Category: AXEL RUDI PELL

Only genuine thoroughbred musicians with substantial creative talent succeed in staying at the top of their game as long as AXEL RUDI PELL has. For more than thirty years, the guitarist and songwriter from Bochum, Germany, has released new albums at regular intervals with his ARP band. Reactions from fans and media alike have been consistently positive while impressive record sales, high chart positions and ever-increasing audience numbers at his concerts and tours say it all.
From 15 April 2022, Pell’s latest studio offering ”Lost XXIII” – his 21st to date – will be available as a digipak, CD, double vinyl album, strictly limited box set, etc, as usual on Steamhammer/SPV.
The ARP band mark 2022 continues to consist of awesome singer Johnny Gioeli, bassist Volker Krawczak, keyboardist Ferdy Doernberg and drummer Bobby Rondinelli (ex-Rainbow), a perfectly oiled hard rock machine that never fails to deliver Pell’s compositions outstandingly and at the same time enhance them with each musician’s own trademarks…

Hard to believe, but AXEL RUDI PELL‘s band is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Tomorrow they will be releasing “XXX Anniversary Live” to mark 30 years since the German guitarist released his first solo / band album. This album wasn’t really planned – while he was on tour in October / November 2018 his sound engineer recorded several shows without the...

AXEL RUDI PELL will release its 17th album, “Knights Call“, on March 23 via SPV / Steamhammer. The German-American band featuring singer Johnny Gioeli (Hardline) and drummer Bobby Rondinelli (Rainbow), like clockwork, continues the group’s consistent run of releasing an album of self penned songs every two years; a sequence that began two decades ago. The collection doesn’t mess with...

* AXEL RUDI PELL is celebrating its quarter-century with the Blu ray / DVD / 3CD Box Set “Magic Moments – 25th Anniversary Special Show“, out in Scandinavia on April 22nd, in Germany on April 24th, in Europe on April 27th and in the USA on April 28th through SPV/Steamhammer. Recorded in July of 2014 at the Bang Your Head...

* After his early days in Steeler, German guitar player AXEL RUDI PELL formed his own band at the end of the ’80s which through the years has garnered an impressive fan base. 2012 turned out to be Axel’s most successful year with his latest studio album ‘Circle Of The Oath’ scoring high in the European charts. Besides that there...

Digipak Limited Edition + bonus + poster * Prolific German guitar player Axel Rudi Pell has a tremendous career so far. On the new album “Circle Of The Oath” (his 14th), continues his love for the very traditional, straight ahead hook-laden power influenced hard rock, including the classic strong ballad and the epic arrangements that brings out the air guitarist...

* As you might have gathered from the name, this is the fourth collection of Axel Rudi Pell’s ballads, compiling the softer side of Pell’s last releases since 2004, plus 3 new tracks. Pell has been heavily criticized for these series, not only accused for the supposedly cash-in, but for covering some iconic songs into the ballad format.The truth is...