''Fear No Evil'' is the eleventh studio album of the German female

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singer

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. It was released worldwide in 2009 by

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. The album was produced and engineered by usual collaborators Andreas Bruhn, Chris Lietz and Torsten Sickert and reflects in the songs a strong celebrative mood. In fact, titles like "Night of the Warlock", "Celebrate", "25 Years" and the new collaboration with the American Joey Balin, who had produced the last

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album, were meant to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first LP released by Doro Pesch, ''

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'' in 1984. On 13 December 2008, a big celebrative concert with dozens of guests was held in Doro's native city of

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, featuring also some of the musicians who had participated in the making of this album;

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(former singer of

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) performed a duet with Doro on "Walking with the Angels",

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singer

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sang on the single "Celebrate" with many female metal singers that Doro had befriended during her many tours and festival attendances. The album was re-released in 2010 in an Ultimate Collector's Edition triple CD issue, comprising the EPs ''

Celebrate – The Night of the Warlock ''Celebrate – The Night of the Warlock'' is an EP by German female hard rock singer Doro Pesch, released in 2008 through AFM Records. The EP preceded of a few months the album '' Fear No Evil'' and includes three versions of the song "Celebra ...

'' and '' Herzblut''. ''Fear No Evil'' reached position No. 11 on the German Longplay chart.

Track listing

*Limited edition has "Herzblut" music video.

Personnel

Band members

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 ...

– vocals *

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

* Ingulf Brammer – backing vocals * Andreas Bruhn – guitars, bass * Lukas Dylong – backing vocals * Dennis Krueger – guitar * Chris Lietz – guitar, keyboards * Dirk Schoppen – backing vocals * Torsten Sickert – keyboards, guitars, bass *

– vocals on "Walking with the Angels" * Klaus Vanscheidt – guitar, backing vocals

Production

* Kai Blankenberg – mastering * Andreas Bruhn – producer, engineer, mixing * Jarred Cannon – engineer * Rudy Kronenberger – engineer * Chris Lietz – engineer, mixing, mastering * Dan Malsch – engineer *

– producer * Torsten Sickert – programming, producer, engineer, mixing

References

External links

American site
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fear No Evil Doro (musician) albums 2009 albums AFM Records albums