{"id":71643,"date":"2018-08-17T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=71643"},"modified":"2018-09-09T15:14:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T15:14:01","slug":"feature-doro-08-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/feature-doro-08-18\/","title":{"rendered":"DORO &#8211; Living Metal To The Fullest (August 2018) | Features \/ Interviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title\"><strong>DORO &#8211; Living Metal To The Fullest<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"smalltitle\">Anthony Morgan<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\">August 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedleft\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/doropesch2018promophoto1.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/><span class=\"smalltext\"><strong><em>Doro Pesch<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nIan \u2018Lemmy\u2019 Kilmister, frontman of hard rock trio Mot\u00f6rhead, <a href=\"\/site\/news-motorhead-frontman-lemmy-kilmister-dies-aged-70\/\">died<\/a> on December 28th, 2015 at the age of 70 following a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer. Lemmy\u2019s passing acted as the catalyst for August 2018 double-album affair <a href=\"\/site\/album-review-doro-forever-warriors-forever-united\/\"><em>Forever Warriors, Forever United<\/em><\/a>, the 13th full-length solo studio album from D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany-based metal vocalist Doro. The jaunt was originally not projected to consist of two discs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Lemmy left us, I was so heartbroken,\u201d Doro shares. \u201cLemmy was my best friend, and I went to the funeral. I was flying, and on the plane I got this idea to write a song for Lemmy to honour him, and to give thanks. It all came out at the same time, lyrics and melody, and it was the song \u2018Living Life To The Fullest\u2019. I thought \u2018I want to record it right away,\u2019 so I went to Hamburg and started working on that song with a great friend of mine. Andreas Bruhn was his name; he\u2019s the ex-guitar player of The Sisters Of Mercy, and we have a long history of working together &#8211; at least 22 years. We did the last one, <a href=\"\/site\/album-review-doro-raise-your-fist\/\"><em>Raise Your Fist<\/em><\/a> (July 2012), together. Many, many songs, and this duet with Lemmy &#8211; it was called \u2018It Still Hurts\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said \u2018Andreas, I have this song for Lemmy. I want to record it right away,\u2019 and so we started working. That was kind of like a wake up call. I thought \u2018Man, you never know what will happen,\u2019 like if you\u2019re still alive in a year, or if the world will be still standing. I had this feeling that I wanted to do a new record now. I put all of my energy, heart and soul into it, and then suddenly we were songwriting. So many ideas came out; it was really an intense, creative phase, and then after a little while, I had like 45-50 songs. Then I called the record company and said \u2018I would love to do a double album, because I have so many songs. Some of them have great potential.\u2019 Then a couple of months ago, they called me back and said \u2018Yeah, go for it. Do it.\u2019 That\u2019s the reason why it became a double album. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had so many songs that really had something to say, with great meanings, great melodies. It\u2019s an album that\u2019s full of anthems, and heavy songs, and fast songs. \u2018Bastardos\u2019 is one of the heaviest and fastest songs. We have a duet with Johan Hegg, which is called \u2018If I Can\u2019t Have You \u2013 No One Will\u2019. It just came out as a video; I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve seen it, but it came out really nice. Yeah, there\u2019s some soulful songs, some ballads. We have many guests playing on it and singing, which always makes me so happy. I love it when people I love and who are heroes of mine participate &#8211; that always means a lot to me. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had Doug Aldrich playing great licks and solos on the song \u2018Heartbroken\u2019, and Johan Hegg from Amon Amarth was a duet partner on the song \u2018If I Can\u2019t Have You \u2013 No One Will\u2019. Then the anthem was the first single, which was \u2018All For Metal\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018All For Metal\u2019 reminds me a little bit of \u2018All We Are\u2019, and many people sing on it; Mille (Petrozza) of Kreator, Johan Hegg of Amon Amarth, Chuck Billy of Testament, Warrel Dane &#8211; who\u2019s unfortunately not with us any more &#8211; Jeff Waters from Annihilator, the guys from Sabaton, Ross The Boss. My old guitar player from the <em>Triumph And Agony<\/em> album sings on it and plays licks and solos on it. All the songs were such a joy to make, but this one was probably the most fun because everybody sang on the top of their lungs. I had a big studio and recorded everybody, and there were video cameras. When we recorded more and more great guests, I thought \u2018This feels so good. It should be the first single; it should be the first vibe of the new album.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedleft\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/doropesch2018promophoto2.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/><span class=\"smalltext\"><strong><em>Doro Pesch<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\">The frontwoman isn\u2019t drawn when requested to compare <em>Forever Warriors, Forever United<\/em> to previous solo efforts. \u201cI like every single one for different reasons,\u201d she muses. \u201cI think every record had great songs on them, and so they\u2019re still hard to compare. I love them all, and this time&#8230; God, there are 25 songs, which I couldn\u2019t have put on a normal record, when you just have 12 songs and stuff. I put on two cover versions. One is \u2018Lost In The Ozone\u2019, a Mot\u00f6rhead song, which I love so much. \u2018Don\u2019t Break My Heart Again\u2019, it\u2019s a Whitesnake cover. Whitesnake were my first concert I ever saw live, which was in 1980. I was blown away by Whitesnake and David Coverdale; it was so awesome. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always thought \u2018Man, I would love to let people know what I got hooked on, and what was inspiring to me,\u2019 so these two cover songs are on the record. Normally I wouldn\u2019t have put too many covers on, but this time I thought \u2018Yeah, with 25 choices, that\u2019s cool.\u2019 There\u2019s another song, which is in Italian. It\u2019s the song \u2018Caruso\u2019, which is a very unique song. There are some personal songs on it, like \u20181000 Years\u2019 and the song for Lemmy &#8211; \u2018Living Life To The Fullest\u2019. It\u2019s a song for Lemmy; to give him thanks, and to honour him. The whole CD is dedicated to Lemmy Kilmister; in the CD booklet, it says that it\u2019s dedicated to Lemmy Kilmister. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the one hand, it\u2019s a very rocking, very metal album, but with some really soulful, personal songs on it, and the whole spectrum from super-hard to super, super-sensitive and soulful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Lost In The Ozone\u2019\u2019s original rendition was included on November 1993 Mot\u00f6rhead album <em>Bastards<\/em>, the track arguably a lesser known composition of theirs. \u201cI love the lyrics, and I love the melody,\u201d Doro exclaims. \u201cI think that Lemmy was such a phenomenal lyricist, and I think in this song, man, it really shines through. I think the lyrics are so deep, so sad. Every time I was singing it, I had tears in my eyes. Tears were actually rolling down my cheeks, especially with the end of the song when he wrote the lyrics \u2018I turned my face to God, but his face was turned away \/ Lost in the ozone, nothing left to say\u2019. Man, it hit me so deep. I love that song; I think it\u2019s so different, so unique. It\u2019s not the obvious Mot\u00f6rhead song. I love songs of course like \u2018Mot\u00f6rhead\u2019 (from the August 1977 album of the same name) or \u2018Killed By Death\u2019 (from September 1984 compilation <em>No Remorse<\/em>), but I thought that I wanted to sing something which is very melancholic. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, writing songs for this album, it really started with the song for Lemmy &#8211; \u2018Living Life To The Fullest\u2019 &#8211; to honour him. I thought that it should end with a Mot\u00f6rhead song before the bonus tracks came up, and that was very important to me because he was my best friend in the music world. Him and Ronnie James Dio were two I loved so much. I am friends with many, many musicians and singers, but Lemmy, he was the first one that I ever met in England. Actually, it was in 1984 I think. I couldn\u2019t even speak English back then. We met in a pub, and it was by accident, actually. I had to do a little showcase in London, and then I met Lemmy in a pub because I had a couple of hours in-between sound checks and the show. We hit it off right away; we were smoking cigarettes and drinking whisky and Cola, and that was the start of a long, deep friendship. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played many times together, we worked together many times in the studio, and we did many duets together. And yeah, it was awesome. Lemmy was so unbelievable, and Ronnie James Dio as well. I had many great moments, shows, and tours together. One of my first big tours was in \u201987 with Ronnie James Dio, and we toured for many, many shows in the UK. Unforgettable. Man, the world is not the same any more, especially with Lemmy and Dio leaving, and so many other great people. I think it\u2019s tough. I started my first band when I was 16, and you don\u2019t have any worries. Now, it\u2019s hard when you see people leaving, and I think the whole world is very tough out there now. It never felt so hard in the 80s. It\u2019s just no comparison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Don\u2019t Break My Heart Again\u2019 was an early hit for Whitesnake, meanwhile, lifted off of April 1981 LP <em>Come An\u2019 Get It<\/em>. \u201cWhitesnake was my very first concert I ever saw, which was in 1980,\u201d the singer divulges. \u201cMy first band was called Snakebite, and we were big Whitesnake fans. Then we saw Whitesnake live, somewhere in Germany. Man, I was blown away. David Coverdale was so unbelievable; he was so mind-blowing as a singer, as a performer. And yeah, I loved Whitesnake even more after seeing them live, and I always loved that song \u2018Don\u2019t Break My Heart Again\u2019. When I knew that we could do a double album, then I thought \u2018I wanna sing one of my favourite songs.\u2019 Then we tried it out, and I thought \u2018Man, yeah. It feels good.\u2019 I thought \u2018Yeah, let\u2019s put it on the album.\u2019 I thought to not put it on as a bonus track, but to really put it on the album. It feels so good, and I still love David Coverdale. I still love all of my heroes that I grew up with in the 80s. I still love them so much, like David Coverdale and Dio. There are so many great singers that I still adore.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/doro_foreverwarriorsforeveruniteddigipacklarge.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\">Although a former Whitesnake member, Doug Aldrich appears elsewhere on <em>Forever Warriors, Forever United<\/em>. \u201c\u2018Heartbroken\u2019, we wrote a little while ago,\u201d Doro informs. \u201cI met Doug Aldrich at many festivals, actually, and one time he hopped onstage in Las Vegas. We played \u2018Breaking The Law\u2019 together, because I always love playing \u2018Breaking The Law\u2019 (originally on April 1980 Judas Priest album <em>British Steel<\/em>). That actually gives thanks to Judas Priest, who took us out on the road. It was my first big tour, in 1986. We were doing the song together, having a good time, and I thought \u2018Man, Doug is playing so amazing.\u2019 I said \u2018Doug, when we do a new record, would you like to do a solo?\u2019 He said \u2018Yes. Just send me a sing you think would fit.\u2019 A year and a half ago, we wrote the song \u2018Heartbroken\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wrote it with Andreas Bruhn. I said \u2018Andreas, I think this could be a song which maybe Doug would be awesome on.\u2019 So, I sent it to Doug, and then he said \u2018Yeah, I love it. Let\u2019s do it.\u2019 He recorded the song maybe one year ago, whereas \u2018Don\u2019t Break My Heart Again\u2019 was one of the last songs we did just a couple of months ago. I had to deliver the record, and the deadline was already set. I had three songs I wanted to do; they were \u2018Lift Me Up\u2019, \u2018Don\u2019t Break My Heart Again\u2019, and \u2018Caruso\u2019 \u2013 the Italian song. We had like a couple of days left, so I couldn\u2019t contact him to play another solo on \u2018Don\u2019t Break My Heart Again\u2019. That would have been even more awesome, but then we said \u2018Let\u2019s do it.\u2019 Andreas Bruhn, he played many solos on the album, and he did a great job as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Bolan, former bandmate within Warlock and part of the line-up to feature on September 1987 magnum opus <em>Triumph And Agony<\/em>, completes the triumvirate of guitarists. \u201cTo quickly tell you a story, it was a year and a half ago,\u201d the musician details. \u201cI was told \u2018Hey, the <em>Triumph And Agony<\/em> album is almost 30 years old,\u2019 and so then I called Tommy and said \u2018Tommy, we need to celebrate. Let\u2019s do a couple of gigs.\u2019 So, we did a couple of gigs together; one festival was Sweden Rock last year, and then Norway Rock. We were talking and talking. We jammed a little bit in our hotel rooms, at five o\u2019clock in the morning. By seven o\u2019clock, we had to leave to take a plane, but we were jamming, and then the song \u2018If I Can\u2019t Have You \u2013 No One Will\u2019 came out. We wrote it, and then I said \u2018Tommy, I think Johan Hegg would probably be awesome on it.\u2019 He has a really rough, dark voice, which is really cool, and so I sent it to Johan. I said \u2018Johan, hey, here. This is a demo. Would you like to maybe write the lyrics to the verses on it?\u2019 He said \u2018I\u2019d love to,\u2019 so we did the song all together \u2013 Tommy, Johan, and me \u2013 and it was written by us three. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTommy is playing on \u2018Turn It Up\u2019, and he\u2019s singing at the end of it as well; at the end of \u2018Turn It Up\u2019, that\u2019s Tommy singing. He plays all of the solos and the licks, and on \u2018All For Metal\u2019, Tommy is singing and playing licks and solos, as well as Andreas. Andreas Bruhn is playing on many, many songs \u2013 sometimes rhythm guitars, sometimes licks \u2013 but Tommy, he\u2019s doing all of that wired stuff. High energy stuff, that\u2019s Tommy, and he\u2019s now a guest at many shows. We just played at Wacken together a couple of days ago, and we played in France at a festival. I\u2019m very excited, and so yeah. We have three guitar players, so there\u2019s a lot of solos and shredding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If I Can\u2019t Have You \u2013 No One Will\u2019 was augmented by a music video, helmed by David Havlena. \u201cDavid Havlena is now a great friend of ours, from the Czech Republic,\u201d Doro tells. \u201cHe did both videos, by the way; \u2018If I Can\u2019t Have You \u2013 No One Will\u2019, \u2018Lift Me Up\u2019 which is a lyric video, and \u2018All For Metal\u2019. I told him about the story, and then Johan did his part. I did my part, and then this story of these two little kids who loved each other when they were little, that got filmed in the Czech Republic. We went to all kinds of old ruins in Germany, and then Johan filmed stuff in Sweden. I think it came out really beautiful, and I love it. It\u2019s like this dark, possessive love story which probably many people can relate to. I sure can relate when I was a teenager; many times I was in love, and I couldn\u2019t get over a break-up. All of these feelings, like \u2018If I can\u2019t have you, then no-one will,\u2019 it\u2019s deeply emotional stuff. Some love stories do not work out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018All For Metal\u2019 video consists of a live performance interspersed with photographs. \u201cWe filmed all of our guests for \u2018All For Metal\u2019 last summer at Wacken and Summer Breeze, and the last person who was filmed was&#8230;,\u201d the lyricist begins. \u201cWe actually had a festival in the wintertime, and that last person was Chuck Billy of Testament; he was the last one we asked to be a part of the video, and on the song. I just talked to all of my friends. Bands I toured with or was longtime friends with, like Mille of Kreator, who I\u2019ve known him for a long time. We actually started at the same time. When Kreator started, Warlock started, and we are actually from the same label as well. We have a lot of things in common, too. We experienced the beginning of when metal became big and stuff, and that was so cool, him singing and being in the video. Johan Hegg, he\u2019s singing in the video. <\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedleft\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/doroband2018promophoto1.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/><span class=\"smalltext\"><strong><em>Doro band (l-r): Johnny Dee, Nick Douglas, Doro Pesch, Luca Princiotta and <br \/>Bas Maas<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThat was before we even wrote the song \u2018If I Can\u2019t Have You \u2013 No One Will\u2019, and it came about because I was a guest at shows by Amon Amarth at Wacken last year. At the Summer Breeze festival, they wanted to film a DVD, and so I was just a guest for this one song. Then I had time to walk around to talk to everybody, to talk to all of my friends. I saw Warrel Dane at Wacken, and we were always great friends. We toured together in 1988 in the States, and we always maintained a great friendship as well. I asked him what he was doing. He said \u2018I\u2019m working on new songs.\u2019 I said \u2018I\u2019m working on new songs as well. I have a demo with me. Do you want to check it out?\u2019 So, I played him \u2018All For Metal\u2019, and that\u2019s how it came about. Then we recorded Warrel Dane on video, and I always had a little portable recording studio with me. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s great, in this day and age, that there\u2019s great technology and that you can have a little portable recording studio. Jeff Waters was there, from Annihilator. I asked him if he wanted to sing on it, so there\u2019s Johan, Mille, the guys from Sabaton, and many other great guests. Ross The Boss is singing on it (Ross Friedman, ex-Manowar), Rock \u2019N\u2019 Rolf from Running Wild (Rolf Kasparek), and many, many fans as well. That was all recorded at Wacken, as well. The people you see diving into the mud, that\u2019s all from Wacken last year, from when it was raining. This year, we played a couple of days ago. It was hot, and God, it was unbelievable, but last year there was a lot of rain. That\u2019s how we filmed the fans. That was done by David as well, from the Czech Republic. He\u2019s a great photographer as well \u2013 he\u2019ll probably do another video as well. He\u2019s really cool and nice, and great to get along with. He has a really good eye. I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doro\u2019s 13th solo record is a tale of two halves, to return to the topic as a whole. \u201cI think <em>Forever Warriors<\/em> is maybe a little bit harder, a little bit heavier,\u201d Doro describes. \u201cIt has heavier songs on it like \u2018Bastardos\u2019, which is a very heavy, fast song, and more anthems. <em>Forever United<\/em> is maybe a little bit more soulful and more melodic, and there are some very personal songs on it as well. I would say that <em>Forever Warriors<\/em> is a little bit heavier and the other one is a little bit more melodic, but I love them both the same. I love every single song. It\u2019s hard to compare them, but I think that they both have the same quality. It\u2019s just that <em>Warriors<\/em> is maybe a little heavier, and <em>United<\/em> is maybe a little more personal and has more of a united feeling \u2013 like the songs for Lemmy, which are very personal and emotional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Forever Warriors, Forever United<\/em> encompasses a wide variety of topics. \u201cWith all of these 25 songs, I think each song is different, and can stand on its own,\u201d the vocalist affirms. \u201cThere\u2019s different topics, from political stuff to personal stuff, to soulful stuff, to heartbreaking stuff, for example. There are feel good anthems like \u2018All For Metal\u2019 or \u2018Turn It Up\u2019, which could empower people and which would make them feel good. There\u2019s some heavy lyrics like \u2018If I Can\u2019t Have You &#8211; No One Will\u2019, which is the darker side of a love story and maybe a follow-up to our last song. \u2018A Dream That Cannot Be\u2019, on the Amon Amarth album <em>Jomsviking<\/em> (March 2016), that was kind of the same story, but every song is different. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Soldiers Of Metal\u2019, that was actually the raw title for this album. It\u2019s a personal story for the fans that I wanted to tell in that as long as they want to hear and see it, I will always soldier on. I will always be a soldier of metal, and dedicated to the fans, and dedicated to the music forever. That was a song which I sent to our graphic artist Geoffrey Gillespie. I told him the raw title of the album, like \u2018Please design something great for the new album.\u2019 I wanted to have it a little bit in a <em>Mad Max<\/em> style. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve seen the movie <em>Fury Road<\/em> (2015). It was so awesome. Yeah, a little bit in that vein, and then the album cover came back and I thought \u2018This is so awesome.\u2019 Now though, I have two records, which is the reason why I changed the title to <em>Forever Warriors, Forever United<\/em>. However, \u2018Soldiers Of Metal\u2019 is still one of my absolute favourite songs on this new album; I think it has most beautiful melodies, and is very sincere, very soulful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recording sessions for <em>Forever Warriors, Forever United<\/em> were \u201ca joy,\u201d Doro exclaims. \u201cIt was an absolute joy to record, and we had so much fun in the studio. It felt really free, and there was no pressure. We were just banging out the songs, and enjoying it. We had a little co-producer. It was this little dog; his name was Spike, and he was a French bulldog. He gave us such good energy in the studio; even when we were dead tired from working day and night, the little dog was jumping up and down, eating all of the cables, eating my shoelaces, and eating my leg sometimes when I was singing. <\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/doropesch2018promophoto3.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/><span class=\"smalltext\"><strong><em>Doro Pesch<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\">\u201cIt hurt like hell, but I thought \u2018I don\u2019t want to stop\u2019 because the take was a good take. Then after singing the take, I told our engineer I said \u2018The dog is eating my leg.\u2019 He said \u2018Oh, he\u2019s just playing.\u2019 I said \u2018He\u2019s playing pretty hard, because I\u2019m bleeding.\u2019 He said \u2018Oops.\u2019 That wasn\u2019t so cool, but it\u2019s all for metal. Blood, sweat, and rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. It did hurt a little bit, but I thought for a soldier of metal, that\u2019s okay. So, it was really a joy. We had a great time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took about two-and-a-half years. We had some songs before, but really the initiative was writing the song for Lemmy. \u2018Living Life To The Fullest\u2019, that\u2019s where everything started. I said \u2018Man, I wanna give it all I\u2019ve got. I wanna do as good as I can.\u2019 Suddenly, I had a reason for doing another record, because you never know what will happen. Suddenly, I felt that time isn\u2019t forever. I thought \u2018I wanna give it my all.\u2019 Of course, I want to do many, many more records, but this time I felt it was kind of a wake-up call with Lemmy. I was sitting down, and I thought \u2018Yeah, I wanna seriously work now on a new record.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t have that feeling before. I was writing some songs here and there, and yeah, some cool tunes came out. When it happened with Lemmy though, then it got serious. I thought \u2018Yeah, man. I wanna sit down, and I wanna write more music,\u2019 which will hopefully be meaningful to people, and what they will love. The song for Lemmy, to me that was the most important thing; to feel close to Lemmy, and to do something when I had the feeling that everything was lost, that everything wasn\u2019t the same any more. I thought \u2018Yeah, I wanna write a song to just feel connected to Lemmy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Lemmy\u2019s passing acted as the catalyst for <em>Forever Warriors, Forever United<\/em>, it would be remiss not to touch a little more on former Sanctuary and Nevermore vocalist Warrel Dane, who makes a posthumous appearance. Warrel passed away in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil on December 13th, 2017, succumbing to a heart attack. \u201cHe was one of my great friends,\u201d the frontwoman remembers. \u201cWe toured together in 1988, which was when our friendship started. It was a big, long tour in America; it was with Sanctuary and Megadeth and Warlock, and that\u2019s when we first met. We got along so great; he always came to visit me, and I visited him. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe came to my anniversary shows; he was one of the guests with the longest flight, when we celebrated our 25th anniversary. He came from Seattle; he had to change his plane three times &#8211; I think the whole trip took 35-50 hours. He came there to just sing one song with us, and to celebrate with us. I thought that that was so awesome. I met him many times at festivals, and he was one of the sweetest people I knew. Very, very talented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Forever Warriors, Forever United<\/em> was released on August 17th, 2018 via Nuclear Blast Records.<\/p>\n<p><em>Interview published in August 2018. All individual Doro promotional photographs by Jochen Rolfes. Doro band promotional photograph by Tim Tronckoe.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DORO &#8211; Living Metal To The Fullest Anthony Morgan August 2018 Doro Pesch Ian \u2018Lemmy\u2019 Kilmister, frontman of hard rock trio Mot\u00f6rhead, died on December 28th, 2015 at the age of 70 following a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer. 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