"Für Immer" (Forever) is a song composed by the German heavy metal band Warlock, from their 1987 album '' Triumph and Agony''. It was the band's sixth single and it was published by Vertigo Records.

Review

The song was published for the second time in a live version as b-side of the Doro Pesch's single "Hard Times" in 1989. It was later published again in the compilation '' Rare Diamonds'', released in March 1991 by

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under the name Warlock & Doro. The video produced for this song and shot by

Mark Rezyka Mark Rezyka (born 11 June 1959 in Montreal, Canada) was best known as a top director of heavy metal music videos in the 1980s and 1990s. With partners Marcelo Epstein and Dominic Orlando, he founded Pendulum Productions in 1982, and directed ov ...

is contained in the VHS video compilation with the same name. In 1998 the track was part of Doro's compilation '' The Ballads''. In 2003 Doro Pesch released a live version of the song as single, published by

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. In 2004 the song had a "classic" treatment, with strings and acoustic guitars, on Doro's album ''

Classic Diamonds ''Classic Diamonds'' is the ninth studio album by the German female hard rock singer Doro Pesch. It was released worldwide in 2004 by AFM Records. The album presents new acoustic and symphonic arrangements for songs from Doro's repertoire, as we ...

'' . In 2020 Doro Pesch, Gil Ofarim, Henning Wehland from the H-Blockx and Alex Wesselsky from Eisbrecher released a new version of the song in view of the corona crisis.

Track listing

# "Für Immer" - 4:12 # "Metal Tango" - 4:24

Doro — Für Immer

# "Für Immer" (live radio edit) - 3:30 # "Für Immer" (live version) - 6:10

Cover

The Swedish band Sabaton released a Cover, of für Immer in German, on their second Album Attero Dominatus.Sabaton
Sabaton - Für immer (Doro Cover Song)
viewed on 1. January 2021

References

External links

Original video from Warlock 1987

Review at Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives

Fan-Video for Classic Diamonds Version
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