Bio of the Week: Staubkind
Each week, we are providing you with the history of another German band with the help of our friends at DeutschMusikLand.com. Mikki runs a terrific site with literally hundreds of band bios and all kinds of other content like interviews and album reviews. DML is definitely a site worth visiting!
Staubkind has been selected as our band for this week. (Technically, it was the band for last week, but we lost that post so we’re doing it again this week!) In any case, here’s the Staubkind bio from DML:
In 2003 Louis Manke (guitarist for the Berlin electro band, Terminal Choice) began a solo project called Staubkind. The sound was heavily influenced by bands such as Oomph!, Linkin Park, Evanescence and Zeraphine and offered a catchy mixture of hard guitars, bombastic melodies and emotional singing. The song, “Endlos” appeared on various compilations and found its way into the hearts of many, Terminal Choice fans included. A suitable home for Manke’s “child” was soon found in Fear Section, the label of Terminal Choice’s bandleader, Chris Pohl. The maxi-CD, “Keine Sonne” appeared in February, 2004 and the Staubkind debut album, “Traumfänger” has been in stores since May, 2004.
Since this bio was written in 2005, Staubkind’s album Traumfänger has been re-released with new cover artwork, and the maxi single “Ausgebrannt” was released in October 2005. After working with Terminal Choice for some time, Louis Manke has returned to the studio to work on the next Staubkind album. He originally hoped for a release date early in 2007, but it has now been pushed back to the Fall season. There will be a supporting tour that is already being planned for November.
We’re looking forward to providing you with more news about the new Staubkind album. Until then, check out Staubkind’s Myspace page to hear some of their industrial-rock songs.
September 12th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
[…] As you may remember, Staubkind was working on a new album for quite some time and hoping for a release in the Fall. Well the Fall is almost here and I have some good news. The Staubkind album is almost here, too! It will be called Zu Weit and will be released on October 12th, but that’s about all I can tell you at this point. […]