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I dunno if you know Rebellion. They were founded by Uwe Lulis together with Timo Göttlich after Uwe left Grave Digger in 2000. Actually Uwe wanted to call this band "Grave Digger" because he was the driving force behind the band and pushed Chris Boltendahl to bring Grave Digger back after the 1987 "Stornger the Ever" debacle which was released under the Name "Digger". Of course he lost that battle agains the founding Member Boldendahl because Chris was a founding member and Uwe joined the band when they were Digger. Ever since then everyone seems to think of Rebellion as some sort of secoundary band after Grave Digger. But that is not true. As much as I like Grave Digger and as much as I love Manni Schmidt, I think the Rebellion albums nowadays are better than the Grave Diger albums nowadays.
They've released 5 Albums so far:
2001: Shakespeares MacBeth - A Tragedy In Steel (Concept Album)
2003: Born a Rebell
2005: Sagas Of Iceland - The History Of The Vikings - Volume I
2007: Miklagard - The History Of The Vikings - Volume II
2009: Arise - From Ginnungagap to Ragnarök - The History Of The Vikings - Volume III

I think it is a pretty good band, but cannot match Grave digger though.

I think it is the other way around. Uwe was pretty much the driving force together with Chris Boltendahl in Grave Digger and as much as I love many and as happy as I am that Chris somehow got Manni to return out of retirement, I think GD lost something when Uwe left.

Ragehead91 wrote:I think it is the other way around. Uwe was pretty much the driving force together with Chris Boltendahl in Grave Digger and as much as I love many and as happy as I am that Chris somehow got Manni to return out of retirement, I think GD lost something when Uwe left.

what is love?
what does it mean to be happy?
who is chris?
"WHY" is chris?

i think you need to think about these things before you go around making generalizations talking opinions what is opinion anyway just a set of ascii characters its really as simple as that why clasify and judge music wahts the point

Ragehead91 wrote:I think it is the other way around. Uwe was pretty much the driving force together with Chris Boltendahl in Grave Digger and as much as I love many and as happy as I am that Chris somehow got Manni to return out of retirement, I think GD lost something when Uwe left.

Manni is one of my absolute favourite guitar players!

Yeah, Manni kicks ass. He really fits into Grave Digger more then he would fit into Rage.

Do you really say that? For sure?? And you will not change your mind??

Nothing says heavy metal quite like Ginnungagap...

Ragehead91 wrote:Yeah, Manni kicks ass. He really fits into Grave Digger more then he would fit into Rage.

I think he fits into Rage aswell. I mean just listen to Trapped and The missing link

Rage1979 wrote:

Ragehead91 wrote:Yeah, Manni kicks ass. He really fits into Grave Digger more then he would fit into Rage.

I think he fits into Rage aswell. I mean just listen to Trapped and The missing link

What I mean is that he wouldn't fit into modern Rage and I doubt stuff like Unity, Soundchaser and Carved in Stone would be as good as they are if Manni played on them with all due respect.

Rage1979 wrote:

Ragehead91 wrote:Yeah, Manni kicks ass. He really fits into Grave Digger more then he would fit into Rage.

I think he fits into Rage aswell. I mean just listen to Trapped and The missing link

You can't be serious. Trapped and the missing link( linking shit) is the worst shit possible.

Buy yourself an ASSGUARD and put your tail in it.