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U.D.O. is a German heavy metal band founded by lead singer Udo Dirkschneider in 1987.

After Udo Dirkschneider left Accept in 1987, a large fan community followed him to U.D.O.

Starting with the first albums Animal House in 1987 and Mean Machine in 1988 U.D.O. proved to be pure heavy metal without any Trend-Sound influences. Both albums continued where Accept had left off in 1986 with Russian Roulette. Animal House was played in by Peter Szigeti (guitars), Frank Rittel from Warlock (bass), Mathias Dieth from Sinner (guitars), Thomas Franke (drums) and Udo Dirkschneider (vocals).

When Mean Machine was released in 1988 U.D.O. had a totally different look. Of the line-up which had played on Animal House, only Udo and lead guitarist Mathias Dieth remained. New additions were Andy Susemihl (guitar), Thomas Smuszynski (bass) and Stefan Schwarzmann (drums).

U.D.O. achieved success with the album Faceless World, produced by ex-Accept drummer Stefan Kaufmann.

U.D.O.’s follow-up album was Timebomb. It was their last for the next five years.

From 1992 until 1996, Accept performed in a highly watched over reunion, and Dirkschneider put U.D.O. on hiatus to record three albums together with his old Accept colleagues. After another Accept break up, Dirkschneider returned his focus to U.D.O. For this Udo Dirkschneider called Stefan Kaufmann (guitar), Jürgen Graf (guitars), Fitty Wienhold (bass) und Stefan Schwarzmann (drums) to him. Udo Dirkschneider and Stefan Kaufmann then went, together with the new line-up, “back to where we started” and with that to recording on the Tribute to Judas Priest. On this compilation of Judas Priest cover songs U.D.O. performed the track “Metal Gods”.
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  • Yellowxander

    Celebrator review at MetalTalk.net http://metaltalk.net/columns/20102776.php

    12 days ago
  • xuemeihengxing

    legendary

    21 days ago
  • MegaBlazy

    Слушаю его сцуко ещё со школы, с конца 80-х, я наверно фанат :) Удо, жги!

    23 days ago
  • Cynical_Man

    Azrael remix is second to none!

    23 days ago
  • Rot-N-Dead

    УДО МУЖИК, 2 РАЗА БЫЛ НА ЕГО КОНЦЕРТЕ, ЭТО КОРОЛЬ НЕМЕЦКОГО ХЭВИ!!!!!

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  • dm-sagaidak

    На новом альбоме они споют песню Плачет Солдат с Фактором 2. Докатился Удо :((

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  • Back_In_Blaack

    Недавно была на их концерте, это незабываемо! Энергетика мощнейшая! Удо, как всегда, на высоте! И их гитарист Игорь Джанола просто душка=))

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  • Sharp-Ton

    Oh, the German energy.

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Udo puts the pedal to the metal!!!

14 May 2012 | from blog.myspace.com/udoonline

Last Saturday (May 12th) Udo drove some laps in a Soviet BMP-1 panzer in Königsee (Thüringen, Germany) and at that he acquired his "panzer diploma". Also on board was Julia Dettke as …

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