Artist: Iron Angel Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Winds Of War Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Iron Angel participated in the showtime wave of Teutonic thrash metallic element bands -- a bustling musical community that also gave spring up to such notable outfits as Kreator, Destruction, Sodom, Helloween, Running Wild, and many more, and arguably delineate the largest concentration of bands exploiting this new genre outside the much vaunted San Francisco Bay Area. Born in 1983 from the ashes of an to begin with Hamburg-based band named Metal Gods, Iron Angel consisted of singer Dirk Schroder, guitarists Peter Wittke and Sven Struven, bassist Thorsten Lohmann, and drummer Mike Mattes, and recorded a trio of demos before sign language with homegrown label Steamhammer. Their full-length debut,
Beastly Crossfire, emerged in 1985 and contained an explosive mix of speed and thrash metallic element that broadly speaking avoided the sturdy black metal-tinged charge preferent by Kreator, Sodom, and their like, to embrace the melodious office metal-leaning mode also championed by Helloween. In fact, Iron Angel seemed to be minatory to empty thresh altogether with their far more accessible sophomore effort,
Winds of War, in 1986 (where Jürgen Blackmore, son of Deep Purple icon Ritchie, guested on guitar), and it was not that surprising when increasing musical differences resulted in their dissolution one twelvemonth later. More than a decennium passed in which Iron Angel's small contribution to the '80s thresh alloy movement grew more obscure, only non disregarded, and the radical was actually preparing to record a reunion record album in the yr 2000 when, unhappily, guitar player Peter Wittke was killed in a machine crash, putting an goal to those plans.