Iron Savior is a German
power metal band that formed in
Hamburg,
Germany in 1996. Following a period of several years working behind the scenes in music production, multi-instrumentalist and producer/engineer
Piet Sielck joined with former
Helloween bandmate
Kai Hansen and then-drummer for
Blind Guardian Thomen Stauch in a new project that would blend power metal with a high-concept science fiction story. The band's debut album
Iron Savior introduced the story that would be told over the course of multiple albums, featuring a self-aware space vessel called the Iron Savior and its relationship to the mythical lost civilization of
Atlantis.