You are currently finishing work on the brand new Primal Fear album. How have the sessions gone so far?<\/span><\/p>\nWe have finished mixing and the material is now going to be mastered while the band is shooting 2 videos actually this Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n
About the sessions I can tell many positive things, the first time I have recorded some of the vocal tracks at my own little studio here in my house. I got myself a ProTools System and a good mic and also a good PreAmp with Compressor in the chain. It\u2019s really great to record your own stuff but sometimes you\u2019re getting a bit to perfect and you record many lines over and over again\u2026.<\/p>\n
How would compare this album to previous ones, especially Seven Seals which was a great milestone for the band?<\/p>\n
I can really say it\u2019s a great follower to Seven Seals, I have played some tracks to my very close friends and they say that what they have heard is even an increase to Seven Seals. That makes me proud of course. You know sometimes it\u2019s so hard to still judge it when you have been in preparations for the songs and then in the studio for a period like over 6 months. I am sure our fans will love the album, it\u2019s got the whole range in it again, from very fast songs to very slow and mellow tunes\u2026and the melodies this time really keep sticking to your mind.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s go back to the beginning, starting out your career, who were your biggest influences?<\/p>\n
It really depends on whenever you see it as a start of a career\u2026.I was about 15 when I started to learn to play classic acoustic guitar \u2026\u2026and of course I sang to the first accords I learned on it\u2026something like C-Major, F-Major, C-Major, a-minor, C-Major, F-Major, G-Major\u2026.which is \u201cBlowing in the wind\u201d<\/p>\n
I sang along to lots of tunes many years before\u2026like Sweet and believe or believe it not: Bay City Rollers.. My school mates always said that I should form a school band which I actually did when I was 15. Then one day I was invited to a mates\u2019 house for a party (it must have been 1980 or 81) where I found a live album (Unleashed in the East) from that band called Judas Priest\u2026.as he was playing the first song of the record \u201cExciter\u201d it totally knocked me off! After banging my head and screaming along to Rob\u2019s voice (It was the first time I read his name on the album) I ran to the next store and bought the album. So it was a bit late when I got into Priest but I was only 16, so it was early again for those days..<\/p>\n
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\nActually at the same time\u2026..I remember walking around in Esslingen (my home town) with my mates late at night screaming the last notes of \u201cThe Green Manalishi\u201d in those shop alleys where the sound is really hally and compressed (I didn\u2019t know at that time that it\u2019s compressed, it just sounded great) and so many people yelled at me to stop that noise\u2026..maybe they thought some girl is getting attacked screaming her last tunes or whatever.. JWhen did you first discover your style of metal voice?<\/p>\n
So I found out that I could do it, too\u2026 now I know that it\u2019s a certain technique called belting but at those days I was totally amazed that I could do that.<\/p>\n
The first records you made were with Tyran Pace, right? I actually have the second album \u201cLong Live Metal\u201d and you already had that distinctive voice back then. What can you tell about those days and records?<\/p>\n
Yes, that\u2019s true. The first album was recorded in 1983 (Eye to Eye)<\/p>\n
I was in two bands before Tyran Pace, one was the school band I had started with and the second was a band from the bigger city Stuttgart. (Beast of Prey)<\/p>\n
I remember doing everything for music\u2026after school I was buying me train tickets to drive to our rehearsals\u2026.I was infected and I never got rid of it. Of course there have been also hard times with some assholes who ripped money out of the band, saying they were managers etc\u2026 in the end I knew why Queen wrote that song called \u201cDeath on Two Legs\u201d about their manager who did the same things\u2026<\/p>\n
Learning how it is to record an album also was very tough\u2026..I really never was satisfied with my vocal sound\u2026.and it\u2019s funny\u2026.it\u2019s all coming back to me now\u2026.it\u2019s all a matter of a good mic and compressing right, just like in those shop alleys back in 1981!<\/p>\n
You started Gamma Ray with Kai Hansen few years later, at the beginning it was actually just you and Kai in the cover of the album (Heading for Tomorrow). Was GR originally envisioned as Kai\u2019s solo project?<\/p>\n
The thing was: Record companies do have their own vision of things\u2026so they tried their best to sell the first album as good as possible, which is no crime in the end. So they put the grey cover over the blue cover where it said Kai Hansen and on the blue cover Gamma Ray. Shortly before Kai had found the name Gamma Ray it was meant to be a solo project, yes. But then he decided to make it a band as we had our own kind of thing going on which is only possible in a band, not as a solo musician<\/p>\n
From the Gamma Ray albums, which one today is your favourite and why?<\/p>\n
From the ones I sang on\u2026.Insanity and Genius \u2026.after my time they had also some great albums\u2026Kai was and still is a great composer!<\/p>\n
What happened at the end of your tenure with Gamma Ray, was it simply that Kai wanted to sing his own songs that brought the departure?<\/p>\n
There were different things\u2026..it was a tough time for me driving from Stuttgart to Hamburg every weekend which is 700km one way. But I still had my job to get myself food and to pay my flat, so I couldn\u2019t move up to Hamburg\u2026..it\u2019s also somehow that feeling I had that I never really belonged there (Hamburg)\u2026\u2026and in the end it came like it had to come\u2026..they wanted me to move up, otherwise it wouldn\u2019t have been very convenient to compose new tracks for the next album.<\/p>\n
BUT at the same time Kai and Dirk have started to sing their demos on their own and did that also on the album (Insanity and Genius). Basically I have no problem with that but it was two songs and the feeling was strange anyway at that time\u2026..<\/p>\n
AND: I had made my application for a British band called Judas Priest and got positive response from the coordinator Jayne Andrews saying that the band (Priest) have listened to my material I sent in earlier and they liked it. (It was the 12th July 1993).<\/p>\n
I said this to Kai\u2026..he said it to all other members of GR and then they asked me what I would do if Priest would take me\u2026you can imagine what I said\u2026..<\/p>\n
So all these things came together and the feeling was down the drain and it was not possible to continue.<\/p>\n
There was few years between you leaving Gamma Ray and starting Primal Fear with Mat, what happened during that time?<\/p>\n
I was jamming with some mates doing Priest covers, just for fun and also to prepare for the possible job for Priest<\/p>\n
Was there pressure recording the first PF-album, obviously it was a new band and there were lots of expectations?<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the funny thing, we never saw it that way\u2026\u2026there were no expectations at all because no one knew Primal Fear before\u2026\u2026so Mat, Tom, Klaus and me just went into the studio and recorded four tracks as a demo\u2026. I sent it to Japan were JVC was still waiting to get some material from me and\u2026click\u2026.we had a deal. We were just doing music without any pressure and it worked\u2026.and that\u2019s still the same thing nowadays\u2026. We do whatever we feel is good\u2026.if it\u2019s not, no problem we keep writing many more tracks\u2026.<\/p>\n
Is it true you also auditioned for a Judas Priest vocalist position in the mid-1990\u2019s?<\/p>\n
As I mentioned above I received two very positive letters but that was it\u2026.I never got invited\u2026Glenn was doing his solo album and was very busy, so it took more than 2 years for them to finalize the short list\u2026I can imagine that\u2019s a hell of a job, to find a guy to replace Rob in Judas Priest so I pay my respect to Jayne and the band.<\/p>\n
In the end it was very disappointing for me and I really thought about putting away the mic forever\u2026..but then again, it was good\u2026..after some time I felt such a big rock falling apart from my soul\u2026..suddenly I felt like new born and exactly at that time I sung some backing tracks for a new Sinner album when Mat and I sat together to make some plans about a new band\u2026\u2026here we are: Primal Fear was born.<\/p>\n
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\nThat\u2019s hard to tell \u2026.I mean when we are composing, we never think about integrating anything from any band on purpose. It\u2019s also a matter of combination of guitars, bass and drums\u2026and when one has a very similar voice to another one who is already popular it\u2019s not easy to say: Hey but I\u2019m doing what I can do and want to do\u2026\u2026and that\u2019s surely not to sound like someone else on purpose!How much Priest-influence do you think you have integrated into the music and vocals of Primal Fear? It also seems PF has developed its own distinctive sound over the years?<\/p>\n
You have also recorded few Priest-covers, including amazing rendition of \u201cExciter\u201d on Priest-tribute album. Probably not the easiest song to sing, how do you approach material like this? Did you listen to Rob\u2019s vocals on \u201cUnleashed In The East\u201d to draw inspiration?<\/p>\n
As I mentioned above\u2026.\u201dExciter\u201d was the song which brought me into JP and into metal in general\u2026..it was a great honour for me to pay tribute to the mighty Priest with that cover we did with Gamma Ray. It was also a sign for the people out there that Kai and I are still good friends and every bad vibe has been deleted.<\/p>\n
Your instrument is your voice and the songs you are doing with PF obviously demand a lot with different scales and so forth. As a vocalist, how do you keep your voice in shape?<\/p>\n
Well, I drink a lot of beer\u2026 No\u2026.to be honest, I don\u2019t do so much\u2026.we just rehearse 3-4 times before we go on a tour and hit the studio but when there is no activity I just do nothing\u2026..so I also wonder why I still can do it\u2026<\/p>\n
How do you view the metal scene these days? When you started out with Primal Fear, heavy metal was underground. Now it is getting more recognition and more bands are coming out with killer records. Do you think metal will ever regain the glory days of 1980\u2019s?<\/p>\n
I won\u2019t say it will regain the same glory like in the 1980\u2019s but what I do know is that there will always be a base of fans who are into metal. It\u2019s pretty tough for both, the fans and the bands\u2026.as you have said, there are so many killer bands coming out with good stuff\u2026.how the hell should all that be bought by the fans\u2026<\/p>\n
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\nSimply: Yes! I mean it\u2019s always a good advantage to have songs with melodies that stick into your mind\u2026.and if you find the right combination you could possibly achieve to land a hit\u2026.wouldn\u2019t that be killer!\u201cSeven Seals\u201d in my opinion contained a really strong hit single in the title track. Do you think bands like Primal Fear need hits singles to go forward or are you satisfied with the fan base and scope you got now?<\/p>\n
We are very satisfied with our fan base all around the world and it\u2019s getting more and more luckily!<\/p>\n
Do you have any plans to record a solo album outside of PF one day and if so, what do you think it would sound like?<\/p>\n
Yes I do! It\u2019s planned already and as I have my own system at home now, it makes it a lot easier. I\u2019m sure I will do some covers on it as well to pay tribute to the band Sweet I was growing up with\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n
Thank You very much for Your time!<\/p>\n
Thank you for the questions!<\/p>\n
Cheers<\/p>\n
Ralf<\/p>\n
Check out www.primalfear.de<\/a> for more info!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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