Cacumen>>BONFIRE - GERMANY

Don't Touch The Light - 1986 - RCA
Fireworks - 1987 - RCA
Point Blank - 1989 - RCA
Knockout - 1991 - RCA
Feels Like Comin' Home - 1996 - LZ
Rebel Soul - 1997 - LZ
Fuel To The Flames - 1999 - BMG
Strike X - 2001 - BMG
Live Over Europe - 2002 - LZ
Free - 2003 - BMG
One Acoustic Night – 2005 – Locomotive
Double X – 2006 – LZ
Double Vision – 2007 - LZ
The Raüber – 2008 – LZ
Branded – 2011 – LZ
Fireworks Still Alive – 2011 - LZ
Schanzerherz – 2013 – LZ
Live In Wacken – 2013 - LZ
Glörious – 2015 – LZ
Byte The Bullet – 2017 - UDR
Temple Of Lies – 2018 - AFM
Live On Holy Ground - Wacken 2018 – 2019 – Pride & Joy
Fistful Of Fire – 2019 - AFM
Roots – 2021 - AFM

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Members
Vocals
Cacumen, Solo>>Claus Lessman>>Solo, Supremacy – Seduction, Viron, Purple Rising, Roxxcalibur, Masters Of Disguise>>Alexx Stahl>>Purple Rising, Roxxcalibur, Masters Of Disguise

Guitar
Cacumen>>Hans Ziller [Johann Ziller]>>EZ Livin', Solo - Horst Maier-Thorn>>Shiva - What?, Casanova, Mad Max>>Michael Voss>>Casanova, Demon Drive, Silver, Supremacy, Phantom 5, Rock Wolves - Sinner, Pretty Maids, Vamp/Helter Skelter>>Angel G. Schleifer>>Charade - Cacumen, EZ Livin', Solo>>HANS ZILLER [JOHANN ZILLER]>>EZ Livin’ – Rotten Rose>>Chris Lausmann – Chris “Yps” Limburg – Solemnity, Red To Grey, Burn, Solo, Mantragora, Sainted Sinners, Valley’s Eve>>FRANK PANÉ>>Solemnity, Burn, Solo, Mantragora, Sainted Sinners, Valley’s Eve

Bass
Jorg Deisinger>>Sabu, Soul Doctor – Black Tears, Sharona, Big Apple>>Uwe Koehler>>UK’s Homage, Switchblade Romance - Seven Witches>>RONNIE PARKES>>Seven Witches

Drum
Darxon, Kymera>>Dominic Huelshorst>>Kymera, Faro, Ex – TKO, Fifth Angel, House Of Lords, Chastain, Alice Cooper>>Ken Mary>>Fifth Angel, Chastain, Alice Cooper, Impellitteri, Knight Fury, Flotsam And Jetsam, Ellefson - Sinner, Tyran Pace, Samson>>Edgar Patrick – Megaherz>>Jurgen Wiehler>>Megaherz – Darxon, Kymera>>Dominik Hülshorst>>Kymera – Solemnity, Stormwitch, Ez Livin', Dorian Opera>>Harry Reischmann>>Ez Livin', Dorian Opera, Infinity’s Call – At Vance>>Tim Breideband>>Freedom Call, Hellryder – Mendacious Messiah, Vanize, The Sygnet, Axxis, Razorback, Rage, Sinner, Lingua Mortis Orchestra, Empire, Herman Frank, Silent Force, Sonic Haven, Primal Fear>>ANDRÉ HILGERS>>Silent Force, Sonic Haven, Primal Fear




History & Biography
Cacumen first appeared in the German Metal Hammer magazine in 1984 with a photo and a demo review. The band changed its moniker and quickly released a successful album. A tour with ZZ Top followed. Fireworks was a big hit and spent six months in the German charts. The band toured with Judas Priest and added a session keyboardist and recruited Voss. The group appeared at the Reading festival in England in 1988. Point Blank was a bigger hit, but by Knockout the band was getting and accepting bad advice and the songs, production and cover version were all too commercial and the band failed. A couple of solo albums later, the band was back in 1996. But this album was a mishmash of older material, English version of already-released German songs and so failed to be taken seriously. Fuel To The Flames had the band return to its crowd-pleasing ‘80s’ sound. The band also released Freudenfeuer, which was a German equivalent to Fuel. The band recorded its English 2002 tour (with Mike Tramp) for a live album to be called Live Over England.

The self-released album was soon issued as Live Over Europe. In 2003, the Germans declined shows with Whitesnake, curtailed headlining shows due to illness and finally issued a new CD in the autumn.

Double X in 2006 celebrated the band’s twentieth anniversary. The band was working on a rock opera called The Räuber in 2007. The album was based on Die Räuber (the robbers), a play by Friedrich Schiller. A DVD, The Räuber, which was the companion to the album was out through LZ Records in 2008. Ziller resurrected Ez Livin’ in 2013. Bonfire fired singer David Reece in the summer of 2016 due to professional and personal reasons. Back in the band was Michael Bormann. Bonfire released a new album, called Temple Of Lies, through AFM Records on April 13. Alexx Stahl was on vocals. He had taken the place of Michael Bormann (Jaded Heart) who ended up never joining. Aside from Ziller, all the other members were also new. Pearls was a 2016 compilation of re-recorded songs. Early guitarist Horst Maier-Thorn died in 2017. Legends was a two-disc full-length of cover versions issued in 2018. Live On Holy Ground - Wacken 2018 was both a live album and separately a video of the band’s performance. This was the second time the band released a live recording taped at Wacken. Hilgers became the drummer in 2019. He replaced Tim Breideband. The band lost its singer in 2022 and cancelled its appearance at the Blast From The Past festival. Raven replaced it. Singer Stahl suffered from mitral endocarditis. The band was not waiting for its singer and recruited singer Dyan with whom it re-recorded an old song, Fantasy.


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