Walking Dead on Broadway

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Walking Dead on Broadway
Walking Dead on Broadway play at the Reload Festival, 2018.
Walking Dead on Broadway play at the Reload Festival , 2018.
General information
origin Leipzig , Saxony , Germany
Genre (s) Deathcore
founding 2009
Current occupation
Nils Richter
Michael
Electric guitar
 Max
Kevin
Stephan
former members
Robert Horn († 2020)
singing
 James

Walking Dead on Broadway is a deathcore band from Leipzig , Saxony, founded in 2009 .

history

Walking Dead on Broadway was founded in the Saxon city ​​of Leipzig in 2009 and, after several line-up changes, consists of singer Nils Richter, the two guitarists Max and Michael, as well as bassist Kevin and drummer Stephan.

In 2012 an EP entitled Welcome to Corpse Wonderland with six pieces was recorded and released on their own. In 2014 the band signed a recording deal with Impericon Records and released their debut album Aeshma through the company. After a label change to Arising Empire , the group released Slaves, the second studio album. For the third album Dead Era , the band was signed to the SPV label Long Branch Records in 2018 and released this album in the same year.

In their career so far, the band has toured with bands such as Within Destruction , Annisokay , Venues , Neaera , and Science of Sleep, some on an international level, and has played at major music festivals such as Wacken Open Air , Summer Breeze , Full Force , and Rockharz Open Air , the Reload Festival and the Impericon Festivals .

At the beginning of May 2020 it was announced that the former singer Robert Horn had died under unexplained circumstances.

style

The music of Walking Dead on Broadway can broadly be described as deathcore . After a singer change, the style is more oriented towards Death Metal , which is based on groups like Thy Art Is Murder , Whitechapel and Carnifex . The music was already described by Metal.de on the two previous works as above-average good-class deathcore. With the release of the third album Dead Era , the band also processed atmospheric and melodic elements in their sound. On the debut album, the musicians worked without frills, but used genre-typical elements such as breakdowns , lightning-fast riffs and nasty growls .

Although the band is said to have great musical potential, the band's music has been criticized as monotonous in the past, as the musicians far too rarely ventured out of the genre conventions and barely audible melodies could be found. Using the example of the piece 01110010 , which has elements of industrial , it was shown how the band could sound if they were to experiment. At Powermetal.de , too , the lack of creative development was criticized negatively, which would be important for the genre.

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Zach Redrup: NEWS: Walking Dead On Broadway sign with Impericon Records! DeadPress !, September 10, 2014, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ WackenHelge: Walking Dead on Broadway - Signed with Arising Empire. Wacken.com , April 7, 2016, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Walking dead on Broadway releases Slaves. Frontview Magazine, November 12, 2016, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Jonas Kiß: SPV signs Walking Dead On Broadway. Music Week , July 4, 2018, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Robert: WALKING DEAD ON BROADWAY - to tour Europe with WITHIN DESTRUCTION in March! metalunderground.at, January 18, 2018, archived from the original on June 12, 2018 ; accessed on April 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Saskia: ANNISOKAY and WALKING DEAD ON BROADWAY in Tokyo Part 1 - Very Lively ... Silence Musik Magazin, December 26, 2018, accessed on December 29, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Break Down A Venue becomes VENUES, the new bass player. Carrycoal, February 11, 2017, accessed July 29, 2018 .
  9. ↑ message. In: Neaera OFFICIAL. Facebook , September 3, 2015, accessed on October 11, 2015 : “ Dear friends and followers, as some of you have already noticed today via other channels, this year's DARKNESS OVER XMAS Tour will also be our farewell tour. "
  10. ↑ Walking Dead On Broadway: Ex-frontman Robert Horn is dead. Morecore.de, May 3, 2020, accessed on May 3, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Eike Cramer: Walking Dead On Broadway DEAD ERA. Metal Hammer , September 28, 2018, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Jan Wischkowski: Walking Dead On Broadway - Dead Era. Metal.de , September 20, 2018, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Jan Wischkowski: Walking Dead On Broadway - Aeshma. Metal.de, November 8, 2014, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Holger Stratmann: WALKING DEAD ON BROADWAY slaves. Rock Hard , 2018, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Timon Krause: Brutal club in tight deathcore corset. Powermetal.de , November 6, 2016, accessed on April 19, 2019 .