Blind Guardian - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives Pictured from left to right: Frederik Ehmke, André Olbrich, Hansi Kürsch and Marcus Siepen Originally formed in 1984 as Lucifer's Heritage, Blind Guardian adopted their current name during the recordings of their debut album Marcus Siepen had a more active role in Blind Guardian's early days, co-writing a good part of the material and contributing as a lead guitarist He progressively
Tankard - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives At first, they were known under the names Avenger and Vortex before settling on Tankard in 1983 The band chose their name after looking through a dictionary and seeing a word defined as "beer mug " In the early days of the band, Andreas "Gerre" Geremia used to play bass and Frank Thorwarth was the singer Later, they switched their roles In 1994, the band created a side-project called
Candlemass - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives Originators of the epic doom metal style Candlemass perhaps got its earliest start in 1982 when several of its members-to-be were in a band called Nemesis After ten years together, Candlemass split up in 1994, but Leif Edling resurrected the band in 1997 for Dactylis Glomerata because labels weren't interested in his new band, Abstrakt Algebra The classic lineup reunited in 2001 2012's
Celtic Frost - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives Pictured from left to right: Franco Sesa, Martin E Ain, Tom G Warrior Tom G Warrior and Martin E Ain formed Celtic Frost after the break-up of Hellhammer in June 1984 Contrary to popular belief, Hellhammer never changed its name to Celtic Frost, even though the band formed very quickly after Hellhammer 's demise They first disbanded in 1987, but six months later, Warrior reformed the
Anthrax - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives Pictured from left to right: Jonathan Donais, Scott Ian, Joey Belladonna, Charlie Benante, Frank Bello Anthrax was founded on July 18th, 1981 in Queens, New York City by guitarists Scott Ian and Dan Lilker They discovered the band's name while perusing a biology textbook and claimed it solely for its sufficiently evil-sounding connotation Soon to join them were vocalist John Connelly