''Calling the Wild'' is the seventh solo album by German

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singer

Doro Pesch Dorothee Pesch (born 3 June 1964), known professionally as Doro Pesch or simply Doro, is a German heavy metal singer and the former frontwoman of heavy metal band Warlock. Dubbed the "Metal Queen", Doro's contributions to music and culture mad ...

. It was released in 2000, in two different editions for the European market and the American one. For this release, Doro changed labels again, having signed contracts with

SPV/Steamhammer SPV GmbH (short for ''Schallplatten Produktion und Vertrieb GmbH'', "Vinyl Production and Distribution Company") is a German independent record label. Founded on 1 January 1984, it has slowly grown to be one of the largest independent distributor ...

for Germany and with

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for the USA. ''Calling the Wild'' was the first album published in the US after the eponymous one in 1990. The US edition contains also remixed tracks taken from the previous Doro album ''

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''. "Love Me Forever" is a cover of

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's song from the album ''

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'' of 1991. "

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" is a cover of

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's hit single of 1982 .

Overview

After unsatisfying promotion and distribution of ''

'' by

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signed in 2000 with German label

. With the aide of her American fan club that had her demos circulating in the offices of various labels, she received an offer for an American release of her new album by

. She signed this second contract and decided to release two different editions of the album: the first one for the European market, with only unpublished songs; the second one for the American market, which included some songs from ''Love Me in Black''. ''Calling the Wild'' had a production process even more fragmented than the previous album and for the first time Doro herself took the job of producer. Producers and composers Jürgen Engler, Chris Lietz and

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, who had produced ''Love Me in Black'', contributed again some new songs and remixed some old ones for the US edition.

singer

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contributed two songs that were independently produced in Los Angeles, and so did former

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guitarist Andreas Bruhn in Germany. The Gary Scruggs' songs and the contributions by the guest musicians required even more independent production. The music of ''Calling the Wild'' trades the industrial and electronic sounds present in ''Love Me in Black'' for straight heavy metal, filling the tracks with riffs and guitar solos galore. The remixed songs from the previous album had the drum machine parts replaced by live tracks by German drummer Thomas Franke, with guitar solos provided by former Detente guitarist Mario Parillo and by Jürgen Engler himself. Other guitar solos came from

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guitarist

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and

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guitarist

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. Of the latter, Doro said: "He was mixing

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in New York… The guys in my band and my engineer were laying down basic tracks and they met Slash hanging out backstage at a

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gig. Slash said he had two more days in the studio and my engineer asked him if he fancied playing the solo. He thought it was a great idea and, the next day, he came into the studio. I telephoned in – I was still in Germany… I was fucking blown away." Following the release of the album, Doro went on a successful US tour supporting Dio, her first in America in more than ten years. The album was re-released by SPV/Steamhammer on 25 January 2010 as a digipak 2 CD edition. The track listing includes all the songs of the European edition, all the bonus tracks and b-sides of the singles extracted from the album. The extensive booklet includes new photos and liner notes by Doro Pesch and Nick Douglas. ''Calling the Wild'' peaked at position No. 16 in the German Longplay chart.

Track listing

Personnel

– vocals, producer ;Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5 (EU) – 1, 2, 5, 7, 14 (US) *Jürgen Engler – guitars, keyboards, bass, producer, mixing *Thomas Franke – drums *Chris Lietz – programming, keyboards, producer, engineer, mixing *Mario Parillo – guitar solos *

– guitar solo on "Dedication" ;Tracks 8 (EU) – 3 (US) *Jürgen Engler – bass, producer, mixing *Thomas Franke – drums *Chris Lietz – programming, producer, engineer, mixing *

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– guitar ;Tracks 6, 9, 12 (EU) – 4, 10, 13 (US) *

– guitars, bass, keyboards, programming, drum programming, producer, engineer, mixing ;Tracks 10, 16 (EU) – 6, 12 (US) * Bruce Bouillet – producer, engineer, mixing *

– vocals, bass, acoustic guitars, producer, mixing *

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– guitars, producer, mixing *

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– drums *Joe Taylor – guitars ;Tracks 4, 11 (EU) – 8, 9 (US) *Michi Besler – drums *Andreas Bruhn – guitars, bass, keyboards, producer, engineer, mixing ;Track 14 (EU) – 11 (US) *Nelson Ayres – producers, engineers *

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 *Jürgen Engler – guitars, mixing *Thomas Franke – drums *Mike "Metal" Goldberg – producers, engineers *Chris Lietz – engineer, mixing *Mario Parillo – rhythm guitar *

– guitar solo *Kendal Stubbs – programming ;Tracks 7, 13, 15 (EU) *Rudy Kronenberger – producer, engineer, mixing

References

External links

American site"White Wedding" video clip
{{DEFAULTSORT:Calling The Wild Doro (musician) albums 2000 albums SPV/Steamhammer albums