Gladiators (band)
| Gladiators | |
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| General information | |
| origin | Markneukirchen , Saxony , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Heavy metal , power metal , speed metal , true metal |
| founding | 1990 |
| resolution | 2001 |
| Website | www.truemetal.org/gladiators |
| Last occupation | |
| Alexander Thomae | |
| Jens Meinl | |
Electric guitar |
Jens Thomae |
| Maik Metzner | |
| Swen "Poehland" Pöhland | |
Gladiators was a German heavy metal band from Markneukirchen (Saxony) in Vogtland , which existed from 1990 to 2001.
Band history
The heavy metal band Gladiators was founded at the beginning of the 1990s in Markneukirchen, Saxony. Initially brought together as a "Just-For-Fun" project, it developed from a cover band to a band that increasingly replaced the cover program with their own compositions. With the first self-produced demo band First , the musicians contacted various record labels and distributors and were signed by Sönke Lau ( Unrest ) and his label Black Arrow Production ( Unrest , Backslash, etc.) to produce the debut album Steel Vengeance in 1998 .
At the end of 1998 the band was on a European tour in the support program of the bands Jag Panzer and Angel Dust . The band also stopped in Augsburg , where the three bands were additionally supported by GB Arts .
In 1999 the band again produced the second album Bound to Steel under the same label . Several appearances as support for Grave Digger and Unrest followed. In 2001 the band project was shut down by mutual amicable agreement.
style
In a metal hammer report, power metal expert Andreas Schöwe compared it to Accept and gave albums such as Breaker and Restless and Wild as references. In another Metal-Hammer edition, Schöwe once again described the band as the reincarnation of Accept, which is mainly due to the double-barreled guitars and the distinctive vocals, which are reminiscent of Udo Dirkschneider . In an interview with Schöwe, Jens Thomae stated that the band is a big fan of groups like Accept, Grave Digger and Metal Church . During a first audio sample of Steel Vengeance , Schöwe heard parallels to bands such as Accept, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden . In another interview between Schöwe and Thomae, the latter stated that Accept had neglected the double bass and double-barreled guitars too much over the course of the band's career and that Gladiators wanted to concentrate more on them. In his review of Steel Vengeance , Schöwe stated that Accept should have sounded like Objection Overruled and again drew a comparison with Breaker and Restless and Wild . In his review of the follow-up album Bound to Steel , Schöwe also drew a comparison with these two albums. In addition, there are " Manowar -schen pathos or Iron Maiden-suspicious guitar duels " in the songs .
Kai Wendel from Rock Hard also made comparisons with Accept. He described in his review for the magazine Gladiator as a band that is not the then usual hammerfall -like True Metal embodies, rather than "hot Teutons steel between old somewhere Running Wild -Gassenhauern and Accept- or UDO -Stampfern is located, the mighty ass kicks and easily withstands all comparisons with the icons mentioned. "
Discography
- 1997: First (demo, self-published)
- 1998: Steel Vengeance (album, Black Arrow Records )
- 1999: Bound to Steel (Album, Black Arrow Records)
Web links
- Official website
- Gladiator at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas Schöwe: Jag Panzer . + Angel Dust + GB Arts + Gladiators. In: Metal Hammer . March 1999, p. 118 f .
- ↑ Andreas Schöwe: Gladiators . Challenge. In: Metal Hammer . June 1998, p. 63 .
- ↑ Andreas Schöwe: Gladiators . Steel cooker. In: Metal Hammer . July 1999, p. 25 .
- ↑ Andreas Schöwe: Gladiators . Steel storm. In: Metal Hammer . October 1999, p. 65 .
- ↑ Andreas Schöwe: Gladiators . Steel Vengeance. In: Metal Hammer . May 1998, p. 80 f .
- ↑ Andreas Schöwe: Gladiators . Bound to steel. In: Metal Hammer . September 1999, p. 94 .
- ↑ Kai Wendel: Review of Bound to Steel . In: Rock Hard . No. 148 , 1999 ( online ).