小简介
在众多女性摇滚艺人中，最特立独行的要属Doro Pesch，这名日尔曼女子并没有把对摇滚的热忱转化为Groupie那盲目的糜烂和追捧，而是选择了在80年代男性占主导地位的金属乐坛中闯出属于自己的一片天地。
Doro是个混合体，Joan Jett的狂野，Patti Smith的睿智，Janis Joplin的叛逆塑造了Doro的灵魂。“It’s a man’s world? Who says?（这是男人的世界吗？谁说的？）”—已经成为Doro的口头禅。
80年代欧洲重金属界中的女性则以Warlock的女主唱Doro Pesch为代表,Warlock于1982年组团。Doro这位一头金发的德国姑娘拥有一副兼有粗旷与柔媚两种特质的好嗓子，凭借她过人的演唱天赋，WARLOCK在1984年发行的首张专辑Burning The Witches就让乐队站到了当时主流金属的前沿。
此后的三年Warlock以每年一张的速度发行了三张专辑，每一张都受到了乐迷的好评。此后，Doro乾脆把Warlock改组成了自己的个人乐队，并在1989和1990年以个人身份发行了两张专辑。
虽然在进入90年代后由于Grunge的冲击以及主流金属乐的没落，Doro有七、八年没有发行新的作品，但随着上个世纪末重金属回潮的到来，她又重新出现在金属迷们面前。或许是由于此前积累了不少作品的缘故，Doro复出之后发行专辑的速度令人惊叹——从1998年到2002年的五年间，她居然发行了9张专辑！
看来，虽然无情的时光夺去了Doro的青春与美貌，但没有让她失去对重金属的热爱和创作的激情，我们仍然有理由相信Doro会继续带给我们出色的重金属音乐。
Doro的音乐不是那种绚丽的金属乐，没有夸张的服饰，没有尖利的嗓音，没有长篇的SOLO，有的只是纯粹的硬摇滚，甚至在现代人眼里有些土里土气，但正是这种简单却充满力量的Hard Rock让人动容。虽然时间的痕迹无情的爬上了Doro美丽的面颊，但创作的欲望和对摇滚的信仰却有增无减。
German heavy metal/hard rock goddess Doro Pesch is best-known for her years with the band Warlock, but she has had a long solo career and continued to command a small but loyal following (especially in Europe) long after Warlock's demise. Pesch, who only uses her first name professionally, was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, on June 3, 1964. Although she grew up in a country where German is the primary language, Pesch fluently speaks English and has done most of her singing in English, something she has in common with the Scorpions, Accept, and other German headbangers. Pesch was only in her late teens when, in the early '80s, she started singing lead for an obscure Dusseldorf-based metal band called Snakebite. But in 1983, she left Snakebite and became the lead singer for Warlock, a forceful yet melodic fantasy metal outfit along the lines of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Ronnie James Dio. At the time, heavy metal and hard rock were very male-dominated, but thanks to various ladies of loudness -- including Joan Jett, Pat Benatar, Heart, Girlschool, Lita Ford, and the Runaways -- headbangers had grown more comfortable with the idea of women singing aggressive, balls-to-the-wall rock. But there weren't that many women singing gothic fantasy metal and getting into lyrics about witches, demons, ghosts, or sorcerers; Jett, Benatar, Ford, and Heart's Ann Wilson were mainly singing about love, romance, and sex. So when Pesch belted out Warlock's fantasy-oriented lyrics and did so with as much aggression as Ozzy Osbourne or Ronnie James Dio, she stood out. After playing the Dusseldorf club scene for several months and acquiring a small local following, Warlock recorded a demo and was signed by the independent Mausoleum label; after that, the band ended up recording for Mercury/Polygram (where Pesch remained for 11 years). Warlock's debut album, Burning the Witches, was released on Mercury in 1984 and was followed by Hellbound in 1985, True As Steel in 1986, and Triumph & Agony in 1987. That year, Warlock toured Europe as an opening act for Dio, but Warlock didn't tour the United States until 1988 (when the band opened for Megadeth on an extensive North American tour). Although Warlock had an enthusiastic cult following, it wasn't the huge following the headbangers were hoping for. So in 1989, the name Warlock was put to rest and Pesch started billing herself as a solo artist. As a solo act, she didn't inundate listeners with the sort of gothic fantasy themes that Warlock was known for. Released in 1989, Pesch's debut solo album, Force Majeure, is more pop-metal/hard rock than gothic fantasy metal -- the album is closer to Crimes of Passion-era Pat Benatar than Iron Maiden, Queensrÿche, or King Diamond. The singer's second album, Doro (which contains her cover of the Electric Prunes' psychedelic hit "I Had Too Much to Dream") was released by Mercury in 1990 and was followed by her third solo album, True at Heart (a European release), in 1991. A few years after that, Pesch and similar artists suffered a major setback. When grunge icons Nirvana and Pearl Jam exploded commercially in 1992 and 1993, alternative rock became rock's primary direction and all of a sudden, the styles of metal and hard rock that had been huge in the '80s were out of vogue. There were still plenty of metal bands getting signed to major labels, but they were alternative metal bands -- not pop-metal hair bands and not gothic fantasy metallers in the Sabbath/Priest/Maiden tradition. In this brave new rock world, the women who defined heavy rock were folks like Babes in Toyland, L7, 7 Year Bitch, and Hole's controversial Courtney Love; Pesch, like Benatar, Wilson, and Ford, was considered part of metal/hard rock's Old School. Nonetheless, Pesch continued to command a small but loyal following -- especially in Europe -- and kept touring and recording as a solo artist. In 1993, two Pesch albums were released by Polygram in Europe: Angels Never Die (her fourth solo album) and Doro Live (her first live album and fifth album overall). In 1995, Polygram released Machine II Machine in Europe; that year, her contract with Polygram ended and she signed with WEA in Europe. It was also in 1995 that Pesch made her acting debut with a role on the German television series Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love). The headbanger's next album, Love Me in Black, came out on Warner Bros. in Europe in 1998; that year, she parted company with WEA and signed two deals -- one with Koch in the U.S., the other with SPV Steamhammer in Europe. In 1999, Pesch recorded Calling the Wild, which was released in both Europe and the U.S. in 2000. Calling the Wild was her first North American release since 1990's Doro; True at Heart, Angels Never Die, Doro Live, Machine II Machine, and Love Me in Black had only been released in Europe, although the CDs were sold in U.S. stores as imports.
