Germany’s most successful rock singer DORO PESCH has just been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award – Germany’s most important music accolade.
The Pop Culture Prize was awarded in Berlin’s “Admiralspalast” on October 4th in front of musicians, a specialist audience, and media representatives.
The joy was palpable, and Doro accepted the award to thunderous applause from the euphoric music industry present. The emotional laudatory speech was given by Alex Wesselsky from the band EISBRECHER.
“What an honour,” says Doro Pesch. “This award totally motivates me to always go full throttle and give everything! From the bottom of my heart, I thank everyone who has supported me.”
The “Prize for Pop Culture” is the continuation of the prestigious German “Echo” music prize.
In the past, metal acts have been rarely seen at this event and it’s a great honour for Doro, who will be celebrating 40 years of her career in 2023.
Canada’s The Metal Voice spoke with DORO PESCH of Warlock about her upcoming Live album Triumph And Agony Live which will be released on 24 September 2021 via Rare Diamonds
During the interview Doro Spoke about the new live album, showed the metal guys the Bullet she was given with Lemmy of Motorhead’s ashes, a three metal queen tour with Lee Aaron, Lita Ford and herself and talked about the upcoming studio album she is working on in the new year 2022.
In regards to the new alive album “We played Sweden Rock and it was the first time we performed the Triumph and Agony in it’s entirety and the first time was the most magical one. On the Live Cd it is a also mixture of Sweden and Spain. There is also a Blu Ray that comes with it of our performance at Sweden Rock and also a nice documentary which is about 90 minutes long. I think it’s very cool even especially for die hard fans. I even put some bootlegs in it like some snippets with our tour with Megadeth in 1988 as well as other videos too.”
When asked about the Lemmy ashes she was sent “There was a beautiful letter that was came with this package, I was so blown away. His ashes is in a bullet and it says Lemmy. I loved him so much.”
Touring with Lee Arron and Lita Ford as the Three Metal Queens tour “Yes I am interested in that it would be awesome. I recently did something nice with Lita Ford in the Studio and it will be on her upcoming record eventually
DORO Pesch of Warlock will celebrate the 35th anniversary of her hit album Triumph And Agony with the release of the spectacular live album Triumph And Agony Live.
Metal Queen DORO has certainly earned that title, with a career spanning over more than three decades. From the first album release with her band WARLOCK in 1984, Doro paved the way for women in metal and has long been an inspiration, empowering so many artists in the rock and metal industry.
After releasing her first album post-WARLOCK in 1989, Doro has never looked back, with a steady stream of albums and collaborations with many artists over the years.
Just a few weeks ago, Doro released a best of album, “Magic Diamonds – Best Of Rock, Ballads & Rare Treasures”, via her own label Rare Diamonds Productions. The album contains a fantastic collection of 56 songs with 20 rock songs, 18 ballads and 18 rare treasures!
Metal Shock Finland Senior Manager Alison Booth, recently caught up Doro who was the special guest on the 8th anniversary of her radio show Blackdiamond’s Metal Mayhem at TotalRock. The whole show can be heard at this location. You can hear the chat on the audio player below, along with a selection of excerpts to read:
Discussing the new album, Doro explained:
“There’s another box set and it has two double vinyl, one is white, the other is clear. It all looks nice, sounds great.
I did it because it was impossible to tour this year and we had two European tours and two American tours, Australia, South America. Everything was lined up, tons of great festivals and everything got cancelled or postponed. So I thought yeah I wanna go back into the studio, working on some new songs, which I did. And then I thought, maybe I want to put out a best of record. At first I started with like fifteen songs, then it was twenty five, thirty five, forty five and now fifty six songs!
And there’s still some songs I would love to put on maybe volume two in the next couple of years or something. There are so many songs that deserve to be heard in a different arrangement or live. That’s what I miss the most. There’s tons of live versions on there, so even if people can’t come to the concerts, they can definitely get the excitement and the power when you listen to it.”
Doro expressed her thoughts about the pandemic:
“It was a big shock. My last normal gig was actually March and we celebrated the fortieth anniversary of Saxon in my former hometown in Düsseldorf, Germany. And there was Saxon and Diamond Head, Tygers Of Pan Tang and us and we had a great, great night – it was awesome!
Then, two days later they announced only a thousand people allowed in the venue, then it went down to five hundred people, then nobody and yeah, so March was our last normal gig. Then we thought maybe we can hang in there till the summer festivals. Yeah and then summer festivals one by one got cancelled or postponed, it was shocking, it was shocking.
I did a couple of things which was like totally different, was a big challenge. We did some drive-in shows. For the first time it was weird, because it felt exactly like our All We Are video that was shot in 1987, where everybody was in their cars and we were performing on top of the tour bus and then with the magic of metal and you know and Warlock, it came to life and we were rocking out together and it felt exactly like that. I hopped on stage and I saw only cars, it was so surreal but it was fun. We made it I think that everybody had a great time, it was exciting! And we actually recorded some songs and one song is on the Magic Diamonds album, which I like so much. It’s Love Me In Black and you don’t see any audience participation but you can feel there’s a good vibe going, a nice, magical version.
It was a rough year I think for everybody and we try to stay positive, but it’s hard when you’ve nothing to do – especially for the band and the crew. But we’re hoping next year we’ll get back to normal kind of, it would be awesome. And if not, then we’ll work on a new album.”
Doro had lots to say on the topic of duets:
“Actually, all my duet partners were always great because we stayed great friends. Like there’s one song on this album with Udo Dirkschneider and it’s a cover version of Breaking The Law, because Judas Priest was my first band I’ve toured with in 1986 and I always wanted to say thank you to Priest, so we recorded Breaking The Law and I was just working with Udo Dirkschneider on his album and said ‘hey Udo you wanna work on my album as well?’ with an orchestra, it was really nice, came out so great. We always love to play Breaking The Law.
There’s another duet with Tarja Turunen who sang for Nightwish and this song’s called Walking With The Angels – something that fits so perfectly because she has such an angelic voice.
And then there’s one song, Bad Blood, that’s with Blaze Bayley. We are great friends for a long time. And Descent, that’s another song with Pete Steele and unfortunately he is not any more with us, but he was a great guy. He was the tallest guy I ever met, he was such a gentle giant.
And then my favourite duet is Love Me Forever with Lemmy. That was my first time that I did a duet and it was in 2000. We recorded it for my Calling The Wild album. We did two songs, one was Alone Again and the other one was Love Me Forever and Eric Singer is playing drums on it, the KISS drummer and Bob Kulick, he played guitar on it and it was in his studio. And Bob, he passed away a couple of months ago, I couldn’t believe it. We always stayed friends. So these duets, they mean a lot to me, especially Love Me Forever with Lemmy and Descent with Pete Steele, because you know – I feel we’re very connected in heart and soul, but it’s kinda tough to live without them. Lemmy was my best friend, I loved him so much.
On the “Ace Of Spades” anniversary:
“Somebody sent me the nice box set, oh it’s awesome! If people want to get something really special, this is wow, it’s so nice. Yeah Ace Of Spades was my favourite album. I had my first band in 1980 and when this one came out, like wow, it was so inspiring. I still love that song Ace Of Spades, oh my God. And Love Me Like A Reptile was the second song on Ace Of Spades and it was by coincidence that Dave Ellefson said ‘hey you want to sing a MOTÖRHEAD song?’ And it was oh yeah! Maybe it was meant to be, it was a lot of fun!“
Looking ahead to the future, Doro revealed:
“If I could do ten or twenty more records it would be awesome. I love people and that’s I guess what I’m here for and yeah, I just wanna make people feel great and get inspiration, motivation and positive metal power – that’s what I would love to continue doing. There’s not much, I don’t have any other dreams – I’m definitely living the dream, making music. I always wanted to become a singer since I was three years old.
But I love animals too, that’s my other passion and I just wrote a song for the new album and it’s called Heavenly Creatures, that’s a work title.
Yeah next year and hopefully a tour behind the new album, but we’ll see. But we already have six songs so I think middle of next year the album will be done.”
One and a half years after the release of her extremely successful double album „Forever Warriors, Forever United“ (#1 in the German vinyl charts, # 4 in the album charts), metal queen DORO Peschhas already started working on material for a new album. „Since February, I’ve been back in the studio in the USA. There are some pretty awesome things happening in these writing sessions“, DORO reveals.
One of these new, special songs won’t be kept secret any longer: DORO‘s new single,‘Brickwall’, is now available digitally via Nuclear Blast and will be out on vinyl on July 31st, 2020.
Watch the new video for ‘Brickwall’ here:
“‘Brickwall’ is a harbinger for the upcoming album, that will be released in 2021″, DOROexplains. „I want to give my fans a taste of what it’s going to be like – and the song also fits quite well with these dark times.“ And that’s why: „The lyrics are about unbreakable, unconditional love for a person in deep trouble. Even though it isn’t always easy to deal with that person, you still do everything to support them and get through the dark times side by side – even if you literally have to tear down walls.“
‘Brickwall’ was recorded in Hamburg together with Andreas Bruhn (Ex-THE SISTERS OF MERCY) and will also be available as coloured 7“ Vinyl in gold and silver limited to 300 copies each.
„The b-side will feature a great live version of „Soldier Of Metal““, DORO promises. „The song was recorded during our recent „Forever Warriors“ tour in winter, where the song was celebrated by the fans every single evening. It’s supposed to help fans remember the feeling of a live show and raise anticipation for the next tour, that can hopefully start this autumn.“
24.07. D Stuttgart – Kulturwasen 30.07. D Köln – Lanxess Arena 01.08. D Bühl – Drive-In 21.08. D Mönchengladbach – Strandkorb Open Air
05.09. A Innsbruck – Wildstyle & Tattoo Messe 19.09. A Salzburg – Wildstyle & Tattoo Messe 26.09. A Wien – Wildstyle & Tattoo Messe
04.11. D Hamburg – Große Freiheit 36 06.11. D Oberhausen – Turbinenhalle 07.11. NL Leeuwarden – Neushoorn 08.11. B Antwerp – Trix 10.11. F Paris – La Maroquienerie 11.11. CH Pratteln – Z7 13.11. D Winterbach – Salierhalle 14.11. D Ingolstadt – Eventhalle Westpark 17.11. UA Lviv – Malevich Club 18.11. PL Warsaw – Proxima 20.11. D Neuruppin – Kulturhaus 21.11. D Vacha – Vachwerk 22.11. D Frankfurt – Batschkapp
2021 tourdates: 05.06. CZ Plzen – Metalfest 15.07. D Duisburg – Stadtfest 16.07. D Leipzig – Parkbühne 17.07. D Wertheim – Burgrock
One and a half years after the release of her extremely successful double album „Forever Warriors, Forever United“ (#1 in the German vinyl charts, # 4 in the album charts), metal queen DORO Pesch has already started working on material for a new album.
„Since February, I’ve been back in the studio in the USA. There are some pretty awesome things happening in these writing sessions“, DORO reveals.
One of these new, special songs won’t be kept secret for much longer: DORO plans to release her new single, ‘Brickwall’, digitally on June 26th, 2020 via Nuclear Blast and on Vinyl on July 31st, 2020.
“‘Brickwall’ is a harbinger for the upcoming album, that will be released in 2021″, DORO explains. „I want to give my fans a taste of what it’s going to be like – and the song also fits quite well with these dark times.“
And that’s why: „The text is about unbreakable, unconditional love for a person in deep trouble. Even though it isn’t always easy to deal with that person, you still do everything to support them and get through the dark times side by side – even if you literally have to tear down walls.“
‘Brickwall’ was recorded in Hamburg together with Andreas Bruhn (Ex-THE SISTERS OF MERCY) and will also be available as coloured 7“ Vinyl in gold and silver limited to 300 copies each.
„The b-side will feature a great live version of „Soldier Of Metal““, DORO promises. „The song was recorded during our recent „Forever Warriors“ tour in winter, where the song was celebrated by the fans every single evening. It’s supposed to help fans remember the feeling of a live show and raise anticipation for the next tour, that can hopefully start this autumn.“
Italian legendary heavy metallers SKANNERS have released a new live video and second single “Rolling in The Fire”, shot in Moscow in September 2019, during a mini-tour with the Metal Queen DORO PESCH, as her special guests. Watch the video here:
This is what Claudio Pisoni, frontman of the Band said:
“When we were contacted by the promoter who managed the Doro’s tour we almost couldn’t believe it. An unforgettable adventure was beginning. We knew we were welcome in Russia but we did not expect all the warmth we received from our Russian fans. For this reason we decided to immortalize these fantastic events by doing what we do best. The news is not over, the Skanners still have a lot to say!”
“Rolling in The Fire” is taken from the band’s latest album “Temptation”, released on April 26th 2019 in Europe via Self Distribuzione Milano and CODE 7 /Plastic Head UK for ALPHA OMEGA Records!
Also watch SKANNERS’ video for the song “In Flammen 666”, taken from the band’s new album “Temptation”: https://youtu.be/W6S2p2JgtlM
Currently, the band is working on future projects that will be revealed soon.
Bolzano, Italy based heavy metal legends SKANNERS were formed in 1982. In 1986 they released the debut LP “Dirty Armada”, in Germany the band won widespread public approval and critical acclaim, becoming pioneers in the New Wave of Italian heavy metal. SKANNERS have shared stages with legends as DEEP PURPLE, IN FLAMES, SAVAGE, DARK FUNERAL, VADER, METAL CHURCH, GIRLSCHOOL, MOTORHEAD, HALLOWEEN, SAXON, MANOWAR, DIO, TWISTED SISTER and many other. SKANNERS’ latest, eighth album (CD/DVD) “Eins Zwei Drei Metal Party Live” came out in 2015 (dedicated to their former guitarist and founding member, Max Quinzio, who died in February of 2014). The band’s new album “Temptation” was released in Europe on April 26th via Self Distribuzione Milano and CODE 7 /Plastic Head UK for ALPHA OMEGA Records!
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