Stormwarrior is a speed metal

Speed metal

Speed metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that originated in the late 1970s from NWOBHM and hardcore punk roots. It is described by Allmusic as "extremely fast, abrasive, and technically demanding" music....

 band from Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 that was formed in 1998 by vocalist and guitar player Lars Ramcke and drummer Andre Schumann, adding later in the same year guitarist Scott Bolter and bass player Tim Zienert. The members of Stormwarrior draw their musical influences from the 80's heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 scene including such fellow German bands as Helloween

Helloween

Helloween is a German power metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band was a pioneering force in the European Power Metal movement and their second and third studio albums, Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt...

 and Running Wild

Running Wild (band)

Running Wild is a German heavy metal band, formed in 1976 in Hamburg. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s. The band has carved its niche in the metal world as the first "pirate metal" band, a theme which took off with the release of Under...

.

Their debut full length album Stormwarrior, released in 2002, and their 2004 follow up Northern Rage were both produced by Kai Hansen

Kai Hansen

Kai Michael Hansen is a power metal guitarist and vocalist.Hansen is the founder, lead guitarist, and vocalist of power metal band Gamma Ray, and the co-founder and former member of German metal band Helloween. He is a prominent figure in power metal, and has sold millions of albums worldwide...

 of Helloween and Gamma Ray

Gamma Ray (band)

Gamma Ray is a power metal band from Hamburg, northern Germany, founded and fronted by Kai Hansen after his departure from the German power metal Helloween. Hansen is the current lead vocalist, guitarist as well as the chief songwriter of Gamma Ray. The band is known as one of the most prominent...

 fame who also contributed vocal and guitar performances on some songs. Much of Stormwarrior's lyrical content deals with Viking

Viking

The term Viking is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.These Norsemen used their famed longships to...

 related themes.

Current

• Lars Ramcke - Vocals and Guitar
• Alex Guth - Guitar
• Yenz Leonhardt
  Yenz Leonhardt
  Jens Arnsted is a heavy metal musician born 4 July in Vordingborg, Denmark...
  
   - Bass
• Hendrik Thiesbrummel - Drums

Former

• Jaume (Tuno) - Guitar
• Jussi Zimmermann - Bass
• Andre Schumann - Drums
• Falko Reshöft - Drums
• Tim Zienert - Bass
• Gabriel Palermo - Bass
• David Wiczorek - Guitar

Albums

• Stormwarrior (2002)
• Northern Rage (2004)
• At Foreign Shores (2006)
• Heading Northe (2008)
• Heathen Warrior (2011)

Demos / EPs

• Metal Victory (1998)
• Barbaric Steel (1999)
• Possessed by Metal (2001)
• Spikes and Leather (2002)
• Heavy Metal Fire (2003)
• Odens Krigare (2004)

External links

• Official Runestone
• Metal Archives page