Ingo Schwichtenberg
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Ingo "Mr. Smile" Schwichtenberg (18 May 1965 – 8 March 1995) was a German drummer and one of the founding members of the power metal band Helloween.[1]
Biography
Helloween guitarist Roland Grapow said about Schwichtenberg in an interview 1999: Template:Quote
The song "Step Out of Hell" from the Helloween album Chameleon is written by Roland Grapow about Schwichtenberg's problems with drug abuse.
After a six-hour telephone call with Michael Weikath, in which he explained why they had made that hard and painful decision, Ingo was asked to leave Helloween after the album Chameleon. Schwichtenberg was apparently somewhat dissatisfied with the direction of the band as well, even going as far as to refer to their song from the Chameleon album "Windmill", as "Shitmill". Michael Kiske said about the recording: "Ingo was very sick, that was the last thing he did, after he did the drumming he had a breakdown." Drummer Ritchie Abdel Nabi covered immediate commitments and played on the Chameleon Tour.
After Helloween, Schwichtenberg's father had died in February 1995, and he slid further and further into his schizophrenic episodes, culminating in his suicide on 8 March 1995 by jumping in front of an S-train in his native hometown Hamburg. He was 29 years old.[2][3]
Schwichtenberg's replacement in the band was Uli Kusch. Helloween dedicated the album The Time of the Oath to him. His friend Kai Hansen had dedicated the song "Afterlife" from Gamma Ray's Land of the Free to Schwichtenberg, who had committed suicide prior to that album's release.
Michael Kiske also made a tribute to Schwichtenberg with the track "Always" from his first solo album Instant Clarity.[4]
Discography
With Helloween
- Helloween (1985) – EP
- Walls of Jericho (1985)
- Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I (1987)
- Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II (1988)
- Live in the U.K. (1989) – live album
- Pink Bubbles Go Ape (1991)
- Chameleon (1993)
With Doc Eisenhauer
- Alles Im Lack (1992) – drums on "Pharao"
References
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External links
- Official Helloween band website
- A tribute to Ingo SchwichtenbergTemplate:Category handler[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">usurped]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". on kingofdrums.net
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- 1965 births
- 1995 suicides
- German heavy metal drummers
- German male drummers
- Suicides in Germany
- Suicides by train
- People with schizophrenia
- 20th-century German musicians
- 20th-century drummers
- 20th-century German male musicians
- 1995 deaths