{"id":4035,"date":"2026-02-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.full-metal-holiday.com\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:29:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:29:01","slug":"axel-rudi-pell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.full-metal-holiday.com\/en\/axel-rudi-pell\/","title":{"rendered":"Axel Rudi Pell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German string knight par excellence! Since the late \u201980s, Axel Rudi Pell has been roaming the metal world like a wandering troubadour, wielding epic melodies \u2013 always accompanied by his loyal vocalist Johnny Gioeli (Hardline). This year, the band returns with Ghost Town and sharpens its hard-rock sword on the big festival stages.<br>Pell loves to tell tales of knights and adventures in his songs \u2013 which fits perfectly with Mallorca, where dream beaches and ancient stone walls make such stories easy to imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.full-metal-holiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fmh26_part_I_bands_axel_rudi_pell-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.full-metal-holiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fmh26_part_I_bands_axel_rudi_pell-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.full-metal-holiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fmh26_part_I_bands_axel_rudi_pell-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.full-metal-holiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fmh26_part_I_bands_axel_rudi_pell-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.full-metal-holiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fmh26_part_I_bands_axel_rudi_pell-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.full-metal-holiday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fmh26_part_I_bands_axel_rudi_pell.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Der deutsche Saiten-Ritter schlechthin! Seit den sp\u00e4ten 80ern zieht Axel Rudi Pell mit seinen epischen Melodien wie ein wandernder Troubadour durch die Metalwelt \u2013 immer mit dem treuen Johnny Gioeli (Hardline) am Mikro. Dieses Jahr legt die Band mit \u201eGhost Town\u201c nach, und wetzt auf gro\u00dfen Festivals das Hard-Rock-Schwert.Pell erz\u00e4hlt in seinen Songs gerne Ritter- [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bands-part-1"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Axel Rudi Pell - Full Metal Holiday<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.full-metal-holiday.com\/en\/axel-rudi-pell\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Axel Rudi Pell - Full Metal Holiday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Der deutsche Saiten-Ritter schlechthin! 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