''Thunderball'' is the ninth studio album by German
heavy metal band
U.D.O.
U.D.O. is a German heavy metal band founded by lead vocalist Udo Dirkschneider in 1987.
History
Following Udo Dirkschneider's departure from Accept in 1987, he formed his own band called U.D.O. He recruited guitarists Mathias Dieth and Peter ...
After their previous studio album, U.D.O. had released the DVD ''Nailed to Metal'' and an accompanying live CD titled ''Nailed to Metal: The Missing Tracks'' in 2003.
The title of this album and
Udo Dirkschneider
Udo Dirkschneider (born 6 April 1952) is a German singer and songwriter who rose to fame with German heavy metal band Accept. After leaving the band in 1987, he formed U.D.O., with which he has also enjoyed commercial success.
Biography
Fo ...
's posture on the cover are allusions to the 1965 film ''
Thunderball''.
Releases
* "Trainride in Russia" is devoted to the band's touring in that country. Its alternative version (with the subtitle "Poezd po Rossii") includes chorus lines in Russian:
::''Поезд по России идёт и идёт''.
::''Поезд по России. 100 грамм и вперёд!''
::''Перестук колёс. Необъятна даль.''
::''Поезд нас унёс к началу всех начал.''
* The limited edition release from
AFM Records
AFM Records GmbH is a music label based in Schwalmstadt, Germany. They focus on the heavy metal musical genre, signing bands such as U.D.O., Doro, Lordi, Kotipelto, Masterplan, Nostradameus, and Annihilator.
In 2005, Candlelight Records si ...
contains a bonus track along with the "Blind Eyes" music video and multimedia extras featuring a screensaver and wallpapers.
* The limited edition release from CD-Maximum contains the original album along with a DVD entitled ''Thundervision'', featuring five video clips, an interview with Andreas Schowe from the German ''
Metal Hammer
''Metal Hammer'' is a heavy metal music magazine and website founded in 1983, published in the United Kingdom by Future, with other language editions available in numerous other countries. ''Metal Hammer'' features news, reviews and long-form ...
'' magazine and four audio soundtracks.
Track listing
Personnel
;U.D.O.
*
Udo Dirkschneider
Udo Dirkschneider (born 6 April 1952) is a German singer and songwriter who rose to fame with German heavy metal band Accept. After leaving the band in 1987, he formed U.D.O., with which he has also enjoyed commercial success.
Biography
Fo ...
– vocals
*
Stefan Kaufmann – guitar,
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
on "Trainride in Russia", producer, engineer, mixing
*Igor Gianola – guitar
*Fitty Wienhold – bass
*Lorenzo Milani – drums
;Additional musicians
*Frank Knight – backing vocals on "The Bullet and the Bomb"
*Luke Herzog –
cello
The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...
on "Blind Eyes"
;Production
*Manfred Melchior – mastering
*Martin Häusler – cover art, design
*Dirk Schelpmeier – photography
Charts
References
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2004 albums
U.D.O. albums
AFM Records albums