Iron Savior

Hamburg, Germany, 1978. So both about fifteen years old, guitarist/singer Piet Sielck and guitarist Kai Hansen founded their first band, Gentry, which changed its name to Second Hell in 1981. While Sielck left the game in 1982, the band became Iron Fist , before finally playing in Helloween in 1983, with the success we know him. For its part, Piet Sielck became a sound engineer and producer and only returned to the forefront in 1996 by founding Iron Savior , a group of Power Metal inspired by science fiction rather than the usual fantasy of the genre. He is joined by his ex-comparse Kai Hansen (who has since left Helloween to found Gamma Ray), as well as drummer Thomen Stauch (then in Blind Guardian). In 1997, he signed his first EP and his first eponymous album, for which the frontman also played bass. Stauch did not stay beyond the recordings, and in 1988 when performing in public (notably at the Wacken Open Air and in the first part of Edguy), Iron Savior recruited drummer Dan Zimmermann of Gamma Ray, bassist Jan-Sören Eckert (ex-Charon, ex-Mydra) and keyboardist Andreas Kück. It is this line-up that we find in 1999 on Unification , after which Zimmermann left and was replaced by Thomas Nack (ex-Gamma Ray ), whose first studio appearance took place in the EP Interlude (also in 1999). From 2000, Hansen moved away to focus on Gamma Ray. At that time, Joachim "Piesel" Küstner (ex- Lacrimosa) and the third opus, Dark Assault , was recorded with no less than three guitarists before Kai Hansen's final departure in 2001. Condition Red followed in 2002, after which Kück and Eckert left. Yanz Leonhardt (ex- Geisha) came to the position of bassist in 2003, and the group chose to continue as a quartet, without replacing its keyboardist. This line-up, which can be found from Battering Ram in 2004, will remain stable until 2011. But in 2007, another change took place with the end of Noise Records. Iron Savior then published Megatropolis on the independent label Dockyard 1 Records, founded by Sielck with former Noise, which in turn disappeared in 2009. It should also be noted that between 2004 and 2011, Piet Sielck and Yenz Leonhardt (from 2006) participate in Savage Circus, the project of drummer Thomen Stauch after his departure from Blind Guardian. Iron Savior was rather discreet in the late 2000s and returned in 2011 with Jan-Sören Eckert's return to bass and a signature at AFM Records. The Landing followed in 2011 and Rise Of The Hero in 2014. In 2015, a new version of Megatropolis was released (title Megatropolis 2.0 ), partially re-recorded, with a switch tracklist and two bonus titles. Also in 2015, the band released its first official live performance: Live At The Final Frontier. In 2016, Titancraft was the last album for Thomas Nack, who moved away from the band shortly after. Patrick Klose (ex- Scanner) was recruited as a temporary replacement for the tour, before becoming a permanent member when Nack announced he would not return. At the end of 2017, to celebrate the twenty-year anniversary of the first album, Reforged - Riding On Fire , a compilation of re-records that revisits the entire discography. Then the tenth album was launched in 2018 for a release announced in March 2019: Kill Or Get Killed .
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