Thilo Herrmann (born 19 September 1964 in Mühlhausen,
East Germany
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) is a German
heavy metal guitarist and songwriter who worked with
Grave Digger
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Description
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from 2008-2009.
History
Prior to joining his latest band Grave Digger in 2007, Herrmann has played with a lot of other different kinds of metal bands. One of the first bigger bands he played with in his career was the heavy metal/hard rock band Faithful Breath (earlier a progressive rock band), which he joined in 1985. That band changed their name to Risk some years after he joined the band. He did not record anything on their first album as Risk, which is called ''The Daily Horror News''. He did come back however in 1989, and during this time in the band he recorded one EP and two albums and then left them again.
In 1994 Thilo was recruited as guitarist for the famous German heavy metal band
Running Wild, where he played on their album ''
Black Hand Inn
''Black Hand Inn'' is the eighth studio album by German heavy metal band Running Wild, released on 24 March 1994 through Noise Records. It is a loose concept album about a resurrected man, against a backdrop of piracy, foreseeing Armageddon.
...
,'' as well as three other albums. He left the band in 2001 about a year after their album ''Victory'' was released.
Several years later,
Grave Digger
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was planning to add a second guitarist for the first time ever during their existence. A competition was held at the official Grave Digger homepage where the fans could guess who the new second guitarist would be. On 8 October 2007 it was revealed that it was Thilo. He played his first gig with the band on 31 October in Zeche Bochum. Thilo left Grave Digger in February 2009.
Apart from those bands, he has also played with Steel Dragon, Höllenhunde, Glenmore, and
Holy Moses
Holy Moses is a German thrash metal band active from 1980 to 1994 and again since 2000. They are well noted for being fronted by Sabina Classen, who is the only constant member of Holy Moses, and for being one of the first German thrash metal ...
during a period in 1988. He did not record anything with any of these bands, though.
Discography
Faithful Breath
*''Skol'' (1985)
*''Live'' (1986)
Risk
*''Ratman''
P(1989)
*''Hell's Animals'' (1989)
*''Dirty Surfaces'' (1990)
Running Wild
*''The Privateer''
P(1994)
*''
Black Hand Inn
''Black Hand Inn'' is the eighth studio album by German heavy metal band Running Wild, released on 24 March 1994 through Noise Records. It is a loose concept album about a resurrected man, against a backdrop of piracy, foreseeing Armageddon.
...
'' (1994)
*''
Masquerade'' (1995)
*''
The Rivalry'' (1998)
*''
Victory
The term victory (from Latin ''victoria'') originally applied to warfare, and denotes success achieved in personal combat, after military operations in general or, by extension, in any competition. Success in a military campaign constitutes ...
'' (2000)
Grave Digger
*''Pray''
P(2008)
*''
Ballads of a Hangman'' (2009)
References
External links
Official Grave Digger-homepageRisk's page @ BNRMetal.comGlenmore page @ Metal-archives.net
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German guitarists
German male guitarists
Living people
1964 births