Totz (guitar), Rainer Burk (guitar), Karel Swoboda (bass) and Marcel Vogelmann (drums) they recorded the song “Take me, shake me” in spring ‘90 at the Tucan studio in Kornwestheim, which appeared exclusively as it seems on the obscure local CD sampler “Lubu rocks – 20 Bands aus dem Raum Ludwigsburg Vol. 1". Stilistically being Hard Rock with a slightly Southern Rock approach as well the band delivered a solid number and was seen back in the day often live on tour or several band contests. During the late 80's they were either able to open for Cozy Powell and Leslie West (ex-Mountain). 1992 keyboarder Andreas Fuchs joined and a bit later on during spring ’93 Yukon recorded their album "Weight watchers" once again at the Tucan studio, who also produced the CD's. Those 8 songs tended into the melodic Hard Rock direction, but it’s been by far too late for that kind of sound to catch interest of bigger labels. Joe Maas, who in the meanwhile also played the bass guitar, decided to quit Yukon in 1998. The guys despite of testing several other singers couldn’t really fully recover anymore, so in 2000 the band eventually split up, but guitarist Andreas Totz just 2 years later reformed Yukon once again with Joe Maas on vocals and bass plus Andreas Fuchs (keyboard). For about one year during 2005 the ex-Fargo/Sinner/Fandango/Victory drummer Bernie van der Graaf played with the guys, but got replaced in 2006 by ex-Eloy/MSG/Udo Lindenberg drummer Bodo Schopf. Afterwards in 2008 Michael Welten came to replace him, as Yukon still seems actively playing on stage every now and then.

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Yuma from Edenkoben (greater Speyer area) was founded in 1982 by Andreas Meyer, Bernd Lintz (ex-White Horse/Flintstone) and Stefan Paulus who was searching for a guitar player and a vocalist which they both found in Harald Nawrocki. They started rehearsing and wrote about 30 own songs, one of them being "Speed fire" (1982), a midpaced instrumental Hardrocker that appeared on Yuma's first Demo "Hard to hear" recorded in February '85. All of the 4 trax still spread a slightly sloppy feeling, but especially "Universal killer" could fully convince with it's epic approaches. Stefan Tillack replaced Bernd Lintz on bass, who joined Steel Preacher/The Warning instead, and they recorded the "Hey you" 7" in August '86. The band had added some more power to their songs and especially the galopping "Nightrider" fully fit into the for 1986 working standards in the Metal business, sounding like wellknown Gama bands now. The same track was also taken for the Seven's Up Compilation. Andreas Meyer (later in Trancemission) had to quit because the army was calling to arms and Max Jescheck joined instead on guitar. In 1988 another Demo was recorded with "Destroyed illusions", that stepped back a bit in terms of heaviness and mainly included melodic midtempo numbers, but the bass players position always changed afterwards. Christian Stolle came for Tillack, then Bac Pfister. In the early 90's Jens Weiße handled the vocals but soon got replaced by Thomas Tretter while Jeschek quit too and Gunter Gehrlein (later in Skye) became new guitarist. When Stefan Paulus left the band in 1994 they carried on for slightly a year with Stephane Tarin on drums before they called it quits. In 2007 then Yuma reformed and released a compilation called "Keep On Rockin 2007 (Retrospect 1982-1994)" that contains some older demos plus the 7".
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