BONFIRE

Groupe que j'ai découvert en 1988 pendant mon service militaire en Allemagne avec le superbe album "fireworks" ,etant enfermé a l'armurerie ,autant dire que cet album et celui de Treat "dreamhunter" autre découverte ont tournée des centaines de fois ,groupe que j'apprecie toujours autant !



le groupe en 1988

BONFIRE est un groupe allemand de hard rock et de heavy metal créé en mai 1986 à Ingolstadt en Bavière par CLAUS LESSMANN (chant, né le 11/09/1960, ex-GINGER et ex-SUNSET), HANS ZILLER (guitare, né JOHANN ZILLER le 18/05/1958), HORST MAIER-THORN (guitare), JOERG DEISINGER (basse/guitare, né le 23/05/1966 à Nuremberg) et DOMINIK HÜLSHORST (batterie).
En 1972, ces derniers fondent un premier groupe, CACUMEN, qui sort 2 véritables albums en 1981 et 1983. DOMINIK est remplacé en décembre 1987 par EDGAR PATRICK (batterie). En août 1988 arrive ANGEL SCHLEIFER (guitare). En septembre 1992, CLAUS LESSMANN ayant fondé LESSMANN/ZILLER avec HANS (qui vient juste de quitter les EZ LIVIN') cède sa place à MICHAEL BORMANN (chant).
LESSMANN fonde aussi le groupe EX en 1994. Retour de CLAUS et de HANS dans BONFIRE en juillet 1996. En mai 1997 arrivent au sein de BONFIRE, CHRIS LAUSMANN (guitare/claviers), UWE KOHLER (basse) et JURGEN WIEHLER (batterie). MICHAEL BORMANN forme alors le groupe CHARADE avec ANGEL SCHLEIFER. Le guitariste CHRIS LIMBURG arrive en 2006 dans BONFIRE.
LINE UP :

• Claus Lessmann - lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitars, bass, rhythm guitars (1978–1992, 1992–present)
  
• Hans Ziller - lead guitar, rhythm guitar, talkbox, acoustic guitar, backing vocals, sitar, slide guitar (1972–1989, 1992–present)
  
• Chris Limburg - guitars (2006–present)
  
• Uwe Köhler - bass, backing vocals (1997–present)
  
• Harry Reischmann - drums (2012–present)
  

Bonfire/Cacumen/Charade

• Karl Ziller - guitars (1972–1980)
  
• Hanns Schmidt-Theißen - keyboards (circa 1977-1980)
  
• Hans Hauptmann - bass (circa 1972-1982)
  
• Hans Forstner - drums (circa 1972-1986)
  
• Robert Prskalowicz - bass (1982–1986)
  
• Horst Maier-Thorn - lead guitars, rhythm guitars, backing vocals (circa 1972-1988)
  
• Michael Bormann - lead vocals, acoustic guitar (1993–1994; 1997-2011 as Charade)
  
• Angel Schleifer - lead guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals (1988–1994; 1997-2011 as Charade)
  
• Joerg Deisinger - bass, backing vocals, mouth drums (1986–1994, 1995 with Ex)
  
• Edgar Patrik - drums, percussion, backing vocals (1987–1994)
  
• Chris Lausmann - rhythm guitar, lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals (1992–2002)
  
• Jürgen "Bam Bam" Wiehler - drums, percussion, backing vocals (1997–2009)
  
• Dominik Hülshorst - drums, percussion, backing vocals (1986–1987; 1995 with Ex; 2009–2012)
  

Cacumen

• 1979: "Riding Away" (single)
  
• 1981: Cacumen
  
• 1983: Bad Widow
  
• 1985: Longing For You EP
  

Bonfire (1986 - present)


Studio albums

• 1986: Don't Touch the Light
  
• 1987: Fireworks
  
• 1989: Point Blank
  
• 1991: Knock Out
  
• 1996: Feels Like Comin' Home
  
• 1996: Freudenfeuer (German version of Feels Like Comin' Home)
  
• 1998: Rebel Soul
  
• 1999: Fuel to theFlames
  
• 2001: Strike Ten
  
• 2003: Free
  
• 2006: Double X
  
• 2008: The Räuber
  
• 2011: Branded
  

Live albums

• 1993: Live...The Best
  
• 2002: Live Over Europe!
  
• 2005: One Acoustic Night
  
• 2007: Double Vision
  
• 2011: Fireworks Still Alive
  

Compilation albums

• 1997: Hot & Slow
  
• 2000: Who's Foolin' Who
  
• 2001: 29 Golden Bullets
  
• 2009: You Make Me Feel
  

Box sets

• 2004: The Early Days
  

Singles

• 1989: Sword and Stone
  
• 1998: Because It's Christmas Time
  
• 2003: Tell Me What U Know
  
• 2004: Schanzer Herz
  
• 2010: Deutsche Nationalhymne
  
• 2012: Cry For Help EP
  

VHS / DVDs

• 1993: The Best (VHS)
  
• 2001: Golden Bullets (DVD, reissue of The Best)
  
• 2005: One Acoustic Night (DVD)
  
• 2007: Double Vision (DVD)
  
• 2008: The Räuber - Live (DVD)
  

Lessmann/Ziller

• 1993: Glaub Dran
  
• 1994: Charlie & Louise (single)
  
• 1994: Für Dich (single)
  

Ex

• 1995: Die Antwort Weiß Der Wind (single)
  

Charade

• 1998: Charade
  
• 2004: II
  

DON'T TOUCH THE LIGHT
- 1986 -FIRE WORKS
- 1987 -POINT BLANK
- 1989 -KNOCKOUT
- 1991 -LIVE...THE BEST
- 1993 -FEELS LIKE COMIN' HOME
- 1996 -/span> FREUDENFEUER
- 1996 -REBEL SOUL - 1997 -HOST & SLOW
- 1997 -FUEL TO THE FLAMES
- 1999 -STRIKE X
- 2000 -29 GOLDEN BULLETS
- 2001 -LIVE OVER EUROPE !
- 2003 -FREE
- 2003 -ONE ACOUSTIC NIGHT
- 2005 -DOUBLE X
- 2006 -THE RAÜBER
15/02/2008Branded
-21/01/2011-Fireworks...Still alive!
-07/10/2011-

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Track listing:
1. "Intro" (0:00)
2. "Starin' Eyes" (1:56)
3. "Hot To Rock" (6:05)
4. "You Make Me Feel" (10:17)
5. "Longing For You" (15:01)
6. "Don't Touch The Light" (18:46)
7. "S.D.I." (23:17)
8. "No More" (29:04)
9. "L.A." (33:14)

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Track listing:
1. "Ready 4 Reaction" (0:00)
2. "Never Mind" (3:43)
3. "Sleeping All Alone" (7:21)
4. "Champion" (10:56)
5. "Don't Get Me Wrong" (14:27)
6. "Sweet Obsession" (17:52)
7. "Rock Me Now" (20:54)
8. "American Nights" (25:10)
9. "Fantasy" (28:51)
10. "Give It a Try" (33:32)
11. "Cold Days" (38:04)

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Track listing:
1. "Bang Down the Door" (0:00)
2. "Waste No Time" (03:20)
3. "Hard on Me" (06:32)
4. "Why Is It Never Enough?" (09:39)
5. "Tony's Roulette" (13:50)
6. "Minestrone" (18:34)
7. "You're Back" (19:32)
8. "Look of Love" (22:42)
9. "The Price of Loving You" (27:24)
10. "Freedom Is My Belief" (30:28)
11. "Gimme Some" (34:11)
12. "Say Goodbye" (37:27)
13. "Never Surrender" (41:09)
14. "(20th Century) Youth Patrol" (46:09)
15. "Jungle Call" (49:33)
16. "Know Right Now" (50:03)
17. "Who's Foolin' Who" (53:55)

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Track listing:
1. "Streets Of Freedom" (0:00)
2. "The Stroke" (4:59)
3. "Dirty Love" (9:24)
4. "Rivers Of Glory" (13:14)
5. "Home Babe" (18:08)
6. "Shake Down" (23:05)
7. "Hold You" (26:09)
8. "Down And Out" (30:29)
9. "Take My Heart And Run" (34:08)
10. "All We Got" (40:03)
11. "Fight For Love" (44:45)
12. "Tonmeister" (49:59)

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Track listing:
1. "Revelation Day" (0:00)
2. "Under Blue Skies" (0:43)
3. "Strike Back" (6:18)
4. "Down To Atlanta" (11:12)
5. "Southern Winds" (15:14)
6. "Good Time Rock 'N' Roll" (20:05)
7. "Until The Last Goodbye" (25:06)
8. "Diamonds In The Rough" (29:38)
9. "Damn You" (33:52)
10. "Anytime You Cry" (38:13)
11. "Too Much Hollywood" (43:48)
12. "I Need You" (48:54)
13. "Angel In White" (53:33)

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Track listing:
1. "The Rauber" (0:00)
2. "Bells Of Freedom" (0:57)
3. "Refugee Of Fate" (6:11)
4. "The Oath" (10:17)
5. "Blut Und Todt" (11:29)
6. "Love Don't Lie" (15:20)
7. "Black Night" (20:58)
8. "Hip Hip Hurray" (25:44)
9. "Do You Still Love Me" (30:43)
10. "Let Me Be Your Water" (34:42)
11. "Lass Die Toten Schlafen" (40:00)
12. "The Good Die Young" (44:39)
13. "Time" (48:56)
14. "Father's Return" (54:21)
15. "Love Don't Lie (Acoustic Mix)" (56:56)
16. "Do You Still Love Me (Acoustic Mix)" (01:02:12)
17. "Hip Hip Hurray (German Version)" (01:06:09)

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Track listing:
1. "Day 911" (0:00)
2. "But We Still Rock" (5:43)
3. "Cry For Help" (9:49)
4. "Bet Your Bottom Dollar" (14:24)
5. "What's On Your Mind?" (18:55)
6. "Blink Of An Eye" (23:12)
7. "Rap Is Crap!" (29:21)
8. "Notion Of Love" (33:10)
9. "Right Things Right" (36:47)
10. "Hard To Say" (40:38)
11. "Wings To Fly" (44:31)
12. "So What?" (49:14)
13. "Blink Of An Eye (Extended Version)" (53:53)
14. "R.I.C." (01:01:43)

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Track listing:
1. "Deadly Contradiction" (0:00)
2. "Just Follow The Rainbow" (5:47)
3. "Save Me" (9:36)
4. "Let It Grow" (14:55)
5. "Better Days" (20:07)
6. "Do Or Die" (27:17)
7. "Close To The Edge" (33:18)
8. "Crazy" (38:09)
9. "Loser's Lane" (42:34)
10. "Hold Me Now" (45:53)
11. "I Need You (Private Version 2011)" (51:36)
12. "Rivers Of Glory (Private Version 2011)" (55:15)

Le groupe allemand de hard rockBONFIRE sortira son quatorzième album, intitulé Byte The Büllet, en avril 2017.

L’album est actuellement en cours d’enregistrement aux Flatliners Studios d’Ingolstadt, le fief du groupe en Allemagne.

BONFIRE sortira son quinzième album, intitulé Temple Of Lies, le 13 avril via AFM Records.

Produit par le guitariste Hans Ziller, il s’agit du premier album avec le nouveau chanteur Alexx Stahl.

Tracklist :

01. In The Beginning
02. Temple Of Lies
03. On The Wings Of An Angel
04. Feed The Fire (Like The Bonfire)
05. Stand Or Fall
06. Comin’ Home
07. I’ll Never Be Loved By You
08. Fly Away
09. I Help You Hate Me
10. Crazy Over You
11. Comin’ Home (version acoustique) (digipack bonus track)
12. Friedensreich – Let The Madness Continue (director’s cut) (digipack bonus track)

Une parution très spéciale, les légendes du Hard'n'Heavy
se retrouvent sur l'album de BONFIRE  "Legends", un album double avec 32 classiques du Rock et du Metal
qui sortira le 19 octobre 2018





CD1

01. Africa
02. Hold The Line
03. Rosanna
04. Man On The Silver Mountain
05. I Surrender
06. Stone Cold
07. Death Alley Driver
08. Black Masquerade
09. Burning Heart
10. Eye Of Tiger
11. Caught In The Game
12. Doctor Doctor
13. Lights Out
14. Rock Bottom
15. Child In Time

CD2

01. Jet City Woman
02. Silent Lucidity
03. Eyes Of A Stranger
04. Tears In The Rain
05. The First Time
06. Save Up All Your Tears
07. Hot Cherie
08. Dr. Love
09. Hallelujah
10. Rebellion
11. Heavy Metal Breakdown
12. Love Don't Lie
13. I Wanna Be Loved
14. King Of Dreams
15. Frei Wie Die Geier
16. Erinnerung
17. Alt Wie Ein Baum

Tracklist:

1.In The Beginning
2.Ready 4 Reaction
3.Never Mind
4.Don’t Touch The Light
5.American Nights
6.Give It A Try
7.Sword And Stone
8.SDI
9.Sweet Obsession
10.Champion

Bonus:
11.Praying 4 A Miracle
12.Locomotive Breath
13.American Nights (2019)
14.Sweet Obsession (2019)

BONFIRE  a sorti son nouvel album, intitulé Fistful Of Fire, le 3 avril 2020 via AFM Records.

Le nouvel album a été enregistré en collaboration avec l’ingénieur du son Tom Müller aux Flatliners Recording Studios d’Ingolstadt.

Tracklist :

01. The Joker
02. Gotta Get Away
03. The Devil Made Me Do It
04. Ride The Blade
05. When An Old Man Cries
06. Rock’n’Roll Survivors
07. Fire And Ice
08. Warrior
09. Fire Etude
10. Breaking Out
11. Fistful Of Fire
12. The Surge
13. Gloryland
14. When An Old Man Cries (Acoustic Version)







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The upcoming Bonfire album "Roots" is available now in our shop as Ltd. Red Vinyl and CD, check it out now: https://shop.afm-records.de/bonfire/
See the full tracklist in the picture below, it's a magnificent half-acoustic-album with 24 tracks recorded completely over again and interpreted in new ways. It includes very young ballads like “When An Old Man Cries” and old evergreens like “You Make Me Feel”, contains old rock hits like “Ready 4 Reaction” and "American Nights" but also arising rock hymns like “The Devil Made Me Do It” - have a look yourself!
The band recently runs a crowdfunding campaign around this new album and offers a lot of special stuff besides the new album, you can find various merch items, living room concerts, VIP tickets for their streaming release show, etc.
https://www.startnext.com/bonfire-back-to-the-roots