Artist: Faithful Breath
Genre(s):
Metal: Heavy
Rock: Hard-Rock
Discography:
Skol
Year: 1985
Tracks: 9
Gold 'n' Glory
Year: 1984
Tracks: 8
Hard Breath
Year: 1983
Tracks: 11
Although they likely qualify as one of Germany's very oldest rock bands (with roots dating indorse to the late '60s!), the strangely named Faithful Breath didn't become known to external audiences until the mid-'80s, when, like their significantly more than famed countrymen, the Scorpions, they gained some small notoriety as a quite chintzy heavy metal mathematical group. Centered from the origin about guitarist Heinz Mikus and bassist Horst Stabenow, Faithful Breath went through heaps of incarnations and several melodic directions before trying their hands at progressive rock in the other half of the 1970s, eventually releasing an ambitious, just commercially abortive LP in 1974's Fading Beauty, when their lineup was completed by vocalizer Renate Heemann, keyboardist Manfred Von Buttlar, and drummer Jurgen Weritz. A single entitled "Back on My Hill" showed up in German record stores quartet days later, simply by the clip an album of the same appoint arrived in 1980, Faithful Breath had a new isaac Merrit Singer named Jurgen Renfordt, and appeared to be moving toward more straightforward hard stone as their wakeless of selection. Come the succeeding year, they'd interpreted it all a few steps farther still, diving event headlong into bombastic '80s metal, adopting an as extraordinary (and quite inexplicable) Viking wardrobe, and jettisoning Renfordt in favour of a power triad format, with Stabenow likewise doubling on vocals. Four albums (1983's Hard Breath, 1984's Gold 'n' Glory, 1985's Skol, and 1986's Live) followed in warm succession, simply modest sales and a short circuit of the American East Coast pretty much summed up the extent of Faithful Breath's outside achievements. By 1987 the last shaping of Stabenow, bassist Peter Dell, and drummer Jürgen Düsterloh gave up the Viking metal head trip and morphed into a new dance band named Risk, patch then second guitarist Thilo Hermann took some time, then rejoined his comrades, then affected on to work with Holy Moses and pirate ship metal company Running Wild.
