Pretty Maids

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Pretty Maids
Background information
Origin	Horsens, Denmark
Genres	Heavy metal, hard rock, glam metal
Years active	1981–present
Labels	Frontiers
Members	Ronnie Atkins Ken Hammer Allan Tschicaja Rene Shades Chris Laney
Past members	see below
Website	prettymaids.dk

Pretty Maids is a Danish hard rock/heavy metal band from Horsens. Formed in 1981 by Ken Hammer, and completed with Ronnie Atkins in 1982, their sound and music can be described as classic guitar-laden heavy rock with a strong emphasis on melody.

Over the years, Pretty Maids have sold hundreds of thousands of records, but have never broken through in a major way, except in Japan during the 1990s. They have supported well known bands such as Black Sabbath, Whitesnake, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, and Saxon, and were also featured at the 1987 German version of Monsters of Rock, where Metallica headlined along with Deep Purple.^[1]

After a prolonged international touring hiatus before the release of the 2006 Wake Up to the Real World album, the band have every year since been touring their primary markets of Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany and Japan.