Hans Ziller (born 18 May 1959) is a German musician, known as the founder, lead guitarist, backing vocalist and primary composer of the 1980s

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. He founded the band Cacumen (a predecessor of Bonfire) as a teenager in 1972. In 1989, in the middle of working on Bonfire's third album ''Point Blank—''which, like the earlier albums, was produced by

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—Ziller left the band because of insurmountable differences with the management and the rest of the band and began a project of his own called EZ Livin'. In 1996, he returned to Bonfire. In 2014, Ziller resurrected EZ Livin' for a solo venture that was originally planned to be temporary. On 11 January 2015, he reformed Bonfire. The initial album of the new line-up, ''

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'', made the German top 50

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, and at the end of 2015, Ziller signed a new contract with the UDR/ Warner label. In 2016, Bonfire released the album ''

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'' on UDR to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the band and embarked on an extended tour to promote the album.

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1959 births Living people German rock guitarists German male guitarists German male songwriters German heavy metal guitarists Bonfire (band) members {{Germany-guitarist-stub