Calling the Wild
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| Studio album by Doro | ||||
| Released | 1 September 2000 (Germany) 12 September 2000 (USA) |
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| Studio | 3:20 Studios, New York City, USA Atom H Studios, Düsseldorf, Germany Office Studios, Los Angeles, USA Intermediapost, New Jersey, USA Crownhyll Studio, Remscheid, Germany Egopark, Hamburg, Germany |
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| Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal | |||
| Length | 62:48 54:31 (US version) |
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SPV/Steamhammer (Germany) Koch (USA) |
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| Producer | Jimmy Harry, Jürgen Engler, Chris Lietz, Doro Pesch, Lemmy, Bob Kulick, Bruce Bouillet, Andreas Bruhn, Mike Goldberg, Nelson Ayres, Rudy Kronenberger | |||
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| Singles from Calling the Wild | ||||
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Calling the Wild is the seventh solo album by German hard rock singer Doro Pesch. It was released in 2000, in two different editions for the European market and the American one. For this release, Doro changed labels again, having signed contracts with SPV/Steamhammer for Germany and with Koch Records for the USA. Calling the Wild was the first album published in the US after the eponymous one in 1990. The US edition contains also remixed tracks taken from the previous Doro album Love Me in Black. "Love Me Forever" is a cover of Motörhead's song from the album 1916 of 1991. "White Wedding" is a cover of Billy Idol's hit single of 1982 .
After the unsatisfying promotion and distribution of the album Love Me in Black by the WEA label, Doro signed in 2000 with the German label SPV/Steamhammer. At the same time, with the aide of her American fan club that had her demos circulating in the offices of various labels, she received an offer for an American release of her new album by Koch Records. She signed this second contract and decided to release two different editions of the album: the first one for the European market, with only unpublished songs; the second one for the American market, which included some songs from Love Me in Black.
Calling the Wild had a production process even more fragmented than the previous album and for the first time Doro herself took the job of producer. Producers and composers Jürgen Engler, Chris Lietz and Jimmy Harry, who had produced Love Me in Black, contributed again some new songs and remixed some old ones for the US edition. Motörhead singer Lemmy Kilmister contributed two songs that were independently produced in Los Angeles, and so did former The Sisters of Mercy guitarist Andreas Bruhn in Germany. The Gary Scruggs’ songs and the contributions by the guest musicians required even more independent production.
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