Coracko

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Coracko
General information
Genre (s) Hard rock
founding 1991
resolution 1995
Last occupation
Dirk Wicke 1991–1995
Peter Szigeti 1991
Alex T. Walker 1993-1995
Martin Engler 1991-1995
former members
bass
 Frank Rittel (1991-1993)

Coracko was the name of a German hard rock band founded in 1991 that released their only album, New Virus Spreads , on Polydor in 1992. The group consisted of four musicians; Guitarist Peter Szigeti and bassist Frank Rittel were previously members of Warlock and UDO

history

Rittel and Szigeti have been in various bands since 1980, including Snakebite and Beast, from which Warlock emerged in October 1982 through the merger of musicians from both groups. After Doro Pesch left the band Warlock in 1987 and it disbanded, Rittel and Szigeti founded the band UDO together with Udo Dirkschneider , Mathias Dieth and Thomas Franke, but left it again in the same year and founded Energy. This group recorded a demo tape, but was unsuccessful and disbanded in 1991. Szigeti then played with Jutta Weinhold in the band Velvet Viper, and during this time he recorded pieces written together with Fank Rittel, drummer Martin Engler and singer Dirk Wicke. After everyone involved found that they were a good match and shared musical interests, they formed Coracko, and Szigeti left Velvet Viper.

The band managed to sign a recording deal with Polydor, and on March 30, 1992, the group began recording their debut album in the RA.SH recording studios in Gelsenkirchen , which they also produced themselves . Coracko was considered by the trade press to be the “toughest representatives of Groove Oriented Metal” and musically they were described as “somewhere between the old Van Halen and new bands like Extreme or Mr. Big ”. On August 22, 1992 the group presented themselves to the audience at the Popkomm music fair in Cologne .

Coracko released the album New Virus Spreads on September 28, 1992 , which contained thirteen tracks. The reactions of the trade press were different: The magazine Metal Hammer , for example, judged the album that the music on the recording was "frighteningly average Metal , and the following three songs" would be "no new chapter Hard'n'Heavy- To write history. In the songs in which the band deviates from familiar paths, they are by no means happier. Rock Hard, on the other hand, was more positive and emphasized that the “typically Teutonic touch” was rarely heard on the album, but that New Virus Spreads had become a “quite international album” that contained 13 “predominantly strong compositions”. The songs are “all not produced too smoothly” and “therefore do not lack the necessary hardness”. to let. The album lives "not to be despised part of the very good guitar work and the powerful, multi-faceted vocals." Of course, one or the other failure is also represented, but overall, New Virus Spreads is an "interesting and unusually heavy boom," the earned her eight points (out of a possible 10).

The song Overblown Roses was released as a single , as other tracks were included on the CD single Run With The Pack and Don't Cry For The Moon .

In the course of 1993, Frank Rittel was replaced by bassist Alex T. Walker, and the band did a tour with him in the early summer of 1993 as a support act for the band Sven Gali, where they also presented new songs. In addition to another line-up change (Dirk Wicke was replaced by Leon Goewie, who had previously sung with the Dutch band Vengeance ) there was also a change of name: the band was now called Stonewashed . She released the album Way of Thorns under this name in 1995 .

Discography

album

single

  • Overblown Roses (1992)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Warlock's biography on hardharderheavy.de ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 22, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hardharderheavy.de
  2. ↑ Metal Hammer 11/1991, page 165
  3. ↑ a b c Metal Hammer, Issue 10/1992, page 62
  4. ↑ a b Metal Hammer 06/1992, page 6
  5. ^ [1] Review on rockhard.de, accessed on January 23, 2013
  6. ↑ Metal Hammer, Issue 5/1995, page 54