His Statue Falls
His Statue Falls is a Post-Hardcore-/Electrocore-Band from Saarbrücken. Enter Shikari describe their style as Techcore.
History
The founding members played previously in several friendly bands ( Crash My DeVille, Enter The Phoenix) and / or knew each other from their school days. In 2003, she started as a common sample space project under the name of His Statue Falls, at that time with a different lineup. After 2007, a first demo recording was released with two songs, the band in 2008 began to play first live shows. A little later there was a line-up change that produced as a result of the current lineup.
2009 His Statue Falls played in four appearances as a supporting act of Enter Shikari in Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The opportunity to perform with Enter Shikari, they reached a sent message on MySpace. On 26 February 2010 they released their bass player Christian Diehl -produced debut album collisons on Redfield Records. In Japan, the album through Radtone Music is distributed and published on June 2, 2010. On 24 December 2010, the album Collisions Remixed was released and made available for free download. It contains eight remixes of songs from their debut album.
The second album was released under the name Mistaken for Trophies. The planned publication date of September 23, 2011 had to be postponed. The album should be released via Redfield Records in early 2012. The release date of " Mistaken for Trophies " has been set to April 20, 2012 the video for the first single from the album, " Breathe In Breathe Out", was released on February 7, 2012 on the official YouTube channel of the band. In this song, Chuong Trinh of Hordak is a guest singer. On April 20, 2012, the album was released on CD and rose to number 19 of the German newcomer charts by Media Control. On 9 May 2012, the album was released on Radtone Music in Japan.
On 18 February 2012, the band announced that their drummer Maximilian Schütz leaves the band for professional and family reasons. Since 22 May 2012, the new drummer Markus Pesch is firmly integrated in the band. On July 6, 2012 His Statue Falls played the very first concert in Japan. This was held in Osaka in the Geki Rock Tour. It was followed by two more concerts in Nagoya and Tokyo. From July 10 to July 15, 2012, the Group had concerts in the People's Republic of China in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Nanjing and Beijing.
On August 25, 2012, the band announced on their Facebook page, to separate due to personal differences from their previous singer and vocalist Alex Sauer. On May 3, 2013 January Vergin of Cocoon was introduced as the new lead singer for His Statue Falls. In October, the group toured again through Germany and Austria. As support the labelmates Eye Sea I from Estonia were there. On October 18, 2013, the EP was released I Am the Architect from Redfield Records. On December 9, 2013 it was announced that the group will play in 2014 at the With Full Force.
Discography
Demos
- 2007: Demo ( self-distributed )
EPs
Albums
- February 26, 2010: Collisions ( Redfield / Radtone )
- April 20, 2012: Mistaken For Trophies ( Redfield / Radtone )
Compilations
- December 24, 2010: Collisions Remixed ( Redfield )
Music videos
- December 6, 2010: Capital H Capital O
- February 7, 2012: Breathe In, Breathe Out ( feat. Chuong Trinh )
- October 11, 2013: I Am the Architect