Dreamscape (band)

Dreamscape
Origin	München, Germany
Genres	Progressive metal
Years active	1986-present
Labels	Rising Sun Records Connected Records Massacre Records
Associated acts	Book of Reflections Koyaanisqatsy Maeve of Connacht Private Secret Platitude Scenes Veloce Hystoria
Website	http://www.dreamscape.de/
Members
Erik Blomkvist Wolfgang Kerinnis Ralf Watson Schwager David Bertok Danilo Batdorf
Past members
see below

Dreamscape is a progressive metal band from Munich, Germany.

History

Dreamscape was founded by lead guitarist Wolfgang Kerinnis and rhythm guitarist Stefan Gassner in 1986. After numerous changes in the line-up, singer Tobi Zoltan, drummer Andreas Angerer and bassist Benno Schmidtler stayed with them. After very thorough preparations, they started performing live in 1992. After more line-up changes, they produced three demos in between 1993 and 1995 called Dreamscape, Decisions, and Changes. After that, in their own studio, the band recorded their first album, Trance-like State in 1996 and was released through Rising Sun Records twelve months later in 1997. In the wake of the CD production, several changes took place. The band decided that they needed a keyboardist as a permanent member. After a while, Jan Vacik ended up filling the keyboard spot. The permanent keyboardist caused three members to leave, one of them being founding member Stefan Gassner. During those twelve months in between recording and releasing, Dreamscape already thought up new songs. However, they were being delayed once more because Tobi Zoltan, the vocalist at the time, was asked to leave due to lack of motivation. Soon afterwards, Hubi Meisel replaced Zoltan as vocalist. After touring, Dreamscape came out with their second album Very in 1999. Since then, there have been multiple line-up changes and Dreamscape has released two studio albums and one compilation album.^[1] In 2007 and 2008, Dreamscape toured with Sieges Even, Circus Maximus, and Symphony X. In 2008, Danilo Batdorf replaced Michael Schwager as drummer.^[2][3]

In 2008, Dreamscape and Lanfear planned on performing concerts with each other, but lead vocalist Mischa Mang left the band to concentrate more on Ivanhoe, thus postponing the Dreamscape shows with Lanfear.^[4]

On April 2, 2009, Dreamscape announced that Erik Blomkvist, formerly of the band Platitude, would be their vocalist. He is scheduled to appear on Dreamscape's upcoming full-length album, Everlight.^[5]

Frank Marino will be the second singer appearing on their album Everlight. He arrived into the Dreamscape line-up due to health problems that Erik Blomkvist came across as a member of Dreamscape. Erik is still scheduled to donate vocals to at least one of the tracks on Everlight.^[6][7]

Line-up

Current members

• Francesco Marino - vocals
• Erik Blomkvist - vocals
• Wolfgang Kerinnis - guitars
• Ralf Watson Schwager - bass
• David Bertok - keyboards
• Danilo Batdorf - drums

Former members

Vocalists

• Roland Stoll
• Tobi Zoltan
• Hubi Meisel
• Mischa Mang

Rhythm guitarists

• Stefan Gassner

Bassists

• Benno Schmidtler
• Christoh Gastl

Drummers

• Thomas Hecht
• Stefan Petzold
• Bernhard Huber
• Klaus Engel
• Michael Schwager

Keyboardists

• Jan Vacik

Discography

• Dreamscape (demo, 1993)
• Decisions (demo, 1994)
• Changes (demo, 1995)
• Trance-like State (full-length, 1997)
• Very (full-length, 1999)
• End of Silence (full-length, 2004)
• Revoiced (compilation, 2005)
• 5th Season (full-length, 2007)

References

1. ^ Dreamscape Official Website
2. ^ Dreamscape news @ dreamscape.vandalay.org
3. ^ Dreamscape @ myspace
4. ^ Dreamscape News @ idiomag.com
5. ^ Dreamscape Announces New Vocalist: News @ metalunderground.com
6. ^ Dreamscape to announce the 2nd singer blogs.myspace.com. 2009-06-29. Retrieved on 2010-04-08.
7. ^ Frank Marino is a new Dreamscape singer! blogs.myspace.com. 2009-07-08. Retrieved on 2010-04-08.