Year : 2025
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , Melodic Rock
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 112 mb
Bio:
Oliver Hartmann (born June 28, 1970 in Rüsselsheim) is a German metal vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer who performed in various acts, either as guitarist, solo or choir singer. He is best known for his role as founder of the band At Vance (together with Olaf Lenk), his current band Hartmann and his guest appearances on albums of several prominent metal bands, including Freedom Call, Edguy, Rhapsody, Genius rock opera, Iron Mask, Aina's metal opera Days of Rising Doom and the metal opera Avantasia where he participated as a vocalist in 4 albums and also as a guitarist of the live and studio line up. He is also guitarist and vocalist with the Pink-Floyd tribute band Echoes.Hartmann began his career as guitarist in several local bands but since the age of 18 concentrated more on his singing. Among others he played in bands as Hanz Damf, Tuned, and Centers, the latter with which he made his first international appearances. He reached his first success with At Vance, in which he sang from 1999 to 2002. Since leaving At Vance on personal reasons, he concentrated mostly on his solo career and on studio recording. So far he has recorded four solo albums, Out in the Cold, which was released in 2005 on the Italian Frontiers Records label, on which he also plays guitars, Home, which was released in early 2007, the live acoustic DVD/CD Handmade and the latest release 3 in late 2009. Hartmann currently also sings in Italian band Empty Tremor, which was a support act for Dream Theater during a 2004 tour in Italy.[1] With his band, Hartmann he also supported TOTO during their European tour 2006, House of Lords and The Hooters in 2007. During the past two years, the band HARTMANN played numerous festivals and shows as support of bands such as MOTHER’S FINEST, URIAH HEEP and Y&T.After the release of the actual AVANTASIA double album "Angel of Babylon/The wicked symphony" and a second world tour in December 2010 the live DVD „The flying opera - Around the world in 20 days“, recorded during the first tour in 2008, was released in early 2011 and climbed up many European charts to No 1.In January 2012, Oliver Hartmann also joined ROCK MEETS CLASSIC (feat. Ian Gillan/ DEEP PURPLE, Jimi Jamison/ SURVIVOR, Steve Lukather/ TOTO, Chris Thompson/ex-MANNFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND and Robin Beck) on vocals and guitars.The recordings for the new HARTMANN album “Balance” were completed in April 2012 and will be released soon on the label AVENUE OF ALLIES.
Album:
Oliver Hartmann, well known as internationally respected singer and guitarist is considered with his band HARTMANN since their debut ’Out in the cold’ in 2005 as one of the best modern German Rock-/ Hard Rock acts. Since then, the band has released 9 successful albums and toured with countless top-acts as Uriah Heep, Toto, The Hooters, Y&T, House Of Lords and many others. The duet ’Simple man’ featuring the outstanding vocalist Eric Martin of Mr. Big has reached more than 1 million streams on Spotify since its release in 2018 as second single of the album ’Hands on the wheel’.After their latest album ’Get over it’ in 2022, which was enthusiastically accepted by fans worldwide and received once more top reviews by the global rock press, the band is now celebrating their 20th anniversary with the release of the new album ’Twenty times colder’, that again copes with the balancing act between guitar oriented Classic Rock and modernity. The album contains 11 brand new songs incl. the two singles & videos ’Twenty times colder’ and ’This heart’ – two powerful rock tracks that combine classic rock elements with the typical band’s sound, always carried by the unique powerful voice and virtuosic guitar playing of front man Oliver Hartmann.Recorded at Oliver Hartmann’s Alive Studio and Dennis Ward’s TrakShak Studio the album has again been co-produced, mixed and mastered by Sascha Paeth, who is well known for his outstanding work with Avantasia, Kamelot, Beyond the Black and many others.The release of the anniversary album ’Twenty times colder’ is accompanied by a headliner tour this autumn that will be presented by the magazines Break Out, Eclipsed, Good Times, Musix and ROCKANTENNE, Germany’s No. 1 rock radio station.Oliver Hartmann is also known as long-time part of metal-megaseller Avantasia, ex-part of Rock Meets Classic, ex-At Vance singer and as front man of Germany‘s No.1 Pink Floyd Tribute Pulse.New album of the German Rock / Hard Rock band around exceptional guitarist / singer Oliver Hartmann to celebrate their 20th anniversaryRelease of 2 singles and 2 videos in advance For fans of: Foreigner, Whitesnake, Black Country Communion, Joe Bonamassa, Bryan Adams, Gary Moore.Date of release 19. September 2025.
Line Up:
Oliver Hartmann - Guitar, Vocals (Ex-Avantasia , At Vance , Empty Tremor , Centers)
Armin Donderer – bass (ex-Freedom Call)
Markus Kullmann – drums (John Diva, Voodoo Circle, ex-Glenn Hughes)
Markus Nanz – keyboards
Tracklist:
01. Twenty Times Colder
02. No One But You
03. This Heart
04. Alone
05. Just Fly
06. Don’t Cry
07. Someone Like You
08. The Time Of Your Life
09. Valentine’s Day
10. Heart Over Mind
11. Remember Me
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