Blind Guardian
Client: Blind Guardian, Nuclear Blast Records
Categorie: Photography, Videography, Promo
Photographer, Director: Dirk Behlau
Fun facts: Dirk Behlau is kind of the official photographer and video producer for Blind Guardian since 2018. Promo photos, Music Videos, Studio reports, EPKs, Interviews, Teasers, Live Photography… it’s all in the box.
Dirk went to the first Blind Guardian concert back in 1989 when he was still in highschool. For him as a kid he would never image to work so close with on of his favorite bands in a later time of life. How cool is that?!
About: Blind Guardian is a German power metal band formed in 1984 in Krefeld, West Germany. They are often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in the power metal and speed metal subgenres. Nine musicians have been a part of the band's line-up in its history, which has consisted of singer Hansi Kürsch, guitarists André Olbrich and Marcus Siepen, and drummer Frederik Ehmke since 2005.
Blind Guardian is a part of the German heavy metal scene that emerged in the mid-1980s. The band was formed in 1984 as Lucifer's Heritage by Kürsch (then also bass guitarist), Olbrich, other guitarist Markus Dörk and drummer Thomas Stauch. Dörk and Stauch both left the following year, and were replaced by Christof Theißen and Hans-Peter Frey respectively, who left as well before the end of the year. In 1987, Siepen joined and Stauch returned; under this line-up, which lasted 18 years (the longest in the band's history), the band changed their name to Blind Guardian and released their first album, Battalions of Fear, in 1988.
PROMO
MUSIC + LIVE VIDEOs
STUDIO REPORT 2020/2021
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