姓名: FireWölfe 英文名:- 性别:男 国籍:- 出生地:- 语言:- 生日:- 星座:- 身高:- 体重:-
德国Heavy Metal乐队,组建于2010年。
FireWolfe began its melodic metal mission in 2010. It all started out of a conversation between guitarists Nick Layton and Paul Kleff. The two shared many guitar and musical influences and immediately started to lay the groundwork and musical vision for a new band. Paul and Nick began writing heavy, melodic and powerful music together with an emphasis on great songs featuring killer guitar work. The ultimate goal was to assemble a band that made the kind of music they themselves would want to listen to and to create an album that they would stand in line to buy.
As, the writing progressed, their focus shifted to finding the right voice—a voice that would be able to transform the rough ideas into world class melodic metal songs. The one name that kept coming up over and over again was veteran Rock/Metal vocalist David Fefolt. Nick and Paul felt that David’s style of singing would perfectly fit the vision of the music they were creating. In addition, Fefolt’s experience in working with bands and musicians like Valhalla, Masi, Hawk, Angels of Babylon and David Ellefson from Megadeth was a major plus. Some phone calls were made, rough tracks were sent over, and David was immediately on board as the voice and front man of the band.
As writing continued with David over the summer months of 2010 the band got a tip from a friend for a potential drummer. Jay Schellen, whose work includes records and tours with Hurricane, Asia, Badfinger, Unruly Child and currently with the Vegas super show Raiding the Rock Vault was hired to play drums on the record and has since become a full time member of the band.
The band needed a name and wanted something magical and classy to portray its music and style. After a few misfires, the band decided on FireWolfe as the perfect name to represent them. The band hired London based artist PJ to create a logo for the band and the legend and vision of the FireWolfe finally came to life!
Songwriting for the debut album was complete in the spring of 2011 and recording of drums and bass (session bassist Zack Uidl) was complete by early summer. The band tabbed John Payne (Asia) and Jay Schellen to mix and master the album in Los Angeles and the self-titled album FireWolfe was released on July 15th 2011. Reviews for the album were great and the band signed a record deal with Japanese label Rubicon Records in the fall of 2011.
Some inner turmoil within the band threatened to dissolve FireWolfe but the vision remained, and David and Nick full of energy and fire began writing the next Firewolfe album in early 2013. Jay Schellen was back on drums and after a long search Bobby Ferkovich joined the band on bass. Bobby has played
with bands such as Heir Apparent, Presto Ballet, Power Train and the Pamela Moore (Queensryche) band. The recording for the new FireWolfe album entitled We Rule The Night was completed in the spring of 2014 and represents a major step forward for the band. Eliran Kantor (Testament) created the artwork for the new album and Jay and John once again created an excellent mix at their new location in Las Vegas. Mastering genius Maor Appelbaum (Halford, Malmsteen) mastered the album in Los Angeles.
Shortly after completing the album the band inked a worldwide deal with Limb Music, to be released in September of 2014.
With a killer line up of experienced and fired up musicians, backed by a great label, FireWolfe is ready to Torch the Metal World in 2014!
David Fefolt: Vocals
David has also been a member of Angels of Babylon with David Ellefson (Megadeth), Rhino (Manowar, HolyHell) and Ethan Brosh. Royal Flush with Roy Z (Bruce Dickinson, Tribe of Gypsies) and Jorg Fischer (Accept), Rex Tennyson (Heavy Bones), and Reynold "Butch" Carlson (Jag Panzer, Joey Tafolla.) MASI with Alex Masi. Hawk with Doug Marks and Matt Sorum. Forgotten Realm with Rhino and Matthew Mills and the metal band Valhalla.
Nick Layton: Guitars
Nick’s released his solo album "Storming the Castle" in 2007. Nick hast oured in the US doing guitar clinics for Guitar Center, Sam Ash and other major music stores. He has also written and released several guitar soloing and phrasing courses for the Tom Hess Music Corporation.
Jay Schellen: Drums
Jay is currently the drummer for ASIA featuring John Payne. Jay was the drummer for Hurricane (with Kelly Hansen, Doug Aldrich, Tony Cavazo and Robert Sarzo.) He played drums on the albums Take What You Want, Over the Edge and Slave to the Thrill and played arenas on three world tours and posted two top ten MTV videos with Hurricane. Other musical projects include: GPS with John Payne and Guthrie Govan, Unruly Child and Sircle of Silence
Bobby Ferkovich: Bass
Bobby has played in Heir Apparent, Presto Ballet, Power Train and the Pamela Moore band before joining FireWolfe in 2013. Bobby recorded all the bass tracks on the 2014 release "We Rule The Night."