OUR LEGEND
STUKA SQUADRON is an award-winning Heavy Metal act whose 'Tales of the Ost' (2011) album garnered considerable critical praise and excellent album sales.
The band was founded in 2008 by former members of Centurion's Ghost and Raising Cain (among others) and toured extensively around the release of their debut album. There was a brief hiatus when some band members formed IRON KNIGHTS for the 'New Sound of War' album (2012), which was originally released as a 'Stuka Squadron' album. However the original members then reformed the band in 2014. STUKA SQUADRON has been heavily featured in the music press (Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, Terrorizer Magazine etc) almost always in an extremely positive light.
STUKA SQUADRON portrays vampire warriors who have fought on innumerable battlefields and enjoyed adventures across the world, pitting them against adversaries both mortal and immortal. The name celebrates the band's most recent wartime incarnation, but - as the song relates, STUKA SQUADRON's bloody bootprints echo through the pages of history....
STUKA SQUADRON has been compared to the likes of IRON MAIDEN and JUDAS PRIEST. The lyrics of STUKA SQUADRON reflect themes related to WAR, THE OCCULT, the tales of H P LOVECRAFT and the trials and tribulations of vampirism - particularly based on the band's own interminable internal conflicts, feuds, squabbles and in-jokes.
The band have finally completed work on the long-awaited follow-up to 'Tales of the Ost', 'Zeppelin' which is set for release shortly.
SQUADRONEERS, LEGIONNAIRES, DENIZENS OF THE SUBTERRANIA. ARISE!
YOUR TIME HAS FINALLY, FINALLY COME.....
PILOTS
CAPTAIN STRANGE - VOCALS
CAPTAIN STRANGE OF BLOODWORTH HIL
CAPTAIN STRANGE returns to us from decades of secret missions in THE OCCIDENT where he worked against such foes as The Wily Pathan, and his ARCH-NEMESIS, KHALI and the remnants of THE THUGEE CULT.
Vocally he is best compared to ROB HALFORD / RIPPER OWENS and on the new album has also contributed lyrics. He previously featured in such acts WINTER'S EDGE and SPINNING DEATH MACHINE.
He joined STUKA SQUADRON in 2019 (immediately before Covid so we couldn't do anything for ages) and will debut on the forthcoming STUKA SQUADRON album 'ZEPPELIN'.
GENERALISSIMO STRIX - LEAD GUITAR
GENERALISSIMO STRIX
GENERALISSIMO STRIX joined THE SQUADRON as lead guitarist in the touring band for the ZEPPELIN album.
He joins from VOLTSTORM (UK Metal) and after being unjustly deposed from his former position as BENIGN RULER (dictator) of SUBTERRANEAN KIRIBATI.
KLAUSS VON ORLOK - LEAD GUITAR
KLAUSS VON ORLOK
KLAUSS VON ORLOK joined THE SQUADRON as lead guitarist in the touring band for the ZEPPELIN album.
Von Orlock, the result of a failed, or wildly successful, depending on his commanders' appetite for mayhem, super-soldier experiment, is a superhuman with a tormented past and an insatiable thirst for revenge, driven to madness by the relentless pursuit of those who wronged (or righted) him.
LORD PYRE - BASS GUITAR
GRAHAM LORD PYRE
LORD PYRE is THE BASS WARRIOR CHIEF WORDSMITH, and FOUNDING MEMBER of STUKA SQUADRON, writer of the majority of the TALES OF THE OST album.
As various newspapers relate LORD PYRE wrote parts of some of the tracks on the 'Tales of the Ost' album under fire in Iraq. He is also a doctor of history. Popular anecdotes include a stinging defeat to BRUCE DICKINSON of IRON MAIDEN on the fencing piste.
He remains ever vigilant for the return of the various enemies of THE SQUADRON - werewolves, Russians, Russian werewolves, Labour MPs (ginger ones), ties, Zabulon.
Oblt MAX FLIEGER - DRUMS
Oblt MAX FLIEGER
MAX FLIEGER is the DRUMMENMEISTER on the ZEPPELIN album. He joined as a member of the touring band after a lengthy secret mission with in the AMAZON JUNGLES of BRAZIL.