Armin Sabol - Man Machine (2018)

In the year 1977 Armin Sabol founded the Nand SHIVA together with bandmate Mat Sinner. The youngster’s heavy rock trio toured southern Germany with different drummers. Gigs opening for Whitesnake, Colosseum II (featuring Jon Hiseman, Gary Moore Don Airey) and Nina Hagen quickly helped the band build a strong fan base. SHIVA split up in 1981 without having released an album. Still, after a temporary reunion on behalf of a charity event in 2007, the album Goddess SHIVA was released the same year.

In 1981 Armin met the previously unknown singer Pierre Schilling. After a few demos in Schillings old “Schlager” style Sabol suggested a drastic musical change and take up elements of New Wave and “Neue Deutsche Welle” (NDW). After the first demo in this style Schillings publisher Peermusic in Hamburg freaked out and encouraged the team to put together an album. Within a few months, all titles were done. After Peermusic could not find a suitable producer they suggested to leave the production up to Schilling and Sabol, since the 4-track demos sounded so well and already “had it all”. The Peter Schilling Album “error in the system” was released in the fall of 1982. The first single, “Major Tom (Völlig losgelöst“) crashed into the charts in early 1983, climbing up to # 1 and staying there for 8 weeks. The follow-up singles “Die Wüste lebt”, “Fehler im System”, “Terra Titanic” und “Hitze der Nacht” all went into the charts, just as well as Schillings second album “120 Grad”. In 1984, the American record company Elektra got attracted by the project. This led to worldwide releases of Schilling’s albums “Error in the System” and “Things to Come” (English version of “120 Grad”) in English. The single “Major Tom (Coming Home” reached # 14 on the Billboard charts, the extendended version even went on # 1 in the US-Dance Charts. The album “Error in the system” reached a gold status in Canada, just like the single “Major Tom” in Germany, Austria and Canada. After personal and musical differences the collaboration of Schilling and Sabol ended in 1985.

From the mid-80s Armin Sabol produced Metalbands like Rage, Sinner and Pyracanda. Furthermore, he started additional activities as a journalist, among others with title stories with guitar icons Edward Van Halen and Slash for the German “Fachblatt” music magazine. Furthermore he published a book as Co-author, “Fit fürs Music Business”.

As a studio guitarist Armin Sabol can be heard on countless albums. Amongst many others he has worked with Hazel O’Connor, Mick Jackson and Eric Burdon. In the 1990s he played on albums of the German Hip Hop supergroup “Die fantastischen 4”. He tracked the guitar on their title track “Vier gewinnt”, as well as on “Genug ist genug” from their album “4. Dimension”, where he laid down the guitar and bass tracks and co-wrote the composition. Armin Sabol’s furious guitar on the “Ernten was wir säen (Schweinerock Mix)” have set the track on fire. The “Fanta 4” are still finishing their live shows with the furious version of that song. Furthermore Armin participated on singles of the German synth-pop band Camouflage or Hip Hop icon Thomas D.

From the early nineties onwards Sabol is writing and producing instrumental production music for worldwide usage in television, film and advertising, amongst others Sonoton music. His music has been used on big TV shows like the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Mentalist, Pawn Stars and many more.

In 2002 Armin released his first solo album Wah, wah, wah, followed by the album “Goddess Shiva” in 2007, the EP Shredding the Blues (2009) with his blues-rock trio “Armin Sabol & Red Hot”, and the album “Rock the ClassiX” (2013) Sabol is running a small but effective music studio in Stuttgart and is playing live regularly since 2005 with the party band die Lollies, which had a major hit in 1999 with “Wahnisnn, Hölle, Hölle”.

In 2014 & 15 the german TV Show “Vier sind das Volk” (original format “If I Ruled the World”) used Sabols comedy version of the German National Anthem in all episodes as theme music.

Track List:
01. Robot Chase
02. Industrial Race
03. Metallic Beast
04. Mechanical Monster
05. Hells Kitchen
06. Signals from the Past
07. Digital Rotation
08. Artificial Armageddon
09. Flurry
10. Hard Work

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