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Biography
Infobox musical artist | name = Die Apokalyptischen Reiter| image = Fuchs_feuer.jpg| caption = Lead singer Fuchs at Wacken Open Air 2007| image_size =| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Germany | genre = Avant-Garde metal Thrash metal Melodic death metal Heavy metal music|Heavy metal http://www.discogs.com/artist/Die+Apokalyptischen+Reiter Folk metal http://www.bnrmetal.com/v2/bandpage.php? ID=DAR| years_active = 1995& ndash;present| label = Nuclear Blast , The End Records | associated_acts = Disaster KFW My Demons Diversity Enemy Target| website = http://www.reitermania.de| current_members = Fuchs - Vocals Volkmar Weber|Volk-Man - Bass Dr. Pest - Keyboards Sir G. - Drums Ady - Guitar| past_members = Skelleton - Drums, Vocals Pitrone - Guitar Lady Cat-man - Guitar http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/display/12806248| notable_instruments = Die Apokalyptischen Reiter is a Weimar , Germany based heavy metal music|heavy metal band signed to Nuclear Blast in Europe and The End Records in North America. Their name translates to Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse|The Apocalyptic Horsemen .
Style
Their original style (featured on their releases up to and including Allegro Barbaro - and a few songs on All you need is love ) consists of death/thrash metal blended with melodic compositions. In later albums, the death metal influence has declined, resulting in less chaotic composition (often centered around a Verse-chorus form|verse and chorus with a Bridge (music)|bridge and Guitar solo#Guitar solos in rock music|solo ), more constant tempo, longer songs and clean vocals (although not exclusively), resulting in a more polished and accessible sound. They use lyrics in both English language|English and German language|German with a shift from mainly English songs to more German ones on recent albums ( Licht (album)|Licht is purely in German).
The release of "Have a Nice Trip" marked somewhat of a turning point for the band. Although they retained the essence of heavy metal, they began experimenting with many other styles of music such as Ambient music|ambient and jazz .
http://www.reitermania.de Official German homepage
http://www.reitermaniacs.de Official German fanclub
http://www.nuclearblast.de/de/label/music/band/about/70980.die-apokalyptischen-reiter.html Nuclear Blast Artist Profile
MySpace|reitermania|Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
DEFAULTSORT:Apokalyptischen Reiter Category:German heavy metal musical groups Category:German thrash metal musical groups Category:Musical groups established in 1995
