Hiltpoltstein recording studio
The Hiltpoltstein recording studio was a recording studio in the Franconian town of Hiltpoltstein , founded in 1973 by Jonas Porst and Manfred Neuner.
background
Jonas Porst, son of the entrepreneur Hannsheinz Porst , was initially a patron of the rock band Jonah and the Whales, founded in Nuremberg in the mid-1960s , after which Porst and Sonny Hennig founded a new group, which after the publication of the first LP financed by Porst was released in your Renamed children . After a dispute between Porst and Hennig over the naming rights, the group broke up in 1973 after five albums were released.
Porst then founded the Hiltpoltstein recording studio together with the sound engineer Manfred Neuner, the first recording of which was the single Haus Sweet Haus by the Music Train group, which was released in 1975. Later recordings included the album Aera Humanem Est by the band Aera , which was founded by your children's former guitarist Muck Groh and in which Klaus Kreuzeder played the saxophone and flute .
Other artists who used the studio from the mid-1970s included pancake , bullfrog, chicken shack , Ramses and Nick Simpers fandango .
In 1980, Eric Burdon recorded his project Eric Burdon's Fire Department there, the first three Extrabreit albums were made there, Ton Steine Scherben recorded the album Scherben in Hiltpoltstein, and Ina Deter also worked in the Franconian studio.
At the end of the 1980s, thrash metal bands like Destruction and Sodom and heavy metal bands like Talon recorded there. In 1989 the studio was taken over by guitarists Henry Sincigno, Klaus Kreuzeder and Steve Leistner.
Today the studio is operated by Bernhard Heinrich under the name Heinrich Tonstudio .