Tour Dates and Reviews

Our good friend Piotr is celebrating his birthday at the Alleehaus 161 in Wuppertal! If you like Piotr, and if you like ROCK, be there and let us have a great time!!!! Entrance is free! But make sure to have a birthday present with you!

We are live on stage at the Metal For Mercy Show on JAN 31 in Wuppertal! Four Bands are rocking the stage of the Eventground (Underground Eventfloor). Metal For Mercy e.V. is a charity organization. They are supporting kids to get jobs in the music industry.

On stage with us are
Ketamine......

Hell Yeah!!! You LANDLUBBERS!!! Thunder, Lightning, Devastation, and Desaster!!! We will burn down the stage of the LCB in Wuppertal together with our brothers Axe Victims!!!!

ARRRRRR!!!! The Pirates In Black are heading towards north!! We are going to enter Betty’s Black Pearl in Bremen! A night of music, fun, and erotic 🙂

Location: Kolpingstrasse 14, 28195 Bremen
Entrance for free (just put some money into the pirate hat)

We are so proud to be part of this young, but cool festival in Haan! The festival takes place Friday and Saturday (25.-26. of June 2026). Headliners are the mighty Tigers Of Pan Tang!!! Showtime of the Pirates In Black is Saturday at 1800h!!!

Get all information about the festival here!

HUUUAAAARRRR!!!! After a break of 8 month the Pirates In Black are finally BACK! We had great fun in an sold-out Alleestübchen in Wuppertal. With sooo many friends of us.

ARRRRR!!!!!! Another heavy evening at the Rockin’ Rooster Club in Haan!!! Our friends from The Vincent Raven Band opened the stage with a 50 minutes heavy rock performance!! Blood, sweat, and tears!!! It was a blast!

Then the crazy Pirates In Black entered the stage. We went wild! The crowd went crazy!!!

Thank you Rockin’ Rooster!!......

O!M!G!!!! More than 300 fans gathering together and celebrating a great Heavy Rock Party!!!! We opened the stage for Ozzyfied at 2000! One hour of devastation, thunder, and plundering!!! A fucking great evening!

For the second time we played at the Cranger Rock Spelunke (Martin’s Klause) in Herne-Crange! Heavy Christmas!!!!!

It was absolutely cool, again!!! We will be back in 2025!

The Pirates in Black played the legendary COBRA in Solingen for the first time. We were part of the Laut&Hart-Festival! The whole line up was very cool: Wireless Frank.N.Stein, The Claymore, Rigorious, Warwolf, Hammer King, and the headliner: Grave Digger!!! We were the second act (stagetime is 15:45) and......

ARRRRRRR!!!!! We devastated the Löf in Remscheid, again!!! A very nice, and loud, evening in a very cool location just around the corner of the home of the captain 🙂

Again. Again. And AGAIN!!! We rocked the Alleestübchen in Wuppertal! Thank you all for joining us and make that night a special one, again! We will be back!!!

Thank you Wellesweiler Crew!!!! Great location! Great festival! Beatuiful weather! We had a wonderful time and a very cool gig at your festival! We played about 50 minutes and the crowd forced us to even play an encore!!!

The Pirates In Black played the Rock Spelunke in Crange!!! A nice and rocking place in Herne! Great people and very good vibes!! It was so much fun and we will be back, again!!! Arrr!!!

Here are some impressions by our very good friend Piotr!

Jolly Hooo you lousy landlubbers!!! The bloody rotten Pirates In Black played the Vatertagsrockfestival in Lüdenscheid.

Here is what the German Press wrote about it:

Location: Underground......

Arrrr!!! A very cool gig at the WüRG in Wülfrath. We rocked the stage together with our friends from Medley Crüe. Lots of friends and fans! A very nice location. And super friendly staff! Thank you guys!

The bloody rotten Pirates In Black from Wuppertal were setting their sails to conquer the valley in ENNEPETAL! A very nice and cozy show among friends and family. “Musik Unter Freunden” … 🙂

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Eisenfest Afterbirth 2024!!!! Three bands from Wuppertal were blasting the stage of The Nordpol in Schwelm. A blood and sweat gig. No mercy has been shown. No prisoners have been taken.

Anamorph (Death Metal)
Crazy Train (Cover Rock/Metal)
And the bloody rotten Pirates in Black, of course!!!

WOOOWOWOWOOOOOOO!!!! This was a sold out show! 300 maniacs were going down with us and OZZYfied for a haevy rock party at the LCB in Wuppertal! Ozzy even performed a song together with us. The crowd went wild! ARRRR!!!!

More pictures to come......

Arrrrrrr! Alllaaaaarrrrrffff! Herrrrlauuuuu! We had a blast in Remscheid! Lots of singing! Dancing! Head Banging!! And lots of fun!!
We will be back!!

YESSSS!!! We rocked the Allee-Stübchen in Wuppertal, again!! It was wild, and crazy!!

OOOOOHHHHHH YEEEESSSSS!!!! We had a hell of a blast!!! Celebrating the release of our new album MONEY SLAVES with about 80 friends and fans at the Allee Haus Wuppertal. It was so cool to watch all you people wearing our band shirts – or even showing up dressed like pirates! Thank you all for......

Holy Moly!!! It was time to destroy the stage of the Rockin’ Rooster in Haan, again. Together with our good friends from Krefeld, The Vincent Raven Band, we had a hell of a blast on stage on March 25.

We finished the season in the LCB Wuppertal. Opening the stage for Bourbon Street.

It was great gig in front of around 400 enthusiatic rock fans. The Pirates played and plundered the stage for 50 minutes. Presenting old and very new material. And had really a lot of fun!!! It......

It may be cold and shady outside! But it’s damn hot inside the Jazzkeller Krefeld. At least when The Vincent Raven Band was sharing the stage with the bloody rotten Pirates In Black. Our friends from Krefeld invited us to play a show together, in a famous location in......

After a long and demanding period of postponing this gig over and over again it finally happend to take place!
To bloody rotten Pirates In Black burned down the stage of the Underground in Wuppertal. Together with The Vincent Raven Band from......

YEEEESSSS!!!!! WE FINISHED AS SECOND!!!!
Now the Pirates In Black are officially the second best newcomer band in Germany (at least in the season 2019!) 🙂

We had a great day in Montabaur together with 8 other cool bands. The organization was close to perfect. And each and everybod was in a good mood. What a......

Our good friend Wolfram Winterhoff and his wife Sylvia invited us to play a few pirate songs at their private garden party. Due to the Corona circumstances the audience was limited to about 20 guests. Wolfram used to be the camera guy in two of our videos, Pirates In Black, and My Name. In return......

The Pirates In Black qualified for the final of the SPH Music Masters 2019! So we are one of the top ten bands of about 1.500 participating bands in that contest in 2019. Holy Moses!!!!

Eight very good bands from various genres battled against each other at the MTC Cologne for the......

Jolly Hooo you landlubbers!! We have rocked the legendary Rockin’ Rooster Club for the third time again. This time we acted as the headliner of the show. Playing our full set! And showing absolutely no mercy at all!

As very special guest there had been three heavy rocking ladies from Siegen:......

Holy shit!!! We survived the Quarterfinal and made it to the Semifinal of the SPH Music Masters. This will take place an FEB-15-2020 in Cologne!

Mit den PIRATES IN BLACK stand nun die dritte Band vom Abend auf der Bühne. Die Segel waren......

Thank you!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!! For coming, and having such a great party!! We were honoured, and are feeling blessed, by your support, and love!

Lord have mercy!! We made it to the QuarterFinal in December! The votes from the jury and the audience sent us to the second place of the evening. It was a great competition with very cool bands, especially with our friends from Wuppertal, Killing Kate, and a very cool band......

Unfortunately this gig was canceled by the venue. We are very sorry about that!

Yeah!!!! We rocked the Rooster, again!!! A hell of a blast. 45 minutes of plundering, murdering, and total devastation! Can’t remember what happend afterwards. Rumours were spreaded that the good boys of Halbtags had a pretty good time on stage, too. Yes, it was a lot of fun for all of us.

Yeah that was a hell of a blast!!!!! APR-13-2019: The bloody rotten Pirates In Black rocked Luedenscheid, plundering the fridge, and burning down the stage! All of that after our friends from Fortress nailed down some serious heavy metal cover songs.

And we have got a very nice review from Björn Othlinghaus (who also took the......

Arrrrrrrr! That was a merciless prey yesterday evening at the Alleestuebchen! Now our tired bones are in need of some urgent rest. But don’t halloo till you’re out of the wood! Them windows are still intact. That bar is still standing. And barkeeper Marion, too. So there is still plenty of......

The PIRATES IN BLACK had been invited to attend the 11th Charity Festival Wuppertal Hilft! together with a bunch of other great artists, and local and international musicians. We had 15 minutes of time to perform three songs: “Pirates In Black”, “All Alone”, and “My Name”. A......

We were heading back to the place were all the plundering began: The famous stage of the Culture Club Barmen in Wuppertal! What a great gig again! And what a great audience! Full house. Great sound (Thanks to Bernhard Blank!). A fantastic evening!!!......

Wohohohooowww! What a great show that was! The Pirates In Black rocked the stage of the Underground in Wuppertal on 01-SEP-2018! And a crowd of more than 90 heavy rock lovers witnessed our show of heavy riffs and raw passion. So to everybody who attended the show: THANK YOU FOR......

Yes, we did it!! The Pirates In Black rocked Bochum and made it straight to the next round of the SPH Bandcontest. 40 minutes of sweat, and screams, and a freaking-out-crowd made the evening very special for us. Thank you very much to our supporters who took the long way from......

Yooohoooo you grumbling and stumbling swashbuckling seafearers! The Pirates In Black will rock the stage again in Wuppertal. We are proud and honoured to open the stage for the Norwegian heavy blues rockers from Pristine. Down in the cellars of the LCB Wuppertal.

Date: Thursday 26-APR-2018
Place: Live Club Barmen (LCB) in......

What a great start into the year 2018! On Saturday the 13th of January the Pirates In Black entered the stage of the Rockin’ Rooster Club in Haan. 45 minutes of heavy rock and roll, fun, and excitement.

Get an impression by the great pictures shot by our friend Detlef Claus from DPW On Tour.

„Die Premiere der Pirates In Black im CCB war ja wohl ein 100%iger Erfolg! Für ein Geheimkonzert ganz schön volles Haus! Tolle Rock-Audience & verdammt gute heavy Entertainment Show! Eingängige Songs, klasse Mucke! Gut performed von der sympathisch-herzlichen „RampenSau“ Falo Faltu als Frontman!

Man bemerkte im Publikum, dass die 3 Klampfen der Burschen ja locker den......