Biwo

History

Biwo stands for absolutely honest, infectiously catchy, emphatically down-to-earth and classically timeless melodic heavy metal with a well-dosed shot of Teutonic bullishness.

You can clearly hear that a musically inspired genre fan is at the start, who makes his real music for just such real fans - so uncomplicated Heavy Metal Brotherhood is really very popular.

The enormously varied and persistently catchy songs breathe the unique, fresh 80s spirit with delicious fervor and in such depth that you simply cannot escape the charm of Biwo if you feel a genuine connection to the early heavy metal of this time.

Yes, what is meant is the very special time when the blissful and equally obscurely odd Gama Records released unforgettable records by top artists such as Stormwitch, Veto and Tyran' Pace - and the scene cult around it grows every year.

The idea for the band came about in January 2020 when Sven (guitar and vocals) and Justus (bass) met at a benefit concert. With Hanno (drums), whom Justus knew from his school days, a man was found for the shells.

Shortly before the first rehearsal, the pandemic came and with it the break for the formation. However, Sven diligently took advantage of the creative break and began to convert the ideas into songs and to realize them up to a finished album. 'Life and Death' got the finishing touches in the summer of 2022, when the first real rehearsals began and the tracks in the rehearsal room shone with new splendor.

Biwo is not supposed to be self-promotional and giga-virtuoso orgies of perfection, rather they indulge in the ever-attractive underground.

And although band head Sven Biwo sees himself more as a solo mainman with guest musicians, the result sounds damn organic, homogeneous and completely free of wear and tear. All songs on the debut album were composed and recorded by Sven single-handedly. The mix and the mastering were also done by himself at the Cubi Studios, Bochum. The pleasantly idiosyncratic artwork deliberately does not represent an obligatory Photoshop bombardment - it comes from the brushes of Gudrun Müller.

(source: Biwo, September 2022)