About Us

German

When the guitarists Torsten Fünfhaus and Mick Sebastian, bass player Jörg Hassel and drummer André

Genuit met in the rehearsal room for the first time in 1997 to work together under the name Perfact Crime,

the band could already look back on a large treasure chest of experience which was filled with legendary

geman metal bands like Sweet Cheater, Secrecy, Exploder or Final Prophecy. In autumn 1998 the line-up,

now completed by singer Dirk Stühmer and keyboarder Björn Meyer, released their first demo, which

received great reviews in such important magazines like the japanese BURRN.

Their first place in a local band contest and their second demo, "Crimetime", which they recorded in only six

days, were enough to allow the popularity of Perfact Crime to make a step upwards climb and ensure soldout

live shows. A support slot for the US metal legends Breaker and being selected to open RockHard

magazine's "Unerhört" sampler were the next highlights in the band's career. The number of gigs increased

with a slot at the Rocktown-Open-Air and as support for US hardrockers Axe. All this resulted in a contract

with TTS Media Music, who, in 2002, released the "Crimes Of Passion" CD. Shortly before the release, the

band were forced for legal reasons to change the band name to Eternal Reign.

The reactions in the media were very positive. The german magazine Heavy, oder was!? even gave them the

highest rating, way in front of long established bands such as Sentenced, Dokken, Iron Savior and Eidolon.

With such an album in their luggage, it was no surprise to see them on the billing at the Headbangers-Open-

Air, the Keep-It-True and the Building-A-Force festival. Even the lendary and critical underground magazine

"Snakepit", gave the band extensive coverage. Now established as one of the best underground metal acts in

Germany, the band began recording their second album, "Forbidden Path", the title track of which had just

been published on the Heavy, oder was!? compilation CD "Metal Crusade". Shortly after that Eternal Reign

signed the deal with Limb Music Products. The album "Forbidden Path" was released worldwide in February

2005. The second output got lots of very good reviews in print magazines around the world and on the

internet. Eternal Reign also played on different festivals like the Wildside-Festival, the Metal-Bash-Festival

and at THE ROCK in Copenhagen. They also supported bands like Masterplan, Mob Rules and Victory.

During the following years Eternal Reign had to deal with a lot of difficulties like the loss of their rehearsal

room and they also had to look for a new drummer, after André left the band because of personal reasons.

Last but not least their producer made the recording of the new album fall through, which costed the band a

lot of time and money. Nevertheless Eternal Reign and the new drummer Lennart Medebach entered the

Sunday Studios in Bremen in the spring 2009 to record the third album "The Dawn Of Reckoning". The

mixing and the mastering was done by Achim Köhler, who in the past had already worked for bands like

Brainstorm and Primal Fear. In the beginning of 2010 Eternal Reign signed a new record deal with the

famous german metal-label PURE STEEL RECORDS and on August 6th 2010 "The Dawn Of Reckoning"

was released worldwide. After releasing the album, Eternal Reign hit the stage with the likes of VICIOUS

RUMORS, RUFFIANS, SHOK PARIS, ETERNAL LEGACY, MOB RULES and MOLLY HATCHET and

opened the famous Bang-Your-Head-Festival in Balingen in 2011 with Headliners ACCEPT and

SLAYER. Eternal Reign are planning to put out their fourth album in 2012!