Year : 2024
Style : Heavy Metal
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 110 mb
Bio:
Scanner is a German power metal band that was formed in 1986.Previously known as LIONS BREED ( a German Metal act that released the 1985 album on the Earthshaker label entitled "Damn The Night") the group changed the vocalists and the drummer and became SCANNER in 1986, adopting an on stage sci-fi image.SCANNER appeared in 1987 with the opener track "GALACTOS" on the "DOOMSDAY NEWS" compilation by NOISE RECORDS, Berlin. The group’s debut album, "HYPERTRACE", was produced by ELOY vocalist Frank Bornemann and was released in 1988. Backing vocals for this outing were contributed by Ralph Scheepers (today Primal Fear). The Japanese Release of this album added the exclusive track "Galactos" from the DOOMSDAY NEWS compilation.In 1991 the second album, "TERMINAL EARTH", had been released the group had parted company with vocalist Michael Knoblich and replaced him with the Yugoslavian born ex-ANGEL DUST front man S.L. Coe. When personality clashes erupted between Coe and his band mates the vocalist was forced out in 1993.Guitarist and bandleader Axel Julius (also producer aka Nigel Boston) recruited a new line up for SCANNER to release the "MENTAL RESERVATION" album in 1995 for the MASSACRE RECORDS label and JVC Victor Entertainment, Japan. The band comprised Polish vocalist Haridon Lee, bassist John A.B.C. Smith and drummer D.D. Bucco for this album, although Smith was succeeded by Marc Simon shortly after the record was released.1997’s "BALL OF THE DAMNED" would prove an ambitious affair as the band took on cover version of QUEEN’s epic "Innuendo". Ralph Scheepers, by now in PRIMAL FEAR, also appeared once more lending vocals to "Puppet On A String". Touring to promote the album saw headline European dates with support act UNREST before a further round of shows on a package billing with FATES WARNING and OMEN. In summer ‘97 SCANNER appeared first time at W.O.A., Wacken Open Air, Germany.SCANNER ‘s 2002 release was brandishing the new studio album "SCANTROPOLIS".At this stage the new look band comprised female vocalist Lisa Croft, guitarists Axel Julius and Thilo Zaun, bass player Marc Simon, keyboard player Johannes Brunn and drummer Jan Zimmer. The album closes with an unaccredited version of "Till The Ferryman Dies" recorded live in Stockholm.In 2003 Greek vocalist Efthimios Ioannidis joined the band and is SCANNER’s most constant singer until today’s line-up. SCANNER played a lot of shows whole of Europe in the past years and will come up with their 6th album, "THE JUDGEMENT", in December 2014.
Album:
The time has come: a new full-length Scanner album after almost a decade! "The Cosmic Race" will be released on January 12, 2024 and as the band's highly decorated discography dictates, this one is a concept album: survival on earth has become more and more difficult, natural disasters are piling up and military conflicts have reached their highest level, large parts of the continents are nuclear contaminated. Life is concentrated in a few big cities and the narrowness and heat in them has become almost unbearable. The Scanner (a hybrid of human and android, our leading figure who is resident on planet Galactos) picks up a chosen part of human beings from Earth with huge spaceships in order to transform them into a habitable planet, called Terrion, in another Galaxy. Scanner's army, the Space Battalion guarantees for the safety of the precious cargo (the chosen ones which have to remain in hyper sleep for decades) on the long flight through various wormholes. The long journey ends successfully. But, even in the new world, people have to defend themselves against monsters, aliens and planetary invaders (troops from other civilized planets) and start all over again right from scratch. Most are again farmers or craftsmen. The new world is not just a mere accumulation of the products of sophisticated technologies, but a profane art of survival that begins with sowing seeds in the fields. But they also celebrate festivals and commemorate their ancestors and everyone who was once close to them and who they have left behind on earth. The new settlers defend everything newly gained with absolute passion and to their last drop of blood against their enemies. They want to take their second chance and do better than they did on Earth against all odds. However, since there are also some doubters and renegades among them who oppose the new community and endanger the "Second Chance" project, the Scanner has developed a system that can identify those renegades during their dream phases at night and kidnaps them before dawn. They find themselves paralyzed in a Twilight Zone. They are lashed finally to giant totem poles in a trance where dreams and reality fight each other until they are purified.
Line Up:
Efthimios Ioannidis - Vocals (2003-present) - See also: ex-Levamnon
Axel "A.J." Julius - Guitars (1986-present) - See also: ex-Lions Breed, ex-Reinforce
Dominik Rothe - Guitars (2023-present) - See also: Cerebral Invasion, Speed Lv̇fter, Taskforce Toxicator, ex-Marauder, ex-dreadthesun
Jörn Bettentrup - Bass (2018-present)
Boris Frenkel - Drums (2018-present) - See also: ex-Dawn of Destiny, ex-Reflection, ex-Tauron
Tracklist:
01. The Earth Song 05:32
02. Face the Fight 05:10
03. Warriors of the Light 05:07
04. Dance of the Dead 04:49
05. Scanner's Law 04:13
06. A New Horizon 05:41
07. Farewell to the Sun 05:38
08. Space Battalion 06:46
09. The Last and First in Line 04:46
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