Hammerschmitt

Description

When a local hard rock band that is already competent has the chance to have a guitar hero in its lineup (who unfortunately never became famous) and then later lets itself be influenced by Iron Maiden rather than by the acts of the seventies, it manages in 1985 to release a metal record that is just as high-quality and catchy. There are of course reasons why Hammerschmitt bit the dust after one LP and why their album is still today rather a secret known to everyone. Even though it is now considered “cult” - at the time, the cover was a fatal blow. The review in Metal Hammer, important at the time, was apparently influenced only by the visual aspect of the record. In addition, in 1985, the label Rockport was not a leader of the new German metal scene. After the successful albums by the hard rockers Trance and the mega-hit “Die Hesse Komme !” by Rodgau Monotones, the label’s influence was relatively quickly lost, which other quite decent metal bands also suffered from. If “Hammerschmitt” had been released on a label like Noise, Roadrunner or Steamhammer (with a different cover), the Hessian band’s story would clearly have been different. Be that as it may, the album was released on CD by Karthago Records in 2008 with modified artwork and received many good posthumous reviews. Young fans became interested in Hammerschmitt for the first time. Golden Core is now offering the first reissue of an LP with a new remaster. To stay faithful to the original, the 1985 cover was chosen, which, fortunately, is now described as “typically eighties,” zeitgeist, or even “cult.”