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\"\"<\/a>\u201cSometimes we are making records and it is so stressful but this one it was just really, really pure joy and it was hard, the work is hard but in feeling it was always very, very positive and that might be a good sign, I\u2019ve only had it one time in my life and that was with the \u2018Triumph and Agony\u2019 album.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Release: This is DORO’s 20th album – and it’s arriving just in time for her 35th live stage anniversary! And yet it’s not just these two great anniversaries that make \u00bbForever Warriors, Forever United\u00ab a truly extraordinary album. It’s also not just the fact that the metal queen is releasing her very first double album. No, \u00bbForever Warriors, Forever United\u00ab is so special because DORO presents 25 (!) brand new hot tracks that all have one thing in common; an incredible variety and stylistic range, paired with the highest quality. There is simply no weak song on this album \u2013 it\u2019s “All killer, no filler!” On \u00bbForever Warriors, Forever United\u00ab, DORO delivers a musical firecracker with an unbelievable amount of hits. From stadium anthems to ballads, from heavy metal to classical – the queen of rock & metal proves beyond doubt on this double album that she rules all facets within the rock genre (and far beyond)! And: \u00bbForever Warriors, Forever United\u00ab is also more than just a double album \u2013 it\u2019s actually two new DORO albums in one!<\/p>\n

In Germany and on her way to Siberia for the start of her tour Doro gave us a call to talk about her new double album \u2018Forever Warriors, Forever United\u2019, creating music, anniversaries, generations, Australia, and much more\u2026<\/p>\n

Thank you so much for your time today, Doro, we’re here because you’re about to release your twentieth album, an amazing feat, and not only that but it\u2019s a double album, your first, why at this stage of your career was now the right time for a double slab of metal?<\/strong>
\nYeah *laughs* well Troy it just really came out, it was not pre-planned I was just starting working on a new record and actually the initial song was the song for Lemmy \u2018Living Life To The Fullest\u2019 because I said oh man I don\u2019t want to wait another year and stuff, you never know what will happen and then we wrote the song \u2018Living Life To The Fullest\u2019 to honour Lemmy and then I went into to the studio and I thought I want to do this Motorhead song \u2018Lost In The Ozone\u2019 as well because I loved it so much and I loved Lemmy as a lyricist so much. So we started working on the record and then suddenly after a couple of months we had thirty five songs, close to forty and I thought oh shit, and everybody said you have to cut it down to twelve songs and I thought it\u2019s impossible, I love them all and they all mean something and they\u2019re all different. Then I talked to the record company and I said I would love to do a double album because there are some songs which Troy I can\u2019t miss and cannot not put on the album, so I said let\u2019s think about it because they said well the record industry is not in such good shape and double albums are very unusual in this day and age and then a couple of months ago they said \u2018OK Doro, go for it it\u2019s your thirtieth anniversary we know and let\u2019s do it.\u2019 Then I could put all songs and some more like bonus tracks there are some more songs that I thought were interesting for the fans and special so it came about, but they were all written on pure heart and soul and energy and nothing was ever sitting down and writing a song it was all just coming out of the heart and I always had my little cell phone and recorded my ideas and melodies on the cell phone and if I think ooh there\u2019s some magic behind this idea or this melody then I think let\u2019s work on it and I have a great song writing partner, he was the guitar player in Sisters of Mercy his name is Andreas Bruhn in Hamburg and we worked together for a long time and I said \u201cAndreas I need to record right away\u201d and we started and I went to some different studios and then it was becoming suddenly a real record with many, many guests as well and it all just happened and was very, very joyful and smooth production, no problems. Sometimes we are making records and it is so stressful but this one it was just really, really pure joy and it was hard, the work is hard but in feeling it was always very, very positive and that might be a good sign, I\u2019ve only had it one time in my life and that was with the \u2018Triumph and Agony\u2019 album.<\/p>\n

So in splitting it across \u2018Forever Warriors\u2019 and \u2018Forever United\u2019 what does each title represent to you personally?<\/strong>
\nActually \u2018Forever Warriors\u2019 is a record that is maybe a little more fighting spirit then we all together fighting the good fight and it\u2019s maybe a little bit heavier and some more anthems on it, and for \u2018Forever United\u2019 is maybe a little more soulful and personal and emotional and some deep songs in it and I think both together I love them both the same I couldn\u2019t say which one I love more but the whole message of these albums is a positive one too, stick together like us metalheads and fighting the good fight and stand up for what you believe in and not let other forces take over and fight for the good stuff you know. That\u2019s the meaning about that song, why is there so much turmoil right now? It\u2019s important to stick together and people with a good heart and I always say that metalheads they have the heart in right place and that\u2019s the most powerful and the greatest thing to me.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There are some great guests on these albums but I have to ask what was it like working with Tommy Bolan in the studio again after so long?<\/strong>
\nSuper! It was super, Troy , we were always friends and we always remained friends and he came up on stage when we toured in New York and about two years ago I called him and I said \u201cYou know, Tommy, the journalists told me that the \u2018Triumph and Agony\u2019 is almost thirty years old, that was last year, and I said shall we do something, should we celebrate something like play the whole record and he said \u201cDoro I\u2019m so glad you say that!\u201d Then we did a couple of festivals, Sweden Rock was the first one and immediately the biggest one and we\u2019ve never played the whole record in its entirety but it sounded really great, it sounded really nice and then we did the second festival it was Norway Rock and we got along so great, talking, talking, and then I had to leave at seven o\u2019clock in the morning because I was catching a plane and I said should we jam in our hotel room a little bit, so at five o\u2019clock in the morning we started jamming and then we cam up with this idea \u2018if I Can\u2019t Have You No One Will\u2019 and I said \u201cTommy, it\u2019s such a great idea, I think Johan (Hegg) would maybe be so great on this and maybe we should do it as a duet.\u201d So I called Johan, I sent him the demo and to let me know what you think he loved it and wrote all the lyrics for the verses Johan did and then we finished it all and it was great talking to Tommy, working with Tommy, we\u2019ve played many festivals together, some gigs, we did and American tour together, we had three guitar players it was a lot of guitar *laughs* but it was awesome. Tommy is somebody who is high energy at all times, like on stage, off stage, he\u2019s super sweet, he\u2019s such a nice person, very soulful and still he has a pure heart and I love that. I loved him in \u201987 and he\u2019s the same, like he learned a lot of stuff but in his heart he stayed the same Tommy which I loved and sometimes with so much energy sometimes you say \u2018wow\u2019 he\u2019s bloody and sweaty and ripping up all his strings at once *laughs* he\u2019s a powerhouse and very unique, very unique.<\/p>\n

Obviously technology has changed so much since you began making music, what for you has been the biggest and most notable change in the way you make music and work in the studio?<\/strong>
\nAhh Troy, I still most of the time I do it old school, the big production in a nice studio where you feel at home and now technology is sometimes great when people are at the other end of the world and they can do some licks or some solos and send the files which would\u2019ve been impossible to get everyone in one place at the same time, so that\u2019s really good, you can do some stuff. Even when you have an idea you can send to somebody and ask what do you think? And then they work on it and send it back so I think that\u2019s awesome, I love that. There\u2019s another thing I love so much, in the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s we always did like demos and then we would pick the best songs, then we\u2019d go into a studio and do the whole record and honestly I always loved the demos much more because there\u2019s so much more energy and better feeling it was so powerful and so real and I always thought while we were doing a record the demo was feeling so much better and we couldn\u2019t use the demo and now in this day and age if you do something you think the initial idea is great you can always work up from the demo and you don\u2019t have to reproduce, you don\u2019t have to do it over again and when you do something over immediately you lose so much I think, so I love that, I love that. I love the old school way but some new things where you have the choice of what to do that\u2019s pretty awesome, and that you don\u2019t have to be in the same room at all times, I love it but sometimes if it\u2019s not possible then it\u2019s cool when somebody says OK well I\u2019ll go into my own studio and send it to you that\u2019s pretty great, even when we\u2019re on our cell phone usually we\u2019re on Viber and we say do it like this or do it like that like when you can see each other and talk about an idea that\u2019s awesome. I love that.<\/p>\n

This year also marks the 35th anniversary of your live career how are you planning on celebrating this milestone?<\/strong>
\nWow, man Troy, since we just did the record I\u2019m doing a couple of festivals, the tour\u2019s coming up in Winter time then I\u2019m going to celebrate nice in Wacken because usually at Wacken there\u2019s people from all over the world, from Australia, from South America, from Russia, so we want to put on a great show at Wacken. Johan Hegg will be there and a couple of other great musicians and I was growing up in the glam rock times with Sweet, Slade and T-Rex, I don\u2019t know if you remember all these cool bands and I made friends with the guys in Sweet so they will come up and play \u2018Ballroom Blitz\u2019 and the stuff that inspired me when I was five, six, seven years old and so we want to do a big show with many special guests and we\u2019re still working on some more, but we have one and a half hours and of course playing all the songs and all the highlights like \u2018All We Are\u2019, \u2018All For Metal\u2019 and with Johan \u2018If I Can\u2019t Have You No One Will\u2019 which will be probably the first time we do it live, then the tile tracks from all of the albums, like \u2018Burning The Witches\u2019 and \u2018Hellbound\u2019 and that stuff. All killers no fillers, that\u2019s the idea, we have to rehearse and of course a great show a little bit like the album cover looks like a little bit of a Mad Max style, people are just building the stage so it should look really nice. Then maybe celebrating it many, many more times all over the world.<\/p>\n

Can we maybe expect to see you in Australia as a part of it?<\/strong>
\nYes I hope so, many years ago when we came there it\u2019s too long and that\u2019s another thing because of Wacken there were these diehard fans in Wacken actually called the Metal Warriors Australia and we were talking and stuff and they said you\u2019ve gotta come over to Australia and we don\u2019t know who we would talk to and any connections, and they said we do and actually they did it and they brought us over and they\u2019re all diehard metal fans and it was so awesome so I\u2019m hoping that something like this will happen again but I\u2019m dying to come over. Not confirmed and no dates yet but I hope as soon as we get a chance. I\u2019d love to.<\/p>\n

You also would’ve seen generations of fans now come along to your shows, is this something you’ve witnessed personally and how does it make you feel to see how much the music has allowed this to happen?<\/strong>
\nYeah that\u2019s great, when you see like the fans of the early 80\u2019s like when it first started and they\u2019re still coming and that\u2019s awesome and when they bring their kids or sometimes they bring their grandkids so it\u2019s great that everybody\u2019s coming, everybody\u2019s having a good time and getting along, it\u2019s like a family feeling. Young and old and everybody seems to be a diehard fan, if you fall in love with that type of music once I think you never let go so we still have the same fans from the 80\u2019s and tonnes of new fans and the festivals there are sometimes some first timers and they\u2019re twelve or thirteen years old and just seeing their first metal festival or concert and that\u2019s so great because when they love something and they have many, many things to check out, maybe check out the \u2018Triumph and Agony\u2019 album which they didn\u2019t know existed. So I think it\u2019s awesome and seeing that metal is doing so well and all festivals are all totally sold out and metal has such a big place in life, I love it, and I saw the good and the bad times of metal in the 80\u2019s when we started and when metal became big we thought it would always be that way and it was great and then in the 90\u2019s when grunge was suddenly taking over it was so heartbreaking that I think the industry didn\u2019t serve the metalheads anymore, no more videos, no more records coming out, it was a tough time, and then in the year 2000 I heard it was coming back. You wouldn\u2019t know that it would make it this big again but thank god it came back, so I know how it is to live with metal when it\u2019s big and live with metal when it\u2019s really only for the diehard fans which was tough, man, that was tough because they didn\u2019t release any records any more the record companies. When I delivered a new record I was so excited and they were great songs and I was thinking this could be the single and this could be the video and they said \u201cis it grunge?\u201d I said \u2018No it\u2019s more metal\u201d and they said \u201cIf it\u2019s not grunge we can\u2019t release it\u201d and I said \u201cbut check it out, it\u2019s great songs\u201d they said \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter, if it\u2019s not grunge, no release.\u201d So that happened for many, many more records and many more years and actually it was very tough to survive because therefore no more tour, no more festivals and then ever since 2000 metal is in such great shape and I\u2019m so grateful for it and I think in some places it\u2019s bigger than ever and I think even bigger than the 80\u2019s and that makes me so happy.<\/p>\n

And you\u2019ve always remained the Queen so that\u2019s the most important thing<\/strong>
\nOh Troy I\u2019m just a big Metalhead, a big metal fan still *laughs* when it makes people happy I\u2019m happy, whatever it takes. It doesn\u2019t have to be the Metal Queen, if somebody says I like it, I love your music that\u2019s cool too.<\/p>\n

Lastly, let’s predict the future, finish this sentence for me, by the end of 2018, Doro will…<\/strong>
\nOh\u2026 Doro will be still on tour *laughs* celebrate Christmas and New Years with the diehard fans and will get inspiration and motivation for the new year for more shows and new music to come.<\/p>\n

And come to Australia\u2026<\/strong>
\nAnd come to Australia! Yes Troy, yes yes! Thank you for that, that\u2019s the most important thing in that sentence *laughs*<\/p>\n

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Essential Information<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong>\u00a0Germany<\/p>\n

Band Members: Bas Maas \u2013 Guitars, Luca Princiotta- Guitars, Nick Douglas \u2013 Bass, Johnny Dee \u2013 Drums, Doro – Vocals<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.doromusic.de<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Forthcoming Release:<\/strong> Forever Warriors, Forever United (17th August – Nuclear Blast<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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