荷兰老牌Heavy Metal乐队，组建于1979年。 乐队历史： In the late seventies, the hard rock and heavy metal scene in Holland slowly starts to take shape. Most bands are copying the sound of the godfathers Purple, Sabbath, Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. The most succesful bands from our country are Picture, Bodine, Vengeance, Vandale and Vandenberg. The band with the highest cult level though can be found in the upper north of Groningen. We are talking about Vortex here, founded in 1979. Quick mathematics will tell you, that it is time for a celebration now, because it’s thirty years ago, since the six ‘hammers of the north’ came together. Besides Lynyrd Skynyrd, this is probably the only raw rock and roll band, that had three (!!!) guitarplayers in their line-up, being Peter Hummel, Gerard Waalboer and founder member Martjo ‘Whirlewolf’ Brongers. The remainder of the band back in those early days consisted of Gerrit Kuiper (ex-Living Rock) on vocals, Pe...