Stainless steel (band)
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General information | |
Genre (s) | German rock tribute cover |
founding | 2001/2002 |
Website | http://www.onkelzcover.de |
Founding members | |
Sebastian Mader | |
Current occupation | |
Kevin / Marco (for Allstar Specials) | |
Joachim Wawra | |
Sebastian Mader (band founder) | |
Oliver | |
former members | |
bass |
Markus Mittelstädt (until 2007) |
singing |
Andreas Bachmann (until 2008) |
bass |
Christian Kunstmann (2007-2011) |
singing |
Karsten Doczik (2009–2012) |
Drums |
Michael Mader (early 2013) |
singing |
Christian Herbig (2012-2016) |
bass |
"Fuzzy" (stage name) (2012-2016) |
Drums |
Thomas Röder (2013-2016) |
Stainless Steel is one of the first " Böhse Onkelz " tribute bands in Germany: As the official support band at the Vaya con Tioz farewell concert of the Onkelz at the Lausitzring from 15.-18. In June 2005 Stainless Steel also played in the supporting program of the event. Up until 2009 Stainless Steel had numerous concerts with the now successful South Tyrolean German rock band Frei.Wild . The specialist magazine Metal Hammer, which is renowned in heavy metal circles, has already reported on the band several times, and the band is represented with a band photo in the booklet of the last live release of the Böhsen Onkelz before their reunion, Vaya con Tioz , which ranks 1 in entered the longplay charts.
Important concerts
- 15-18 June 2005: Support band at the farewell concert of the Böhsen Onkelz / Eurospeedway Lausitzring
- June 17, 2006: BOSC Rocks / Festival in Lausitz / Schwarzheide
- November 24, 2007: 27 years old Böhse Onkelz / Ballsporthalle / Frankfurt-Main
- July 26th 2009: BOSC Onkelz Non Stop / Music Hall Strohofer / Geiselwind
- August 27, 2009: Wacken Rocks South / Rieden-Kreuth
- numerous guest performances at the GOND festival
- other venues: Stadthalle Lichtenfels, Frankenhalle Dettelbach, Music Center Trockau, Küffner Arena Neudeck, Schwabenhalle Jettingen, Thüringenhalle Erfurt, Thäleseehalle Empfingen etc.
history
The band's homepage says the following about the band's history:
According to the band, the reason for the foundation was "involuntarily a terrible school-leaving band in 2000: Tormented by the bungling music of this graduation band, guitarist and stainless steel founder Sebastian spontaneously decided to set up his own band." Band is the faithful interpretation of the songs, characteristic of the "detailed and faithful solo guitar". "Together with brother Michael (drums) and two school acquaintances who would later fall victim to line-up changes, the bunch was complete relatively quickly." In the search for a suitable band name, various ideas arose, "until suddenly a knife was on the table - they all agreed: the English engraving on its edge was emblematic of the music." The band points out that they are performing at the farewell concert of the Böhsen Onkelz Ralf Werner, the then head of the official Onkelz fan club BOSC. Furthermore, according to the band, both the singer and the guitarist of "Böhsen Onkelz" have already played Onkelz songs together with musicians from "Stainless Steel". In the early years the band gave numerous joint concerts with the South Tyrolean band "Frei.Wild", whose singer sometimes played songs with "Stainless Steel" on these occasions. Torben Höffgen from the band “Kärholz” also helped out on the microphone a few years ago at a show by “Stainless Steel” when there was an emergency. After numerous line-up changes, the former bassist of the Böhse Onkelz tribute band "Glorreich Halunken", which was disbanded in 2016, reorganized Joachim Wawra "Stainless Steel" at the beginning of 2017. From the "Stainless Steel" line-up, only band founder Sebastian is still there, while drummer Oli and singer Kevin have joined the band. From time to time Marco, the former singer of the "Glorrich Scoundrels", sings as part of "Allstars" specials at "Stainless Steel". Some former members of "Stainless Steel" are currently active in other Onkelzcover projects. The side project called "Killerton", which was launched around 2010 and which produced a debut album, but caused disagreement among the band in the past, is currently on hold.
Side project: Killerton
At the beginning of 2010 Stainless Steel guitarist Sebastian and ex-singer Karsten founded the side project Killerton , because "Stainless Steel" should remain a pure "Böhse Onkelz" tribute band. Initially intended as a songwriting project according to the band, the desire for live performances quickly grew. Since the end of 2012, Killerton and Stainless Steel had different singers, while the bassist, drummer and guitarist played in both bands. The debut album, our world , was released with interruptions over a period of one and a half years in 2012. The side project caused disagreement with the band in the past and is currently on hold.
Discography
Tribute album
- 11 Years of Stainless Steel (2013), self-published
- Live in Frankfurt (2008), 27 years Böhse, November 24, 2007, Ballsporthalle FFM / self-published
Sampler
- Thanks for everything , (2007), Blueline Production / song contribution: "Nekrophil"
Side project Killerton
- New German Rock 2 , (2013), Golden Core (ZYX) / song contribution: "We don't care"
- Our World (2012), debut album, Burnout Records (Cargo Records)
- Sampler German rocks! Lesson 1 , (2011), Burnout Records (Cargo Records) / song contribution: "We don't care"
- GOND festival sampler TRiBUTE , (2011), song contribution: "Neffen und Nichten" (exclusive track!)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ "Vaya Con Tioz-Festival", category "Supportbands". (No longer available online.) In: Onkelz website. Archived from the original on December 29, 2011 ; Retrieved May 20, 2012 . 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.
- ^ "Frei.Wild vor Metallica". Archived from the original on November 16, 2011 ; Retrieved May 20, 2012 .
- ↑ "Komma Gosheim Concert". Retrieved May 20, 2012 .
- ↑ "Wendlingen Concert". Retrieved May 20, 2012 .
- ↑ "Jettingen Concert". Retrieved May 20, 2012 .
- ↑ "Glatten Concert". Retrieved May 20, 2012 .
- ^ "Receiving Concert". Retrieved May 20, 2012 .
- ↑ "Wesel Concert". Archived from the original on June 12, 2013 ; Retrieved May 20, 2012 .
- ↑ "Großerlach Concert". Retrieved May 20, 2012 .
- ↑ "Sesslach Concert". Retrieved May 20, 2012 .
- ↑ Sazonzi, Anzo / Zahn, Thorsten: The heirs of the shards . In: Metal Hammer 9/2005. Axel Springer Mediahouse Berlin GmbH, Berlin September 2005, p. 57. Web archive: http://www.metal-hammer.de/das-archiv/article244572/die-erbe-der-scherben.html
- ↑ Dear, Manuel: 27 years Böhse Onkelz . In: Metal Hammer 1/2008. Axel Springer Mediahouse Berlin GmbH, Berlin January 2008, pp. 57–58. Web archive: http://www.metal-hammer.de/das-archiv/article258245/27-jahre-boehse-onkelz.html
- ^ "Vaya Con Tioz-DVD". Retrieved May 20, 2012 .
- ^ "Vaya Con Tioz-Festival", category "Supportbands". (No longer available online.) In: Onkelz homepage. Archived from the original on December 29, 2011 ; Retrieved May 20, 2012 . 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.
- ↑ "BOSC Rocks Schwarzheide Festival". Retrieved May 20, 2012 .
- ↑ "27 Years Böhse". Archived from the original on October 21, 2013 ; Retrieved May 20, 2012 .
- ↑ "Onkelz Non Stop". Retrieved May 20, 2012 .
- ↑ "Wacken Rocks South". Retrieved May 20, 2012 .
- ↑ "GOND" . Accessed on May 20, 2012 .
- ↑ "press archive www.onkelzcover.de". Archived from the original on September 28, 2011 ; Retrieved May 20, 2012 .
- ↑ STAINLESS STEEL BAND: Biography | Stainless steel. Retrieved June 28, 2017 (German).
- ↑ Info sheet from the band Killerton. (PDF; 2.0 MB) Archived from the original on June 1, 2011 ; Retrieved May 20, 2012 .