Thomas Laszlo Winkler

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Winkler with Gloryhammer at the Rockharz Open Air 2016
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Tales from the Kingdom of Fife
  BE W 151 03/29/2013 (1 week)
Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards
  UK 18th October 02, 2015 (1 week)
  DE 53 03/10/2015 (1 week)
  CH 64 04/10/2015 (1 week)
  BE F 100 03/10/2015 (3 weeks)
  BE W 121 03/10/2015 (1 week)
Legends from Beyond the Galactic Terror Vortex
  UK 3 07.06.2019 (1 week)
  DE 6th 07.06.2019 (2 weeks)
  AT 16 06/14/2019 (1 week)
  CH 8th 06/09/2019 (1 week)
  BE F 75 06/09/2019 (1 week)
  BE W 169 06/09/2019 (1 week)
  US 2 June 15, 2019 (1 week)

Thomas Laszlo Winkler (born November 20, 1985 in Zollikofen ), also Thomas L. Winkler , is a Swiss singer who is currently the front man of the metal band Gloryhammer .

life and career

At the beginning of 2010, the Swiss heavy metal band Emerald announced that Thomas Winkler had signed up as their new singer. After the release of the first joint album "Re-Forged", a single was released in 2011 for the second studio album of the Chinese power metal band Barque of Dante, for which Winkler contributed the vocals. At the same time, he announced the collaboration for their second studio album.

After Emerald's sixth studio album "Unleashed" was released in 2012, the Austrian label Napalm Records announced that Thomas Winkler had signed up as the frontman of the "Heroic Fantasy Power Metal" band Gloryhammer , which was founded by Alestorm singer and keyboarder Christopher Bowes has been.

In the summer of 2013, Emerald announced in a press release that Thomas Winkler is leaving the band to focus on other professional activities. As Winkler added in an interview, he now wants to focus entirely on Gloryhammer and his role there as Crown Prince Angus McFife.

With Gloryhammer, Winkler entered the official album charts in various European countries and was nominated by the international trade magazine Metal Hammer 2017 as the best newcomer in the heavy metal sector. He received this nomination for the second time in a row on July 18, 2018.

Discography

Albums

  • Emerald - Re-Forged ( Pure Steel Records , 2010)
  • Emerald - Unleashed (Pure Steel Records, 2012)
  • Gloryhammer - Tales from the Kingdom of Fife (Napalm Records, 2013)
  • Barque of Dante - Lasting Forever (Mort Productions, 2013)
  • Gloryhammer - Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards (Napalm Records, 2015)
  • Gloryhammer - Legend from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex (Napalm Records, 2019)

Singles

  • Barque of Dante - Way of Your Life (Mort Productions, 2011)

Compilations with Emerald

  • Steel for an Age (Trigger Records, 2011)
  • Heavy Metal Nation VII - Shares For Bears (Quam Libet Records, 2011)
  • Heavy Metal Nation VIII - True As Steel Anniversary Edition (Quam Libet Records, 2011)
  • Up The Hammers VI Festival DVD (Music Box Productions, 2011)
  • Heavy Metal Nation IX - Recordings Of Fear (Quam Libet Records, 2013)

Guest appearances

  • Cambrian - Dark Reveries (7 Hard Records, 2013); Singer
  • Signum Regis - Exodus (Ulterium Records, 2013); Singer
  • Victorius - Dreamchaser (Sonic Attack Records, 2014); Singer
  • Cambrian - The Elder's Realm (NoiseArt / Universal, 2016); Singer
  • Nanowar of Steel - Valhalleluja (Napalm Records, 2019); Singer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK DE CH BE US
  2. ↑ http://www.bravewords.com/news/130098
  3. ↑ http://www.stormbringer.at/news_39736/emerald-suchen-neuen-saenger.html
  4. ↑ http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=93765
  5. ↑ metal-hammer.de: The METAL HAMMER Awards 2017: These are the nominees
  6. ↑ metal-hammer.de: The METAL HAMMER Awards 2018: These are the nominees
personal data
SURNAME Winkler, Thomas Laszlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winkler, Thomas L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Zollikofen