''Celebrate – The Night of the Warlock'' is an EP by German female

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singer

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, released in 2008 through

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. The EP preceded of a few months the album '' Fear No Evil'' and includes three versions of the song "Celebrate". In the single version of the song the chorus is provided by a group of Doro fans, while the other two contain in the chorus the vocal performances of

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's frontman

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and of many female heavy metal singers. The song itself is a new collaboration of Doro with the old

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producer Joey Balin and is meant to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Doro's career. The EP reached position No. 75 in the German single chart.

Track listing

#"Celebrate" (single version) ''(

, Joey Balin)'' – 4:56 #"Celebrate" (feat. Biff Byford) – 4:56 #"Celebrate" (Full Metal Female version) – 4:56 #"The Night of the Warlock" (single version) ''(Pesch, Chris Lietz)'' – 5:14 #"Rescue Me" ''(Pesch,

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)'' – 3:50

Personnel

Band members

– vocals, producer *

Nick Douglas Nick Douglas (born Nicholas Charles Douklias; August 31, 1967) is an American musician, best known for being the bass player of Doro Pesch's band since 1990. He released a solo album in 2001 and a second album in late February 2017. He worked wi ...

– bass *Joe Taylor – guitars *

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– drums *

Oliver Palotai Oliver Palotai (born 17 March 1974) is a classically trained German musician of Hungarian ancestry, husband of Simone Simons from Epica, best known as a member of the power metal band Kamelot and of Doro Pesch's touring band. Career He made his n ...

– keyboards, guitars *

Luca Princiotta Luca Princiotta (born 12 July 1982) is an Italian guitarist. He began his career playing in the thrash metal band Deathector between 1996 and 1998, before joining the Iron Maiden tribute band Clairvoyants. His most prominent role to date has bee ...

– keyboards, guitars

Additional musicians

– backing vocals on track 2 *

Sabina Classen Sabina Classen ( Hirtz; born 27 December 1963) is a German thrash metal singer, best known as lead vocalist of Holy Moses and Temple of the Absurd. Biography In 1981, Classen joined Holy Moses, where her then-husband Andy Classen was playing ...

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Angela Gossow Angela Nathalie Gossow (born 5 November 1974) is a German vocalist, best known as the former lead singer for the Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy. Her other previous bands include Asmodina and Mistress. Early life Angela Gossow was b ...

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Liv Kristine Liv Kristine Espenæs (born 14 February 1976) is a Norwegian singer who has performed and composed songs mostly for various subgenres of heavy metal music. She started her career in the music industry as a vocalist for the gothic metal band Thea ...

Ji-In Cho Ji-In Cho (born 30 December 1976) is a German heavy metal singer of Korean descent. She has been the lead vocalist of the symphonic metal band Krypteria since December 2004 until their hiatus after her pregnancy. Following this, she became the ...

, Liv Jagrell,

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– backing vocals on track 3 *Andreas Bruhn – guitars, bass, producer, engineer, mixing *Chris Lietz – guitar, keyboards, engineer, mixing, mastering *Torsten Sickert – keyboards, guitars, bass, programming, producer, engineer, mixing *Klaus Vanscheidt – guitar, backing vocals *Christoph Siemons – guitar, backing vocals *Bernd Aufermann – guitar *Lukas Dylong, Dirk Schoppen – backing vocals

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Celebrate - The Night of the Warlock Doro (musician) EPs 2008 EPs AFM Records EPs