Veto (band)

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veto
General information
origin Augsburg , Germany
Genre (s) Heavy metal
founding 1980
resolution 1989
Founding members
Klaus Schiele
Herbert Kaiser
Steve Hatton
Last occupation
Vocals, keyboard
Dietmar "Meise" healer
guitar
 Klaus Schiele
guitar
 Roger Bredel
bass
 Peter Schlattner
Drums
 Raimund "Muck" Langmair
former members
Vocals, keyboard
 Harald "Harry" (also "Hari") Liebhäuser
Drums
 Peter Garattoni
Drums
 Alwin "Yogi" Rainer

Veto was a German heavy metal band from Augsburg that was active in the 1980s, with their label boss taking over the drums for recordings.

history

Veto was founded in 1980 as a trio that played hard rock with German lyrics. In the course of the first few years the line-up changed frequently, only guitarist Klaus Schiele was constant. From the spring of 1985 Schiele translated his texts into English and in November 1985 suitable musicians were found to begin recording. Since a drummer was still missing, one of the two owners of the music publisher Gama International , Peter Garattoni, took over this instrument. With his workhorses Gravestone , Stormwitch and Tyrant, Gama was one of the supporters of German metal. Garottini brought with him experience from various jazz and blues bands of the 1970s with recordings. The other band members were Harald "Hari" Liebhäuser (vocals and keyboard), Roger Bredel (guitar) and Peter Schlattner (bass). After the recordings, Alwin “Yogi” Rainer joined Garattoni and played concerts and festival appearances with the band, for example the Christmas Festival in Ulm . The debut album Veto was released in early 1986 on the Scratch Records label.

Over the next few months the band, which had received only mediocre attention, tried to establish itself. She stepped in the opening act of Saxon , Vengeance and Lee Aaron on. At the turn of 1987/1988 the recording studio Zuckerfabrik in Stuttgart was booked for the production of the successor Carthago . Again Veto had no drummer, so Garattoni recorded this album as well. It was released in late 1988. A license agreement with Warner Bros. Records enabled the band to enter the American market. At the beginning of 1989 Liebhäuser left the band and was replaced by Dietmar "Meise" Heiler in the same double function. Since Garattoni had no live ambitions, a new drummer named Raimund "Muck" Langmair (Reactor) was added. No further activity has been recorded since then. It was speculated that due to the distribution of the members between the cities of Stuttgart, Munich and the original Augsburg, the cooperation was too severely impaired.

style

Oliver C. Thöns saw veto "somewhere between Running Wild and Sinner ", which he found problematic. The albums are "neither fish nor meat", he wrote in the dictionary Heavy Metal Made in Germany .

In the first Metal Hammer article devoted to Veto , the style was described as “energetic heavy rock”. The group itself stated that it was influenced by "classic heavy bands like Deep Purple and Judas Priest " and that they also allow classical music as inspiration. Lyrically, you take up very different topics that are sometimes aimed at fun like that about motorcycling, but sometimes very serious when it comes to political or historical topics. The unnamed editor confirmed that “the texts are not just clichéd accessories”. In the review of the debut album printed in the follow -up issue , Charly Rinne named heavy metal with speed metal elements à la Judas Priest as the style . This is by no means simply copying from Downing and Tipton , there is "still enough initiative and wit." Uwe “Buffo” Schnädelbach discussed the second album and explained the “down-to-earth, at times even quite original Heavy Rock”. Sometimes it is hymn-like , sometimes ballad-like , sometimes fast-paced. This is not new, but it sounds neat. In the review of the Carthago release, Götz Kühnemund put the album in a slightly more positive light. "[A] varied arrangements and independent melody lines" would result in above-average songs, which despite the rich German metal scene are justified.

Martin Popoff wrote in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 2: The Eighties that the self-titled album is played with the typical Germanic callousness and an energy that fills the soul. Similar to Gravestone, the group has both fast and slow songs, occasionally falling into Scorpion- typical hard rock .

For the online magazine Underground Empire , Heiko Simonis characterized the style as "predominantly melodic metal". The seven-minute Carthage with its "classic elements" fascinated him most.

Usually the term “heavy metal” is used, occasionally “speed metal”.

Discography

  • 1982: Demo 1982 (in-house production)
  • 1986: Veto (album, Scratch Records)
  • 1988: Carthago (album, Scratch Records)
  • 2007: Veto / Carthago ( Compilation : both albums on 1 CD, Blower Records)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Oliver C. Thöns: Veto . In: Matthias Mader, Otger Jeske, Arno Hofmann et al. (Ed.): Heavy Metal Made in Germany . 1st edition. IP Verlag Jeske / Mader GbR, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-931624-08-0 , p. 202 f .
  2. ↑ a b c veto . In: Metal Hammer . Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Poster Magazine! January 1986, German Metal Attack, p. 74 f .
  3. ↑ a b Charly Rinne: Veto. Veto . In: Metal Hammer . Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Poster Magazine! February 1986, LP's, p. 97 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Götz Kühnemund: Veto. Classic heavy rock from southern Germany . In: Metal Hammer . Anniversary edition. March 1989, German Mertal, p. 51 .
  5. ↑ Jolly Joker: Veto, Veto, 1986, CD, 1988. In: ohrenbalsam.blogspot.de. September 14, 2011, accessed November 28, 2016 .
  6. ↑ story. In: truemetal.org. Retrieved November 28, 2016 .
  7. ↑ [Uwe] "Buffo" [Schnädelbach]: Veto. Carthage . In: Metal Hammer . International hard rock and heavy metal magazine. February 1989, LP's, p. 63 .
  8. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 2: The Eighties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2005, ISBN 1-894959-31-0 , p. 397 .
  9. ↑ Heiko Simonis: Veto (D, Augsburg) - Carthago. (No longer available online.) In: underground-empire.com. Archived from the original on November 27, 2016 ; accessed on November 28, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.underground-empire.com
  10. ↑ Veto. Style. In: spirit-of-metal.com. Retrieved November 28, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Veto (6). In: discogs.com. Retrieved November 28, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Lord Bones: Veto (GER) - Carthago (1988). Release info. In: bm-80smetal.blogspot.de. April 2, 2014, accessed November 28, 2016 .

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