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And now you can keep an eye on Wardance…
Here are some impressions of the years 1987 to 1991 (and don´t forget: we were young and it was the 80s !!!)
In February 1990 we supported Thrash legends Overkill and Mordred on their concert in Karlsruhe-Huttenheim.
More than 1200 people made that concert the highlight in the history of Wardance. As we were not only the opening band but also the local organizer, the story behind that concert would fill a book.
The title of that book could be “Hindsight is easier than foresight”. E.g. we learnt that there is a difference between roadies and stagehands and that it is very wise not only to read contracts but also to understand them. So at the end of the day, we were not only opening band and local organizer but also cleaning workers, lavatory attendants, construction workers and drivers.
To our great pleasure, Rudy Graf – ex Warlock/ Doro guitarist and special guest on our “Heaven Is For Sale” album – visited us. Unfortunately, he could not join us on stage.
We closed our gig with Metallica´s classic "Seek And Destroy"… and here we go:
Discography
Crucifixion
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Published: February 1988 (only available on LP/ Vinyl)
Label: self produced
Recorded and mixed: Oct 14th to 17th, 1987 at Katapult Tonstudio, Karlsruhe (Germany)
Produced by Kai Schlünz
Tracks
Side A
1. Intro: Crucifixion
2. Neverending Nightmare
3. Chonda´s Dream
4. Killing Snow
Side B
1. Don´t Play With Fire
2. Friday The 13th
3. Ernst Neger und seine moshenden Eierschänder
4. Outro: Fuck Off
Heaven Is For Sale
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Published: February 1988
LAbel: No Remorse Records (NRRD 1013)
Recorded and mixed: Aug 1st to 15th, 1989 at Katapult Tonstudio, Karlsruhe (Germany)
Produced by Kai Schlünz
Tracks
1. Heaven Is For Sale
2. Destroyer
3. Believe
4. Neverending Nightmare
5. I Don´t Love You Anymore
6. Overture
7. Don´t Play With Fire
8. Death Caress
9. Paris In Fear
10. House Of The Rising Sun (Original by The Animals)
11. Friday The 13th **
12. Blues **
**) Bonus Track (only available on CD version)
Dance To The Beat Of Life With The Spirit Of Youth
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Demo Audio Tape
Published: not officially published
Recorded and mixed: September 1995
Tracks
Side A
1. Megalomaniacs
2. Wild Beauties
3. Die unendliche Geschichte
Side B
1. Friend Of Mine
2. H.T.W. (Honky Tonk Woman) (Original by The Rolling Stones)
Demona
In 2011, Tanza – breath taking female singer from Chile – contacted Sandra and Thomas, asking them to join as special guests on the debut album “Metal Through The Time” of her Speed Metal band Demona.
The album was released on May 3rd, 2012. The title song is collaboration of members of different 1980ies underground metal bands. Musicians from Poltergeist, Warrant, Medusa, Destructor, Wardance and others made their contributions to this song. Lyrics and list of musicians.
The album also contains a cover version of the Wardance hit song “Don´t Play With Fire”.
Metal Through The Time
Don´t Play With Fire (Wardance Cover)
Music by Wardance. Lyrics by Thomas Heyer (All rights reserved!)
Beside her work as a singer, Tanza is also a successful designer of clothing.
Check it out under www.speed-clothes.com.
Wardance bathing suite by "Speed Clothes"
Other projects
Special appearance by Sandra and Thomas on the debut album Metal Through The Time by the chilean/canadian Speed Metal band Demona.
History
The story of Wardance starts in August 1986 in the tranquility of Herxheim, a tiny village located in Palatinate, Germany. The band with female singer Sandra Schumacher is highly motivated and only a few months later, Destroyer – the bands name until 1987 – debuts on stage. Within short, the band rises to local celebrity.
Inspired by the Anthrax Song “Indians”, the five change their name to Wardance and publish their debut LP „Crucifixion“, produced at their own expense. Despite or precisely because of the cover – which is close to the edge of a MAD cartoon – the record succeeds to gain cult status.
Wardance is soon known even beyond the borders of Germany and even plays in the still existing East Germany (GDR) in summer 1989.
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Wardance, August 1987
The powerful Speedmetal and the unrivaled voice of Sandra Schumacher draws the interest of Charly Rinne, former chief editor of the German Metal Hammer and now owner of No Remorse Records. He signs the band and shortly after they enter the studio to record their second album. As a guest musician, No Remorse Records recruits former Warlock/ Doro guitarist Rudy Graf to enrich 3 songs with his nonchalant solos.
Wardance re-records 2 songs of the debut album, witnessing their musical enhancement. Also, the band is not afraid to think outside the (Speedmetal) box and morphs “The House Of The Rising Sun” (originally by The Animals, 1964) to a fierce Metal Version.
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In February 1990 „Heaven Is For Sale“ is released and besides the music, the extraordinary cover artwork of Andreas Marshall (famous for the covers he created for Blind Guardian, Hammerfall and U.D.O.) causes sensation. The album increases the bands popularity and they open for Overkill, Blind Guardian, Tankard and Living Death to name a few.
Future is promising and plans are made for another record. But over the years inspiration and motivation suffered from continuing rehearsals and concerts and the musicians annihilate each other with animosity. In the late 1991 Wardance breaks up.
3 years later, the band takes a chance on a new beginning and goes through some line up changes. Finally, Sandra Schumacher and Markus Wawersich surround themselves with 3 new musicians and with fresh wind in the sails, Wardance enters the studio to record „Dance To The Beat Of Life With The Spirit Of Youth“. Not only moves the band from the straight forward Speedmetal of the old days to complex song structures, they also adapt a German-speaking song that was written before the breakup in 1991.
But these new recordings never come to be published. A time- and energy-killing legal dispute with the production company thwarts the enthusiasm, gets the band into a financial disorder and draws a final line under the history of Wardance in 1996.
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Wardance 1995
Markus Wawersich, Michael Leiner, Karsten Schulz, Georg Michaelis, Sandra Schumacher
