Year : 2022
Style : Hard Rock
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 120 mb
Bio:
Michael Voss - German singer, guitarist, producer is living his life as a rock musician for almost 4 decades now. His career took off in the very early 1980s, being the energetic frontman of the Münster based hard rock band Mad Max. After some successful years of releasing albums and touring, during the following years Voss moved on with bands and projects such as Casanova, Phantom 5, Bonfire, Wolfpakk, Michael Schenker’s Temple Of Rock and Rock Wolves. Parallel to his career as an active musician and touring the world, Voss also made a name for himself as a songwriter and music producer, running his own studio Kidroom Music for many, many years now.MAD MAX is a Münster melodic Hard Rock outfit debuted with a line-up of vocalist Andreas Baesler, guitarists Wilfred Schneider and Jürgen Breforth, bassist Thomas Hoffman and drummer Uwe Starck, cutting a self-financed, eponymous album for issue in 1982. This offering was subsequently re-issued via Roof Music in 1983. The band signed to Roadrunner Records and new singer Michael Voss, then just nineten years old, featured on the second album ‘Rollin’ Thunder’, released in October 1984. ‘Rollin’ Thunder’ was also granted a valuable US release on the Metal Blade label.The band then replaced Hoffmann with new bassist Jürgen Sander. MAD MAX evolved further when both Schneider and Starck vacated their positions to join fellow Münster Heavy Metal band Carrie. 1985’s ‘Stormchild’ album witnessed new recruits being drafted in the form of bassist Roland Bergmann, drummer Axel Kruse and guitarist Christopher Wegmann. The single ‘Fox On The Run’, from 1986, was a cover of the Sweet classic.MAD MAX guitarist Chris Gerhard (‘Angel’) Schliefer was eventually to join SINNER for their ‘Comin’ Out Fighting’ album in 1986 and has also enjoyed stints in the ranks of Pretty Maids, Bonfire and the rejuvenated Sabu. Drummer Axel Kruse currently plays with German Melodic Rock outfit Jaded Heart.Their final Roadrunner album release, the Dirk Steffens produced ‘Night Of Passion’, arrived in 1987.Mad Max debuted in 1982 with their self-titled album and managed to gain a lot of success in Europe and Japan in the mid-80's before fading away in 1989. Michael Voss and Jürgen Breforth reunited and put out a comeback album in 1999. Six years later the whole band has reemerged again and put out three albums in 2006 and 2007 and Here We Are in 2008.Mad Max will be supporting German heavy metal guitarist Axel Rudi Pell during the Circle Of The Oath Tour during April & May in 2012.
Claus Lessmann (born 11 September 1960) is a German heavy metal musician and former lead singer of heavy metal band Bonfire. He was the only member and the only singer of Bonfire to have appeared on all of the band's albums.[1] Lessmann was also one of the two original members of the band until January 2015, the other being lead guitarist Hans Ziller. Before joining Bonfire in 1978, he was in the bands Ginger and Sunset. He is currently the vocalist for Phantom 5. Phantom 5 has released two albums.
Album:
Vocalists/multi-instrumentalists Claus Lessmann and Michael Voss, who also produces acts such as Michael Schenker: a combination that makes rock fans sit up immediately. Considering the pair's various collaborations - lately as members of Phantom V - spread over several decades, "Rock Is Our Religion" is way more than a debut. The album, which was recorded and produced by Voss at German Kidwood Studios Münstertal and Kidroom Studios Greven (only Vincent Golly's drums were tracked by Mathi Brandstetter at Home Studios Hamburg, Germany), rather is a relevation, a bow down to genuine rock packed in 49 minutes of handmade music performed to the point. Lessmann and Voss complement each other over these 12 tracks as if they hadn't done anything else before: from mysteriously starting opener "Medicine Man" to lead single "Smoke Without A Fire", the recording of "Take My Heart And Run", circling back to one of their earlier songwriting co-operations in the 90s, and the duo's interpretation of America's 1975 hit song "Sister Golden Hair" (ft. Kenny Lessmann on drums and Martin Huch on pedal steel guitar), this album impressively shows that it still doesn't need many frills to create impactful heavy music nowadays. Amen!
Line Up:
Michael Voss - Vocals , Guitars (lead) (Wolfpakk, ex-Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock, ex-Bonfire, ex-Casanova, ex-Demon Drive, ex-Silver)
Claus Lessmann - Vocals (Phantom 5, BonFire)
Tracklist:
01. Medicine Man
02. Smoke Without A Fire
03. Runaway Days
04. Fight For Our Love
05. Take My Heart And Run
06. Slow Dance
07. Rock Is Our Religion
08. Something Is Better Than Nothing
09. Look Around
10. Stay
11. Sister Golden Hair
12. What Feels Right
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