Contrust
| Contrust | |
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 Kontrust (Amadeus Award 2010) |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Crossover |
| founding | 2001 |
| Website | www.kontrust.info |
| Current occupation | |
| Agata Jarosz | |
singing |
Stefan Lichtenberger |
| Robert Ehgartner | |
| Michael "Mike" Wolff (since 2011) | |
| Gregor Kutschera | |
| Roman Gaisböck | |
| Manuel Haglmüller | |
Kontrust is an Austrian crossover band.
history
Kontrust emerged in 2001 from the band Suicide Mission . In 2006, Kontrust was one of the winners of the Austrian Newcomer Award . They shot the first video for the song Phono Sapiens .
In 2008 the band began recording their second album. In addition, Kontrust was on stage for the first time in 2008 at the FM4 Frequency Festival . In 2009 the first and in 2010 the second appearance at the Nova Rock Festival followed . Time To Tango was released in Austria on June 19, 2009 and the record was released in Germany on August 28, 2009. The Smash Song is the first single with a music video . Bomba is the second single with a music video.
In 2010 the single Bomba reached number 47 and the album Time To Tango number 58 in the Dutch charts . In May 2010, the song On The Run was followed by the third and in October of the same year with Zero, the fourth single with a music video. In 2010, Kontrust received the Amadeus Austrian Music Award in the Hard & Heavy category.
In July 2011 the band released a Polish version of the album Time To Tango under the title Czas na Tango in digital form. At the 17th Stop Woodstock (Polish: Przystanek Woodstock) Festival in August 2011 with over 300,000 visitors, Kontrust completed the best-attended performance by an Austrian artist to date. The Viennese Michael "Mike" Wolff has been with the band as guitarist since 2011.
For the new album Second Hand Wonderland , released in April 2012, Kontrust worked with Russ Ballard on a song. The record entered the Austrian album charts at number 25. The singles with music videos were Sock'n'Doll and The Butterfly Defect in 2012 and Hey DJ! In January 2013 . decoupled.
In November 2014, Kontrust released their fourth album under the title Explositive , which was again represented in the Austrian album charts. At the same time, the media-critical single Just Propaganda was released with the accompanying music video.
style
In terms of style, Kontrust has a wide variety to offer, with Groove Metal representing the basic musical structure. A large number of musical elements from other genres have been incorporated into the various songs as stylistic devices, for example dance pop, reggae or German folk music . In contrast to the relatively hard music are the Bavarian costumes in which the band sometimes presents itself.
Discography
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Albums
- 2005: We! Come Home
- 2009: Time to Tango
- 2012: Second Hand Wonderland
- 2014: Explositive
EPs
- 2001: Team Spirit 55
- 2003: Make Me Blind
Digital publications
- 2011: Czas na Tango (MP3 download)
Single releases
- 2006: Phono Sapiens (including music video)
- 2008: Go (song for the Football Total! Sampler)
- 2009: The Smash Song (including music video)
- 2009: Bomba (including music video)
- 2010: On the Run (including music video)
- 2011: Zero (including video)
- 2012: Sock'n'Doll (including music video)
- 2012: The Butterfly Defect (including music video)
- 2013: Hey DJ! (including music video)
- 2014: Just Propaganda (including music video)
- 2016: Dance (including music video)
Awards
- 2006: Austrian Newcomer Award winner
- 2010: Amadeus in the Hard & Heavy category
Nominations
- 2013, 2015: Amadeus in the Hard & Heavy category
swell
- ↑ Szene1 presents the winners of the Austrian Newcomer Award 2006. szene1.at, January 26, 2006, accessed on June 23, 2009 .
- ↑ Youtube: Bomba music video
- ↑ WOSP ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Record: “Kontrust” gave a concert in Poland in front of 300,000 spectators. (No longer available online.) Tips.at, August 16, 2011, archived from the original on November 20, 2011 ; Retrieved November 1, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Chart sources: AT NL
