Alien boys

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Alien boys
General information
Genre (s) Doom Metal
Grunge
Sludge
founding 1987
resolution 1994
Founding members
Andreas "Andi" Schmidt
Ronnie Henseler
Thomas "Tom" Beege (1987-1993)
Peter Stein
Last occupation
singing
 Andreas "Andi" Schmidt
Electric bass
 Ronnie Henseler
Electric guitar
 Stefan Hoffmann (1993–1994)
Drums
 Peter Stein

The Alien Boys were a rock group from Hamburg . They existed from 1987 to 1994 and, although they were often assigned to the grunge genre, were much more a band optically and musically dedicated to the 1970s with their tenacious beginnings of Doom Metal and psychedelic undertones. The sludge sound depicts the permitted modern influences.

Band history

The band around singer Andreas “Andi” Schmidt and bassist Ronnie Henseler named themselves after a Wipers song. On the small Hamburg label Anaconda Records she released the album Lawmachine in 1989 in an elaborate red vinyl edition with attached limited Flexidisc and in 1990 the successor The Seeds of Decay on the also small Californian label Rave Records , on which a sitar can be heard in the twelve-minute title song is. With these as a reference plus new ideas on a demo tape , they asked the Bochum label Gun Records for support closer to home. After graduating from Gun, Rave Records was allowed to sell the mini-album Doom Picnic (1992), which was made in Hamburg and Seattle , on the American market. The avancierende to their most famous album Doom Picnic , whose first title City of Rain in Hamburg Schauspielhaus in Oliver Stone - adaptation Talk Radio was used was of Jack Endino been produced previously, among others, with Nirvana , Soundgarden and Mudhoney had worked.

In Germany, the Alien Boys had twice opened their Louder than Love tour for Soundgarden . A first four-week US tour followed in 1990, followed by a second, this time six-week, tour in April and May 1991. In October 1992 they returned to the USA to tour with punk rockers Seaweed for a few weeks. 1993 was marked by a Germany tour with Doom colleagues Count Raven and the not-so-doomy Stillborn, as well as the recording of album number four, the Necropolis originally announced as Heavy . But guitarist Thomas ("Tom") suffered from a sudden hearing loss that forced him to give up. His replacement was named Stefan. The band structure, however, was more damaged than expected and did not last another year. Schmidt had already founded the band Prollhead in 1992 , to which he now devoted himself on a large scale and to which he had brought Henseler, who had to change the stringed instrument, a year later after the guitarist left.

style

Band boss Andi Schmidt rejected the classification in Doom Metal and instead preferred the term "psychedelic heavy rock". The first five Black Sabbath albums were considered the ultimate for him for years , until the admiration of Mudhoney and Soundgarden followed. In his review for the Metal Hammer , Martin Groß appropriately said that the band sounded like the early Black Sabbath phase and a bit like Soundgarden. His sound impression was a very tough one. The MusikWoche wrote about Nekropolis : “[…] an explosive mixture of psychedelic rock and doomy metal. The […] opus shows the quartet's fascination for the sound of the early Aerosmith ( Mountain ) and Black Sabbath. Between the heavy guitar walls ( Losing Blood ) and murderous vocal attacks ( Judgment Farm ), however, the Alien Boys lost their own note in the course of the ten songs. ”Andreas Schöwe ​​from Metal Hammer also missed his own accents when he made her appearance because of the sheer Black Sabbath reminiscences attended.

Discography

  • 1989: Lawmachine (Anaconda Records)
  • 1990: The Seeds of Decay (Rave Records)
  • 1992: Doom Picnic (Mini-CD, Rave Records / Gun Records )
  • 1993: Necropolis (Gun Records)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Martin Groß: Alien Boys. The injustice of late birth . In: Metal Hammer . December 1992, p. 141 .
  2. ↑ a b Alien Boys. Necropolis . In: MusikWoche . No. 1-2 / 94 , January 10, 1994, News, p. 19 .
  3. ^ Robert Müller: Stillborn, Count Raven, Alien Boys. Dortmund, live station . In: Metal Hammer . March 1993, p. 153 .
  4. ↑ a b Robert Müller: Alien Boys. Trying over something difficult . In: Metal Hammer . March 1994, p. 154 .
  5. ↑ Martin Groß: Alien Boys. Doom Picnic . In: Metal Hammer . November 1992, p. 57 .
  6. ↑ Andreas Schöwe: Thunderhead, Grave Digger, Alien Boys. Cologne, Luxor . In: Metal Hammer . October 1993, p. 149 .

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