SACRED STEEL Comment On Lineup Changes

December 21, 2005

German power metallers SACRED STEEL have issued an official statement regarding the departures of guitarists Oliver Großhans and Jörg M. Knittel (as first reported here yesterday). It reads as follows:

"After having had a stable line up for now nearly 10 years, a line up change had to be made in the SACRED STEEL camp. It came not totally out of the blue when Jörg M. Knittel and Oliver Großhans finally decided to call it quits and to concentrate on their other bands MY DARKEST HATE (both) and DAWN OF WINTER (Knittel). Both, Jörg and Oli are sure that their musical visions are nowadays better portrayed in these outfits.

"As a retrospective on this ancient and memorable line-up a live CD+DVD called 'Live Blessings' will be released via Massacre Records on the 27th of January 2006. The main feature will be a complete gig from October 2004 in Ludwigsburg. As bonus there will be included some live impressions from past gigs as well as some funny episodes some may wish they hadn't been shown to anybody…ever! The remaining sacred warriors — Gerrit P. Mutz (vocals),Jens Sonnenberg (bass / switched to guitar in the recent line-up) and Mathias Straub (drums) have now decided to continue under the banner of SACRED STEEL with the best wishes and blessings from both, Oli and Jörg. New members to help them on their conquest for world domination are Jonas Khalil (guitar) and Kai Schindelar (bass). Both are absolute metal maniacs! Just ask them about their fave bands next time you meet them at the Keep It True [festival] or another great metal party. Jonas is a dedicated SACRED STEEL fan since the start in 1996 and has worked for the band as a guitar technician up to now. Some may know Kai from his other band LANFEAR where he's also handling the bass duties. Welcome on board, friends! The new lineup is already working hard on their next effort which will tentatively be entitled 'Hammer of Destruction' and feature tracks such as 'Where Demons Dare To Tread', 'Impaled By Metal', 'Children of the Spirit', 'Pounding Inferno' or 'Hell Insanity'.

"This album will not only be a turning point for the band because of the enthusiastic new lineup…It will also mark the return to the total worship of '80s mostly U.S. metal inspired POWER (!) METAL (!!) (in the meaning of the word…not what power metal is referred to nowadays) the band has been respected as well as hated for since the birth of STEEL itself, nearly 10 years ago."

SACRED STEEL's most recent CD, "Iron Blessings", came out in July 2004 on Massacre Records.

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