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 hard rock singer Doro Pesch, released in 2008 through AFM Records. The EP was released a few months before the album Fear No Evil and includes three versions of the song "Celebrate". In the single version, the chorus features a group of Doro fans, while the other two versions include chorus vocals by Saxon's frontman Biff Byford and several female heavy metal singers. The song, a collaboration between Doro and her former Warlock producer Joey Balin, commemorates 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 .