Roland Grapow

The new Masterplan album MK II entered the german Media Control Charts on position No. 41. MK II also entered the swedish sales charts on position No. 32. In Switzerland, the record reached position No. 89. Once again a big “Thank You” to all our fans worldwide!We are glad to announce, that MASTERPLAN MKII was voted "RECORD OF THE MONTH" in March issue of ROCK HARD Germany, ROCK HARD Greece and MINDVIEW UK !! "Over The Top- Album of the month" in BREAK OUT and nr.2 in ROCK IT!Thanks so much to everybody involved!!!!!!NEW Masterplan LINE UP!!!We are proudly presenting our new singer -Mike DiMeo- and drummer -Mike Terrana-!!Roland started playing guitar with 12 and had his first gig at school. He did his first 2 records with Rampage in 1979 and 1980. He joined Helloween in 1988 and stayed for 12,5 years. In 1997 he did his first solo album calls "Four seasons of life" with the guest musicians Ralf Scheepers (Vocals on Track 07)and Axel Rudi Pell (Guitars on Track 02). 2 years later (1999 he realased his second solo album with name "Kaleidoscope"Since than Roland worked with many great artists and gave his amazing and unique sound to many bands.Him and drummer Ulli Kusch were with the German melodic metal band Helloween until autumn 2001. Shortly after they make up together MASTERPLAN , a band that have drawn attention to themselves even before the arrival of their debut album.The band made very good impression with their two albums; Masterplan, 2003 and Aeronautics, 2005 . Masterplan and also Aeronautics has reached great press reactions!!In october 2006 Masterplan proudly presented their new singer Mike DiMeo and drummer Mike Terrana.. Their new album calls MKII .