Stahlmann (band)
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 Singer Martin Soer at the 2015 Hexentanz Festival |
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| General information | |
| origin | Goettingen , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Dark Rock , New German Hardness |
| founding | 2008 |
| Website | www.stahlmann-band.de |
| Current occupation | |
| Martin Soer | |
bass |
Eugen (since 2019) |
guitar |
Mario (since 2018) |
Drums |
Tacki (since 2018) |
| former members | |
Guitar, programming |
Alexander "Alex" S. (until 2011/12) |
Guitar, programming |
Tobias "Tobi" Berkefeld (until 2013) |
guitar |
Neill Freiwald (2013-2014) |
bass |
Dirk "Fire Evening" after work (2009–2011) |
| Oliver "O-Lee" Schmidt (until 2011) | |
Drums |
Niklas Kahl (2011-2015) |
Keyboard, synthesizer |
Johannes "Duese" Thon (2015-2016) |
Drums |
Maximilian Thiele (2015-2017) |
guitar |
Frank Herzig (2014-2017) |
Electric bass |
AblaZ (2011-2019) |
Stahlmann is a German band that was founded in Göttingen in 2008 and belongs to the New German Hard Music genre .
history
The band was founded in 2008 in Göttingen. The band initially consisted of Mart and Alex, later Tobi joined them. The following year, 2009, the debut EP Herzschlag was released, with which the band entered the Top 20 of the German Alternative Charts. Through concerts with well-known artists from the metal and medieval rock sector, such as Doro , In Extremo and Saltatio Mortis , Stahlmann steadily increased his level of awareness.
In 2010 Stahlmann went on a tour presented by the music magazine Zillo . The debut album Stahlmann was released on September 17, 2010 on the record label AFM Records . On September 3rd, the single Hass Mich… Lieb Mich was released . Also in September 2010 the band was on the road as support for Eisbrecher in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It was precisely because of this support slot that Stahlmann received a great deal of attention in the NDH scene.
The second album with the name Mercury was released on January 20, 2012 and made it into the chart at number 39 in the German album charts in the first week.
For private reasons, band member Alex said goodbye to the band, but he is still available for shows from time to time. Until the end of 2012, Stahlmann used various guest musicians for live shows.
On March 1, 2013, the first single from the third album Adamant was released with Süchtig . The single was sold out on the day it was released and reached number 6 in the German alternative charts.
With the new music video for the second single Schwarz , Stahlmann also presented his new line-up on April 5, 2013, consisting of Martin Soer on vocals, Tobi Berkefeld on guitars, Niklas Kahl on drums and AblaZ on bass. Teufel , the singer of Tanzwut , also has a guest appearance on this song.
After the previous productions had left quieter songs that did not fit the usual band direction, Soer decided to start a side project called Sündenklang together with the electronic musician Neill Freiwald from Incubite . AblaZ and Kahl also joined the electro-goth band, which released an album in early 2014. When Berkefeld left Stahlmann in autumn 2013 for professional reasons, his position was taken over by Freiwald, so that from then on both bands were on the road with the same line-up.
On November 18, 2014 Freiwald announced that he would end his collaboration with the bands Stahlmann and Sündenklang due to time constraints.
On February 7th, 2015, drummer Niklas Kahl left the band because he was “increasingly unable to identify with the band”. Together with Freiwald he wants to be active in a new project called Erdling .
At the 2015 Rockharz Festival, Johannes (Duese) Thon from Das Ich made his debut as a live keyboardist and accompanied Stahlmann for several shows. Since the beginning of 2016 Stahlmann have been performing again without a live keyboard player. In November 2017, Max and Frank announced that they would withdraw from the project due to lack of time. While Frank has been active with Schattenmann since 2016, Max founded his own project with Djatlow Pass .
On January 9th, 2020 AblaZ announced in a statement "having to take a longer break with Stahlmann" because he wants to concentrate on his project Nachtblut .
style
The band combines new German hardness with elements from alternative metal and electronic music .
Discography
Albums
| year | Title of music label / distributor |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, music label / distribution , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2010 | Stahlmann AFM Records |
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First published: September 17, 2010
Format: CD |
| 2012 | Mercury AFM Records |
DE39 (1 week) DE |
First published: January 20, 2012
Format: CD |
| 2013 | Adamant AFM Records |
DE34 (1 week) DE |
First published: April 19, 2013
Format: CD |
| 2015 | CO 2 AFM Records |
DE22 (1 week) DE |
First published: August 28, 2015
Format: CD |
| 2017 | Bastard AFM Records |
DE36 (1 week) DE |
First published: June 16, 2017
Format: CD |
| 2019 | Children of Desire AFM Records |
DE37 (1 week) DE |
First published: March 29, 2019
Format: CD |
EPs
- 2009: Heartbeat (CD; Roughtone Records)
Singles
- 2010: Hate me ... love me (CD / MP3; AFM Records) Digital re-release 2015.
- 2011: Stahlwittchen (CD; AFM Records)
- 2011: Tanzmaschine (CD / MP3; AFM Records)
- 2012: Spring nicht (CD; AFM Records) promo single.
- 2012: The world is burning (MP3; AFM Records)
- 2013: Addicted (CD; AFM Records)
- 2013: Schwarz (CD; AFM Records)
- 2015: Plasma (CD; AFM Records)
- 2017: Bastard / Nothing speaks true love freely (CD; AFM Records)
- 2019: Children of Desire (MP3; AFM Records)
- 2019: The Best (MP3; AFM Records)
- 2019: Truth or Dare (MP3; AFM Records)
Music videos
- 2010: hate me ... love me
- 2011: Steel White
- 2011: dance machine
- 2012: Don't Spring (Director: Christian Beer, Martin Soer)
- 2013: Black (with Teufel von Tanzwut ) (Director: Rainer "Zipp" Fränz)
- 2015: Plasma (Director: Rainer "Zipp" Fränz)
- 2017: Nothing speaks true love freely (Director: Patric Ullaeus)
- 2017: Bastard (Director: Tim Gralke / Vest Film)
- 2019: Children of Longing (Director: Martin Müller)
- 2019: The Best (Director: Martin Müller)
reception
The debut album Stahlmann was recorded mixed. Music reviews criticized the “stoic rhythms, EBM rudiments and simple riffs”, but praised the “creativity” of Stahlmann's debut album . Metal.de rates the album as "too smoothly ironed, too radio-compatible and without real rough edges". The SPINE praises the singing of the debut album Stahlmann , but like other magazines criticizes the lack of originality.
swell
- ^ Stahlmann MySpace: [1] . Retrieved September 13, 2010
- ^ Stahlmann MySpace: [2] . Retrieved September 13, 2010
- ↑ Stahlmann MySpace: Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 13, 2010
- ↑ MTV Germany: Album Top 50 KW 9 2012. MTV Germany, February 3, 2012, archived from the original on March 7, 2012 ; accessed on January 22, 2016 .
- ↑ No betrayal of the soul - Stahlmann in Sonic Seducer , edition 02/12; P. 46
- ↑ Manuel Leichsenring: STAHLMANN - ADAMANT. Crossfire Metal, accessed January 22, 2016 .
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0u3aXuBVD8
- ↑ Farewell: Guitarist Neill leaves Stahlmann & Sündenklang. Sonic Seducer , November 18, 2014, accessed November 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Stahlmann in the future without Neill Freiwald. Mindbreed, November 18, 2014, accessed November 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Jens Arndt: Niklas Kahl leaves Stahlmann. Rock Fanatics, February 8, 2015, accessed February 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Björn Klemme: Ablaz announces exit. Pixelreisen, February 8, 2015, accessed on April 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Chart discography Germany
- ↑ http://www.musikreviews.de/reviews/2010/Stahlmann/Stahlmann/
- ↑ http://www.metal.de/cdreviews.php4?was=review&id=15276
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Steel man at Discogs (English)
- Official website