Ostrogoth

Ostrogoth came out of Ghent, Belgium, in 1980, flying the flag for old-school heavy metal with one eye on what fellow Europeans Scorpions and Accept were doing. The riffs are sturdy, the choruses are built for raised fists, and the gallop never lets up, with "Full Moon's Eyes" the song that best shows what they were about.

An EP and two albums came out of the early years, Full Moon's Eyes, Ecstasy and Danger and Too Hot, with Mausoleum Records as their label, and on stage they opened for Def Leppard, Manowar, Vandenberg, Loudness, Uriah Heep and Gary Moore. A major lineup change came before Feelings of Fury in 1987, and after that the band fell apart.

They have come back more than once. In 2002 they played a run of Belgian shows with both Marc "Red Star" De Brauwer and Peter De Wint on vocals, each singing the songs from his own time in the band. A brief 2010 reunion with De Brauwer ended with Josey Hindrix taking over, and a few years later they got back to writing, releasing the EP Last Tribe Standing in 2015. Another big lineup change followed in 2018.

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