Thunderhead
| Thunderhead | |
|---|---|
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Metal , hard rock |
| founding | 1988 |
| resolution | 1999 |
| Website | http://www.the-headquarters.de |
| Founding members | |
| Ted Bullet | |
| Henny Wolter | |
| Ole Hempelmann | |
| Alex Scotti | |
| Last occupation | |
Vocals, guitar |
Ted Bullet |
guitar |
Jim Bell |
bass |
Mark Franco |
Drums |
BJ Zampa |
Thunderhead was a German hard rock and metal band that existed from 1988 to around 2000. As a continuation, Donnerkopf was founded in 2002 . Today some of the members are active as Nitrogods .
Band history
Thunderhead was founded in 1988 by Henny Wolter (guitar, ex) and Ole Hempelmann (electric bass), who met the American singer Ted Bullet . Bullet stayed in Germany because he was originally supposed to take up the singing post in Victory , but it was only in Germany that it was discovered that the voice did not fit the band. After rehearsing with Fritz Randow from Victory, Alex Scotti eventually became the drummer of the original line-up. With a first demo they applied to various record companies and finally got a contract with Intercord , where in February 1989 the debut album Behind the Eight-Ball was released. Will Reid Dick was the producer . The album sold around 30,000 copies and the band toured Germany as the opening act for Uriah Heep and Victory and touring England as the opening act for Motörhead .
In 1990 the second album Busted at the Border was released , which could not meet the high expectations of the successor to Behind the Eight-Ball and was only sold 10,000 times. The band blamed on the one hand the bad distribution, but also the powerless production of Tony Platt . The headlining tour that followed was also a failure.
In 1991, after the disaster with the last album, Thunderhead decided to take over the production alone. Alex Scotti ultimately became the producer of the album Crime Pays . The album was released through Music for Nations . This was followed by a Germany tour with Gamma Ray and a very successful Japan tour. Back in Germany they played another headlining tour with co-headlining Crossroads . The following album Killing with Style was finally released in 1993, after a long dispute with the former record company Intercord, for the first time on Gun Records and became the most successful album in the band's history. A video was shot for the single Young & Useless . The subsequent tour took place with the main band Saxon . A Japan tour with Rage also followed . In 1994 the live album Classic Killers - Live was released .
Two albums were planned for 1995, an album with faster pieces and a ballad album. First, Were You Told The Truth About Hell? as a harder album, on the side was The Ballads '88 - '95 , which ultimately became a compilation with old songs, two newly recorded and two new songs. With Behind Blue Eyes , a cover version of The Who was recorded. After a best-of album in 1999, Gun Records dropped the band due to insufficient sales. The band tried to negotiate a follow-up deal, but the band structure broke up in the meantime. The band's last work, Ugly Side , was released via Steamhammer Records , after which Ted Bullet left the band to concentrate on Sonofabitch, which, however, also ceased their activities in the same year.
Bullet later attempted a comeback with new members, which ultimately also failed and remained without publication. His new colleagues later supported the solo project Wayne of the ex- Metal Church singer David Wayne .
In 2003 Ole Hempelmann and Henny Wolter tried together with Klaus Sperling with the band Donnerkopf to build on the successes of the 1990s and relied on German lyrics. An album about Teuton was released. Wolter and Sperling are now active at Nitrogods .
Music genre
Thunderhead play simple and catchy traditional metal on the border to hard rock , without many frills or many solo interludes. The style of music later developed into Power Metal . Ted Bullet is described as an energetic singer whose deep, rough voice and direct lyrics matched the music perfectly.
Discography
Albums
- 1989: Behind the Eight-Ball (Intercord)
- 1990: Busted at the Border (Intercord)
- 1991: Crime Pays ( Music for Nations )
- 1993: Killing with Style ( Gun Records )
- 1995: Were You Told the Truth About Hell? (Gun Records)
- 1999: Ugly Side ( Steamhammer Records )
Singles and EPs
- 1989: Take It to the Highway (Intercord)
- 1989: The Fire's Burning (Intercord)
- 1990: 25 or 6 to 4 (Intercord)
- 1993: Young and Useless (Gun Records)
- 1993: Movin 'On (EP, Gun Records)
- 1995: Snap (Gun Records)
Compilations and live albums
- 1994: Classic Killers Live (Gun Records)
- 1995: The Ballads '88 - '95 (Gun Records)
- 1997: The Best of Thunderhead (Victor Entertainment, Japan release)
- 1999: The Whole Decade (Gun Records)
Other publications
- 1991: Metal Beat Messiahs (split CD with Zodiac Mindwarp , Night Shade and Hades , promo CD from Rock Hard )
Individual evidence
- ^ Thunderhead History Part 1. Official website, accessed February 8, 2013 .
- ^ Thunderhead History Part 2. Official website, accessed February 8, 2013 .
- ^ Thunderhead History Part 3. Official website, accessed February 8, 2013 .
- ↑ Thunderhead History Part 4. Official website, accessed February 8, 2013 .
- ↑ Thunderhead History Part 10. Official website, accessed February 8, 2013 .
- ^ Thunderhead History Part 2. Official website, accessed February 8, 2013 .
- ↑ Where Are You? - Ted Bullett. (No longer available online.) Maximum Metal, April 11, 2011, archived from the original on October 16, 2013 ; Retrieved February 8, 2013 . 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.
- ↑ Thunderhead. (No longer available online.) BNR Metal Page, archived from the original on August 30, 2013 ; Retrieved February 8, 2013 . 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.
- ^ Thunderhead - Killing With Style (9/10) - Germany - 1993. The Metal Observer, accessed February 8, 2013 .
- ↑ Thunderhead at Allmusic (English). Retrieved February 8, 2013.
