Grave Digger

German power metallic music group Grave Digger were shaped in past due 1980 by frontman Chris Boltendahl, guitarist Peter Masson, bassist Willi Lackmann, and drummer Albert Eckardt. Debuting 3 years down the road the Rock and roll from Hell compilation, Grave Digger came back in 1984 using the full-length ROCK Breakdown; following the pursuing year’s Witch Hunter, Lackmann remaining the lineup and was changed by bassist C.F. Brank for 1986’s Battle Video games. The group after that shortened its name to just Digger for 1987’s MORE POWERFUL THAN Ever, which noticed guitarist Uwe Lulis substituting for Masson; Boltendahl after that dissolved the task, finally reuniting with Lulis in 1991 and recruiting fresh bassist Tomi Gottlich and drummer Jörg Michael for The Reaper, acknowledged once more to Grave Digger. Drummer Frank Ullrich changed Michael for 1995’s Center of Darkness, with percussion responsibilities dealt with by Stefan Arnold on Music of War; using the departure of Gottlich, Jens Becker assumed the bass for 1998’s Knights from the Mix. Keyboardist H.P. Katzenburg extended the Grave Digger lineup to some five-piece for Excalibur, released a year later on. Arriving in 2001, the macabre The Grave Digger drew a few of its motivation from your writings of Edgar Allan Poe, while 2003’s ambitious idea recording Rheingold was predicated on Richard Wagner’s epic Der Band des Nibelungen. Released in 2005, the critically acclaimed THE FINAL Supper, despite offering several songs regarding the last times of Jesus Christ, noticed the band shedding the narrative-driven structures of earlier outings, as do 2007’s Liberty or Loss of life. Ballads of the Hangman, the band’s 14th studio room long-player, marked the very first Grave Digger outing to feature twin guitars, and offered because the band’s inaugural launch for fresh label Napalm. A flurry of lineup adjustments heralded the introduction of 2010’s Clans Will Rise Once again, which offered like a “loose sequel” to 1996’s medievally influenced Tunes of Battle, along with a 2012 EP, Clash from the Gods, offered followers some sonic sustenance while they waited for the band’s very much anticipated 17th studio room album. Their persistence was rewarded using the launch of Return from the Reaper in 2014 and Healed by Metallic in 2017.