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Anything You Want
2. Don't Walkaway
3. Take A Look At Yourself
4. Good Things Don't Come Easy
5. Lost & Found
6. Before Your Heart Will Turn To Stone
7. Everytime (I Look Around)
8. One Heart - One Soul - 9. Surrounded
- 10. Restless
- 11. Save Yourself
- 12. Hole In My Soul
- 13. Where Would I Be Without You
- 14. I Can't Believe (Bonus Track)
- 15. I Know There's Something Going On (Bonus Track)
- WILD FRONTIER:
- Jens Walkenhorst (vocals,
guitar)
Mario Erdmann (bass, vocals)
Thomas Ellenberger (keyboards, vocals)
Sebastian Gröning (drums)
- Produced by: Bob Jensen & Wild Frontier
- Engineered by: Bob Jensen
- Mixed by : Peter Waldhelm, Jens Walkenhorst
- Mastered by: H.J. Mauksch
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| Classic German Melodic Rock in the style of Shylock, Shakra and Bonfire. In 1990, the prime of hard rock, Jens Walkenhorst, Mario Erdmann, Markus Koch and Markus Linne decided to found a hard rock band called Wild Frontier . The bands name is derived from Gary Moore´s album “Wild Frontier”, which was released in 1987. The songs of the band were also in the style of Gary Moore`s music , hard rock with an emphasis on guitars, and focusing on a more melodic touch. The first regional live appearances produced amazing success. In the progress the band is reinforced by another guitar player, Detlef Hönig. In turn, Mario Erdmann had to take a temporary leave due to health reasons. He was substituted by Alfons Steier. Back then, the band was working on new material for their first CD and had their first ever TV appearance. Suddenly things were moving along pretty quickly. After the release of the “One Way To Heaven” album, many live appearances all over Germany and Hungary followed. The biggest show during this tour was at one of Germany’s most famous and largest biker meeting’s in Schleitz, where the band had the opportunity to support a legendary headline act, the fabulous Alvin Lee. Before setting out on to another tour through all over Germany, the band was reformed. Mario Erdmann`s rejoining, puts Alfons Steier behind the Keyboards. In addition to this change the rhythm section is boosted by Rudi Uhe, a drummer from Hanover, who had just relocated to Kassel, Germany. His driving straight-forward drumming along with “Erdi`s ( Mario Erdmann ) pumping bass, gives the band a much more powerful foundation. The band starts to take on their now exciting formation. So they once again go on tour , and judging by the CD sales during this tour, it turns out to be a great success. In 1996 the band decides to record a maxi CD called “I GIVE YOU ALL MY LOVE”. The reaction of the audience was thrilling , and for the first time the band decides to release a version of this album with German lyrics . This version of the album is labeled under the name “Walkenhorst” and kept pretty much in the style of “Pur”, a rock band from south of Germany, which was one of the most successful bands in Germany at that time. However, the Walkenhost Album does not turnout as successful as expected and the band decides to focus again on what they know how to do best, Melodic Rock with English lyrics. This phase of musical reorientation ensues major changes in the line up. Thomas Vitt, a very well known and experienced guitar player in the Kassel music scene replaces Detlef Hönig. At the same time Alfons Steier leaves the band for private reasons. This change turns out to be a very fertile one. With the new energetic input and different style elements from Thomas, the band instantly finds together a new unity in the process of composing new material for their second CD , and giving absolute top live performances . Shortly after and during a tour throughout Germany and Switzerland, the band has the opportunity to open shows for well known acts such as, Sinner, Axxis, Manfred Mann`s Earth Band, Ten, Guildo Horn and others, which also gave them the chance to check out the reaction of the audience to the new material that was written for the "Thousand Miles Away" album. The new album was eventually recorded in the Roadsound studio in Kierspe,Germany. The relaxed atmosphere in the studio, created by executive producer Peter Waldhelm and recording engineer Ingo Vieten and their personal involvement in recording the material made the band feel as if they returned home to some long lost friends. In addition to all this positive input the band was lucky to utilize the lyrical skills of Thomas’s wife Vicki . Born and raised in California ,the home of the “Top of the Top” music scene . Vicki and Jens discovered what a great team they make co-writing lyrical material suited to Jens’s great song writing. All this great teamwork resulted in an album called “Thousand Miles Away”. It was rewarded with euphoric reviews in numerous national and international magazines that focus on melodic rock. In addition to numerous airplay on local radio stations, the American rock DJ Benny Brown , featured his favorite pick “Breaking The Silence” on his very popular “Benny Brown Rock Mix” show on Radio FFH, one of Germany’s major radio stations. The sales were going well, the band returned back on the road and toured through Germany and Switzerland once more. The band’s success produced attention of musicians from the field of classical music. The classical singer Ivo Berkenbusch, singer of the Justus Franz` Orchestra, enjoyed Wild Frontiers material so much, that he asked the band to work together and re-arrange and record some of the material from the “Thousand Miles Away” album in a new style that turned out to be a fresh new synthesis of Classic and Rock. The songs were recorded in Jens Walkenhorst`s new studio and soon after performed live at several national music festivals. One of the most memorable shows was at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in September 1999. The event was produced to welcome the federal government back to the old and new state capital in Berlin. Thousands of Germans witnessed their show that was also broadcasted by the German music TV channel Onyx TV. The band enjoyed having the opportunity to play at such an important site of German history along with other very famous German celebrity’s. Sadly enough soon after that show, it turned out that the busy schedules of Ivo and Wild Frontier simply didn’t match. The collaboration ceased and the band returned to doing what they know how to do best: which is composing and performing hand made melodic rock. In March 2000 the soccer team of Kassel asked them to write a new anthem for them. In order to make this special ,not only for the band, but for the fans as well, they came up with the idea to record it together with the soccer team and their fans . Studio wizard Jens figured out a way to bring the rough mix to the team’s club house. So during a great and wild party on the spot, the Band managed to get over 300 soccer crazy people of their hometown to sing along the fabulous tune “Jetzt Erst Recht”. The song turned out to be the No. one song in all the local record stores, and within a few weeks it was sold out entirely. In March 2001, the band concluded the work on their own Homepage in the world wide web. In October 2001, their drummer Rudi Uhe leaves the band, and Jörg Schmeck, a young drummer from the Kassel music scene , joins. Throughout spring and summer of 2002 the band recorded their third album in their newly equipped and upgraded studio. Having to put up with some technical difficulties and several interruptions of the recording process because of some in between live shows, the refinement work on the album draged on until late fall. In January 2003, the legendary ``Stick your neck out`` album came to record stores worldwide and sell very well. At the american NEH Recordstore the brought it to 22 th place at the selling charts. Thomas Vitt, guitarplayer since 1997 leave the band in February 2004. Therefore the band is working with a keyboarder called, Thomas Ellenberger and a guitarplayer called Thorsten Geis, who leaves after five shows with the band. In February 2005, their drummer Jörg Schmeck leaves the band, and Sebastian Gröning, a 21 year old drummer from Kassel, joins. | |
