Fritz Randow
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Fritz Randow is a drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

 from Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. He has played in rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 and heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 oriented bands such as Eloy
Eloy
Eloy is a German progressive rock band, whose musical style includes symphonic and space rock, the latter theme being more prevalent on earlier albums...

, Victory
Victory (band)
Victory was a German Heavy Metal and hard rock band from Hanover, most successful in the 1980s. With extensive tours and radio airplay, the band also made a breakthrough in North America.-Emergence:...

, Sinner
Sinner (band)
Sinner are a German heavy metal band formed by vocalist and bassist Mat Sinner in 1982 . They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene. Their latest album, One Bullet Left, was released in 2011.-History:...

 and Saxon
Saxon (band)
Saxon are an English heavy metal band, formed in 1976 in Barnsley, Yorkshire. As front-runners of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, they had 8 UK Top 40 albums in the 1980s including 4 UK Top 10 albums. Saxon also had numerous singles in the Top 20 singles chart...

 and in 2007 with Peter Panka's Jane
Jane (band)
Jane is a German Progressive Rock Krautrock band that was formed in October 1970 in Hanover, Germany.-Band history:Their debut album 'Together' is considered by fans to be one of the most iconic German Progressive Rock albums of all time...

.

Biography

Randow started playing the drum
Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...

s when he was 13 years old. Between the age of 14-17 he played in various cover band
Cover band
A cover band , is a band that plays mostly or exclusively cover songs. New or unknown bands often find the cover band format marketable for smaller gigs, and these bands may be known as a wedding band, party band and function band. A band whose covers consist mainly of songs that were chart hits is...

s.

Eloy

  • Inside
    Inside (Eloy album)
    Inside is the second album by German progressive rock band Eloy. It was released in 1973.-Side Two:# "Inside" – 6:35# "Future City" – 5:35# "Up and Down" – 8:23Bonus Tracks on 2000 Digital Remaster:# "Daybreak" - 3:39# "On The Road" - 2:30...

    (1973)
  • Floating (1974)
  • Power and the Passion (1975)
  • Time to Turn
    Time to Turn
    Time to Turn is an album by German progressive rock band Eloy, being released 1982. The UK issue, on the Heavy Metal World-wide label, featured different artwork by noted fantasy illustrator Rodney Matthews.-Track listing:...

    (1982)
  • Performance
    Performance (Eloy album)
    Performance is the twelfth album by German progressive rock band Eloy, which was released in 1983.-Track listing:All songs composed and arranged by Eloy...

    (1983)
  • Metromania
    Metromania
    - Personnel :* Frank Bornemann — Guitar, Lead Vocals, Lyricist, Producer* Klaus Peter Matziol — Bass guitar* Hannes Folberth — Keyboards* Hannes Arkona — Guitar, Keyboards, Vocoder, Syncussion, Synthesizer Drums* Fritz Randow — Drums...

    (1984)

Victory

  • Victory (1985)
  • Don't Get Mad... Get Even (1986)
  • Hungry Hearts (1987)
  • Culture Killed The Native (1989)
  • Temples Of Gold (1990)
  • You Bought It - You Name It (1992)
  • Liveline (Live) (1994)
  • Instinct (2003)
  • Fuel To The Fire (rerecorded songs) (2006)

Sinner

  • Respect (1994)
  • Bottom Line (1995)
  • Judgement Day (1997)
  • The Nature Of Evil (1998)

Saxon

  • Metalhead
    Metalhead (album)
    Metalhead is the fourteenth studio album by heavy metal band Saxon released in 1999 .-Track listing:-Personnel:*Biff Byford - vocals*Paul Quinn - Guitar*Doug Scarratt - Guitar*Nibbs Carter - Bass*Fritz Randow - drums...

    (1999)
  • Killing Ground
    Killing Ground
    Killing Ground is the fifteenth full-length studio album by heavy metal band Saxon released in 2001 .Killing Ground was also released as a special Digi-pack edition with a bonus disc featuring 8 classics re-recorded tracks which would later appear in Heavy Metal Thunder."The Court of the Crimson...

    (2001)
  • Heavy Metal Thunder (rerecorded songs) (2002)
  • The Saxon Chronicles
    The Saxon Chronicles
    The Saxon Chronicles is a double DVD showcasing one of the NWOBHM pioneers spanning 23 years of their career. It features a 2001 concert, interviews, videos, and on-tour documentaries.-Disc 1:*Wacken Open Air Festival, Germany 2001 The Saxon Chronicles is a double DVD showcasing one of the NWOBHM...

    (live DVD
    DVD
    A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

    ) (2003)
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