Heroes del Silencio

Heroes del Silencio
Logo of Héroes del Silencio from the album Avalancha
Héroes del Silencio in Seville (2007)
General information
Genre (s)	skirt
founding	1984, 2007 (final tour)
resolution	1996, 2007
Website	http://www.heroesdelsilencio.es/
Founding members
Vocals , acoustic guitar	Enrique Ortiz de Landázuri
guitar	Juan Valdivia Navarro
Drums , acoustic guitar	Pedro Andreu
Bass , backing vocals	Joaquín Cardiel
Last occupation
Vocals, acoustic guitar	Enrique Ortiz de Landázuri
guitar	Juan Valdivia Navarro
Drums, acoustic guitar	Pedro Andreu
Bass, backing vocals	Joaquín Cardiel
Guitar, backing vocals	Alan Boguslavsky (from 1993)

Héroes del Silencio [ ˈeɾoes ðel siˈlenθjo ] (German: "Heroes of Silence") was a Spanish rock band that was founded in 1984 in Saragossa .

Band history

After the formation, the band quickly developed into one of the most popular rock groups in the region. The first mini album, Héroe de Leyenda , was released in late 1987. The group recorded their first studio album El Mar no Cesa during their tour of Spain in 1988. It was released in 1989 and reached platinum status in Spain after just a few weeks.

The second album Senderos de Traición (produced by Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera ) came into being in early 1990. It was sold over 400,000 times on the Spanish market, but the formation outside the country received little attention. It was not until September 1991 that a German promoter invited the band to play at the Rock Against Racism Festival in Berlin. In early 1992 a European tour and appearances at various festivals followed. This made the band increasingly popular in Germany. The record Senderos de Traición brought the group a platinum record due to 800,000 copies sold in Germany and Switzerland . The song Entre dos Tierras in particular was popular around this time and was a long-running hit in German discos. It reached number 25 in the German charts. During this time the band joined u. a. at the German rock festival Rock am Ring (1993) and Rock im Park (1993).

The third album El Espíritu del Vino (also produced by Phil Manzanera ), which was made in Great Britain , was released in 1993, and various single releases were sponsored and promoted by MTV . Even El Espiritu del Vino brought gold records into Spain and Switzerland.

In January 1995 the fourth and final album Avalancha was recorded in Los Angeles under the direction of producer Bob Ezrin , who had also produced Alice Cooper , Kiss and Pink Floyd . After their world tour to Avalancha , the band released the live album Parasiempre in 1996 , but separated in the same year.

Enrique Bunbury (Enrique Ortiz de Landázuri Izarduy) then started a successful solo career, but mainly in Latin America and Spain. In the hometown of the “heroes”, Saragossa , there is still a bar of the band called Estación del Silencio.

On February 14, 2007 it was announced that the band would return to their original line-up and, ten years after their separation, would go on a farewell tour of Latin America and Spain. One of these concerts took place on October 12, 2007 in Saragossa, the last on October 27, 2007 in Cheste near Valencia. With more than 400,000 concert-goers on nine evenings, the tour passed through the following cities: Guatemala City (Guatemala), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Monterrey and Mexico City (Mexico), Los Angeles (USA) and Saragossa, Seville and Valencia (Spain) . After the tour ended, the live album Tour 2007 was released.

The tune of Entre dos Tierras was the theme tune of the 2014 television series Niederig und Kuhnt - Commissioners determine on the German television station Sat.1 . In addition, Entre dos Tierras is the warm-up music for the Holstein Kiel football club .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	IT
1988	El mar no cesa	-	-	-	IT56 platinum (3 weeks)IT	First published: October 31, 1988 Chart entry in ES only in 2006
1990	Senderos de traición	DE17th platinum (64 weeks)DE	-	CH40 platinum (1 week)CH	IT6th × 3 Triple platinum (20 weeks)IT	First published: May 4, 1990 Chart entry in ES only in 2006
1993	El Espíritu del Vino	DE9 (22 weeks) DE	AT14 (7 weeks) AT	CH5 gold (14 weeks)CH	IT100 platinum (1 week)IT	First published: June 14, 1993 Chart entry in ES only in 2006
1995	Avalancha	DE23 (11 weeks) DE	AT25 (7 weeks) AT	CH8 (9 weeks) CH	IT- × 2 Double platinum IT	First published: September 18, 1995
2012	El espíritu del vino - 20th Anniversary Edition	-	-	-	IT49 (3 weeks) IT

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	IT
2005	El Ruido y la Furia	-	-	-	IT1 gold (28 weeks)IT
2007	Tour 2007	-	-	-	IT3 gold (31 weeks)IT
2011	Live in Germany	-	-	-	IT5 (16 weeks) IT

More live albums

• 1989: En Directo
• 1991: Senda '91
• 1996: Parasiempre (ES:platinum)

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	IT
2004	Antología Audiovisual	-	-	-	IT44 gold (4 weeks)IT	Chart entry in ES only in 2005
	The Platinum Collection	-	-	-	IT8th gold (49 weeks)IT
2007	Heroes Del Silencio Deluxe 12	-	-	-	IT22 (3 weeks) IT
	Fundamentals	-	-	-	IT59 (4 weeks) IT
	The Singles Box Set	-	-	-	IT2 (1 week) IT	placed in ES in the single charts
2013	4 albums	-	-	-	IT82 (3 weeks) IT
2014	Original album series	-	-	-	IT44 (6 weeks) IT

More compilations

• 1998: Rarezas (ES:gold)
• 2000: Canciones 1984-1996 (ES:platinum)

EPs

• 1987: Héroe de Leyenda

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	IT
1990	Entre dos Tierras Senderos de traición	DE25 (26 weeks) DE	-	CH40 (1 week) CH	IT34 gold (1 week)IT	First publication: 1990 Re-publication: July 1992 Chart entry in ES only in 2010
1993	Nuestros Nombres El Espíritu del Vino	DE40 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	-	First published: June 1993

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Mexico 2007: for the 2007 tour album 3 × gold record  Mexico 2008: for the video album Tour 2007

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	-	platinum1	500,000	musikindustrie.de
Mexico (AMPROFON)	2 × gold2	platinum1	80,000	amprofon.com.mx
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold1	platinum1	75,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	6 × gold6th	9 × platinum9	1,110,000	elportaldemusica.es ES1 ES2 ES3 ES4
All in all	9 × gold9	12 × platinum12

Web links

Commons : Héroes del Silencio  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Br-Online ( Memento of February 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE AT CH ES