Roland Grapow is best known for his time in the power metal band Helloween, with which he played for twelve years, after replacing founding member Kai Hansen.
10 Facts About Roland Grapow
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Roland Grapow subsequently created the power metal band Masterplan in 2001, which is still active today.
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Roland Grapow's father bought him a guitar and had him take lessons, but Grapow couldn't stand the theory part and his teacher told his father that the boy didn't have any talent for guitar playing.
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Roland Grapow joined the band in roughly 1979, and played on two of their studio albums: Victim of Rock in 1980 and Love Lights Up the Night in 1982.
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Roland Grapow was then fairly inactive musically, and made a living as a car mechanic until Michael Weikath called him to offer him a position in Helloween in 1989.
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The first release, The Four Seasons of Life, featured members of Helloween playing backup, with Roland Grapow trying his hand at singing in addition to playing guitar.
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In 2012, Czech power metal band Eagleheart recorded their second album, Dreamtherapy, for Scarlet Records, with Roland Grapow producing, mixing, mastering, and contributing guest vocals and guitar solos.
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Roland Grapow produced Slovak symphonic metal band Anthology's album The Prophecy.
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Roland Grapow has worked extensively with Spanish power metal band Lords of Black, producing their albums Lords of Black and II.
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In 2017, Roland Grapow joined Czech metal band Kreyson as their lead guitarist.