Celebrate – The Night of the Warlock explained

Celebrate – The Night of the Warlock
Type:	EP
Artist:	Doro
Cover:	Doro Celebrate.jpg
Released:	31 October 2008
Recorded:	W:A:T Factory, Bochum TwoforMusic Studios, Cologne, Germany
Genre:	Heavy metal
Length:	23:52
Label:	AFM
Producer:	Andreas Bruhn, Torsten Sickert, Doro Pesch
Prev Title:	Anthems for the Champion – The Queen
Prev Year:	2007
Next Title:	Herzblut
Next Year:	2008

Celebrate – The Night of the Warlock is an EP by German female hard rock singer Doro Pesch, released in 2008 through AFM Records. The EP preceded of a few months the album Fear No Evil and includes three versions of the song "Celebrate". In the single version of the song the chorus is provided by a group of Doro fans, while the other two contain in the chorus the vocal performances of Saxon's frontman Biff Byford and of many female heavy metal singers. The song itself is a new collaboration of Doro with the old Warlock producer Joey Balin and is meant to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Doro's career.^[1]

The EP reached position No. 75 in the German single chart.^[2]

Track listing

1. "Celebrate" (single version) (Doro Pesch, Joey Balin) – 4:56
2. "Celebrate" (feat. Biff Byford) – 4:56
3. "Celebrate" (Full Metal Female version) – 4:56
4. "The Night of the Warlock" (single version) (Pesch, Chris Lietz) – 5:14
5. "Rescue Me" (Pesch, Jean Beauvoir) – 3:50

Personnel

Band members

• Doro Pesch – vocals, producer
• Nick Douglas – bass
• Joe Taylor – guitars
• Johnny Dee – drums
• Oliver Palotai – keyboards, guitars
• Luca Princiotta – keyboards, guitars

Additional musicians

• Biff Byford – backing vocals on track 2
• Sabina Classen, Floor Jansen, Angela Gossow, Veronica Freeman, Liv Kristine, Ji-In Cho, Liv Jagrell, Girlschool – backing vocals on track 3
• Andreas Bruhn – guitars, bass, producer, engineer, mixing
• Chris Lietz – guitar, keyboards, engineer, mixing, mastering
• Torsten Sickert – keyboards, guitars, bass, programming, producer, engineer, mixing
• Klaus Vanscheidt – guitar, backing vocals
• Christoph Siemons – guitar, backing vocals
• Bernd Aufermann – guitar
• Lukas Dylong, Dirk Schoppen – backing vocals

Notes and References

1. Web site: Doro – Celebrate (The Night of the Warlock) . 22 January 2011 . Encyclopaedia Metallum.
2. Web site: Doro Celebrate – The Night of the Warlock Zusammenfassung . 22 January 2011 . Musicline.de . https://web.archive.org/web/20121011113529/http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/title/Doro/Celebrate-The+Night+Of+The+Warlock/single . 11 October 2012 . dead .