Victory Even

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Victory Even
General information
origin Munich , Bavaria , Germany
Genre (s) Progressive metal
founding 1982–1985 Sodom
1985–1999 Sieges Even
2000–2002 Looking-Glass-Self
2002–2003 Val'Paraiso
2003–2008 Sieges Even
resolution 1999, 2008
Founding members
Markus Steffen (all albums except Sophisticated, Uneven)
Oliver Holzwarth (all albums)
Alex Holzwarth (all albums)
Franz Herde (Life Cycle, Steps)
Electric guitar
 Markus Burchert (only 1st demo)
Last occupation
singing
 Arno Menses (since 2004)
Electric guitar
 Markus Steffen
Drums
 Alex Holzwarth
Electric bass
 Oliver Holzwarth
former members
singing
 Jogi Kaiser (A Sense Of Change)
Electric guitar
 Wolfgang Zenk (Sophisticated, Uneven)
singing
 Greg Keller (Sophisticated, Uneven)
Börk Keller (Uneven)

Sieges Even was a progressive metal band founded in Munich in 1986 . Their singers changed frequently. The only constant was the rhythm team of the brothers Alex and Oliver Holzwarth. Comparatively highly complex and detailed arrangements remained the trademark, although the albums show a high degree of stylistic variation among each other.

Band history

Foundation and Steffen's departure

In 1982 a band called Sodom was formed in Munich, focused on power metal . Not the only, but the main engine behind the founding was the shared fascination for the musically and visually expressive performance of Kiss and Iron Maiden and everything that was developing in Heavy Metal at that time . As is customary with emerging bands, the early days were characterized by frequent line-up changes. The group came over the presentation of a demo tape does not extend, as a result of the same name with the set up at the same time in the Ruhr area thrash metal band Sodom , a new name had to be found. It should be original, especially - after this experience - a distinctive, unique one. “Sieges Even” translates as “evening of the siege”, but was not chosen because of the meaning, but because of the “certain elegance in terms of pronunciation”.

The line-up, which went by the brand new name Sieges Even in autumn 1985, consisted of Franz Herde (vocals), Markus Steffen (guitar), Markus Burchert (guitar), Oliver Holzwarth (bass) and Alex Holzwarth (drums). With the exception of the latter, none of them had previously had lessons focused on their respective instrument. The demo of the autodidacts , which was created in January 1986 and was also sent to fanzines , where it was consistently recommended, again contained Power Metal (“in the tradition of Metal Churches ”, as Matthias Herr writes in his Heavy Metal Lexicon ). On the next demo, Bootleg Cassette 1987 , Burchert was no longer involved. In addition, the remaining quartet took the side of Progressive Metal, without losing the goodwill of the metal magazines and their readers interested in newcomers . The reactions turned out to be the opposite of this fear: The magazines continued to praise, around 400 cassette copies found their buyers, and amazement that the record industry was not yet interested in the band increased; partly the explanation was seen in the extravagance of Sieges Even. With occasional appearances, only a few of them in the opening act of Drifter , the time was bridged until the next demo. This was published in January 1988 and is called Repression and Resistance after the addition in brackets to the second title . The further increase in sales of 500 copies, but also the personal advocacy of the producer Kalle Trapp, played a decisive role in the fact that the Steamhammer label was finally aroused. Shortly after signing the contract, in March 1988 they went to Trapp's Karo music studios in Münster to put together an album from the extensive material they had previously composed. The four songs from the latest demo tape were also included in a revised version. In addition, there was an older, rearranged, newly texted and titled piece as well as two completely new compositions, of which Life Cycle immediately became the main concern and title of the album. It is about social development in the age of technology. The cover drawing shows a computer circuit diagram with a human heart and brain connected. The album was released on October 1, 1988. About the sales prospects, more precisely the feared non-existent commerciality , the band never thought.

In the summer of 1989 there was a crisis in the band structure. The loss of the rehearsal room was less of a problem; more serious was the fact that Franz Herde's vocal development left a lot to be desired. Herd said he was too busy professionally to keep up with the band. His band colleagues had booked lessons on the side and broadened their artistic horizons, which was reflected in their new compositions. In October, when his breakup hit the metal press, the conflict was over. In fact, a search for singers had started, but the musicians had (according to their own admission) had the "depressing" experience that no applicant was a match for them. Herde was asked to take a studio test, which he passed, after which he was able to join the ongoing preparations for the follow-up album Steps . The recordings were made from March to April 1990 in an upper-class studio on the Ammersee .

Although Steps , released on August 13th, marked the turn for a much less harsh style, it was clear to the band and the critics that either, as before, an unconditional willingness to concentrate or a relaxed indulgence is required in order to be able to enjoy the work. The total number of sales (Germany plus foreign deliveries) just reached the 10,000 mark. A tour planned afterwards did not take place. At first, Sieges Even was scheduled for the first Psychotic Waltz tour, which had to be canceled due to an injury. Only the concert in Werl on July 21, 1991 could be held. Then the band was kicked out while bargaining for the opening act at Fates Warning . The record company, fearing for its proceeds, was not ready for higher tour investments, which is why a small creative break was finally taken. So there was only one test concert on January 31, 1991 in Munich. After almost three years of live abstinence in front of a large, but divided audience, it was disrupted by technical breakdowns. Three new songs were next to complete Steps - repertoire on the program. All six “middle” pieces of the next album A Sense of Change were ripe for a studio recording .

For the next album, the trust is again placed on producer Charlie Bauerfeind . However, the studio work with Franz Herde was no longer satisfactory. Markus Steffen reported to Metal Hammer : “When we recorded the vocal parts for the new LP, the whole band was of the opinion that it wasn't what it could have been. There were various reasons for this, but the main reason was that Franz was quite stressed by his job. But there were no arguments about it, he just didn't have the time to deal with the pieces. We had to make a decision at that point and this decision was accepted by all sides. ”Herde, who was often sent abroad by his employer, gave up his musical ambitions completely and retired to his hometown Ingolstadt .

After a failed attempt with an American singer, the band finally came across Jogi Kaiser by chance. The unknown but accomplished blues and jazz singer from the Frankfurt area tackled his work unprepared, improvising here and there, but always in the interests of the others, and after only two days the material was recorded and mixed the next day. The announcement that the work would sound different again turned out to be correct. Certain associations (especially those related to Rush ) were of course recognizable, so that one could speak of the continuation of the chosen path. However, Steffen cautiously indicated in the interview that said path would have to be taken without Jogi Kaiser. Instead, he wanted to pursue a musical career. But Steffen himself left the band in the summer of 1992. He gave personal reasons and carried out several projects of his own over the next few years, for example in 1999 he released the audiobook classical guitar exclusively . In addition, he briefly ran the small label Calamus Records around 2000.

Intermediate phase and temporary dissolution

The Holzwarth brothers bridged the first six months after the split with an old school friend who lived in Frankfurt. The moderate rock that they had agreed on was soon no longer enough for them and they hired a new guitarist in Wolfgang Zenk. Since Jogi Kaiser declared himself ready to help out during performances by October 1993, one could get used to the "true" victory-even existence again. Zenk, who was going to be a graduate mathematician at the time, is a proven jazz lover, was a member of the European Hair musical troupe and gave professional guitar lessons at the internationally renowned Munich Guitar Institute (MGI Munich).

After a forced and unsuccessful search for a label, which was based on the moderate sales of 7,000 copies of the last album, the no less difficult search for singers was intensified by means of scattered advertisements. At first none of the applicants could convince. Manager Frank Hofmann used his extensive contacts to look for a free front man . He met the American Greg Keller, who was born in the Sauerland and lives in Cologne , at Popkomm . Keller initially reacted to Hofmann's suggestion with incredulous astonishment, but then agreed to give it a try. Keller proved himself in concerts, whereupon the Erlangen recording was processed into demo material. This should convince record companies of the quality of the band. To put an end to the frustration caused by the cancellations, the brother of regular producer Charlie Bauerfeind, Stefan Bauerfeind, who ran a concert booking and event technology agency, founded the Under Siege Records label at the end of 1994. For the beginning of 1995 the band planned a studio stay. The newcomer described the direction of the material to be recorded as "rock music with an emphasis on funk - beat in the rhythm section". From the bassist's point of view, fewer changes in tempo are to be expected with “complex rhythmic and harmony sequences ”. Journalist and band intimate partner Stefan Glas summed up his exclusive listening impression with the comparatives “looser, more direct”.

It only went into the studio in May 1995. The album Sophisticated , to which various musicians from different music genres, including the versatile Heavens Gate guitarist Sascha Paeth , contributed keyboard entries, was released in autumn 1995 at the same time as the new albums from, for example Iron Maiden, Savatage, and Waltari , which were rated higher. In August 1996 the band played at the Wacken Open Air . Exactly two years after Sophisticated , meanwhile with Keller's brother Börk as a permanent keyboardist, Uneven followed . Once again, Sieges Even moved a bit away from the previous album, this time, according to Greg Keller, a metallic hardness was added. In the opening act of their idols Emerson, Lake and Palmer (a planned album “Sieges Even plays ELP” never came about), from which they were invited to the Return of the Manticore Tour , the Munich-based company introduced themselves to a wider audience in June / July 1997 . In the fall of 1997, Börk Keller suffered a sudden hearing loss that forced him to give up. It is not known whether and which other adversities arose, at least the band activities sank to zero until it became known in October 1999 that Sieges Even no longer existed.

Between 1997 and 2005 Oliver Holzwarth temporarily held the post of live bassist for the much better known and more successful power metal band Blind Guardian , while his brother Alex was the drummer for the Italian shooting star power metaler Rhapsody . Both joined the Würzburg speed metal band Paradox in October 1999 (the breakup of the band only became known through this). In 1997, Wolfgang Zenk took over the management function at the Munich Guitar Institute and founded the instrumental progressive / fusion band 7for4 in 1999 .

Steffens re-entry, name change and final dissolution

Parallel to the various activities, the Holzwarth brothers spoke to Markus Steffen again and rehearsed together again. When four pieces had been recorded in 2000 with the help of Angra singer Andre Matos, the question arose under what name they would be presented. The decision was made against “Sieges Even” and for “Looking-Glass-Self”. In December 2002, the original drummer Arno Menses from the Netherlands , who had previously only worked as a background singer , joined the band. The important requirement of really understanding the music and at the same time having musical potential was fulfilled by the long-standing Sieges-Even fan. In January 2003 he took care of the vocals on two already recorded instrumental tracks. Since they liked the name "Val'Paraiso" from the song title The Val'Paraiso Dreaming from the Looking-Glass-Self-Demo better, the band renamed themselves to this name without further ado . The new demo had a Looking Glass Self song title ( Footprints of Angels ) and the band had an (abbreviated) Looking Glass Self song title, but Val'Paraiso's demo CD does not contain either one or the other Looking-Glass-Self-Song.

Still in the spirit and character of the old Sieges Even, the musicians returned to their "main name" at the end of 2003 and announced their return in April 2004 at the Headway Festival in the Netherlands, which focuses on progressive metal / rock . There they were supposed to appear as co- headliners next to Watchtower , almost in style . In addition, another album for which the title had already been selected was to be recorded in early summer: The Art of Navigating by the Stars . But that wasn't enough of the renewal, because after the festival Mike Möller, who had reported with the wish to lead the fortunes of the band, officially became its manager. It was thanks to his perseverance that a new label was found with InsideOut Music . The starting point was a so-called showcase in Frankfurt in October 2004, at which, however, nobody from the environment of the InsideOut employees was personally present. The hearsay about the showcase, the demo CD with the songs presented there and the name known from the past (albeit associated with a different style) each contributed to the contract offer.

The Art of Navigating by the Stars was released in September 2005. The production was carried out jointly by the band members with guitarist Uwe Lulis, who is active in the German metal scene (after Grave Digger for example Accept ). In the course of time, the band and the singer had been able to find out for themselves that simplicity can also be charming and artistic. In retrospect, Menses describes himself as a “musical snob” who only later discovered his love for the AOR . With the polyphonic sentences and the melody of Kansas in the ear, his contribution resulted in significantly more "transparent" and therefore more "consumer-friendly" songs. The album reviews were positive, but the live performance, such as a performance with Deadsoul Tribe , still had to take criticism. The album Paramount, co-produced this time by Kristian Kohlmannslehner, was tackled according to the same recipe for success and then released on September 21, 2007. A month later, the band could be seen at ProgPower Europe . In October and November 2007 Sieges Even went on tour with Dreamscape , with appearances in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria , Belgium and Switzerland . On May 11, 2008 the group played at the Rock Hard Festival . The live album Playgrounds was released on July 25, 2008 , before it was read in September 2008 that Sieges Even had disbanded due to internal differences.

Some time before, Steffen and Menses had already formed the subsidiary project Subsignal , which now became their main band. The title of their third CD Paraíso alludes to their origins again. The Holzwarth brothers were already sought-after musicians and quickly found professional refuge. Under the name Brutal Godz, they played together again in a band from around 2010.

"Sieges Even remain to date as one of the most important acts of the German and European progressive metal scene, with their albums A Sense of Change and The Art of Navigating by the Stars receiving, not unjustifiably, critical acclaim."

"Sieges Even is still considered to be one of the most important representatives of the German and European progressive metal scene, whose albums A Sense of Change and The Art of Navagation by the Stars - not unjustifiably - have received critical acclaim ."

- progarchives.com :

style

music

On the first demo Sieges Even played Power Metal comparable to Metal Church. A Hallows Eve - and Nasty Savage -like style, the band up on their second demo. For the first time the term "Techno-Progressive-Metal" was used and the Watchtower style as a guide. Sieges Even have met their peculiarity and level of play, just go to work a little faster. Regarding the third demo, Götz Kühnemund wrote in Metal Hammer that it was “a completely separate mixture of Watchtower, Mekong Delta , Rush and Allan Holdsworth ”. The result is "complicated techno-metal". In the Rock Hard Encyclopedia it says for all three demos that it is technically on a high level progressive metal with borrowings from classical and jazz.

Life Cycle is more intelligent Metal, as it has not existed since the first Mekong Delta record, enthused Kühnemund. A little later he heard Watchtower and Hades out. Watchtower was mentioned more and more. There are similarities to the Texan band not only in the musical area, but also in the song titles and the cover design. A difficult nesting, "tightened by Thrash elements and provided with considerable harshness", makes it difficult for the listener to find access, analyzed Matthias Herr.

The opinion on Steps , condensed to the essentials, is: Even in the Life Cycle era, the band stated that they liked Rush. Now it sounded accordingly. And a bit of Fates Warning and a rest of the Watchtower is also included. In addition, it is difficult to describe. Matthias Herr is of the opinion that it is a "total work of art" that can be assigned to the avant-garde . With that he agrees with the band who spoke of an “art structure” that could not be properly assigned anywhere. When it was published, Stefan Glas ( Metal Hammer ) said that Sieges Even implemented “almost incomprehensible” ideas.

With A Sense of Change, the new singer Jogi Kaiser brings a feeling and understanding for jazz and soul , which is how Sieges Even found the "golden middle ground between ultra-progressive and comprehensible material" and avoided a "50-minute fuddle inferno", explained Axel Westrich on underground-empire.com . The result reminded him of Rush's Grace Under Pressure . The Rush share, which has become less, is welcomed by the Rock Hard Encyclopedia . In all other comparisons, the magazine fell stereo , the Yes and Gentle Giant led. Oliver Holzwarth immediately waved it off: You don't even know their records. Sieges Even's influences come from classical, jazz and heavy metal. He also named the dance floor . Compared to the metal star , in addition to the three main influences, funk was specified instead of dance floor.

In 1992 Chris Glaub drew a world map of similar artists with Canada's Rush, England (would be exactly: United Kingdom ) Marillion / Fish , America's Fates Warning and Dream Theater and Sieges Even related to Germany.

Sophisticated is a "return to straighter sounds", says the Rock Hard Encyclopedia . Despite the old tendency towards fretboard escapades, Stefan Glas also found in his underground Empire online magazine that things were “straighter” here. In the Metal Hammer Matthias Mineur attributed the “more nuanced” and “more filigree” arrangements to the two newcomers. In Rock Hard , Markus Müller, after finding the "Thrash drawer, whether with the prefix 'Techno' or not" to be too small in his review, lined up the style components Metal, Funk, Jazz and Progressive Rock in the following article . Instead of a style chain, Daniel Niewerth formulated a list of the most intelligent heavy groups with Fates Warning, Watchtower, Threshold and Sieges Even in the introduction to his interview transcript in the Horror Infernal . In his Sophisticated review, he explicitly placed the exuberant, but more important band Dream Theater behind Sieges Even.

Michael Rensen also declared Sieges Evens Uneven in Rock Hard as the winner in comparison with Dream Theater . He put the band on the level of the Mekong Delta and, in addition to all sorts of stylistic sprinkles, he identified "completely whistled jazz-metal infernos with a Cynic hit". All in all, in the spirit of Greg Keller, he noted a long suppressed metallic hardness.

Progarchives.com also cites the effect that new comrades-in-arms cause changes in the sound image , as the editor ascribes the lyric elements on The Art of Navigating by the Stars to Arno Menses, which lead to a songwriting modernity . Andreas Schöwe ​​( Metal Hammer ) saw the main focus of the change on the purely instrumental sector: “Back then, the technical and craft aspects plus record attempts to pack as many notes, breaks and motif changes as possible in one second were in the foreground, today the listener comes to the fore Without a degree in musicology, in order to be able to follow the usually seven to ten-minute compositions with great pleasure. Which in turn does not mean that connoisseurs of the subject have to do without polyrhythmic interludes, meter shifts and surprising twists in the arrangements - these trademarks are still there, but this year they are used in a decidedly more song-oriented way than usual. Ergo: Whoever seventies / eighties - Art Rock à la King Crimson and Jethro Tull , Prog Rock of the format Rush or Spock's Beard as well as Metal of the Dream Theater category - enriched by various elements borrowed from classical and jazz - merged into an exciting homogeneous whole Heike Müller from Eclipsed also gave Menses credit for the fact that the product was more song-oriented and melodic, but added the following self-reflection from the original members: “We played too much at once and also the central theme lost again and again. So we stood in our own way. By the way, we did that consciously. Chaos was a style element that undoubtedly also had its musical appeal - at that time we had the modest claim to break with encrusted attitudes and rules. Today our aim is to play with these attitudes and rules. With Arno we have reinvented ourselves by trying to arrange something interesting out of it harmonically and rhythmically. "

Paramount was actually a sequel without any significant change. The transparency and the catchiness were praised. In this respect, what Stefan Glas wrote on the occasion of the last release, the live album Playgrounds , is true, namely that Sieges Even is wrongly decried in wide circles as a “stiff technician band”.

Texts

The lyrics were initially strongly political. Markus Steffen was also not afraid to express his political opinion publicly. From the Steps onwards, the texts became “more clogged, partly also metaphorical ”. With the arrival of Greg Keller, at his request, the aloofness was taken back and the statements that revolved around "mundane topics" became clearer. The later texts primarily aimed to harmonize with the music. No message should be inoculated into the listener. Markus Steffen in the original language: “'Hey, we have a very important message for you here!' As with U2 , where Bono does something similar. That kind of thing repels me personally. Text and music have to communicate with each other, produce a picture soundly and verbally without being intrusive. The listener must be able to develop his own images in his head. I don't know if I'll succeed in this, but at least I'll try. "

Discography

  • 1986: Symphonies of Steel (demo)
  • 1987: Bootleg cassette 1987 (demo)
  • 1988: Repression and Resistance (Demo)
  • 1988 Life Cycle (album, Steamhammer)
  • 1990: Napalm Vs Sieges Even (split album with Napalm for the Japanese market, Steamhammer)
  • 1990 Steps (album, Steamhammer)
  • 1991 A Sense of Change (album, Steamhammer)
  • 1995 Sophisticated (Album, Under Sieges Records)
  • 1997 Uneven (album, Under Sieges Records)
  • 2005 The Art of Navigating By the Stars (Album, Inside Out Music)
  • 2007 Paramount (album, Inside Out Music)
  • 2008 Playgrounds (live album, Inside Out Music)
than Sodom
  • 1983: demo (demo)
as a looking glass self
  • 2000: Equinox (demo)
as Val'Paraiso
  • 2003: Footprints of Angels (Demo)

Individual evidence

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