Gravestone is a German heavy metal band, formed in 1977 as originally a

progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...

outfit, before going in to the heavy metal genre. Gravestone released five studio

album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

s between 1977 and 1986 before splitting up. Several of the band members continued the band under the name 48 Crash.Tartarean Desire - Gravestone - Heavy metal band from Germany
, Taratareandesire.com In 2019, the band reunited to play live shows again. The current line-up is the same as in 1985 (Majdan, Reinelt, Dieth, Sabisch, Imbacher).

Band members

Vocals

* Berti Majdan * Dietmar "Oli" Orlitta

Drums

* Dieter Behle * Thomas Imbacher * Mike Schmidt

Bass Guitar

* Berti Majdan * Dietmar "Oli" Orlitta * Thomas Sabisch

Guitar

* Mathias Dieth * Rudi Dorner * Taki Gradl * Jürgen Metko * Klaus 'Doc' Reinelt * Wolfgang Rittner

Keyboards

* Andy Müller

Discography

Albums

* ''Doomsday'' (1979) * ''War'' (1980) * ''Victim of Chains'' (1984) * ''Back to Attack'' (1985) * ''Creating a Monster'' (1986)

Compilation albums

* ''The Best of Gravestone'' (1993)

References

External links

MySpace Gravestone fanpage

Tartarean Desire - Gravestone Band Page

Encyclopaedia Metallum - Gravestone (Ger)
German heavy metal musical groups German rock music groups Musical groups established in 1977 {{metal-music-stub