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The Tides Return Forever is the fifteenth studio album by the German rock band Eloy, released in 1994.. With this album, bassist Klaus-Peter Matziol returned to Eloy as a full-time member for the first time since they temporarily disbanded in late 1984.
During the autumn of 1979, Hannes Arkona joined Eloy as a touring member, a second guitarist along the band's leader Frank Bornemann.As personal tensions led to the departure of Detlev Schmidtchen and Jürgen Rosenthal, Bornemann decided to make Arkona a full-time member, and with the addition of Hannes Folberth and Jim McGillivray, the new Eloy lineup was completed by the spring of 1980. [9]
Although Eloy was a German rock band that debuted during the same time period as the introduction of krautrock, they are not a part of that music scene. [4] Initially a hard rock band [3] with blues rock influences, [1] Eloy subsequently shifted into a different sound, which has been classified as progressive rock, symphonic rock [1] and space rock.
Ocean is the sixth studio album by the German rock band Eloy, released in 1977.. It is a concept album written by Jürgen Rosenthal, retelling the mythos of Plato's Island of Atlantis, from its creation to its rise, fall, and ultimate destruction, drawing a parallel with humanity's alarming path amidst the Cold War.
Satisfied with the musical result, Eloy set tensions aside and went back to Cologne to record the material and shape their new album. As Jürgen Rosenthal began writing lyrics and presenting them to the band, Frank Bornemann expressed his dissatisfaction against the dark themes Rosenthal chose to utilize, and proposed a more positive approach ...
Power and the Passion was a commercial success, selling more than 30,000 copies soon after its release, [7] but Eloy quickly broke-up. The reason was their insurmountable disagreements with their manager Jay Partridge, who had significant financial and creative influence over the band during the album's creation. [ 7 ]
Chronicles II is the second of a two-part compilation of re-recorded songs by the German rock band Eloy. The first part, Chronicles I , was released the preceding year. Following Chronicles I in a chronological order, Chronicles II contains songs from the years 1984-1992 and the albums Metromania (1984), Ra (1988) and Destination (1992).
Capitalizing on the big commercial success of Ocean, Eloy incorporated innovative and expensive technology during their shows, such as laser light show and pyrotechnics. The booked venues had a relatively small capacity of 2000–3000 persons to facilitate ticket sales, but the demand was surprisingly higher and hundreds of fans were left out ...