Incubator
| Incubator | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Death metal |
| founding | 1989 |
| Founding members | |
| Chris Mummelthey | |
| Stefan Becker (until 1993) | |
| Michael Hahn (until 1993) | |
guitar |
Sven Schade (until 1994) |
| Dominique Thomsen (until 1992; † 1995) | |
| Current occupation | |
guitar |
Michael Hahn (from 2014) |
Electric bass |
Andreas Libera (from 2014) |
| former members | |
Drums |
Kim Sievers (1993–1994) , Axel Boldt, Mischa Wagner, Michael May, |
guitar |
Oliver Apel, Lasse Lammert, Stefan Schunke, Marcel Wroblewski, Steffan Volkmann, |
Electric bass |
Wolfgang Snijders, Dirk Weiss, Stefan Hoppe |
Incubator is a German death metal band that was founded in 1989 by Michael Hahn in Grube in East Holstein .
Band history
In 1991 Incubator released their debut album Symphonies of Spiritual Cannibalism . In 1992, the second album McGillroy, the Housefly, about the protagonist of the previous album , who was reborn as a fly but wanted to go back to his old life, followed .
In 1993 the original line-up broke up. Songwriter Michael Hahn left the band with bassist Steve Becker and drummer Dominique. Singer Chris Mummelthey and guitarist Sven Schade continued Incubator with drummer Kim Sievers and bassist Marcel Wroblewski.
In the same year, the third album Hirnnektar was created again in the Stage One Studio with the new line-up . In 1995 founding member Dominique Thomsen committed suicide .
Reunion 1998 and Split
In 1998 Chris Mummelthey recorded a new incubator record called MCMETALXCVIII with Marcel Wroblewski, who had switched to electric guitar , as well as Stefan Hoppe, Michael May and Steffan Volkmann . Michael Hahn was the producer.
Renewed disputes over the band name eventually led to a rift. Chris Mummelthey left the band and started a project called The Sixth Incubator . The remaining musicians initially remained active under the name Incubator and released the album Divine Comedy in 2001 .
After 2002, the naming rights Chris Mummelthey were awarded, the remaining band named in Inc order. Both projects co-existed and used the Internet and interviews to mutually agree on the legitimate successor to Incubator.
After the split
Chris Mummelthey released three records together with the guitarist and programmer Stefan Schunke as The Sixth Incubator: Live-Reincarnation-Ground-Zero (2002), The Skullcrusher-Sessions EP (2003) and Inphonoir (2003). At the end of 2003 he announced his retirement from the music business. In May 2004, however, he announced a new project called Eli Van Terror with former Incubator guitarist Sven Schade, which went without any publications. The Sixth Incubator contributed a track to the Damatus film project in 2004 .
Inc released the album Moribund in 2004 , the songs of which were again written and produced by Michael Hahn.
Reunion 2006
In 2006 Chris Mummelthey reformed the band again. In the same year Incubator toured with, among others, Cradle of Filth and Death by Dawn . In 2008 Incubator released the new album LieBISSlieder .
2014
In May 2014 the naming rights were passed back to the founding member Michael Hahn. Work on a new long player will start in summer.
Music genre
On their debut album Symphonies Of Spiritual Cannibalism, Incubator used a medium-paced Death Metal style in the intersection between Doom Metal and faster Death Metal passages, which Frank Albrecht describes in Rock Hard No. 56 as an “above-average, not unorginal” debut work has been. Ingo Lucker from Horror Infernal felt himself put into different moods by the carried passages, the singing that adapted to the respective song atmosphere and the atypical death interludes. With McGillroy, the Housefly , the group experimented with other influences and increasingly adopted elements that were untypical of Death Metal. With Hirnnektar and MCMETALXCVIII , the group finally broke away from Death Metal and adopted a Thrash Metal sound reminiscent of Voivod , which was often also referred to as Groove Metal . Divine Comedy , the last album before the split, uses the Gothic Metal and Doom Metal styles, based on groups such as Type O Negative , Fields of the Nephilim and Crowbar . After the reunion they reverted to the Death Metal style of their debut works.
Discography
- 1991: Symphonies of Spiritual Cannibalism
- 1992: McGillroy, the Housefly
- 1993: brain nectar
- 1998: MCMETALXCVIII
- 2001: Divine Comedy
- 2008: love songs
Web links
- Website on rosenquarz-tonstudio.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank Albrecht: Incubator. The thing with the fly ... In: Rock Hard . No. 66 , November 1992, pp. 43 .
- ^ Incubator biography. Laut.de , accessed on November 22, 2009 .
- ↑ Frank Albrecht: Record review for Symphonies Of Spiritual Cannibalism . Rock Hard , 1991, accessed November 22, 2009 (No. 56).
- ^ Ingo [Lucker]: Incubator. Symphonies of Spiritual Cannibalism . In: Horror Infernal . No. 34 , February 1992, Sound Check, p. 31 .
- ^ Andreas Stappert: Incubator. Divine Comedy . In: Rock Hard . No. 161 , October 2000, p. 92 .
- ↑ Diverse: Search on the website of the Rock-Hard-Magazin. Rock Hard, accessed November 22, 2009 .