PRIMAL FEAR - New Interview With Ralf Scheepers Available

June 18, 2009 - PRLog -- HRH: How old were you when you first started singing?

Ralf Scheepers: I first started singing when I was nine or ten years old. I noticed that when I sang along with the radio it wasn't that wrong (laughs). I never intended to be a musician, it just came with birth.  I tried out in a school band when I was sixteen years old also playing the rhythm guitar and singing which I couldn't really do at the same time. In the end, I just put away my guitar and started singing in heavy bands in the area of Stuttgart. That is how my career started.

HRH: What drew you into heavy metal?

Ralf Scheepers: Actually when I was 16 - 18 it was exactly the age when New Wave of British Heavy Metal came up with bands like Iron Maiden Saxon, and Judas Priest. When I first heard Unleashed in the East the first time, I was totally knocked out. It brought me into heavy metal.

HRH: I have listened to some of your music with your band Tyran Pace, and was blown away with how good it was.  It is a shame that not too many people got to hear that great band you were in.

Ralf Scheepers: Thank you. When I look back at it, I thought my voice sounded like a little kid of course a voice evolves. It was just the beginning of everything.

HRH: A lot of singers' voices start to deteriorate as they age, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all with you.  On your last couple of releases New Religion and 16.6, you are singing better than ever.  Your voice hasn't lost anything over the years.  If anything, it has only gotten stronger. What are you doing to keep your voice in such great shape?

Ralf Scheepers: Thank You! I ask myself that too. I try to be healthy.  I am 44 of yearsof age now.  I need to warm up voice a lot more than I did twenty years ago. It is a pretty tough way we are singing.  With the heavy metal singers belting it out every night. They really harm their vocal chords with the stuff they are doing. Everyone mostly sings too loud. That is the same with me.  I really scream like hell.  Nowadays the technique is really good when recording in the studio. I am really happy that I can record my stuff at home. When I am recording at home, it doesn't mean that I have technical stuff which helps me. I take my time because I am a perfectionist. I don't leave stuff  on the hard disc. Maybe five years we would have left it on the hard disc.  This way it it sounds better and more and aggressive the way I want it.

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