Karsten Brill

Brill as Attila Dorn (2018)

Karsten Brill (born October 27, 1970 in Bous ) is a German singer . As the front man and singer of the power metal band Powerwolf, he embodies the character Attila Dorn .

Career

Musical beginnings

In 1991 Karsten Brill founded Dragon's Tongue , one of the first grunge bands in Saarland, together with Derek Butsch (drums), Markus Görg (bass and backing vocals), Thorsten Neu (lead guitar) and Stefan Reile (guitar) . She quickly gained a good reputation. Stefan Reile left the band very early, whereupon the four of us decided to continue. There were publications on a smaller scale, such as the demo tape "Fake" (1994) or later the albums "Love but Lies" (1996) and "Bored Beyond Belief" (1996). After Markus Görg left, Florian Penner took over the bass. The band changed their name to mescaline in 1997 and released the EP of the same name with three songs in the same year. After the death of Derek Butsch in 1998, Meskalin was disbanded despite many efforts towards a new line-up. Brill joined Red Aim in 1999 and replaced Pascal Flach, using the stage name Dr. Don Rogers used.

Powerwolf

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Brill joined Powerwolf in 2003 along with other Red Aim members. Similar to other band members, he decided to use a pseudonym. Brill called himself Attila Dorn and came up with a background story for the character. According to this, Attila Dorn is half Romanian half Hungarian . Charles and Matthew Greywolf met him in a pub in Sighişoara during their vacation in Romania and invited him to join their band. Soon thereafter, Dorn moved to Powerwolf's hometown, Saarbrücken, and became the band's front man.

Brill's imagined background story as a trained opera singer of Romanian origin was even reported as fact in 2015 by leading media such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine . Matthew Greywolf had already confirmed in an interview in Rock Hard magazine in 2013 that Dorn is not of Romanian descent. The Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung compared Brill, with its gray make-up, to Count Dracula , the Hannoversche Allgemeine with a “mixture of monk and crusader” and Die Welt described its appearance as a mixture “of the Hun king and orthodox priest”.

Discography

Powerwolf

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• 2005: Return in Bloodred
• 2007: Lupus Dei
• 2009: Bible of the Beast
• 2011: Blood of the Saints
• 2013: Preachers of the Night
• 2015: Blessed & Possessed
• 2018: The Sacrament of Sin
• 2019: Metallum Nostrum
• 2020: Best of the Blessed

Red Aim

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• 1999: Call Me Tiger
• 2000: The Aprilfuckers EP
• 2001: Saartanic Cluttydogs
• 2002: Flesh for Fantasy
• 2003: Niagara

mescaline

• 1997: mescaline

Dragon's Tongue

• 1994: fake
• 1996: Love but Lies
• 1996: Bored Beyond Belief

Web links

Commons : Attila Dorn  - Collection of Images

• Karsten Brill at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karsten Brill - Metal Storm. Retrieved September 18, 2019 . 
2. ^ Attila Dorn - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives. Retrieved September 18, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Attila Dorn | POWERWOLF. Retrieved September 18, 2019 (American English). 
4. ↑ German Rock ev. Retrieved September 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ German Rock ev. Retrieved September 18, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Red Aim - Red Aim • metal.de. April 26, 2002, accessed September 18, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Interviews & Articles: RED AIM :: ox-fanzine.de. Retrieved September 18, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Internationally successful Saarland metal band Powerwolf staged a new album in Saarbrücken. April 18, 2017. Retrieved September 18, 2019 . 
9. ↑ rockmetal.pl: Wywiad: Powerwolf - rockmetal.pl. Retrieved September 18, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Dorn Attila. Retrieved September 18, 2019 (Hungarian). 
11. ^ Markheim: Heavy Latin: Powerwolf - Blessed & Possessed. In: Heavy Latin. July 26, 2015, accessed September 18, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Powerwolf (VO) Interview / Spirit of Metal Webzine (en). Retrieved September 18, 2019 . 
13. ↑ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/pop/album-der-woche/powerwolf-spalten-mit-blessed-and-possessed-metal-szene-13750527.html
14. ↑ https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Powerwolf/2/1808.html
15. ↑ Frank Albrecht: Holy sack of straw! , in: Rock Hard, No. 315, July 2013, p. 51.
16. ↑ https://www.noz.de/lokales/osnabrueck/artikel/977884/metal-band-powerwolf-zelebriert-schwarze-messe-im-hyde-park#gallery&64904&0&977884
17. ↑ https://www.haz.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Uebersicht/Mitreissende-Metalmesse-mit-Powerwolf-und-Epica-im-Capitol
18. ↑ https://www.welt.de/kultur/pop/article118651524/Kurzauftritt-Motoerhead-Sorgen-um-Lemmy.html