Year : 2023
Style : Heavy Metal , Power Metal
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 119 mb
Bio:
Chris Boltendahl (* 2 January 1962 in Gladbeck) is a singer with the German band Grave Digger, photographer and painter.Together with Peter Masson and Phillip Seibel, Chris Boltendahl founded the German metal band Grave Digger in Gladbeck as a teenager. In the beginning, Boltendahl was not the singer but the bass player of the group. Only a few weeks before the first record deal, he was kicked out of the band due to internal disputes, but was brought back a short time later to be the singer on the first record called Heavy Metal Breakdown.Since then, he also remained the singer of the band throughout. Boltendahl also managed the German-American thrash metal band The Company around 1997, among others.When a dispute arose between Boltendahl and then-guitarist Uwe Lulis over the rights to use the band's name at the turn of the millennium, the group was on the verge of breaking up. However, Lulis lost the dispute and Boltendahl was able to continue to claim Grave Digger as the band's name.Today, Boltendahl is the only remaining founding member of the band.Under the title Grave Digger. The Definitive Biography, he brought out a band biography in 2002.Boltendahl cites Van Halen, Judas Priest, Motörhead, Accept as his musical influences.In addition to his work as a musician, he has worked as an A&R manager for the Spanish record label Locomotive Records. He is also a photographer and painter.For Doro Pesch's 30th stage anniversary, he sang the song East meets West with her at the Wacken Open Air 2013 and the Wacken anthem 2011 We are the Metalheads in a quartet with Udo Dirkschneider.
Album:
After 42 years in the metal business, Grave Digger’s front icon Chris Boltendahl will release his first solo album. Under the banner of Chris Boltendahl’s STEELHAMMER, “Reborn in Flames” will see the light of day in 2023. Chris was able to win over an illustrious guild of first-class musicians for this work… none other than the ex-Orden Ogan guitar wizard Tobias Kersting can be found on the guitar. With him Chris wrote all 10 tracks on “Reborn in Flames”. The album is rounded off by the cover version of the classic “Beds are burning” by Midnight Oil. The line-up is completed by Lars Schneider on bass (ex Orden Ogan) and Patrick Klose on drums (Iron Savior). Recorded in various studios and mixed and mastered in Chris’ in-house Graveyard Studio, where the last Grave Digger “Symbol of Eternity” (#7 in the German charts) was mixed and mastered, “Reborn in Flames” brims with classic power metal riffs… in Various interviews promised Chris a glowing mixture of “Grave Digger meets Metal Church”, which hits the nail on the head. From heavy metal steamers ala “Reborn in Flames, Fire Angel or Beyond the Black Soul” to the groove monsters “Gods of Steel, Out of the Ruins or The Hammer that kills” you can hear everything a banger’s heart desires on the album. Tobias Kersting refines the album with filigree Power Metal riffing and worldclass solos, while Lars Schneider and Patrick Klose provide the duo Kersting / Boltendahl with the necessary basis. The unmistakable voice of the Grave Digger legend reigns supreme… “Reborn in Flames” is a firework of metal for every headbanger who loves classic metal… With “Reborn in Flames” the four musicians create an independent, fresh and high-class debut power metal album. As Ozzy says so beautifully: “let the madness begin”!
Line-Up:
Chris Boltendahl - Vocals - See also: Grave Digger, ex-Digger, ex-Hawaii, The Fyredogs
Tobias Kersting - Guitar - See also: Duke , ex-Orden Ogan
Lars Schneider - Bass
Patrick Klose - Drums - See also: Iron Savior , Cold Revenge, Bright Guardians, ex-Dawn of Destiny, ex-Elmsfire, ex-Scanner
Tracklist:
01. Reborn In Flames
02. Fire Angel
03. Beyond The Black Souls
04. Gods Of Steel
05. Die For Your Sins
06. Let The Evil Rise
07. Out Of The Ruins
08. I Am Metal
09. The Hammer That Kills
10. Iron Christ
11. Beds Are Burning (Bonus Track)
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