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Calling the Wild (2000)
  
Fight (2002)

Release date
  
1 September 2000

Genres
  
Heavy metal, Hard rock

Artist
  
Doro

Label
  
Metalville Records

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Released
  
1 September 2000 (Germany) 12 September 2000 (USA)

Studio
  
3:20 Studios, New York City, USA Atom H Studios, Düsseldorf, Germany Office Studios, Los Angeles, USA Intermediapost, New Jersey, USA Crownhyll Studio, Remscheid, Germany Egopark, Hamburg, Germany

Length
  
62:48 54:31 (US version)

Producer
  
Jimmy Harry, Jürgen Engler, Chris Lietz, Doro Pesch, Lemmy, Bob Kulick, Bruce Bouillet, Andreas Bruhn, Mike Goldberg, Nelson Ayres, Rudy Kronenberger

Nominations
  
Echo Award for Best National Rock/Pop Female Artist

Similar
  
Doro albums, Heavy metal albums

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Calling the Wild is the seventh solo album by German hard rock singer Doro Pesch. It was released in 2000, in two different editions for the European market and the American one. For this release, Doro changed labels again, having signed contracts with SPV/Steamhammer for Germany and with Koch Records for the USA. Calling the Wild was the first album published in the US after the eponymous one in 1990. The US edition contains also remixed tracks taken from the previous Doro album Love Me in Black. "Love Me Forever" is a cover of Motörhead's song from the album 1916 of 1991. "White Wedding" is a cover of Billy Idol's hit single of 1982 .

Contents

Overview

After the unsatisfying promotion and distribution of the album Love Me in Black by the WEA label, Doro signed in 2000 with the German label SPV/Steamhammer. At the same time, with the aide of her American fan club that had her demos circulating in the offices of various labels, she received an offer for an American release of her new album by Koch Records. She signed this second contract and decided to release two different editions of the album: the first one for the European market, with only unpublished songs; the second one for the American market, which included some songs from Love Me in Black.

Calling the Wild had a production process even more fragmented than the previous album and for the first time Doro herself took the job of producer. Producers and composers Jürgen Engler, Chris Lietz and Jimmy Harry, who had produced Love Me in Black, contributed again some new songs and remixed some old ones for the US edition. Motörhead singer Lemmy Kilmister contributed two songs that were independently produced in Los Angeles, and so did former The Sisters of Mercy guitarist Andreas Bruhn in Germany. The Gary Scruggs’ songs and the contributions by the guest musicians required even more independent production.

The music of Calling the Wild leaves behind the industrial and electronic sounds present in Love Me in Black and goes for straight heavy metal, filling the tracks with riffs and guitar solos galore. The remixed songs from the previous album had the drum machine parts replaced by new live drum tracks provided by German drummer Thomas Franke and new guitar solos provided by former Detente guitarist Mario Parillo and by Jürgen Engler himself. Other guitar solos came from Savatage guitarist Al Pitrelli and from Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash.

Following the release of the album, Doro went on a successful US tour supporting Dio, her first in America in more than ten years.

The album was re-released by SPV/Steamhammer on 25 January 2010 as a digipak 2 CD edition. The track listing includes all the songs of the European edition, all the bonus tracks and b-sides of the singles extracted from the album. The extensive booklet includes new photos and liner notes by Doro Pesch and Nick Douglas.

Calling the Wild peaked at position No. 16 in the German Longplay chart.

Bonus CD (Re-Issue Digipack Edition 2009)

  1. "Alone Again"
  2. "I Want More"
  3. "Rip Me Apart"
  4. "I Adore You"
  5. "Burn It Up (Thunder Mix)"
  6. "Burn It Up (Lightning Mix)"
  7. "Burn It Up (Burning Mix)"
  8. "Burn It Up (Burning Hot Mix)"
  9. "Burn It Up (Lightning Strikes Again Mix)"
  10. "Ich Will Alles"(acoustic)
  11. "Burn It Up"(acoustic)

Personnel

  • Doro Pesch – vocals, producer

    • Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5 (EU) - 1, 2, 5, 7, 14 (US)

  • Jürgen Engler – guitars, keyboards, bass, producer, mixing
  • Thomas Franke – drums
  • Chris Lietz – programming, keyboards, producer, engineer, mixing
  • Mario Parillo – guitar solos
  • Al Pitrelli – guitar solo on "Dedication"

    • Tracks 8 (EU) - 3 (US)

  • Jürgen Engler – bass, producer, mixing
  • Thomas Franke – drums
  • Chris Lietz – programming, producer, engineer, mixing
  • Steve Stevens – guitar

    • Tracks 6, 9, 12 (EU) - 4, 10, 13 (US)

  • Jimmy Harry – guitars, bass, keyboards, programming, drum programming, producer, engineer, mixing

    • Tracks 10, 16 (EU) - 6, 12 (US)

  • Bruce Bouillet – producer, engineer, mixing
  • Lemmy Kilmister – vocals, bass, acoustic guitars, producer, mixing
  • Bob Kulick – guitars, producer, mixing
  • Eric Singer – drums
  • Joe Taylor – guitars

    • Tracks 4, 11 (EU) - 8, 9 (US)

  • Michi Besler – drums
  • Andreas Bruhn – guitars, bass, keyboards, producer, engineer, mixing

    • Track 14 (EU) - 11 (US)

  • Nelson Ayres – producers, engineers
  • Nick Douglas – bass
  • Jürgen Engler – guitars, mixing
  • Thomas Franke – drums
  • Mike "Metal" Goldberg – producers, engineers
  • Chris Lietz – engineer, mixing
  • Mario Parillo – rhythm guitar
  • Slash – guitar solo
  • Kendal Stubbs – programming

    • Tracks 7, 13, 15 (EU)

  • Rudy Kronenberger – producer, engineer, mixing

    • Songs

    1Kiss Me Like a Cobra3:18
    2Dedication3:54
    3Burn It Up2:47

    References

    Calling the Wild Wikipedia
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