Warpath (band)
| Warpath | |
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 Warpath at Wacken Open Air 2017 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Hamburg , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Power metal , thrash metal |
| founding | 1991, 2014 |
| resolution | 1996 or later |
| Current occupation | |
| Dirk "Dicker" Weiss | |
| Flint Razorhead | |
| Sören Meyer | |
| Norman Rieck | |
| former members | |
Electric guitar |
Thomas "Schrödey" Schröder |
Electric guitar |
Robert "Ozzy" Frese |
singing |
Dirk "Dicker" Weiss |
Electric guitar |
Stefan Römhild |
Electric guitar (live) |
Michi Schluseneck |
Electric bass |
Bricklayer |
Drums |
Krid |
Electric guitar |
Jan "Jannick" Lamprecht |
singing |
Arnie (†) |
Warpath is a Hamburg based power and thrash metal band that was founded in 1991 and dissolved around 1996. The band has been active again since 2014, and their first album since their comeback was released in 2017.
history
The band was founded as a quintet in 1991 and recorded their first demo shortly afterwards in the Masterplan Studio in Hildesheim . Through the demo and after she was heard with two songs on the West Virginia Records sampler Cries of the Unborn , she got a contract with this label. In 1992, Andy Classen recorded his debut album When War Begins ... Truth Disappears, recorded at Stage One Studio . Conrad Lant and Sabina Classen can be heard as guest musicians . The record also contains a cover version of the Venom song Black Metal . After the release, the two guitarists Thomas "Schrödey" Schröder and Robert "Ozzy" Frese left the line-up to join Classen's new band Temple of the Absurd . Jan “Jannick” Lamprecht was replaced by a guitarist who joined the band. In autumn 1992 they went on tour with Holy Moses and Incubator through the Netherlands , Germany and Belgium . After the release of the album Massive , which was also recorded by Andy Classen in Stage One Studio, in 1993 on Steamhammer Records , which included the Carnivore song Race War , there were a few isolated concerts and festival appearances, but none Trip. In 1994 the third album Against Everyone was released , which was recorded in late 1993 / early 1994 by Andy Classen. In spring they went on tour with Sodom through Switzerland , Germany and Austria . A European tour followed in autumn together with Gorefest and Forbidden . It lasted two months and included appearances in Germany, Denmark , the Czech Republic , Poland , Austria, Belgium, France , Spain and Portugal . On the tour, Michi Schluseneck, a friend of the band, was represented as the new guitarist in Warpath. After internal disputes, which almost ended in a fight, the singer Dirk "Dicker" Weiss left the band and was replaced by Arnie. Lamprecht also came back to the band as a guitarist. This was followed by the next album Kill Your Enemy in 1996. This includes a cover version of the Cro-Mags song Sign of Hard Times . The album was recorded in Hanover under the direction of Wolfgang Stach . After a tour with The Exploited , the band split up. In 1997 Weiss founded the band Richthofen together with Andy Classen .
In the late summer of 2014, the band started planning a reunion and concerts in 2015, including a. the metal bash . The group at that time consisted of the bass player Maurer, the singer Weiss, the drummer Krid and the guitarist Steve. The singer Arnie has since passed away. On the album Bullets for a Desert Session , which was released on January 13, 2017, only singer Dirk “Dicker” Weiss is part of the reunion line-up. He was supplemented by Norman Rieck (drums), Flint Razorhead (electric guitar) and Sören Meyer (electric bass). Other live performances followed, such as at the Wacken Open Air in 2017 . The 2018 album Filthy Bastard Culture includes two tracks that were written by the band especially for the international science fiction film project Violent Starr . The album was mixed and mastered by Eike O. Freese in the Hamburg Chameleon Studios .
style
Matthias Breusch from Rock Hard remembered the melodic and “differentiated” demo when he discussed the debut, but didn't find the rough and rude Power Metal, which tends towards Thrash Metal, unpleasant. In the Rock Hard Encyclopedia, Holger Stratmann described the band's music as neo-thrash . When War Begins… still contained “relatively moderate Power Metal sounds”. In the course of their career, however, they turned more and more away from Power Metal towards brutal Thrash Metal. According to thethrashmetalguide.com the band plays When War Begins… Truth Disappears Thrash Metal in the medium speed range, comparable to the music of Cerebral Fix , but the riffs of Warpath are slower and more aggressive. The songs, which usually have a length of six to seven minutes, are quite long. In Kill Your Enemy to raise the speed. In the song Die Maschine you can hear influences from Doom Metal , while Sign of Hard Times can be assigned to the crossover .
In the advertisements, the new record company relied on a negative image and praised Massive as "brutal, mean hate metal". In Metal Hammer , Oliver Recker characterized the lyrics written by the singer Weiss as "lyrically [...] extreme and easily misleading" , which are mainly responsible for the fact that the album Against Everyone "is bursting with negative, hateful energy". Weiss explained that although he writes in the first person, he does not necessarily mean himself: "I often put myself in the shoes of a person I have met and report on how they treated me."
Band members
- Warpath live at the Metal Frenzy 2018 in Gardelegen
Singer Dirk Weiss
Guitarist Flint Razorhead
Bass player Sören Meyer
Drummer Norman Rieck
Discography
- 1992: When War Begins ... Truth Disappears (album, West Virginia Records )
- 1993: Massive (album, Steamhammer Records )
- 1994: Against Everyone (album, Steamhammer Records)
- 1996: Kill Your Enemy (Album, Steamhammer Records)
- 2017: Bullets for a Desert Session (Album, Massacre Records )
- 2018: Filthy Bastard Culture (Album, Massacre Records)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Info. Facebook , accessed November 4, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Biography. rockdetector.com, archived from the original on November 4, 2014 ; Retrieved November 3, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Warpath (Germany). metalglory.de, accessed on November 3, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Holger Stratmann: Rock Hard Encyclopedia . ROCK HARD GmbH, 1998, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 , p. 459 .
- ^ Metal Bash 2015
- ↑ Rock Hard issue 357 (February 2017). Rock Hard , accessed March 24, 2017 .
- ^ Warpath (3) - Bullets For A Desert Session. Discogs , accessed October 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Warpath. wacken.com, accessed on October 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Julian N .: Warpath: Reveal album details. time-for-metal.eu, accessed on October 27, 2018 .
- ^ Matthias Breusch: Warpath . When War Begins. In: Rock Hard . No. 62 , June 1992, Record Review, pp. 87 .
- ↑ WARPATH (GERMANY). thethrashmetalguide.com, accessed November 4, 2014 .
- ↑ Warpath . In: Metal Hammer . July 1993, p. 87 .
- ↑ Oliver Recker: Warpath . Voluntary self-control. In: Metal Hammer . August 1994, p. 126 .