Introductio Corvi:
So who's that raven-guy? Well, nothing special about me, I guess. A lawyer by profession and a metalhead and a youth coach in sport-shooting from the depths of my heart.
The MySpace activities are mainly dedicated to my love for Heavy Metal in all of its various forms of appearance though. So what has been my "carreer" in Metal?
It all started when I was about 13 years of age, when a friend gave me a tape including MANOWAR's "Kings Of Metal" and AXXIS' "Kingdom Of The Night". Especially the first impressed me a lot and though I never cared for music before, I was immediately caught by Metal. So from that time on I did listen to nothing but Metal for quite some years: First I got the rest of MANOWAR's stuff and then got into RUNNING WILD, HELLOWEEN, U.D.O., ACCEPT and stuff like that. One day a classmate of whom I knew he liked Metal wore a BATHORY-shirt that looked really great, with the goat and the Gothic letters of the logo. So I went to a record store and bought a BATHORY-cd... and some time later I saw the clip for VENOM's "Seven Gates Of Hell" on TV which made me buy the first three VENOM records at once. Yeah, young people easily get influenced by the media.
So I got into Black Metal! With some hard times during my military service, I was getting even deeper into the Black Metal scene with the most extreme bands (especially from Norway) like MAYHEM, DARKTHRONE, IMMORTAL... which somehow helped me to cope with all the bad vibes and feelings caused by that inhuman institution called "army".
After the end of that rather unpleasant period of my life, though still remaining a fan of Black Metal, I rediscovered the more friendly side of Metal and became an allround metalhead, also listening a lot to underground Metal from the U.S. (CIRITH UNGOL, MANILLA ROAD, BROCAS HELM, OMEN, JAG PANZER etc...) and the NWoBHM (BLITZKRIEG, SAMSON, ATOMKRAFT, PARIAH etc...) but also the guild of old heroes including JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN, SAXON, DEEP PURPLE, URIAH HEEP, BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW, HAWKWIND... so meanwhile to sum it up in some words: I like all subgenres of Heavy Metal and Hardrock, from ELF to MAYHEM, from HELLOWEEN to DISMEMBER and from TYGERS OF PAN TANG to KREATOR.
In the nineties I wrote for a small Black Metal fanzine for a short time, and since 2004 I've been writing for Powermetal.de , which is one of Germany's most read Metal magazines. Check out our work in German via the link above, or in English via our little MySpace presentation page:
Oh, and before I forget about it: I'm also one of the admins at HELLOWEEN's official messageboard. So if you're into the pumpkin guys and think you'd enjoy a pretty friendly and peaceful Metal forum, just surf in...
Eternal gratitude and loyalty:
Bonded By Blood:
Mom, Dad, Regina, Gerhard, Fabian, Melissa, Holger. And Robert (R.I.P.).
Sworn Allegiance:
Mark, Andi G.
Brave comrades:
Lars, Bene, Pulti, Andi O., Alex, Roman, Janis, Reinhold, Oli, Horst, Christoph and the rest of the mighty A/W-Gang. Zimbo, Marc, Bschorri, Hilsi & Regina.
The pumpkins and other illustrous vegetables:
Jessy, Beto, David, Dave, Joseph, Fredrik, Janne, Tony, Arto, Jim, Hendro, Marty, Danny, Tommy, Johannes, TJ
Bauernmädel:
Rouven, Georg & Rike, Caro, Tolga, Kubi, Elke, Micha, Rob, Chris, Holg, Axo-Martin, Swafnir-Martin, Destructor-Martin, Frank & Petra, Stephaninho, Alex, Phippu, Christian and the rest of the crew.