STORMY NIGHT

# What was your first album purchase?

Yvan (guitars): Deep Purple ~ Perfect Stranger. I bought it 20 years ago and I still listen to it!

Serge (drums): AC/DC ~ Let There Be Rock. The best rock’n’roll album ever!

Denis (bass): Alice Cooper ~ Constrictor.

Phil (vocals): AC/DC ~ Highway to Hell

# What was your latest album purchase?

Y: UDO ~ Mission n°X . I’ve seen them on stage and I bought this album right after.

S: Primal Fear ~ Seven Seals. The German Killer commando!

D: After Forever ~ Remagine

P: Edguy ~ Rocket Ride. The sound is perfect.

# Which single album has changed your perception of music?

Y: Accept ~ Metal Heart. This is the first album of German heavy metal that I’ve heard. They’re the best in the world!

S: Iron Maiden ~ Piece of Mind

D: Alice Cooper ~ Constrictor

P: The first live album of Judas Priest

# Which album would you pick up for your best friend?

Y: Queensrÿche ~ Operation Mindcrime. All that I love in music in one album!

S: DIO ~ Holy Diver (Ronnie the Master)

D: Stormy Night ~ Ball of Thunder (!!!)

P: Deep Purple ~ Come Taste the Band. “Getting Tighter” is the best song; I still listen to it.

# And which album would you pick up your worst enemy?

Y: Cryme ~ Scene of the Cryme. It’s a Joke for Phil!

S: Madonna ~ Confessions on the Dance Floor. No comments!

D: Stormy Night ~ Ball of Thunder

P: M. Pokora

# Which album would you use to seduce a person of the other sex?

Y: Pretty Maids ~ Stripped. What kind of girl can resist to this?

S: Scorpions ~ Blackout

D: Alice Cooper ~ Trash

P: Deep Purple ~ Stormbringer. I’ve fucked on this all night long with my first girlfriend

# Your preferred album to fall asleep to?

Y: Hammerfall ~ Renegade

S: Mozart ~ Requiem

D: Savatage ~ Street (A Rock Opera). Chris Oliva – the best for ever!

# Your preferred album to wake up to/banish hangovers with?

Y: Bon Jovi ~ Bon Jovi. That makes me feel good!

S: Kreator ~ Coma of Souls

D: Slayer ~ Reign in Blood

# Your preferred album to sing along to in the shower?

Y: Token ~ Punch. It’s my girlfriend who listens to this in the shower and I like it too!

S: Primal Fear ~ Nuclear Fire

D: Stratovarius ~ Infinite

# Please recommend an album from the 80s!

Y: Dokken ~ Back for the Attack. (FM and Punchy)

S: AC/DC ~ Back in Black

D: Yngwie Malmsteen ~ Odyssey

P: Mötley Crüe ~ Shout at the Devil

# Please recommend an album from the 90s!

Y: Primal Fear ~ Primal Fear. Still the same as in the 80’s! New with old.

S: Saxon ~ Unleashed the Beast

D: Nightwish ~ Angels Fall First

# Please recommend an album from after the turn of the millennium!

Y: Steel Attack ~ Predator of the Empire. Very Promising!

S: Hammerfall ~ Chapter 5

D: DIO ~ Killing the Dragon

# What is the most embarrassing album in your collection?

Y: Def Leppard ~ Slang (just to complete my collection!)

S: Judas Priest ~ Jugulator (me too!)

D: Helloween ~ Chameleon

P: Metallica ~ Load

# And what is the most valuable item in your record collection?

Y: Queensrÿche ~ Operation Mindcrime

S: Iron Maiden ~ Powerslave

D: Yngwie Malmsteen ~ Rising Force

# Most represented band by raw numbers in your collection?

Y: Judas Priest

S: AC/DC

D : Yngwie Malmsteen

# Most disappointing album you ever bought?

Y: Dokken ~ Dysfunctional. They’ve changed their style!

S: Metallica ~ Metallica (‘Black Album’)

D: Iron Maiden ~ Brave New World

# Name the one album you would have loved the most to have contributed on?

Y: UDO ~ Animal House. Accept without Accept

S: Blaze ~ Tenth Dimension

D: Savatage ~ Gutter Ballet

# Name the album that you and your record collection lacks the most?

Y: Hammerfall ~ Chapter 5. Not time enough!

S: Edguy ~ Mandrake

D: Iron Maiden ~ The Number of the Beast

# Name the song you would like to have played at your funeral?

Y: Axel Rudi Pell ~ “The Masquerade of Ball”

S: Iron Maiden ~ “Flight of Icarus”

D: Savatage ~ “Somewhere in Time” / “Believe”

# Name three albums you would bring along to a deserted island?

Y:

Bon Jovi ~ Bon Jovi
Dokken ~ Beast from the East
Queensrÿche ~ Operation Mindcrime

S:

Iron Maiden ~ Piece of Mind
AC/DC ~ Let There Be Rock
Overkill ~ Feel the Fire

D:

Stratovarius ~ Dreamspace
Iron Maiden ~ 7th Son of a 7th Son
Yngwie Malmsteen ~ Rising Force

P:

Deep Purple ~ Come Taste the Band
Stevie Wonder ~ The Song of the Key of Life
Judas Priest ~ British Steel