My Insanity
| My Insanity | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Eisleben , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Dark rock |
| founding | 1996 as Crypt since 1997 My Insanity |
| Website | www.my-insanity.com |
| Founding members | |
| Christian Faust | |
| Tobias Below | |
Keyboard , vocals |
Sascha Schettler |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Christian Faust |
| Mario Ermisch | |
bass |
Tobias Below |
Drums |
Sascha Schettler |
| former members | |
guitar |
Jörg Lorenz (until 1999) |
bass |
Matthias Ehrenberg |
Drums |
René Jauernik (until 2001) |
My Insanity is a dark rock band from Lutherstadt Eisleben in Germany , which combines metal with electronic elements such as keyboards and synthesizers in their music .
history
In autumn 1996 Christian Faust's band project Crypt formed the Gothic Metal band My Insanity, powered by Below (bass, later also guitar) and Lorenz (guitar) in Eisleben. For this there was also keyboard player / drummer Sascha Schettler. In the meantime, the band grew to six members when René Jauernik replaced the drum computer on drums and Mario Ermisch took over the second guitar part in 1998. The songs of My Insanity were composed (exclusively) by Faust and provided with dark lyrics by Schettler and Lorenz.
Small appearances in youth clubs in the area followed.
The self-recorded demo tape happened to land on Samael -Mastermind Xytraguptor (Xy for short). Shortly afterwards, My Insanity found itself again in June - July 1998 in the Woodhouse Studios in Hagen , where they recorded their debut Still Dreams in Violent Areas . Shortly afterwards, Lorenz split from My Insanity. With their first album in their pocket, Samael supported Lacuna Coil , Anathema and Grip Inc. on an “Into the Darkness” tour in 1999 through Cologne , Hamburg and Berlin, among others .
In 2000, again in the Woodhouse studio, the second album Solar Child was recorded. Since guitarist Mario dropped out after the first week of recording because of the conscription, Grip Inc. guitarist Waldemar Sorychta took over some riffs . The album was released worldwide and again a four-week tour followed, including stops in Paris and Geneva . Shortly thereafter, drummer René, who had also contributed lyrics to Solar Child , left the band. Therefore, My Insanity had to work with a drum machine for the time being.
In 2001 the biggest tour to date followed, together with Therion and Evergrey , which took My Insanity from Italy to Switzerland , France and Poland to the far north of Sweden and Norway .
They received much criticism for their artificial drums, it became quiet around the band and rumors of separation made the rounds.
But in October 2005 My Insanity released their third album Scattered Soul Puzzle , which was recorded in their own studio, Outsane Studios , in winter 2004/2005 . For the recording and all subsequent appearances, the drums were cast again - with Sascha Schettler.
Before that the band had traveled to Kabul / Afghanistan from the end of April to the beginning of May 2005 to give a concert for the ISAF soldiers stationed there. This was made possible by the positive feedback from those stationed in Kosovo , where My Insanity had already given a concert for the German soldiers two years earlier.
In 2006 they made a music video for the song Some Days from the current album.
Guitarist Mario Ermisch left the band in mid-2007, but returned over the course of the following year.
In October 2009 the fourth album Clean was released.
style
My Insanity start on their debut Still DivA with typical Gothic elements such as organ sounds, strings and piano parts, wind rushing and water drops have also been added. Not least because of Faust's clean voice color, the comparison with HIM and Dreadful Shadows is obvious. Faust's vocals are broken up by Schettler's deep shouts, which, unlike real growls , can be understood even without knowledge of the text. The texts often deal with death, loss and loneliness.
It turns out that the band likes to mix musical styles together. Small jazz interludes, aggressive drum solos and calm bass runs come to fruition as well as technical-looking keyboard intros and sometimes voice distortion.
A style change is already emerging on Solar Child . Although you can still hear Gothic elements, the album has clear electronic influences. Often one perceives apparently computer-generated sounds. This is part of the overall concept, which revolves around dark ideas about the future, genetic engineering and end-time theories. There are also more distinct guitar riffs.
Scattered Soul Puzzle , which was recorded in his own studio and mixed by Faust, appears as the most personal and diverse album. You can hear more acoustic guitars, the song 'Tiefenrausch' combines Doom and Reggae and in the last song there is no drums at all. While Faust's voice seems much darker and in the way of interpretation comes closer to the alternative band Bush , Schettler is only concerned with background vocals, since the drums do not allow him to sing. There is a small female vocal part by Marie-Therésè Gabrowitsch.
You hardly hear Gothic elements anymore. The keyboards, which used to be heard as a piano, for example, are now represented as electronic tones. At concerts, these passages are recorded from the hard drive in the absence of a keyboardist.
The specialty of the album title Zersplittertes Seelen-Puzzle is that it is literally one, because the songs about drugs, self-loss and hate were put together by the band in a certain concept that was changed by the record label and thus has dispelled the image that the album was supposed to show.
Others
My Insanity forms together with an additional guitarist and a drummer, who takes over from Schettler so that he can sing, the thrashy death metal band Conductor .
Christian Faust founded a new rock band called Jacob's Fall in 2016 together with Jens Piezonka and ex- "My Insanity" drummer René Jauernik , whose first album will be released in 2017.
Discography
- 1999: Still Dreams in Violent Areas (PUR)
- 2001: Solar Child (PUR)
- 2005: Scattered Soul Puzzle (Season of Mist)
- 2009: Clean (Outsane Records, WOHNON Music)
Web links
- Official website
- My Insanity at Myspace
- Interview on Solar Child
- Interview about Scattered Soul Puzzle
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Müller: My Insanity - Solar Child. Metal Hammer. Retrieved April 29, 2014 .