Salvage (5)

German heavy metal band from Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1985 four experienced musicians decided to form a new Heavy Metal project. The original line-up was: Thomas Brexeler - Lead Vocals, Guitar Holger Fey - Bass, Backing Vocals Stefan Krings - Drums Peter Wagner - Lead Guitars, Backing Vocals Soon Peter Wagner was replaced by Frank Hilleringhaus. In 1987 Roland Kluge joined the band as an additional guitarist. After some succesful gigs Stefan Krings died in a car accident on his way from Witten to Wetter on the 31st of January 1987. They say themselves that they did not only lose a good musician but also a good friend. The two songs on Musikerinitiative Wetter are dedicated to him. With Christian Ermecke they soon found a replacement on drums and wrote new songs . They recorded some demo tapes, one of them was recorded in April 1987. In the end of the 80's Frank Hilleringhaus was replaced again by the former member Peter Wagner. Soon after that Jürgen Tetzlaff and Frank Brackelmann replaced Roland Kluge and Christian Ermecke. While being in the studio for recording [m988430] Frank Brackelmann was replaced by Haan Plattke. Peter Wagner and Thomas Brexeler left the band around the same time, so that Ergün Tasli and Dirk Hackenberg joined instead. Now the band consisted mostly of former members of Nytemare (2).