Artist: UDO
Genre(s):
Metal: Heavy
Discography:
Live in Russia part II
Year:
Tracks: 12
2001 Live in Russia part I
Year:
Tracks: 14
Following his 1987 exit from the German business leader alloy band Accept, vocaliser Udo Dirkschneider formed U.D.O. with guitarists Peter Szigeti and Mathias Dieth, bassist Frank Rittel and drummer Tomas Franke. The group's debut album, Fauna House, was in fact written by Dirkschneider's other couple in Accept, and by the time of the 1988 follow-up Meanspirited Machine, Szigeti, Rittel and Franke had all been pink-slipped, replaced by guitar player Andy Susemihl, bassist Thomas Smuszynski and drummer Stefan Schwarzmann. Susemihl himself was out of U.D.O. for 1990's Faceless World, replaced by guitar player Wolla Böhm; the same roll recorded 1991's Timebomb, although the band split in the arouse of a subsequent circuit, with Dirkschneider rejoining Accept from 1992 to 1996. He reformed U.D.O. with Dieth, Schwarzmann, guitar player Stefan Kaufmann and bassist Michael Voss to contribute a track to the Judas Priest tribute album Legends of Metal; only Schwarzmann and Kaufmann remained on gameboard for 1997's full-length Solid, which featured new guitarist Jürgen Graf-Biardi and bassist Fitty Weinhold. No Limits followed a year by and by, and in 1999 U.D.O. resurfaced with Holy.
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