Steelheart

Steelheart is an American Hard-Rock-/Hair-Metal-Band from Norwalk, Connecticut. She published at the beginning of the 1990s several successful albums and singles.

History

Steelheart emerged in the early 1980s in Norwalk in Connecticut under the name Red Alert. After the band tingelte years by clubs, they finally got hold of the end of the 1980s a deal with MCA Records and was subsequently renamed Steel Heart. The band existed at the time of Mike Matijevic (vocals), the two guitarists Chris Risola and Frank Di Costanzo, James Ward ( bass) and John Fowler (drums). The resulting debut album, which is titled after the band Steelheart and appeared on 10 May 1990, was. Due to the power ballad I'll Never Let You Go and massive airplay on MTV a huge success for the band The single reached number 23 of the U.S. Hot 100, the album made ​​it to number 40 of the album charts and brought Steelheart also a platinum record a.

The follow-up album Tangled in Reins was released in 1992 and climbed to number 144 on the Billboard album charts. On the subsequent tour with Slaughter singer Mike Matijevic was struck in the McNichols Arena in Denver from a falling down lightgirder on the head and was seriously injured, which is why the band has had a break in their activities. Meanwhile, the growing importance of grunge to a massive loss of popularity of hair metal bands. In an appearance on 31 October 1992 in McNichol 's Arena in Denver Milijenko Matijevic climbed up a light beam, without realizing that this was not backed up. Before he could bring to the overturning Traverse safe, she hit him on the back of the head and inflicting severe head injuries. The tour of the band has been canceled, and the band fell apart. Milijenko Matijevic suffered for months from the consequences of the accident and worked hard on his comeback.

1996 Matijevic tried with a different crew, a new start-up and released the album Wait, that was quite successful in Asia, but in the rest of the world either flopped or never appeared.

In March 2005 it was announced that with Matijevic Steelheart working on a new album. In the studio, he was supported by bassist Sigve Sjuresen, guitarist Uros Rasovski and drummer Mike Humbert. In November 2006, the first DVD of the band appeared. Stillhard contains three hours concert recordings, videos and interviews. Also in November, went Steelheart for the first time in years on a U.S. tour. Besides Matijevic and drummer Mike Humbert included bassist Myron Dove and the two guitarists T -Bone Andersson and returnees Chris Risola the band. In addition, the EP Just a Taste was published, which should provide a taste of the new album Samurai. This was finally published in November 2008, but under the altered title Good 2B Alive.

On March 21, 2008, the founding member John Fowler died of a brain aneurysm he had suffered four days earlier.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles and EPs

• 2006: Still Hard