Warlock - Triumph & Agony [1987]-[WH]-FLAWL3SS

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Warlock - Triumph And Agony

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Artist...............: Warlock

Album................: Triumph And Agony

Genre................: Heavy Metal

Source...............: CD

Year.................: 1987

Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode) / Level 8 & TSSTcorp CDDVD SE-S204N

Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)

Version..............: FLAC 1.2.1 20070917

Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 69 %)

Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit

Tags.................: VorbisComment

Information..........:



Ripped by............: FLAWL3SS on 8/20/2008

Posted by............: FLAWL3SS on 8/21/2008

News Server..........: None

News Group(s)........: None



Included.............: NFO, M3U, LOG, CUE

Covers...............: Front Back



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Tracklisting

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1. (00:03:20) Warlock - All We Are

2. (00:02:30) Warlock - Three Minute Warning

3. (00:04:03) Warlock - I Rule The Ruins

4. (00:04:08) Warlock - Kiss Of Death

5. (00:04:45) Warlock - Make Time For Love

6. (00:03:34) Warlock - East Meets West

7. (00:04:19) Warlock - Touch Of Evil

8. (00:04:24) Warlock - Metal Tango

9. (00:04:00) Warlock - Cold, Cold World

10. (00:04:50) Warlock - Für Immer



Playing Time.........: 01:36:31

Total Size...........: 248.33 MB



NFO generated on.....: 8/21/2008 2:49:22 PM





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Warlock was a German heavy metal band, assembled in 1982. They also

could be described as hard rock or even glam metal, and gained some

commercial success in the mid 1980s. By the end of the decade, singer Doro

Pesch was the sole original member who remained in the band, and thus

proceeded to form Doro, a band which was essentially a continuation of

Warlock under a different name. Doro has several classic songs from Warlock

on its repertoire.



Warlock's music is always primarily described as heavy metal. Their style was

more traditional in the beginning of the 1980s, shown on the Burning the

Witches album, but soon going more to a hard rock and glam metal style

starting with Hellbound. The band's influences are 1970s hard rock and heavy

metal acts such as Judas Priest and Black Sabbath, N.W.O.B.H.M., and fellow

German metal bands such as Scorpions and Accept. Other bands that had a

similar sound include Ratt, Dokken, Medusa, and Zed Yago.



Warlock was formed in late 1982 in Düsseldorf. The band spent most of that

year and 1983 performing in different German clubs, building a steady fan

base. After recording a demo, Mausoleum Demo, and sending it to several

record labels, the band obtained a contract with independent Belgian label

Mausoleum.



The first line-up, which consisted of Doro Pesch on vocals, Peter Szigeti and

Rudy Graf on guitars, Frank Rittel on bass, and Michael Eurich on drums,

recorded the band's first two albums, Burning the Witches in 1984 and

Hellbound in 1985, touring in Europe to market the releases. In early 1985,

the band signed a contract with label Phonogram.



Later that year, in the middle of the tour for Hellbound, Rudy Graf left the

band and was replaced by Niko Arvanitis, formerly of Stormwind.



Warlock's third album, True As Steel, released in 1986, got a fair amount of

North American radio airplay due to the hit single "Fight For Rock". The band's

first music video was made for the song, airing on MTV. In August that year,

the band opened for the Monsters of Rock festival at the Maimarktgelände in

Mannheim, West Germany when Scorpions were headlining the all day

concert. Def Leppard, Ozzy, MSG and Bon Jovi were also there.



After the tour for True As Steel ended, Frank Rittel and Peter Szigeti left the

band, and were replaced by Tommy Henriksen and Tommy Bolan (formerly of

Armed Forces) respectively. With the new line-up, Warlock released their

fourth and last album, Triumph And Agony, in 1987. The video for the single

"All We Are" enjoyed heavy rotation on MTV's "Headbangers' Ball".



The band proceeded to make its first and sole extensive US tour, opening for

Megadeth concerts alongside Sanctuary, and playing several shows on their

own with different opening acts, such as Fates Warning, Sword and Lillian

Axe.



Michael Eurich and Niko Arvanitis left Warlock in December 1987, and were

replaced by Bobby Rondinelli (formerly of Rainbow) and Jon Levin (mislabeled

as "Jon Devin" in Doro's Force Majeure liner notes) respectively. As Doro

Pesch was the only original member still on the band, she opted not to

continue using the name Warlock, playing under the name of Doro from that

point on. Currently, Doro is active and still performs Warlock material.



Triumph and Agony is the fourth (& final) album by German heavy metal band

Warlock, released on September 5, 1987.



The album was the follow-up to the 1986 band's first successful album out of

Europe, True as Steel.



"All We Are" has a video clip that had good rotation on MTV's Headbangers

Ball.



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