tuXedoo
| tuXedoo | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Mattighofen , Austria |
| Genre (s) | Metalcore |
| founding | 2005 as tuXedo |
| Website | www.tuxedoo.de |
| Current occupation | |
| Johannes Frauenhuber | |
| Michael Tiefenthaler | |
| Christoph Kiebe (since 2013) | |
| Marc Gruber (since 2016) | |
| Patrick Schmuck (since 2015) | |
| Uli Meisinger (since 2019) | |
tuXedoo is an Austrian band . Their music can be assigned to the genre Metalcore with Thrash Metal influences.
history
In 2005 the then three-piece band was founded in Mattighofen , Upper Austria . The name of the band came about by chance and has no particular background. In September 2015 the band name was changed from tuXedo with an "o" to Tuxedoo with a double "o".
After the band released their first EP Schizophrenia in 2008, a new drummer joined the band. After the second EP entitled Fight , which was released in 2010, the band grew by a second guitarist.
In 2012 the band played as support for Ektomorf on their Black Flag Tour 2012. In 2014, the band was voted 2nd in a voting for the most popular Austrian band.
In 2015 Tuxedoo won the Newcomer Contest of the Rockavaria Festival, and thereby won an appearance at the festival itself. Since 2015, the Austrians have been under contract with Global Concerts, which have taken over the management and booking. On April 1, 16 their second album Tales from the Rock Mass was released via Alpencore Records / Sony Music.
In total, they have played more than 200 concerts in Austria, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, including in 2016 at some major European rock open airs such as Rockavaria in Munich, Rock in Vienna on the Danube Island, the Swiss Sonisphere , at the Wacken Open Air and its winter offshoot Full Metal Mountain.
Today Tuxedoo has six members and, according to its own statement, makes it its task to carry the "Original Austrian Alpencore" out into the world and to live it. This also includes wearing traditional outfits and lederhosen when performing .
Uli has been the new drummer since April 2019 after Dü announced his departure in October 2018.
style
In keeping with their origins, Tuxedoo says they play “Alpencore”. The lyrics are written by Mök, Hons, Kopal and Kiwi and were in English until 2016. The text of the single Perchtenzeit , published in November of that year, is in Austrian dialect .
In its beginnings, the then three-piece band orientated itself stylistically towards alternative metal / crossover . From 2008 Tuxedoo changed their style more and more towards metal .
The “meat mountain” has established itself as a special feature of the band's appearances: the audience throws themselves at each other like celebrating a goal and forms a heap. At the Nova Rock Festival, a mountain over two meters high formed from which people fell down again at the side. Despite the low level of awareness of the band, this was even picked up by the local press.
Discography
Albums
- 2013: Flowerfield Melodies ( Massacre Records )
- 2016: Tales from the Rock Mass (Alpencore Records / Sony Music)
- 2020: Unfold Your Brain (Alpencore Records / Sony Music)
EPs
- 2008: Schizophrenia (own publication)
- 2010: Fight (self-published)
Singles
- 2014: Jealousy (self-published)
- 2016: Triduum Sacrum (Alpencore Records / Sony Music)
- 2016: Perchten period
- 2018: Like A Bomb
- 2018: Sanctuary
- 2020: Follow Me
- 2020: Where Are We Going From Here
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Interview with Johannes Frauenhuber. Retrieved September 22, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d tuXedo. Original Austrian Alpencore from Mattighofen (AT), since 2005. Accessed on September 22, 2015 (English, entry in the band directory on backstagepro.de).
- ↑ Original Austrian Alpencore. (PDF) Retrieved September 22, 2015 (English).
- ↑ a b tuXedoo - Global Concerts takes over the booking and management of the winning band of the Rockavaria Band Contest. Retrieved September 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Marco Schmidt: tuXedoo at Rockavaria: Krach in Tracht. Concert review. Daily newspaper , May 29, 2015, accessed on September 23, 2015 .
- ↑ Tuxedo. Band introduction on the website of Massacre Records. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on September 23, 2015 . 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.
- ↑ Tilmann Rohlf: Tuxedoo in the video premiere: “Alpencore” in dialect in: metal-hammer.de November 17, 2016
- ↑ Gerald Ecker: Metalfest: Electric guitars in the hailstorm, mountains of meat in the sunshine. (No longer available online.) Tips, June 4, 2012, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on September 23, 2015 . 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.
