Orden Ogan

Orden Ogan is a power and folk metal band from Germany founded in 1996. The founding members include singer and guitarist Sebastian Levermann and drummer Sebastian Grütling. They initially called themselves Tanzende Aingewaide, changing their name to Orden Ogan in 1997. In the early days, the band released their first demos with a mixture of folk and power metal, which can be heard on Into Oblivion (1997), Anthem to the Darkside (1998) and Soli Deo Gloria (1999). In 2004, Orden Ogan released the album Testimonium A.D. on their own. Flutes and oboes can be heard on it for the last time. Four years later, the first studio album Vale is released. The songs on it are now pure power metal. The band themselves call their style melodic metal. Another album, Easton Hope, followed in 2010. Orden Ogan's follow-up album To the End made its first chart entry in Germany in 2012 at number 41. The longplayer also made the band internationally known. Concerts in Europe and the United States followed. In 2015, Ravenhead climbed into the top 20 of the German album charts at number 16 and also reached the Swiss charts at number 56. The compilation The Book of Ogan (2016) was followed by the album Gunmen in 2017. The album reached number 8 in the German top 10, while the longplayer reached number 31 in Austria and number 37 in Switzerland. Its successor, Final Days, was even more successful. The longplayer climbed to No. 3 in Germany and reached No. 26 in Switzerland. Orden Ogan repeated their success in Germany with the album The Order of Fear in 2024, which again reached No. 3 in Germany and landed at No. 24 in Austria and No. 19 in Switzerland.