Eternal Reign
| Eternal Reign | |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Power metal |
| founding | 1998 |
| Website | http://www.eternal-reign.de/ |
| Current occupation | |
| Mick Sebastian | |
| Jörg Hassel | |
| Lennart Medebach | |
| Axel Czyborr | |
| former members | |
Keyboards |
Denis Scheither (until 2002) |
Keyboards |
Thomas Langner (2002 to 2004) |
| André Genuit (until 2007) | |
Keyboards |
Björn Meyer (2005 to 2012) |
guitar |
Torsten Fünfhaus (1997 to 2015) |
| Dirk Stühmer (1998 to 2015) | |
Eternal Reign is a power metal band from Bremen , which was founded in 1998 under the name Perfect Crime and was renamed in 2001 for legal reasons.
Band history
Eternal Reign's beginnings date back to 1997, when Mick Sebastian, Torsten Fünfhaus, Jörg Hassel and André Genuit entered the rehearsal room to write and play songs together. All had previously gained live experience with various Bremen bands such as Sweet Cheater , Exploder or Final Prophecy and recorded albums that received good reviews but are no longer active.
In autumn 1998, after singer Dirk Stühmer had joined the band in the spring of that year, the band, then called Perfect Crime , recorded the first demo in the rehearsal room, which received very good press - including in the Japanese Burrn magazine. After numerous gigs and winning a band contest, the band had the chance to record another demo entitled "Crimetime" in a six-day studio session. This output also received remarkably good reviews in the national and international press, as well as in many Internet magazines. In some well-attended live shows, the band was able to convince a relatively large audience of their powerful Melodic Metal. So in the summer of 2000 there was a concert with the US metal legend Breaker at the Meisenfrei club in Bremen .
In February 2001 the song “Perfect Crime” was released as the opener of the Unheard CD by Rock Hard Magazine, and in an internet voting the band, which at that time was still called Perfact Crime, managed to come in third. After appearances in the opening act for the US hard rocker Ax or at the Rocktown Open Air in Bebra, Perfect Crime got a record deal with TTS Media Music in the summer of 2001 .
Before it came to production, however, the band was forced to give up the old name and rename itself Eternal Reign for legal reasons . The Bremen melodic metallers' first full-length album, entitled "Crimes of Passion", was released in September 2002 by Alive! . The album then received consistently good to very good reviews in the national and international press.
After various festival appearances at Keep It True , Headbangers Open Air or Building A Force , Eternal Reign recorded their second album "Forbidden Path" in 2005, which was released on the Hamburg label Limb Music Productions , received good reviews and several appearances at festivals and abroad followed.
The years that followed were accompanied by many problems - initially an odyssey began looking for a suitable rehearsal room, then the drummer André Genuit quit his job for professional reasons. Lennart 'Metalbach' Medebach was found as his successor, so that the work that had meanwhile started on the next album could be continued. But although the material was largely finished in 2008, the recordings could not start because the agreed studio deadlines were canceled. Ultimately, the venture initially failed with the bankruptcy of the booked studio. So the recordings could only be made in spring 2009 - in three different locations. The resulting album entitled "The Dawn Of Reckoning" was released on August 6, 2010 on the Pure Steel Records label.
On July 14, 2011 Eternal Reign were able to prove their live qualities for the first time in front of a large audience as part of the 'Band Your Head' Warm Up show together with Axel Rudi Pell, Brainstorm and Kissin Dynamite. At the beginning of 2012 they separated from keyboarder Björn Meyer in order to function again as a pure guitar band. After that, calm returned, apart from several gigs with US metal underground greats such as Halloween (Detroit) or Vicious Rumors.
The band began to write songs for a fourth album, the first time without keyboards. However, guitarist Torsten Fünfhaus first gave up the sails to turn to other projects. Axel Czyborr joined the band for him. But a little later, singer Dirk Stühmer also left the band. However, the search for a suitable front man was unsuccessful, so that Eternal Reign has been in sleep mode since April 2016. The other members are meanwhile active in various bands in the Bremen area.
Discography
- 2002: Crimes Of Passion
- 2005: Forbidden Path
- 2010: The Dawn of Reckoning