Chris Boltendahl

Chris Boltendahl with Grave Digger at a concert in Bamberg 2019

Chris Boltendahl (born January 2, 1962 in Gladbeck ) is the singer and painter of the German band Grave Digger .

With Grave Digger at Metalcamp 2007

Life

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 wasn't the singer, but the bassist 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 take part as a singer on the first record called Heavy Metal Breakdown . Since then he has remained the singer of the band throughout. Boltendahl managed a. a. around 1997 the German-American thrash metal band The Company .

When there were disputes between Boltendahl and the then guitarist Uwe Lulis at the turn of the millennium over the rights to use the band's name, the group was about to break up. However, Lulis lost the dispute and Boltendahl could still claim Grave Digger as the band name. Today Boltendahl is the only remaining founding member of the band.

Under the title Grave Digger. The definitive biography he brought out in 2002 was a band biography.

Boltendahl mentions Van Halen , Judas Priest , Motörhead , Accept as his musical influences .

In addition to his work as a musician, he 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 Wacken Open Air 2013 and the Wacken anthem 2011 We are the Metalheads in a quartet with Udo Dirkschneider .

Discography

As a permanent member

with Grave Digger

• see Grave Digger # discography

with Digger

• 1986: Stronger than Ever

with Hawaii

• 1989: Bottles and Four Coconuts (Demo)

As a guest musician

with Helloween

• 1985: Walls of Jericho

with Edguy

• 1997: Kingdom of Madness

with white skull

• 1999: Tales from the North

with The Company

• 1997: Frozen by Heat

with Genius: A Rock Opera

• 2002: Episode 1: A Human into Dreams' World

with van Canto

• 2010: Tribe of Force

with painside

• 2010: Dark World Burden

literature

• Grave Digger. The definitive biography . With Andreas Schöwe ​​and Holger Koch. Hamburg: Hannibal Verlag. 2002. ISBN 3854452179

Web links

• Official website of Chris Boltendahl
• Official Myspace page from Chris Boltendahl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chris ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
2. ↑ Volume: Grave Digger - Biography and Discography at HardHarderHeavy ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Julian Rohrer: GRAVE DIGGER: Interview with Chris Boltendahl .
5. ↑ Grave Digger - Interview with Chris Boltendahl from Grave Digger