Jester's March

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Jester's March
General information
origin Dortmund , Germany
Genre (s) Power Metal , Progressive Metal , Speed ​​Metal
founding 1988
resolution 1992
Last occupation
Martin Hirsch
Dominik Sapia
Michael Bilic
Olaf Bilic
former members
Uli Koellner
Electric guitar
 Pierre Danielczyk
Electric guitar
 Ingo Brusehaber
singing
 Michael "Major" Knoblich
Drums
 Oliver Schütrumpf

Jester's March was a German metal band from Dortmund that was founded in 1988 and disbanded in late 1992.

history

The band was founded in 1988 by guitarist Pierre Danielzyk, bassist Martin Hirsch and drummer Oliver Schütrumpf. Within a week the guitarist Ingo Brusehaber and the singer Michael “Major” Knoblich joined and completed the line-up. The band then recorded a first demo called Audience to the King , which consisted of six songs and was released in 1989. In February 1990 Brusehaber and Knoblich left the band again. Knoblich had tried to move the musical direction towards speed metal, which he provoked his expulsion. It was similar with Brusehaber. The brothers Olaf (vocals) and Michael Bilic (electric guitar) came as replacements. By a second demo in May 1990, which included three songs, the band reached a contract with Steamhammer / SPV . With Risk guitarist Heinz Mikus as producer, the band went into the studio to record the album Beyond , which was released on February 25, 1991. Although other commitments such as everyday work, vocational training , community service or studies did not leave much time to work together, the album received consistently positive reviews. The band was also very satisfied with the 8,000 units sold. This was followed by a tour together with Heaven's Gate , which had to be canceled because Michael Bilic had bruised his rib and broken his thorax when he fell from the approximately one and a half meter high stage during a performance in Kehl . Shortly thereafter, guitarist Danielzyk left the band, whereupon the band decided to continue with only one guitarist. The second album Acts followed in April 1992 . In May, Schütrumpf fell out with his colleagues and was replaced by Dominik Sapia. However, this still did not create a functioning unit, so that the band declared itself dissolved at the end of 1992. The brothers Olaf and Michael Bilic and bassist Martin Hirsch intended to stay together in order to make a second attempt at the beginning of 1993 under the new name House of Spirits .

style

According to Matthias Herr's Heavy Metal Lexikon , the band played progressive and melodic speed metal on their first demo , with the use of breaks and guitar solos being characteristic. The Metal Hammer wrote that the demo offered "melodic Metal, enriched with Thrash influences, polyphonic choruses and accompanying keyboards". According to Matthias Herr, the album Beyond can be classified as progressive and power metal, whereby Olaf Bilic's vocals are reminiscent of Geoff Tate's ( Queensrÿche ). Overall stylistically reminiscent of Queensrÿche and Helloween , Thomas Meyer felt himself from Revelation -Fanzine. Otherwise, the name Fates Warning was used in the magazines Metal Hammer (once also Watchtower and Queensrÿche), Metal Star (here together with Queensrÿche and Dream Theater ) and H'ART . The break-out editor Chris Glaub vehemently contradicted the Fates-Warning comparison and thus ran open doors to Olaf Bilic. The big role models are Deep Purple , Uriah Heep and The Sweet , it was said in the Metal Star . When it comes to acts , the band moves between progressive rock and power metal, said Henning Richter in Metal Hammer , whereby the band is "neither Fates Warning nor Vicious Rumors , but at least on the best way there". The melodic and dynamic guitar playing is also characteristic on the album. Without comparison, Armin Schäfer came in Heavy, or what !? out. All he found was that the complexity of the songs had decreased in favor of catchiness. For Marco Magin from Break Out , according to his classification, progressive metallic acts have an “international format”.

The text content of the debut album was things and incidents from my own world of experience or the daily press. In two texts the band mascot, the court jester (Jester), is the protagonist of a fantasy story. On Acts , copywriter Olaf Bilic devoted himself more to social issues such as homelessness and current political issues such as the Gulf War and the turning point .

Discography

  • 1989: Audience to the King (demo, self-published)
  • 1990: Demo (demo, self-publication)
  • 1991: Beyond (album, Steamhammer / SPV )
  • 1992: Acts (album, SPV)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Holger Stratmann: Rock Hard Encyclopedia . Rock Hard GmbH, 1998, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 , p. 181 .
  2. ↑ a b Chris Glaub: Jester's March . Business is tough. In: Break Out . The Heavy Rock Magazine. May 1991, p. 46 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Mike Biller: Jester's March . In: Metal Star . Europe's leading hard rock. May 1991, p. 87 f .
  4. ↑ a b c Matthias Herr: Matthias Herr's Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 4 . Verlag Matthias Herr, 1994, p. 89 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e Fabian Fischer: Jester's March . Curtain up on the next act. In: Heavy, oder was !? A rock magazine. 3, July / August / September, 1992, pp. 23 .
  6. ↑ Andreas Schöwe: Heavens Gate . Jester's March. In: Metal Hammer . September 1991, p. 150.
  7. ↑ Eduardo Rivadavia: Jester's March , accessed July 24, 2013.
  8. ↑ The personnel carousel also rotated at Jesters March . In: Metal Hammer . June 1992, Hard Fax, pp. 8 .
  9. ^ A b GUN - Great Unlimited Noises (Ed.): House of Spirits. Get the spirit . (Laundry slip "for radio and club promotion", [1994]).
  10. ^ A b Frank Famulla, Claudio Flunkert: House of Spirits . A drum-heavy story. In: Horror Infernal . 55, October / November, 1994, pp. 74 .
  11. ↑ Demo tips . Jester's March. In: Metal Hammer . No. 23/1989 , November 3, 1989, German Metal News, p. 88 .
  12. ^ Thomas [Meyer]: Jesters March . Beyond. In: Revelation . 2, [June], 1991, Vinyl Reviews, pp. 34 .
  13. ↑ Götz Kühnemund: Jester's March . Beyond. In: Rock Hard . No. 48 , March 1991, Ten times Dynamit, p. 52 .
  14. ^ Andreas Schöwe: Jester's March . In: Metal Hammer . June 1991, p. 132 .
  15. ↑ Jester's March . Beyond. In: H'ART . No. March 7 , 1991, current LP's.
  16. ^ Henning Richter: Jester's March. Act's. In: Metal Hammer. March 1992, p. 62.
  17. ^ Armin Schäfer: Jester's March . Acts. In: Heavy, or what !? A rock magazine. 2, April / May / June, 1992, Tough Stuff, pp. 29 .
  18. ↑ Marco Magin: Jester's March . Acts. In: Break Out . The Heavy Rock Magazine. May 1992, p. 35 .