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The main LINE UP from left to right:
Axel Rudi Pell (guitar), Jan Wiese/Yildiral (drums),
Roland Hag (bass), Peter Burtz
(vocals). Tom Eder (guitar)
As we have seen, for inexplicable reasons in the abstinent and certainly much
too quiet long period of time since the release of last official german Steeler
album `Undercover Animal` in 1988/89
and the last official european touring with british HM-legends SAXON, especially
since the dissolution of this german heavy metal legend within Axel, Volker,
Peter, Jan, Tom, Roland and Herve',
all kinds of rumors and funny stories as well as false names, time periods
and timelines have formed from time to time due to disinformation or input
from third parties, which we hereby refute.
This is the real german band Steeler and this is our history
Latest
STEELER news:
A worldwide exclusive Special STEELER 30th-Anniversary-Reunion
Show
hosted by ARP`s 25th Anniversary `Axel Rudi Pell &
Friends` show took place at:
Balingen
`Bang Your Head` Metal-Festival on July, 11th 2014, Balingen, Messegelände,
Germany
As far as the complete friday-night
headliner-show of ARP/Steeler&Friends that lasted more
than three hours had been recorded live,
the complete collection of DVD/BlueRay/Audio-CD of this show is available
titled `Magic Moments` by Axel Rudi Pell (ARP)
that you can
order here
Axel
Rudi Pell - official website link
Main Albums from 1983 - 1989:
History
STEELER
emerged during a particularly golden period in the history of german heavy metal and would provide a worthy legacy of some finely crafted metal albums in best period of NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) Their distance to most of known german metal bands and their own style and sound are characterizing. STEELER took place in a small time slot but have influenced docends of bands until now. Their abstinence and the surrounding secrecy made them even more special and wanted by their fans. The band was founded by first two band members Axel Rudi Pell (guitar) and Volker Krawczak (bass) in 1982 in the industrial area of Bochum/germany. The fledgling group recorded their first demo during 1982, utilizing the services of vocalist Karl Holthaus, on loan from local act NEMO. STEELER took the first demos to SCORPIONS producer Dieter Dierks who chose not to pursue his original interest in the band, although there must have been more interest in the tape that fell into the hands of Accept who were having problems with Udo Dirkschneider at that time and were covertly auditioning possible replacements. Accept auditioned Holthaus, but eventually settled their differences with Dirkschneider without the press getting wind of the original problem. The '82 Demo containig the songs 'Love For Sale' and 'Call Her Princess' almost got huge radio-airplay and was also played in Tony Jaspers legendary BBC-"HM"-Show - a real honour in that time. Being noticed around many rockmusic mags in europe the band continues to work hard for recognition. Prior to that time the band had been called `Sinner` but was quickly changed into `Steeler` later on after Yngwie Malmsteen`s similar US-formation had split up. In 1983 the new band members Peter Burtz (vocals) who was known of other local heavy metal bands and Tom Eder (guitar) of `Fallen Angel` joined the band. Peter and Tom were close friends and knew each other very well since they went to school together. Peter was a young outstanding frontman and singer with extraordinary mental talents in motivation and management. Soon he was covered as the bands leader and voice in lots of directions. Tom grew up - guitar under his pillow in the nighttime and on his neck in the daytime - doing playalongs and compositions all the time, a matter that should prove very worthy later on. He is said to be `Mr. Jukebox` for playing any song you like by heart. The fact that there had been no good drummer within the formation at that time had been stopped when former `Avenger` Drummer Jan Yildiral (drums) who is Jan Wiese nowadays and who already was well known in that time for playing several rock and metal bands was invited to join the band in 1983. Peter and Jan had already recorded some demo tapes together with german heavy band Avenger (which is RAGE nowadays) who were looking for a solo singer in 1983. Jan as a foundation member of Avenger who was also known for his similarity to Iron Maiden`s drummer Clive Burr, wasn`t easy to get at first when he was offered to join the band for drumming in several other bands. He started drumming at age 7 being very inspired by his father a professional percussionist and early drummers such as John Bonham or Carmine Appice. After first auditions he was convinced especially with axeman Axel Rudi Pell`s outstanding rhythm guitar and heavy riffing. The complete first line-up was found and after refitting songs and arrangements there were lots of offers concerning record companies and editors on the new demo material. 1983/LINE UP from left to right: Tom Eder (guitar), Jan Wiese/Yildiral (drums), Peter Burtz (vocals), Axel Rudi Pell (guitar), Volker Krawczak (bass) The first record contract was signed at the legendary european recordlabel `Earthshaker Records`. Axel Thubeauville was the producer of the first STEELER album in 1984 who was also the editor of german chapter of Aardschok Magazine in that time. The first record had been recorded in STEELER`s hometown Bochum at Studio Wahn in hands of soundengineer Ralph Hubert with small budget but nevertheless engagement and passion. The composition material was fantastic and can even be felt through the poor production circumstances. The good songwriting and hooklines were soon (dis)covered by others. You can simply find elements that are very close to STEELER songs on records of other metal bands. A promiscous example for which it is said to be plagiated by another famous german metal band is the STEELER song `Hydrophobia`. These first songs headed to be real live-shooters exciting the crowd whenever presented. Although recording, production, sound and distribution of this first album hadn`t gone too well it became a desired classic album which found a lot of positively astonished fans and listeners. During that time the first gigs took place and the STEELER guillotine-logo is created. It originally looked very sharp and deep as first promo-pic but isn`t really visible on the printed covers later on. One of the very best sold out shows in 1984 took place at Stadthalle Bochum-Wattenscheid/Germany together with former Dieter Dierks (Scorpions) favourite new band `Bullet` in early 1984 when the smashing new german heavy metal sound of STEELER hit the crowd with premium-metal livesongs like `call her princess` and `love for sale`. The Top act `Bullet` wasn`t very enthusiastic of their support act doing and performing so well smashing the 3000 people crowd in excitement and headed up to bad manners when they cut off stage lights and sound during `Steeler`s famous song `Chains are broken`. There was definetely a little bang after the show when Tom Eder hit a `Bullet` responsible for this. This little incident has never been forgotten at all for being an absolutely premium example for that kind of topact behavior. You can find something about this cheek as a running gag on all following Steeler album thanx lists. The first album: Steeler/Steeler (1984) Earthshaker Records ES 4001 Tracklist: 01. "Chains Are Broken" 02. "Gonna Find Some Place in Hell" 03. "Heavy Metal Century" 04. "Sent from the Evil" 05. "Long Way" 06. "Call Her Princess" 07. "Love for Sale" 08. "Hydrophobia" 09. "Fallen Angel" After
releasing the first album Steeler played a lot of shows in and
out of germany. Steeler was in everyone`s mind in that metal-springbreak.
Several rock and metal magazines such as the famous english `Kerrang`,
dutch `Aardshock`, german `Bravo`, american `Hitparader` and other
early metalmags had started reporting intensively about the new
german heavy metal band. Steeler headed towards becoming a real
newcomer in european and german metal scene. The tough show and
rough sound was very memorable to most of the fans. Pyrobombs
and open fire in a massive stage acting and lots of surprises
included their shows and were soon covered by others. Nevertheless
the stamping STEELER-sound and spectacular powerful metal shows
that can nowadays be compared to early german RAMMSTEIN somehow
- even if they hadn`t been that width - will still be unforgotten
and a class apart in classic german heavy metal music.
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