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Biography
Infobox musical artist | | name = Firebird| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = United Kingdom|U.K. | genre = Blues-rock , stoner rock | years_active = 1999–2011| label = Rise Above Records Music for Nations SPV GmbH|Steamhammer Records | associated_acts = Napalm Death Carcass (band)|Carcass Spiritual Beggars Cathedral (band)|Cathedral Mourn Sloth Orange Goblin Circulus Blacksmith Trespass Blind Dog The Quill (band)|The Quill End of Level Boss Church of Misery Gentlemans Pistols | website =| current_members = Bill Steer Ludwig Witt Greyum May| past_members = Leo Smee Tom Broman Tobias Nilsson Roger Nilsson George Atlagic Alan French Al Steer Harry Armstrong Smok Smoczkiewicz Tom Sutton Terry Waker Firebird was a United Kingdom|British blues-rock power trio founded by Bill Steer in 1999. The music style, reminiscent of seventies rock bands such as Cream (band)|Cream , is a radical departure from Steer's previous work with grindcore pioneers Napalm Death and death metal band Carcass (band)|Carcass .
History
Firebird came together in 1999 when Steer teamed up with Cathedral (band)|Cathedral bassist Leo Smee and Spiritual Beggars drummer Ludwig Witt. http://www.musicmight.com/linkto/artist/{67F772A0-0594-4210-958A-D270AB0 Firebird at MusicMight This line-up recorded both Firebird and Deluxe . http://www.bnrmetal.com/v2/bandpage.php? ID=Firb Firebird at BNR Metal Both bassist and drummer departed due to commitments with their primary bands before a 2001 European tour that saw Steer teaming up with Blind Dog bassist Tobias Nilsson and The Quill (band)|Quill drummer George Atlagic. In 2002 Steer announced yet another line-up consisting of drummer Atlagic and Quill and Spiritual Beggars bassist Roger Nilsson. This line-up recorded 2003's No. 3 . Since then many line-up changes occurred but significantly Steer reunited with Witt on 2006's Hot Wings and have remained the core of the line up ever since recording two more albums, 2009's Grand Union (Firebird album)| Grand Union and 2010's Double Diamond .
Eventually, the band on 3 April 2012, announced that they'll "call it a day" due to reasons which "are too numerous to go into here". The band wrote on it's official Facebook page:
cquote| As some of you are probably already aware, at the end of 2011 Firebird decided to call it a day. The reasons are too numerous to go into here. But we would like to thank everyone who helped the band over the years, and the friends we made up and down the country, as well as the many lovely people we met overseas. ... |author=Firebird"
http://www.myspace.com/firebirdblues Official MySpace page
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