Warlord (Band)
Warlord is an American power metal band from Los Angeles, founded in 1981. The founders include guitarist William "Destroyer" Tsamis and drummer Mark "Thunder Child" Zonder.
History
The band contributed the 1983 song Lucifer's Hammer for Metal Massacre compilation series in, then followed in the same year the mini - LP Deliver Us and 1984 album ... And the Canons of Destruction Have Begun, the soundtrack to one of the same, of the band turned music video showed.
Since at this time no suitable permanent singer and bassist could be found, Tsamis and Zonder parted. Mark Zonder joined Fates Warning, William Tsamis led in the 1990s, the band under the name Lordian Guard on. This published in 1994 and 1996 two albums, the vocals took this Tsamis woman Vidonne Sayre Riemenschneider.
Only in 2002 came with Rising Out of the Ashes out the first as such designated studio album. Not least because many Fanzuschriften be Tsamis and Zonder had been searching for a suitable singer and found him in Joacim Cans of Hammerfall. However, the album processed Lordian Guard song material substantially. On the album was followed by appearances at festivals and in smaller clubs. Another album was planned, but initially did not materialize, as the new Warlord for Tsamis and Zonder only had a project nature. Since Zonders exit in 2005 - he joined Slavior to - was the band again on ice.
Six years later appeared "The Holy Empire ", again with Mark Zonder and William Tsamis, the singer and bassist Rick Anderson Philip Bynoe brought on board, the reunion was a small tour through Europe ( with Giles Lavery as a singer ) accompanied. In the fall of 2013, the Cypriot singer Nicholas Leptos went into the band.
Importance
Warlord regarded as one of the most iconic and most original heavy metal bands in the world. Although published almost 20 years, no new releases under the band name, there was always a euphoric fan base. The name cropped up again and again in music magazines such as Rock Hard and various fanzines.
The major Swedish band Hammerfall coverte on their debut album Glory to the Brave 1997 the warlord song Child of the Damned, and thus helped the previously known more underground band to further acquaintance. Also the name of Hammerfall refers to a song by Warlord, namely Lucifer's Hammer. It says: "The hammer will fall on you! "
Discography
Albums
- And the Cannons of Destruction Have Begun ... (1984 )
- Thy Kingdom Come (1986 )
- The Best of Warlord (1989 )
- Rising Out of the Ashes (2002)
- Anthology (2012, 2 CD Compilation)
- The Holy Empire (2013 )