Bart Gabriel

Artist Bart Gabriel

• Birth ♌ Sun 15 Aug 1976 (48 years, 8 months, 6 days, 17781 total living days)

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Cirith Ungol

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The Orange Album (Tue 01 Aug 1978)
Paradise Lost (Fri 23 Aug 1991)
One Foot In Fire – A Tribute To Cirith Ungol (2005)

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Bart, Bartosz or Wojciech “Wojtek” Gabriel (Wojtek means Al in English) in Katowice. He was the webmaster for the Cirith Ungol website ca. 2004-2009. He has also contributed with a lot of stuff for this website. He has tons of metalproject including Bard Megazine, many official websites for these bands, (co-)producing, (re)mastering and booking agent.

He produced the One Foot in Fire tribute album. His wife Marta Kroczak-Gabriel is the lead vocalist in Crystal Viper, who covered Chaos Rising with Elixir for the Cirith Ungol tribute album. But now Crystal Viper rejected CU cover song, unfortunately. He mastered from original source tapes for Paradise Lost (1991/2016) and The Orange Album (1978/2020).

Cover artwork of the forthcoming CRYSTAL VIPER EP, “At The Edge Of Time“, painted by Andreas Marschall. Lyrics of the title track are based on the Elric tales (about the relationship between Elric and Stormringer, to be exact), while the other song entitled “When Are You” was inspired by the story of Erekose and Ermizhad.

Crystal Vipers had The Soundhouse Tape (2005), just as The Soundhouse Tape (1979) from Iron Maiden and The Soundhouse Tapes Part 2 (1979) from Praying Mantis. But now they have put it away. Praying Mantis has previous members of Iron Maiden and art work by Rodney Matthews.

Dragonight Agency International (short: Dragonight Agency or Dragonight) are from the year 2000 until the end. You can follow his current activities at Gabriel Management (2007), Skol Records (2009) and Dragon Productions (2022, not confused with previously Dragonight Agency).

: Dragonight Agency (discontinued now)

: HEAVY METAL TO THE WORLD. Left to right: Marta from Crystal Viper and Bart (Fri 28 Jul 2023)

: Dragon mode on: next tour almost fully booked. Bringing some excellent Black & Death Metal acts to Europe!

Have a great weekend everyone and listen to CIRITH UNGOL! ⚔️🔥🦇 at Dragon Productions (21 Jul 2023)

: HEAVY METAL MAUSOLEUM – UPDATE. As some of you may know, for the last 2 decades I’ve been collecting all kind of Heavy Metal related memorabilia. I’m a big enthusiast of the entire Heavy Metal culture, so my plan was, and still is, to gather and preserve as many of them as possible, so they could be enjoyed by future generations of fans. I don’t think I will ever afford to buy or hire a space for an actual regular museum, but I know that arranging an exhibition at a festival or in an art gallery is actually doable. I don’t feel that my collection is already big enough to do that (approx. 100-120 items), and I think it will take some time until I will launch that project for good, but I decided to start sharing with you pictures and stories about what I managed to gather so far.

The photo: I’m restoring the original CIRITH UNGOL stage banners, which the band used back in the day. I got them few months before they announced their comeback, so I’m guessing this photo was taken at the end of 2016 or in the first days of 2017. When the banners were ready to be used again (chemical dry cleaning, removing the mold and repainting some parts, as they were sitting in a garage for almost 30 years), I took them to the Keep It True Festival. The band liked them so much after they got restored, that I actually returned them, and they are travelling with the band once again (and I’m really happy about it).

Follow me on Instagram for more pictures and stories: www.instagram.com/bartgabrielofficial

#heavymetalmausoleum #cirithungol #heavymetal #oldschool #keepittrue (Wed 22 Jan 2020)

: Keeping it true with Tim Baker of Cirith Ungol (Thu 12 May 2016)

: from the left: Greg, Markus “Bart” Grasseck, Jarvis, Tim, Bart Gabriel
middle: Manolis Karazeris, Jim
bottom: Rob

Metal Invader: When and how did you start with Skol Records?

Bart Gabriel: Skol Records started in 2009, when I was releasing CD single of Crystal Viper. The single wasn’t in regular sale – it was a part of a board game, but we thought it will look cool if there will be some label name on the disc. I always been very much into Vikings and history of the Nordic lands, and I really liked the Faithful Breath album entitled “Skol”, so this is where the name comes from. I also always liked Michael Whelan’s artwork which landed on the cover of Cirith Ungol’s “King Of The Dead” LP, and Manilla Road’s Smiling Jack, so I wanted our logo to have this horned helmet. By the way: yes, I know that Vikings had no horns on their helmets. But actually, warriors of some of the pre-Viking tribes in the Nordic lands used to wear them, so that myth isn’t that far from the truth.