Herman Frank

Herman Frank is a German hard rock and heavy metal guitarist and music producer.

Career

First gained fame as a member of Frank heavy metal band Accept, when he temporary guitarists January Koemmet replaced in 1982. Frank came shortly before the release of Restless and Wild to the band, but left that after the sophomore album Balls to the Wall. In 1983, he also founded his own band called Hazzard, which brought out a self-titled album the same year. Probably because of the success to falter here, Frank rose in 1985 for some time at Sinner, where he was involved as a second guitarist on the album Touch of Sin.

But his breakthrough, he experienced only with the band Victory. From 1986 to Frank played a total of five studio and two live albums with the Hanoverians and coined the sound of the band until its dissolution in 1993 quite substantially with. At the reunion three years later he was but then not involved. Instead, he tried again with Moon'Doc his own band and released three albums from 1995 to 2000 under that name. In 2002, Victory reformed one more time and now Frank was the driving force behind this again. Wrote with Tommy Newton and he produced the albums Instinct ( 2003), Fuel to the Fire (2006) and Do not Talk Science ( 2011), before the band finally decided to its final resolution.

Meanwhile, Frank became active again for Accept. He participated in both the reunion in the summer of 2005 and at the restart of the band with Mark Tornillo and took with her ​​the albums Blood of the Nations (2010) and Stalingrad (2012 ). In 2009 also appeared his first purely solo album Loyal to None, which was with Jioti Parcharidis ( Victory ) on vocals, Peter Pichl ( Running Wild ) on bass and Stefan Schwarzmann (Accept ) will be played on the drums. For the successor Right in the Guts (2012 ) he undertook in addition Pichl then the singer Rick Altzi ( At Vance ), the guitarist Christos Mamalitsidis ( Nikki Puppet ) and drummer Michael Wolpers (greenhouse ).

Frank worked in his career again and again as a producer and mixer, such as for Jamie Clarke 's Perfect, Crown of Creation, The empty promises, The Michels, Mind Odyssey, Justire, Holy Mother, Saxon, Messiah's Kiss, Missing Link, Paranoize, Silent Decay, hemlock, tank Buster Jack, Franky, Inquiring Blood, Nikki Puppet, Hate Squad, Magistarium, Rose Tattoo, Molly Hatchet and Poison Sun.

Discography

• 2009 - Loyal to None
• 2012 - Right in the Guts

• 2004 - Above Heaven, Below Heaven
• 2006 - Life

• 2009 - Let's Get Ruthless

• 2010 - Virtual Sin