Lanfear
| Lanfear | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Power metal |
| founding | 1993 |
| Website | www.lanfear.eu |
| Founding members | |
| Stefan Zoerner (until 2000) | |
| Markus Ullrich | |
guitar |
Nico Kramer (until 1995) |
| Kai Schindelar | |
| Jürgen closet | |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Nuno Miguel de Barros Fernandes (since 2006) |
guitar |
Markus Ullrich |
bass |
Kai Schindelar |
Drums |
Jürgen closet |
Keyboard |
Richie Seibel (since 2000) |
| former members | |
bass |
Alexander Palma (1995–1997) |
singing |
Tobias Althammer (2000-2006) |
Lanfear is a southern German power metal band that was founded in 1993 and has released seven albums to date.
Band history
In the summer of 1994 Lanfear recorded a self-titled demo tape. In 1995 Nico Kramer and Kai Schindelar left the band, the latter returned two years later. In the meantime, Alexander Palma was hired as a bass player. The debut CD Towers was first released on its own in 1996, followed a year later by a re-release under the name Towers of February on Urwerk Records.
In summer 1999 the second album Zero Poems followed , which received very good reviews in the specialist press. In 2000 singer and keyboardist Stefen Zoerner left the band, replacing Richie Seibel (keyboard) and Tobias Althammer (vocals). In 2003 the CD The Art Effect was released.
Lanfear's fourth album, aNother gOlden rAge, dates back to 2005. The last two CDs were also released in the USA through a license agreement with Nightmare Records.
At the beginning of 2006, the band separated from Tobias Althammer, and Nuno Miguel de Barros Fernandes was hired as the new singer. The fifth studio album X to the Power of Ten was released on August 22, 2008 via Locomotive Records in Europe and on September 9 in North America. The sixth album This Harmonic Consonance was released on February 24, 2012 via Pure Steel Records / Pure Legend Records.
The seventh album The Code Inherited was also released on July 1, 2016 via Pure Steel Records / Pure Legend Records.
Discography
Demos
- 1994: Lanfear ( demo )
Albums
- 1996: Towers (in-house production)
- 1997: Towers of February ( Re-Release of Towers ) (Urwerk Records)
- 1999: Zero Poems (Famous Kitchen Records)
- 2003: The Art Effect ( Massacre Records )
- 2005: aNother gOlden rAge (Massacre Records)
- 2008: X to the Power of Ten (Locomotive Records)
- 2012: This Harmonic Consonance ( Pure Steel Records / Pure Legend Records)
- 2016: The Code Inherited ( Pure Steel Records / Pure Legend Records)