UDO

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UDO
Udo Dirkschneider at the Rockharz 2019
Udo Dirkschneider at the Rockharz 2019
General information
Genre (s) Heavy metal , speed metal
founding 1987, 1996, 2016–2018 as Dirkschneider
Website www.udo-online.de
Founding members
Udo Dirkschneider
Peter Szigeti (until 1987)
guitar
 Mathias "Don" Dieth (until 1991)
Frank Rittel (until 1987)
Thomas Franke (until 1989)
Current occupation
singing
 Udo Dirkschneider
Drums
 Sven Dirkschneider (since 2015)
guitar
 Andrey Smirnov (since 2013)
guitar
 Dee Dammers (since 2018)
bass
 Tilen Hudrap (since 2018)
former members
guitar
 Andy Susemihl (1987–1990, 1991)
guitar
 Wolla Boehm (1990)
guitar
 Jürgen Graf (1997–1999)
guitar
 Igor Gianola (1999-2013)
guitar
 Kasperi Heikkinen (2013-2017)
guitar
 Bill Hudson (2017-2018)
guitar
 Stefan Kaufmann (1996–2012, 2018)
bass
 Thomas Smuszynski (1989–1991)
bass
 Michael Voss (1997)
Drums
 Stefan Schwarzmann (1989–1999)
Drums
 Lorenzo Milani (1999-2004)
Drums
 Francesco Jovino (2004-2014)
bass
 Fitty Wienhold (1996-2018)
bass
 Dieter Rubach (1987-1989)

UDO is a German heavy metal - band , named after the singer Udo Dirk Schneider .

history

1987 to 1992

After Udo Dirkschneider split from Accept in 1987, he started his own band. Together with the two former Warlock musicians Peter Szigeti and Frank Rittel as well as the former Gravestone and Sinner guitarists Mathias "Don" Dieth and Thomas Franke, he presented the new line-up shortly after the separation. Rittel and Szigetti did not stay with them for long and after a short time went into business with Coracko . Andy Susemihl and Dieter Rubach joined UDO as their successors

The debut album Animal House was released that same year. The songs were written entirely by Udo's former band Accept. After a European and US tour with Lita Ford and as support for Guns N 'Roses, Rubach and Franke left the band. For them bassist Thomas Smuszynski and the former Running Wild drummer Stefan Schwarzmann joined the band. It was with this line-up that the 1989 album Mean Machine was released . This was the first time they entered the German charts. On their European tour the band acted as support for Ozzy Osbourne .

For the third album, Faceless World , the band engaged Udo's former bandmate, ex-Accept drummer Stefan Kaufmann, as producer. Susemihl was temporarily replaced by Wolla Böhm on guitar. To date, Faceless World is the best-selling UDO album. Shortly after the Faceless World Tour, the heavily smoking Dirkschneider suffered a heart attack. Nevertheless, the fourth album Timebomb , again produced by Kaufmann, was released a year later. The band broke up after the tour for this release. Schwarzmann and Smuszynski went to Running Wild and Dirkschneider started a comeback with his old band Accept . By 1996, Accept released three more studio albums.

From 1996

UDO Live 2004 in Germany

After separating again from Accept in 1996, UDO released a cover version of the Judas Priest song Metal Gods for the tribute sampler Legends of Metal . Besides Dirk Schneider were guitarist Mathias Dieth as a guest and drummer Stefan Schwarzmann back on the field again. The band was complemented by the Casanova bassist Michael Voss and rhythm guitarist Stefan Kaufmann.

The comeback followed in 1997 with the album Solid . Dieth was no longer available anyway and Voss also made room for guitarist Jürgen Graf and bassist Fitty Wienhold. A European tour with Random , Blackshine and M-Force followed in the fall of the same year. In 1998 the band released another album, No Limits . With the song I'm a Rebel , the album contains a new recording of an old Accept classic. The former Gotthard tour guitarist Igor Gianola joined Jürgen Graf as the new guitarist . Drummer Stefan Schwarzmann left the band and was replaced by Lorenzo Milani. HOLY was released in 1999 . In 2000, UDO toured the US with Saxon . After the live album Live from Russia , the band set to work on Man and Machine , which includes the song Dancing with an Angel, a duet with Doro Pesch .

In 2011 UDO released a new album called Rev-Raptor . It was released on May 20, 2011 on AFM Records . The first single Leatherhead was released on April 8, 2011. On September 13th, 2012 the band announced that Stefan Kaufmann had to leave the band for health reasons. UDO completed a tour of Russia in 2012.

In January 2013 the Russian guitarist Andrey Smirnov was announced as a replacement for Kaufmann, two weeks later the second guitarist Igor Gianola left the band and the Finn Kasperi Heikkinen came to UDO.With them the band recorded their fourteenth studio album Steelhammer , the one year Later a live version followed, which UDO showed at a performance in Moscow. Shortly after the band announced their next album Decadent for 2015, it was announced on December 23, 2014 that drummer Francesco Jovino had left the band for personal reasons. He was replaced by Udo Dirkschneider's son Sven. Kasperi Heikkinen also left the band, who was replaced by Bill Hudson. Hudson in turn left the band after a year. Stefan Kaufmann has been back as guitarist for the summer festivals since June 2018 after Hudson's departure.

In 2018 UDO released their sixteenth album Steelfactory, followed by a world tour. After Stefan Kaufmann's brief assignment, guitarist Fabian "Dee" Dammers followed as a new member of the band. Fitty Wienhold left the band in August 2018 after 22 years and was replaced by bassist Tilen Hudrap. In 2020 they released We Are One and together with the Bundeswehr Music Corps .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1987 Animal House - - -
1989 Mean machine DE31 (5 weeks)
DE 		- -
1990 Faceless World DE52 (8 weeks)
DE 		- -
1991 Timebomb - - -
1997 Solid - - -
1998 No limits DE90 (1 week)
DE 		- -
1999 Holy DE96 (1 week)
DE 		- -
2002 Man and Machine DE71 (1 week)
DE 		- -
2003 Nailed to Metal - The Missing Tracks DE100 (1 week)
DE 		- -
Live album
2004 Thunderball DE83 (1 week)
DE 		- -
2005 Mission No. X DE92 (1 week)
DE 		- -
2007 Mastercutor DE39 (2 weeks)
DE 		- -
2009 Dominator DE27 (3 weeks)
DE 		- CH100 (1 week)
CH
2011 Rev raptor DE20 (2 weeks)
DE 		- CH57 (1 week)
CH
2012 Celebrator - Rare Tracks DE73 (1 week)
DE 		- -
compilation
Live in Sofia DE75 (1 week)
DE 		- -
Live album
2013 Steelhammer DE21 (3 weeks)
DE 		- CH79 (1 week)
CH
2014 Steelhammer - Live from Moscow DE60 (1 week)
DE 		- -
Live album
2015 Decadent DE16 (2 weeks)
DE 		- CH48 (1 week)
CH
Navy Metal Night DE31 (3 weeks)
DE 		- -
Live album
2018 Steelfactory DE7 (4 weeks)
DE 		AT23 (1 week)
AT 		CH24 (5 weeks)
CH
2020 We Are One
with the Bundeswehr Music Corps 		DE8 (3 weeks)
DE 		- CH19 (1 week)
CH

More albums

  • 1999: Best of (compilation)
  • 2001: Live from Russia (Live)
  • 2007: Metallized - 20 Years of Metal (compilation)
  • 2008: Mastercutor Alive (Live)

Singles and EPs

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
2005 24/7 DE82 (1 week)
DE

More singles and EPs

  • 1988: They Want War
  • 1990: Heart of Gold
  • 1997: Two Faced Woman
  • 1999: Love Machine
  • 2005: 24/7 (EP)
  • 2007: The Wrong Side of Midnight (EP)
  • 2009: Infected (EP)
  • 2011: Leatherhead (EP)
  • 2013: Metal Machine
  • 2018: Rising High
  • 2018: One Heart One Soul
  • 2018: Make the Move
  • 2020: We Are One
  • 2020: Neon Diamond

Video albums

  • 2003: Nailed to Metal
  • 2004: Thundervision
  • 2008: Mastercutor Alive
  • 2012: Live in Sofia
  • 2014: Steelhammer - Live in Moscow
  • 2015: Navy Metal Night
  • 2016: Back to the Roots (as Dirkschneider )

Membership development

Web links

Commons : UDO  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Heavy Metal, Vodka & Kaviar - The German rock band UDO on tour of Russia , December 8, 2012, 26 min., Accessed on November 27, 2016
  2. ↑ Udo Dirkschneider's Son Sven Joins UDO As Band's Drummer . Blabbermout.net. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
  3. ↑ UDO And Dirkschneider Joined By Guitarist Bill Hudson . Blabbermout.net. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  4. ↑ The new line up - Official website of DIRKSCHNEIDER & UDO.Retrieved on March 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ u-do and dirkschneider . metalhammer.com. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
  6. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE CH