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The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc ( the Soviet Union and its satellite states ) and powers in the Western Bloc ( the United States , its NATO allies and others ). Historians do not fully agree on the dates , but a common timeframe is the period ( the second half of the 20th century ) between ___MASK99___ , the year the Truman Doctrine ( a U . S . policy pledging to aid nations threatened by Soviet expansionism ) was announced , and ___MASK91___ , the year the Soviet Union collapsed . Sebastian Philip Bierk ( born April ___MASK96___ , ___MASK77___ ), known professionally as Sebastian Bach , is a Canadian heavy metal singer who achieved mainstream success as frontman of Skid Row from ___MASK17___  96 . Since his departure from Skid Row , he has had many television roles , acted in Broadway plays , and leads a solo career . Skew Siskin formed in ___MASK43___ when guitarist Jim Voxx met up with singer Nina C . Alice . The band ' s original line up was completed by the addition of drummer Nik Terry and bass guitarist Jogi Rautenberg . The band ' s name translated into English means " Crazy Bird "; Nina C . Alice chose the name as due to spending time living in Britain knew that " bird " there is often colloquially used to refer to women . The inner German border ( or " deutsch - deutsche Grenze "; initially also " Zonengrenze ") was the border between the German Democratic Republic ( GDR , East Germany ) and the Federal Republic of Germany ( FRG , West Germany ) from ___MASK28___ to ___MASK43___ . Not including the similar but physically separate Berlin Wall , the border was long and ran from the Baltic Sea to Czechoslovakia . The Holy Roman Empire was a multi - ethnic complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in ___MASK92___ . The largest territory of the empire after 962 was the Kingdom of Germany , though it also came to include the Kingdom of Bohemia , the Kingdom of Burgundy , the Kingdom of Italy , and numerous other territories . Peace Breaker is the sixth album release by Skew Siskin . It was released in ___MASK66___ and features guest appearances by Ivan Kral who has collaborated with Patti Smith and Iggy Pop , and Wolf Hoffmann of Accept . The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from ___MASK27___ to ___MASK86___ . Constructed by the German Democratic Republic ( GDR , East Germany ), starting on 13 August ___MASK27___ , the Wall completely cut off ( by land ) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in ___MASK76___ . Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and was completed in 1992 . The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls , which circumscribed a wide area ( later known as the " death strip ") that contained anti - vehicle trenches , " fakir beds " and other defenses . The Eastern Bloc claimed that the Wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the " will of the people " in building a socialist state in East Germany . In practice , the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that had marked East Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post - World War II period . Ivan Král ( born ___MASK95___ ___MASK19___ , in Prague ) is a Grammy Award - winning , Czech - born American composer , filmmaker , record producer , bass guitar player , and singer - songwriter . He works across many genres including punk , rock , jazz , soul , country and film scores . His songs have been recorded by such artists as U2 , Pearl Jam , Téléphone , Patti Smith , Iggy Pop , David Bowie , Simple Minds , and John Waite , among others . James Newell Osterberg , Jr ., known professionally as Iggy Pop ( born April 21 , ___MASK99___ ), is an American singer - songwriter , musician and actor . He was the vocalist of influential proto - punk band The Stooges , who reunited in 2003 , and is well known for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics . The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO '), also called the North Atlantic Alliance , is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on ___MASK53___ April 1949 . The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party . Three NATO members are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council with the power to veto and are officially nuclear - weapon states : the United States , France and the United Kingdom . NATO ' s headquarters are located in Haren , Brussels , Belgium , where the Supreme Allied Commander also resides . Belgium is one of the 28 member states across North America and Europe , the newest of which , Albania and Croatia , joined in April 2009 . An additional 22 countries participate in NATO ' s Partnership for Peace program , with 15 other countries involved in institutionalized dialogue programmes . The combined military spending of all NATO members constitutes over 70 % of the global total . Members ' defence spending is supposed to amount to 2 % of GDP . John Michael " Ozzy " Osbourne ( born ___MASK24___ ) is an English singer , songwriter , and actor . He rose to prominence in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath . He was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979 and went on to have a successful solo career , releasing 11 studio albums , the first seven of which were all awarded multi - platinum certifications in the US . Osbourne has since reunited with Black Sabbath on several occasions , recording the album " 13 " in 2013 . His longevity and success have earned him the informal title of " Godfather of Heavy Metal ". Frankfurt am Main is a metropolis and the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth - largest city in Germany , with a 2015 population of ___MASK81___ , 095 within its administrative boundaries , and 2 . ___MASK96___ million in its urban area . The city is at the centre of the larger Frankfurt Rhine - Main Metropolitan Region , which has a population of 5 . 8 million and is Germany ' s second - largest metropolitan region after Rhine - Ruhr . Since the enlargement of the European Union in 2013 , the geographic centre of the EU is about to the east of Frankfurt ' s CBD , the Bankenviertel . Frankfurt is culturally and ethnically diverse , with around half of the population , and a majority of young people , having a migration background . A quarter of the population are foreign nationals , including many expatriates . The German reunification was the process in ___MASK43___ in which the German Democratic Republic ( GDR / East Germany ) joined the Federal Republic of Germany ( FRG / West Germany ) to form the reunited nation of Germany , and when Berlin reunited into a single city , as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23 . The end of the unification process is officially referred to as German unity , celebrated on 3 October ( German Unity Day ). Following German reunification , Berlin was once again designated as the capital of united Germany . Quiet Riot is an American heavy metal band , best known for their hit singles " Metal Health " and " Cum on Feel the Noize ." The band was founded in ___MASK71___ , by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni under the name Mach ___MASK44___ . They then changed the name to Little Women , before settling on Quiet Riot in May ___MASK15___ . The band ' s name was inspired by a conversation with Rick Parfitt of the British band Status Quo , in which Parfitt said he ' d like to name a band " Quite Right ," and his thick English accent made it sound like he was saying " Quiet Riot ." The band is ranked at No . 100 on VH1 ' s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock . Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in ___MASK77___ . They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock , although their musical approach changed over the years . Originally formed as a progressive rock band , the band shifted to a heavier sound in 1970 . Deep Purple , together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath , have been referred to as the " unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid - seventies ". They were listed in the ___MASK15___ " Guinness Book of World Records " as " the globe ' s loudest band " for a 1972 concert at London ' s Rainbow Theatre , and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide . Hughes Turner Project ( HTP ) was a musical project formed in the ___MASK30___ by bassist / vocalist Glenn Hughes ( formerly of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath , etc .) and vocalist Joe Lynn Turner ( formerly of Rainbow and Yngwie Malmsteen ' s Rising Force ). They released two albums , a live album and one joint project with Mikhail Men . Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany as well as one of its constituent 16 states . With a population of approximately ___MASK96___ . 5 million people , Berlin is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union . Located in northeastern Germany on the banks of rivers Spree and Havel , it is the centre of the Berlin - Brandenburg Metropolitan Region , which has about ___MASK4___ million residents from more than 180 nations . Due to its location in the European Plain , Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate . Around one - third of the city ' s area is composed of forests , parks , gardens , rivers and lakes . Bring ' Em Bach Alive ! is the debut solo album by Sebastian Bach , his first after his departure from Skid Row . It was released in November ___MASK97___ . It is mainly a live album composed of Skid Row songs of Bach ' s era ; however it also includes five new studio recordings which are the first five tracks on the album including the single " Superjerk , Superstar , Supertears " and the promo single " Rock N Roll ". The Rhine (, , ) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps , forms part of the Swiss - Austrian , Swiss - Liechtenstein , Swiss - German and then the Franco - German border , then flows through the Rhineland and eventually empties into the North Sea in the Netherlands . The largest city on the river Rhine is Cologne , Germany , with a population of more than ___MASK44___ , 050 , 000 people . It is the second - longest river in Central and Western Europe ( after the Danube ), at about , with an average discharge of about . A guitarist ( or a guitar player ) is a person who plays the guitar . Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars , acoustic guitars , electric guitars , and bass guitars . Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar by singing or playing the harmonica . The Warsaw Pact , formally the Treaty of Friendship , Co - operation , and Mutual Assistance and sometimes , informally , WarPac . was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War . The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CoMEcon ), the regional economic organization for the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe . The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in ___MASK55___ per the London and Paris Conferences of 1954 , but it is also considered to have been motivated by Soviet desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe . The guitar is a musical instrument classified as a string instrument with anywhere from four to ___MASK60___ strings , usually having six . The sound is projected either acoustically , using a hollow wooden or plastic and wood box ( for an acoustic guitar ), or through electrical amplifier and a speaker ( for an electric guitar ). It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers , thumb and / or fingernails of the right hand or with a pick while fretting ( or pressing against the frets ) the strings with the fingers of the left hand . The guitar is a type of chordophone , traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut , nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning . The modern guitar was preceded by the gittern , the vihuela , the four - course Renaissance guitar , and the five - course baroque guitar , all of which contributed to the development of the modern six - string instrument . West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG ( or " RFA ") in the period between its creation on ___MASK83___ May 1949 to German reunification on ___MASK67___ . During this Cold War era , NATO - aligned West Germany and Warsaw Pact - aligned East Germany were divided by the Inner German border . After 1961 West Berlin was physically separated from East Berlin as well as from East Germany by the Berlin Wall . This situation ended when East Germany was dissolved and its five states joined the ten states of the Federal Republic of Germany along with the reunified city - state of Berlin . With the reunification of West and East Germany , the Federal Republic of Germany , enlarged now to sixteen states , became known simply as " Germany ". This period is also referred to as the Bonn Republic (" Bonner Republik ") by historians , alluding to the interwar Weimar Republic and the post - reunification Berlin Republic . Wolf Hoffmann ( born December ___MASK23___ , 1959 in Mainz , West Germany ) is a German guitarist , primarily known as guitarist in the German heavy metal band Accept since 1976 . In 1997 , he released the album Classical with rock versions of classical pieces . He contributed to Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach ' s solo album Bring ' Em Bach Alive ! and to a ___MASK6___ Japanese tribute to Randy Rhoads album called Randy Rhoads Tribute with Sebastian Bach on `` I Do n ' t Know '' and with Joe Lynn Turner on `` Diary of a Madman '' . Hoffmann also contributed to Peace Breaker by Skew Siskin . He has loved photography as a hobby early on , and eventually made it his second career . He took the cover photo for Objection Overruled . During Accept ' s hiatus from 1997 , Hoffmann has worked as a professional photographer ( website listed below ) . He is currently based in Nashville , TN , but also maintains a residence in Berlin , Germany . Wolf Hoffmann is married to Gaby Hoffmann ( née Hauke ) , who used to be Accept ' s manager . Gaby Hauke contributed to Accept ' s songwriting under the pseudonym Deaffy . Accept reformed with Hoffmann on board in 2009 . Their comeback album , Blood of the Nations , was released August 20 , 2010 to overwhelmingly positive reviews . A follow - up album , Stalingrad , surfaced two years later , which also was highly praised . On November 27th , during an Accept show in London , Wolf revealed in an interview with Blackdiamond that he was working on a new solo album , which will probably be another in the Neo - Classical Metal style , as his previous Classical Album was . He also stated that this album will probably be ready to be released in 2015 but did not mention a certain time . Wolf Hoffmann ( born ___MASK49___ in Mainz , West Germany ) is a German guitarist , primarily known as guitarist in the German heavy metal band Accept since 1976 . In 1997 , he released the album " Classical " with rock versions of classical pieces . He contributed to Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach ' s solo album " Bring ' Em Bach Alive !" and to a 2000 Japanese tribute to Randy Rhoads album called " Randy Rhoads Tribute " with Sebastian Bach on " I Don ' t Know " and with Joe Lynn Turner on " Diary of a Madman ". Hoffmann also contributed to " Peace Breaker " by Skew Siskin . Joe Lynn Turner ( born Joseph Arthur Mark Linquito , August ___MASK89___ , ___MASK48___ ) is an American singer , known for his works with hard rock band Rainbow . During his career , Turner fronted pop rock band Fandango , had the short - lived collaboration for neoclassical metal guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen and Deep Purple . From the mid 1990s , he worked with various musical groups ( progressive rock band Mother ' s Army , funk rock duo Hughes Turner Project , AOR side project Sunstorm , etc .), while pursuing a solo career . He is currently the vocalist for Rated X , based on Mother ' s Army . Their album was released in 2014 . Germania Superior (" Upper Germania ") was a province of the Roman Empire . It comprised an area of western Switzerland , the French Jura and Alsace regions , and southwestern Germany . Important cities were Besançon (" Besontio "), Strasbourg (" Argentoratum "), Wiesbaden (" Aquae Mattiacae "), and Germania Superior ' s capital , Mainz (" Mogontiacum "). It comprised the Middle Rhine , bordering on the Limes Germanicus , and on the Alpine province of Raetia to the south - east . Although it had been occupied militarily since the reign of Augustus , Germania Superior ( along with Germania Inferior ) was not made into an official province until c . ___MASK41___ AD . Mainz is the capital and largest city of the state of Rhineland - Palatinate in Germany . It was the capital of the Electorate of Mainz at the time of the Holy Roman Empire . In antiquity Mainz was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire ; it was founded as a military post by the Romans in the late 1st century BC and became the provincial capital of Germania Superior . The city is located on the river Rhine at its confluence with the Main opposite Wiesbaden , in the western part of the Frankfurt Rhine - Main ; in the modern age , Frankfurt shares much of its regional importance . Yngwie Johan Malmsteen (; born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck on ___MASK69___ ) is a Swedish guitarist and bandleader . Malmsteen first became known in the 1980s for his neoclassical metal playing style in heavy metal . In ___MASK63___ , " Time " magazine rated Malmsteen as among the ___MASK23___ greatest electric guitar players of all time . The Federal City of Bonn is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine - Westphalia , with a population of ___MASK50___ , ___MASK64___ . Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine - Ruhr region , Germany ' s largest metropolitan area , with over ___MASK9___ million inhabitants . Weimar Republic is an unofficial , historical designation for the German state between ___MASK26___ and ___MASK57___ . The name derives from the city of Weimar , where its constitutional assembly first took place . The official name of the state was still " Deutsches Reich "; it had remained unchanged since 1871 . In English the country was usually known simply as Germany . A national assembly was convened in Weimar , where a new constitution for the " Deutsches Reich " was written , and adopted on 11 August ___MASK26___ . In its fourteen years , the Weimar Republic faced numerous problems , including hyperinflation , political extremism ( with paramilitaries  both left - and right - wing ); and contentious relationships with the victors of the First World War . The people of Germany blamed the Weimar Republic rather than their wartime leaders for the country ' s defeat and for the humiliating terms of the Treaty of Versailles . However , the Weimar Republic government successfully reformed the currency , unified tax policies , and organized the railway system . Weimar Germany eliminated most of the requirements of the Treaty of Versailles ; it never completely met its disarmament requirements , and eventually paid only a small portion of the war reparations ( by twice restructuring its debt through the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan ). Under the Locarno Treaties , Germany accepted the western borders of the republic , but continued to dispute the Eastern border . Patricia Lee " Patti " Smith ( born December ___MASK79___ , ___MASK45___ ) is an American singer - songwriter , poet , and visual artist who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her ___MASK15___ debut album " Horses ". Randall William " Randy " Rhoads ( December ___MASK4___ , 1956  March 19 , 1982 ) was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot . A devoted student of classical guitar , Rhoads combined his classical music influences with his own heavy metal style . He died in a plane accident while on tour with Osbourne in Florida in 1982 . Despite his short career , Rhoads , who was a major influence on neoclassical metal , is cited as an influence by many guitarists and is included in several " Greatest Guitarist " lists . Wiesbaden is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse . In July 2016 , it had about ___MASK42___ , 000 inhabitants , plus approximately 19 , 000 United States citizens ( mostly associated with the United States Army ). The Wiesbaden urban area is home to approx . ___MASK98___ , 000 people . East Germany , formally the German Democratic Republic or GDR , was an Eastern Bloc state during the Cold War period . From ___MASK28___ to ___MASK43___ , it administered the region of Germany that was occupied by Soviet forces at the end of World War II  the Soviet Occupation Zone of the Potsdam Agreement , bounded on the east by the Oder  Neisse line . The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin , but did not include it ; as a result , West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR . The German Democratic Republic was established in the Soviet Zone , while the Federal Republic was established in the three western zones . East Germany was a satellite state of the Soviet Union . Soviet occupation authorities began transferring administrative responsibility to German communist leaders in 1948 , and the GDR began to function as a state on ___MASK85___ October ___MASK28___ . Soviet forces , however , remained in the country throughout the Cold War . Until 1989 , the GDR was governed by the Socialist Unity Party ( SED ), though other parties nominally participated in its alliance organisation , the National Front of Democratic Germany . West Berlin was a city that existed in the period between the end of the Berlin Blockade on ___MASK95___ May ___MASK28___ to German reunification on ___MASK67___ as a political enclave surrounded by East Berlin and East Germany . It was east of the Inner German border and only accessible by land from West Germany by narrow rail and highway corridors . It consisted of the American , British , and French occupation sectors established in ___MASK13___ and shared economic , political , legal , and sporting systems with West Germany , but was not " de jure " part of it . It had a special and unique legal status because its administration was formally conducted by the Western Allies . East Berlin , " de jure " occupied and administered by the Soviet Union , was the " de facto " capital of East Germany . The Berlin Wall , built in 1961 , physically divided East and West Berlin until it fell in 1989 . East Berlin existed between ___MASK28___ and ___MASK43___ and consisted of the Soviet sector of Berlin established in ___MASK13___ . The American , British , and French sectors became West Berlin , strongly associated with West Germany , while East Berlin was the " de facto " capital of East Germany . From 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989 , East Berlin was separated from West Berlin by the Berlin Wall .