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GALLOGLASS is a hot new sensational German Melodic Power Metal band. Thie recent debut CD on LIMB MUSIC shows they are one of the best bands in this genre at the moment. I had an interview with GALLOGLASS, let's see what they have to say...
Please introduce us
your band, when did you form GALLOGLASS and did any of you play
in bands before GALLOGLASS?
Galloglass are : Norbert Geiseler and Kai Mühlenbruch on
guitars, Dirk Zelmer on bass, Carsten Frank on Vocals and Arnd
Lorenz on drums. Galloglass were founded back in fall of
1999.Carsten,Dirk and Arnd started Galloglass leaving their
former band Serpent Moves behind, because they wanted to
re-discover their musical roots. Kai played bass in a band called
Desolation and was looking for a band fitting for him as a
guitarplayer and Norbert played guitar in a band that was called
Progeria before. He played ther together with the actual
bassplayer of Freedom Call! That band split up and he had to look
for another band making the music he likes to play.
Please tell us all
about your fantastic debut CD...
Well, it is round, red and has a hole in the middle !! ....
Seriously: we are very proud of it! It was a long and hard
process to produce this album, but the result really was worth
all the work and the pain! We gave more than just 150% of our
possibilities and actually we can say that every single note is
played by ourselves!! We had the chance and we took the chance to
bring the highest level of metal-entertainment to the listeners
all over the world. Our CD sounds great, looks great and we are
very,very satisfied with it!
Are there any stories
behind the songs, if so please share them with us...
There is ONE story behind ALL songs! But the storyline got mixed
up due to a better running-order of the songs. If you want to get
behind the story, start to read the lyrics of "THE
QUEST" Maybe you can discover the story!
How did you get in
touch with LIMB MUSIC PRODUCTS?
We had sent some of our demo-cd's to some labels and actually LMP
was the one showing the most serious interest. After sending him
some more rehearsing-demos that Limb asked for, he offered us a
very good contract and we signed it. So it was!
Your band is coming out
of Hannover, which has been a very important city for Hardrock
music, do you feel the Hardrock scene is still alive and kicking
in your city area?
The number of Hardrock bands in Hannover is getting smaller and
smaller, but there are more Metal bands of many different styles
in Hannover. So you can say the Hardrock scene is still alive but
not kicking. But the Metal scene is still growing and getting
stronger.
Not many bands can say
they have released a debut CD which is of a very high level, how
much time did you spent in recording this awesome record?
Well, it was a very long time! It took us over one year to record
this album, because we had to take several interruptions due to
our jobs.
How much of an
influence have the new wave of succesful German Metal bands have
been( such as EDGUY,MOB RULES,AT VANCE,METALIUM,PRIMAL FEAR,
FREEDOM CALL, etc,etc)
None of the announced bands, except for EDGUY, had or have any
influence on us. Our influences are old German Metal bands like
HELLOWEEN,BLIND GUARDIAN, GAMMA RAY or ACCEPT! And who is
etc,etc? :-)
Basically, what are the
future plans for GALLOGLASS? A tour? More CD releases?
Both! We hope that we will have the possibility to tour through
Europe, but until now there is nothing planned in particular. And
of cause we'd like to release more CD's than just our debut!
Finally, do you have
anything to add to our readers?
We hope that you will enjoy our album as much as we do!! Stay
tuned for more GALLOGLASS!!! This is just the beginning!! By the
way: please visit our website: WWW.GALLOGLASS.DE