@ThisFunktional talks with Grave Digger’s Vocalist about continuing to improve while giving fans consistent quality
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January 22, 2025
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Jesus Figueroa, @ThisFunktional of ThisFunktional.com, talks with vocalist Christ Boltendahl about Grave Digger’s latest album BONE COLLECTOR, available now.
In the year 2025 the German metal institution celebrates its 45th anniversary.
Founded in 1980 in the legendary „Dröhnschuppen“ in Gladbeck/Germany, they moved out to conquer the world.
Who would have thought that 45 years later Grave Digger would be one of the most important, consistent and influential metal bands from Germany.
With the release of the album "Heavy Metal Breakdown" in 1984, an unprecedented career began that will find its logical continuation on January 17, 2025.
Back to the roots or back to the future? No matter how you call it... Grave Digger record the first album of their career completely without keyboard passages.
With new axeman Tobias Kersting, the band finds its way back to long forgotten trademarks. Raw, brutal, honest and yet catchy, songs like "Bone Collector" or "Made of Madness" thunder out of the speakers.
Groovemonsters like "Riders of Doom" or "Mirror of Hate" come across like a steamroller and the band also quotes the good old stadium rock times in the form of "The Devils Serenade."
Far from the concept albums of the last two decades, "Bone Collector" is a manifesto of german Heavy Metal.
"Kingdom of Skulls" pays homage to the Sensenmann and you can feel the spirit of the 80s without sounding stale.
Oldschool at its best, without rust and patina, no self-copying and always authentic, this is how the band's new work can be described.
Those who think they are listening to an brew of old heroic deeds are mistaken and will be proven wrong by songs like "The Rich The Poor The Dying" or "Whispers of the Damned."
Rarely has the band sounded more versatile than in these days.
Energetic, fresh, multifaceted ... brings it to the point.
Produced, mixed and mastered by Chris Boltendahl, optically set in scene by Brazilian artist Wanderley Perna, this is a work of art that heralds a new era.
