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German progressive power metallers
FACTORY OF ART
have anounced some summer 2024
live dates
live dates of FACTORY OF ART:
06.06. Leipzig – Hellraiser – Release Party
07.06. Berlin – METAL GODs OPEN AIR
15.06. Collis bei Gera – C:O:A Rock am Teich
17.08. Leipzig – Anker
German progressive power metal act
FACTORY OF ART
anounce the release party
of album
‘Back To Life’
doors open: 19:00
showtime: 20:00
damage:
pre sales: 10 Euro
box office: 15 Euro
After about a year and a half Factory Of Art almost finished their new album ‘BACK TO LIFE’.
They present it in an exclusive and elaborate show:
Record Release Party
on Thursday, June 6th, 2024
from 7 p.m
at the Hellraiser Leipzig
Next to them on stage will be Amarcord, who will perform two songs from the new album.
On June 7th, 2024 Factory Of Art will go to Berlin for the METAL GODs V OPEN AIR 2024.
German progressive power metal band
FACTORY OF ART
will ‘release’ EP
‘Story Of Pain’
on all streaming-platforms
The Leipzig prog metallers FACTORY OF ART have unpacked a surprise for their fans:
The EP ‘Story of Pain’ from 1999 will be available on all streaming portals on February 10, 2024.
A brilliant journey back in time!
The EP contains three songs that reflect the band’s typical style:
hard riffs, melodic solos and powerful vocals.
Every song on this EP tells a profound story of pain, loss and hope.
As a promotional EP, intended for labels in a very limited edition, it reached ROCK HARD magazine.
With the song ‘Story of Pain’ FACTORY OF ART won the ‘Unerhört 5’ campaign, which put them on the CD of the same name and led to a small tour with Destruction.
The 3 songs from the EP were re-recorded for the following album ‘The Tempter’, so the EP contains different recordings.
This makes this EP not only a musical piece of band and music history, but also a collector’s item.
The band will inform about the new release on their social media channels and would like to thank all fans for their loyalty.
German progressive power metal band
FACTORY OF ART
has been nominated for the
41st German Rock & Pop Prize 2023
The Leipzig band Factory of Art has been nominated for the 41st German Rock & Pop Prize 2023 in the German Hard Rock Prize category (best hard rock band).
Factory of Art is one of 3 bands nominated for the 41st German Rock & Pop Prize 2023 in the German Hard Rock Prize category (best hard rock band).
The German Rock & Pop Musicians’ Association (DRMV) announced this in a letter to the band on November 6, 2023.
Already in 1993, Factory of Art represented the 11th Federal Rock Festival Deutscher Rockpreis’93 in Bielefeld and took 6th place.
Petri (singer of the band) says:
“We are very proud that we have been able to do this again after so many years.”
The German Rock & Pop Prize is a renowned award that has been presented annually since 1983 by the German Rock & Pop Musicians’ Association (DRMV) and is aimed at musicians from the field of rock and pop music.
The award is considered the most prestigious prize for promoting young German rock and pop artists.
Which ranking Factory of Art achieves will be announced on December 16, 2023 at the official awards gala in the Siegerland Hall in Siegen and band is already excited to see who will win.
FACTORY OF ART
a German progressive power metal group
Factory of Art are:
Ronald ‘Ron’ Losch – bass
Gunter Lange – keyboard, vocals
Jens ‘Petri’ Schmikale – vocals
Ralph-Marcel Dietrich – drums
Thoralf Schulze – guitars
former members:
Heiko ‘Flecke’ Flechsig – guitars – 1990–2004
Bernd Fleischer – guitars – 1991–1993
Joe F. Winter – guitars – 1993–2005
Jens Legler – guitars – 2005–2006
Marc Hückstädt – keyboards – 1990–1993
Gunter Lange – keyboards, vocals – 1991–1998
Ekkehard ‘Ekky’ Meister – keyboards – 1998–2006
Michael Kühne – drums – 1990–1991
Thorsten Wolf – drums – 1991–1998
Ralph-Marcel Dietrich – drums – 1998–2004
Henry Weihrauch – drums – 2004–2006
diskografie:
1990: …No Better World! – Demo
1993: Roadrunner Session – Demo
1993: …No Better World!! – Single
1996: Grasp!!! – Album
1997: Point of No Return – EP
1999: Story of Pain – Single
2002: The Tempter – Album
live-dates to come:
14.10.2023 – Schkeuditz, D – Sonne Rocknight with METALL and CNVX
21.10.2023 – Treuenbrietzen, D – Metalnight with Hel’s Throne
Artfully arranged, timeless rhythms, which form an extraordinary symbiosis of progressive, power and classic metal, are complemented by lyrics that score with their expressiveness and clearly stick in your ear.
FACTORY OF ART, founded in Leipzig in 1990, is preparing to celebrate the band’s 30th anniversary.
Known everywhere as the East German Hard’n’Heavy hope in the 1990s, FACTORY OF ART rocked as a guarantor of the best stage shows with scene greats such as Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, Grave Digger, Skyclad, Sodom, Nevermore and many others more the club and festival stages in Germany, Europe and beyond.
FACTORY OF ART unite band members from 3 decades of band history in their current line-up.
After more than a decade of musical work at FACTORY UNDER COVER, e.g. the two lead singers restart the future-oriented machinery of the art factory.
Absolute musical uniqueness and performance professionalism in harmony with spectacular stage shows are the hallmarks of the Leipzig formation, which proudly boasts a considerable range of renowned music awards (German Rock Prize 1993, Golden Rockinger 1994, winner of the ‘Unerhör! 2000’ by Rock Hard Magazine) and has left its musical mark on the AFM Records label in the form of various sound carriers.
…No Better World!! (Mini-CD, 1993), Grasp!!! (Full Album, 1996), Point Of No Return (EP, 1997) and The Tempter (Full Album, 2002) are examples and recommended as a reliable gateway drug into the art factory set to music.
With the upcoming new album ‘Back To Life’ the 5 musicians of the band continue to go their own way, but will break new musical grounds, too.