Helicon (band)

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Helicon
General information
Genre (s) Heavy metal
founding 1988
resolution 1997
Website helicon-uwe-heepen.de
Founding members
Uwe Heepen
Kurt Reichert
Guido Kaul
guitar
 Manni Puetz
Andrea Munster
Last occupation
singing
 Uwe Heepen
guitar
 Andy Geisler
guitar
 Tom Kusters
bass
 Sylvester Wasielewsky
Drums
 Andre Ostapeschen
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Helicon was a German heavy metal band. She had greater success in Asia. With the exception of Uwe Heepen, all members have withdrawn from the active music business. Uwe Heepen died on October 7, 2013.

Band history

Uwe Heepen founded the band in 1987 with Kurt Reichert, who cannot be heard on any record. The line-up was completed by Manfred Pütz, Guido Kaul and Andrea Münster.

After the demo Helicon (1989) the band signed their first record deal with Cauldron Records from Düsseldorf. The following year there were disagreements with the record company and they separated out of court. In between there were always line-up changes. Without a record deal, Helicon recorded titles for a debut CD on its own. During the production, singer Andrea Münster and guitarist Volker Marx separated from the band. Then Uwe Heepen took over the singing. Karl Walterbach (head of Noise Records ) saw in Helicon the potential to follow in Helloween's footsteps . He signed an international record deal with the band, which consisted only of Uwe Heepen, which consisted of two CD releases.

In the same year the debut CD was released and Helicon toured Germany on a five-day mini-tour with Gamma Ray and Rage . Helicon had the greatest success in Japan, followed by Scandinavian countries, Spain, Greece and England.

After the tour, the band Helicon released their second album, Mysterious Skipjack , which came under great time pressure. In contrast to the debut, the reviews in the music magazines were moderate and sales of the record fell short of expectations. The record deal, which ran on two albums, was not renewed and the band no longer played live. Frustrated by constant line-up changes, Helicon broke up in 1997.

Discography

Demo recordings

  • 1988 The Heimbach Tape
  • 1989 Helicon (first professionally recorded demo tape)

Singles

  • 1990 Black and White

Albums

  • 1994 Helicon
  • 1993 Power of Metal (double live CD with various artists, Helicon with 2 tracks)
  • 1995 Mysterious Skipjack

Videos and DVDs

  • 1993 Power of Metal (various artists, Helicon represented with 4 titles)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ helicon-uwe-heepen.de ( Memento from September 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )