Artist: Iron Angel Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Winds Of War Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Iron Angel participated in the get-go wave of Teutonic thrash metallic element bands -- a bustling musical community that besides gave spring up to such notable outfits as Kreator, Destruction, Sodom, Helloween, Running Wild, and many more, and arguably draw the largest concentration of bands exploiting this new genre external 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 earlier 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 public speaking avoided the sturdy dim metal-tinged load preferent by Kreator, Sodom, and their like, to embrace the melodious situation metal-leaning mode also championed by Helloween. In fact, Iron Angel seemed to be threatening to vacate thresh altogether with their far more accessible sophomore effort,
Winds of War, in 1986 (where Jürgen Blackmore, word of Deep Purple icon Ritchie, guested on guitar), and it was non that surprising when increasing musical differences resulted in their adjournment one year later. More than a decennium passed in which Iron Angel's small contribution to the '80s thresh alloy movement grew more obscure, merely 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.
