Juergen Steinmetz is a German musician. He is the bass player for Rock Ignition, Silent Force, Sons of Seasons, Lima and ex-member of Headstone Epitaph.

Biography

Juergen Steinmetz founded his first band Headstone Epitaph in 1987. They recorded their first longplayer "Without The Slightest Qualm" in 1996, signed a record deal with

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and released the following albums ''Wings of Eternity'' (1998) and ''Powergames'' (1999). For lack of activity of the band he decided to join Silent Force in the year 2000. With them he released three albums, ''Infatuator'' (Massacre Records), ''Worlds Apart'' and ''Walk the Earth'' (Noise Records), touring all over Europe, America and Japan. In 2013, it was announced a new line-up for the band with

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replacing Jurgen as their bass player. In 2006 he founded with singer Heather Shockley the hard rock band Rock Ignition and released through Rockinc. Netherlands the EP "I Can't Resist" which received excellent reviews from magazines and radios all over the globe. In 2013 RI released their second EP "Innocent Thing" through the record label Sound Guerrilla/DA Music. The EP was produced by Jürgen Steinmetz and mixed again by Dennis Ward, and it includes a videoclip of the single "Tell Me". Rock Ignition has toured Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Spain sharing the stage with legendary bands like Uriah Heep,

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and many more. Jürgen joined in 2008 the dark symphonic metal band Sons of Seasons, with members from Doro,

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and

. Sons of Seasons has released through

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the albums ''Gods of Vermin'' and ''Magnisphyricon'' and they have toured successfully all over Europe.

Gear

Juergen Steinmetz uses Sandberg bass guitars (California PM 5-string with maple fretboard), :de:Sandberg Guitars

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amplifiers and

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References

External links

Jürgen Steinmetz official website

Rock Ignition official homepage

Sons of Seasons official homepage

Jürgen Steinmetz on Encyclopedia Metallum

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