Frederik Ehmke Discography of CDs

Frederik Ehmke music CDs The 2012 double album Memories of a Time to Come is the first best-of compilation by German heavy metal group Blind Guardian, giving an overview of their output between their first album (Battalions of Fear from 1988) and their most recent (At the Edge of Time from 2010). The collection's 16 tracks have been remixed and, in three cases ("Valhalla," "And Then There Was Silence," and "Bard Song Hobbit"), even re-recorded. The album is also available ...

Frederik Ehmke CD discography Over the years, metal has demonstrated that it can be quite flexible, incorporating everything from punk (thrash metal, death metal, black metal) to hip-hop (rap-metal) to goth-rock (gothic metal) to traditional European folk (folk-metal). And on At the Edge of Time, Blind Guardian's influences range from Euro-folk to classical to progressive rock; the end result is a fairly diverse album, which is not to say that the disc is groundbreaking by 21st century standards. These German ...

Frederik Ehmke albums Sinbreed is the project around 27 year old Guitarist Flo Laurin who joined forces with dedicated artists of the European metal scene. The blistering combination of speed, melodic and aggressive arrangements combined with high and soaring vocals characterizes Sinbreed's distinctive Power metal, and they now present their debut album "When worlds collide". The project has been in the making since the late nineties by founder Flo Laurin, and piece by piece everything has fallen in place; from ...

Frederik Ehmke discography Blind Guardian fans have grown accustomed to waiting long periods between the band's studio albums, which these masters of German progressive power metal tend to deliver only every four years or so -- much like World Cups, curiously enough. That was precisely the gap separating 2002's A Night at the Opera, which dismayed some longtime fans with its nearly symphonic, unusually complicated compositions, and 2006's A Twist in the Myth, which establishes something of a middle ground between that trend and the group's slightly more approachable earlier material. Of course Blind Guardian, by any era or definition, can still be counted on to inject enough pretentious pomp into high-flying metal anthems such as "This Will Never End," "Straight Through the Mirror," and especially album standout "Turn the Page," to make Ronnie James Dio pull out his fantasy almanac, get Freddie Mercury nodding in posthumous approval. Speaking of ol' Mercury, "Carry the Blessed Home" marries Queen-sized guitar and vocal orchestrations to BG singer Hansi Kürsch's recurring extrapolations on Stephen King's Dark Tower novels; and his reading habits are given even further disclosure on the likes of "Otherland" (inspired by Tad Williams' ...

Frederik Ehmke songs Blind Guardian: Hansi Rursch (vocals); André Olbrich, Marcus Siepen (guitars); Frederik Ehmke (drums). Additional personnel: Oliver Holzwarth (bass guitar).

Frederik Ehmke CD discography Blind Guardian: Hansi Kürsch (vocals); André Olbrich, Marcus Siepen (guitars); Frederik Ehmke (flute, drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Oliver Holzwarth (bass guitar).