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Pandea
11+ albums
Progressive metalheavy metalmetalrockProgressive
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Pandea; surviving musicians from far flung “East Germany” have formed a group and produced a concept album that will stir the hearts and set the pulses racing of fans of bands like “Queensryche” or “Savatage” or simply any fans of melodic metal. So let’s go back in time to Berlin, end of 2005: Dan Uhden former guitarist and singer for Merlin, Mind Odyssey and Dark Voices is working in his studio on the new material for his current band Metropolys, as the demand once again resounds for new works from the metal musicians of the former DDR. Old colleagues are once again in contact, and as Dan works on his new material he comes nearer and nearer to the realisation that all the new songs hold a blueprint that could be explored so much further, above all by expanding the use of different singers and characters, and this project was born. Not just because of the contacts Dan made when he worked on big Metal events in the legendary East Berlin Langhans Street, did he manage to convince some of the most important singers of DDR metal bands to collaborate with him. The basic premise: to merge the most different styles of Metal into a single independent conglomerate mixed with the joy and playfulness of the many potential musicians who have been contributing to the project since August 2006. In the end more than 16 musicians contributed to the 12 tracks of the Pandea Album “Soylent Green”, and there were many more who couldn’t be fitted in. Amongst those who did contribute were: Norbert
