Think About Mutation
Think About Mutation was a crossover band from Leipzig, which existed from 1992 to 2002. The band mixte 1992 as one of the first rave and techno elements with metal guitars. Groups such as Rammstein were in their early development by Think About Mutation affected.
Think About Mutation released five albums and six singles.
The cover version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood Two Tribes classic from the album High Life was the ( in - ) official soundtrack of the strategy game Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun.
History
Founded Think About Mutation in May 1992 in the ZORO Leipzig. A few months later there was already the first concert in Connewitzer club Zoro, where the group also rehearsed later. Directed by Mike Stolle, drummer of Knife Banzani already created in the late autumn of 1992 in the studio bunker in Zoro the first demo tape House Bastards on which RJKK Hänsch is heard by the Friends of Italian Opera in three songs as a guest singer. The tape is selling very well and gives the band numerous concert opportunities in East Germany. The acquired there a good reputation as a strong live band gives Think About Mutation the interest of some record companies. The band opts for a contract with the Berlin-based label Modern Music, for its sub-label Dynamica Berlin producer Jor Mulder ( inter alia And One, Oomph! ), The debut album recorded Razor engine. This led to a serious misunderstanding: Mulder wanted to Think About shapes mutation to a noisy industrial band in the style of the then very current Ministry, but the group itself would create with the fusion of metal riffs and rave electronics something new and more like a mixture sound of The Prodigy and Slayer. Was Razor engine as a CD, therefore, not a great success, although Think About Mutation then broke into the club scene with concerts attendance records.
In 1994 the second album House Bastards by Mike Stolle is added and mixed. It shows the Rave Metal the band for the first time in the right light, Think About Mutation plays numerous concerts in the whole of Europe, partly together with Helmet, Depeche Mode, Oomph!, Die Krupps, Moby and Godflesh. In the published in May 1996 album Hellraver (producer: Rüdiger V. Schlüter ), the sound is further perfected, first time breakbeat and punk bonds are processed.
The Company Motor Music is attentive to Think About Mutation and offers the band a contract. For the major album virus, which appears in February 1998, the band, however, must change their image: In place of the existing underground charm enters styled appearance, what the band does not get in the eyes of many fans. The music on virus is comparatively pop- oriented and less hard - Think About Mutation has so that when mainstream audiences still have a hard time, this gets partially but also the core audience. What is new is the abbreviation for the first time introduced as an abbreviation of the band name ( ( tam ) ) with the double brackets.
In mid-1998 the band, with Billy Gould of Faith No More in Berlin to the studio to trial to produce the track Two Tribes. Gould produced afterwards in San Francisco 's fifth album High Life. Expectations of the engine are enormous for this effort, however, the success is relatively low, although the single Two Tribes experienced numerous television operations. The band lost their record deal and going into a break, while the singer Ralf Donis decides to leave the group. The remaining musicians want to search for a replacement and say goodbye to the spring of 2002 after 10 years with the Germany tour Enough is Enough, they gave their last concert in Iceland in Leipzig Conne. A planned eponymous best-of CD is no longer published.
After the dissolution
Guitarist and keyboardist Joey Steffen Grafe were formed in 2006 on the new project, The Sonic Boom Foundation. In the meantime, they played with Schwarwel the band Born Cool. Heavyette guitarist currently playing in Leipzig metalcore band Myra. Bassist Rajko Gohlke initially founded the Electric Surf Trash Project microwave. 2004 brought him R.J.K.K. Hänsch aka Ray van Zeschau initially for a one-time appearance of the Friends of Italian Opera in Dresden. He then undertook their drummer Ralph Qno Kunze for microwave. 2007 brought him Ray van Zeschau in his 50's psycho- metal project, The Distorted Elvises. In 2009, he joined them as guitarist for Rummelsnuff and again as a bass player for the newly formed Friends of the Italian Opera. In 2010 he received then the offer to fill the vacant position of the reunited Knorkator, which he accepted.
Discography
- Motor Razor ( Dynamica, 1993)
- House Bastards ( Dynamica, 1994)
- Hellraver ( Dynamica, 1996)
- Virus ( motor / Universal, 1997)
- Highlife (motor / Universal, 1999)