Lucifer Sam
| Lucifer Sam | |
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 Lucifer Sam band photo 1997 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Witten , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Dark rock |
| founding | 1992 |
| Founding members | |
| Holger Kliem | |
| Lars Daum | |
| Frank Stewen | |
| Markus G. singer | |
| Current occupation | |
| Holger Kliem | |
| Lars Daum | |
| Frank Stewen | |
| Till Böing | |
| Markus G. singer | |
Lucifer Sam was a German dark rock band from Witten, founded in 1993 . The group was named after the Pink Floyd song Lucifer Sam .
history
After the dissolution of the Witten-based waverock band Friday Is Scrapped , which only existed for one year , Holger Kliem, Lars Daum, Frank Stewen and Markus G. Sänger founded the band Lucifer Sam in June 1992. In the summer of 1993, the eight-track demo A Failed Effort to Putsch with four songs was self-directed in the Hagen Banana Studio. The lyrics were partly a direct reaction to the xenophobic riots in Germany at the time. The band then toured in West Germany and recorded the second demo Shiver in 1994, also on their own . This ended up in the hands of producer and guitarist Axel Ritt, who made a name for himself with the German hard rock band Domain and who then signed Lucifer Sam under contract for his label Humbucker Music . In the same year Till Böing joined the band as a bass player, so that from then on Kliem devoted himself exclusively to singing. The debut album Alice Dee was produced under Ritt's direction in August 1995 at Finian's Rainbow Studios in Unna. The group recorded the acoustic song Unknown Doors in a disused Dortmund oil tank, which created an idiosyncratic reverb. The album was released by Humbucker Music / Semaphore.
After many concerts and a few sampler contributions , including the rock-hard CD supplement, the band went back to the studio in Weiterstadt in March 1997 with Axel Ritt and recorded the second album, Luzidity , which received mostly positive reviews, making the band bigger Performances in German-speaking countries, including a headliner appearance at a festival in the Kulturfabrik in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg .
In 1998 the band broke up due to the lack of time to continue their career professionally. The two guitarists and the drummer have been playing with the Dortmund alternative rock band Porter since 2000 . After the band, singer Holger Kliem turned to his solo project Strange Eden.
style
The English-language songs were stylistically based on different models such as Danzig , The Sisters of Mercy , Fields of the Nephilim or Joy Division . In the German metal magazine Rock Hard , the group's music is described as a combination of “typical early eighties wave sounds from The Mission , Sisters Of Mercy and Killing Joke with hard rocking guitars”.
The band's distinctive stylistic devices are the two-part guitar lines as well as the melodic and melancholy vocals of frontman Holger Kliem, who, according to a music magazine, are characterized by an unsettling silence. The texts are mostly socially critical or deal with interpersonal abysses.
Discography
- 1993: A Failed Effort to Putsch (demo, in-house production)
- 1995: Shiver (demo, in-house production)
- 1995: Alice Dee (Album, Humbucker Music / Semaphore)
- 1997: Luzidity (Album, Humbucker Music / Semaphore)
Web links
- Lucifer Sam at Soundcloud
- Lucifer Sam at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Schäfer: Lucifer Sam: Luzidity. Rock Hard, accessed April 27, 2016 .