GRAVE STOMPERS (1997) - Rising From The Darkside

Label: Eigenproduktion
Country: Germany
Year: 1997
Genre: Old School Psychobilly
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 116 MB
Time: 50.16 m
Website: GRAVE STOMPERS

В 1997 они выпустили свой дебютный альбом "Rising From The Darkside", представляющий их нового
барабанщика Martin Sledgehammer. Именно первая фотосессия с новым составом вызвала большой
скандал: оснащенные черепами и костями,парни пошли фотографироваться на местное
кладбище,и в то время, когда работа была завершена,на сцене появились несколько
вооруженных полицейских.Grave Stompers удалось избежать наказания,но они стали объектом
пристального внимания со стороны властей.
В этом периоде времени звук Grave Stompers стал очень жестким и темным,с металлом
повлиявшим на riffing гитары и быстрого drums+bass...))

Вдохновленные классическим ужасом и затемненным rock'n'roll они начали играть традиционную
старую-школу psychobilly.

Каждая песня подключена к темным, больным и болезненным вещам в жизни....

It was in autumn 1993 when Gernot took the western guitar of his father and drove to
Holzi's house situated in the next village in the outskirts of Munich City. They both
didn't knew each other very well, but Gernot was searching for a bass player to start a
band together with vocalist Florian. They knew that Holzi owned a double bass — and after
this spontaneous guitar & bass session Holzi joined them. Alex, a former classmate of
Gernot did the drums and so the first Grave Stompers line up was completed. Inspired by
classic horror and obscure rock'n'roll they started playing traditional old-school
psychobilly. It took a few months and the Psycho quartet from Furstenfeldbruck (Germany)
supported lots of international bands on countless Festivals in Germany.

In 1997 they released their debut album "Rising from the darkside" featuring their new
drummer Martin Sledgehammer. Just the first fotosession with the new line up caused big
trouble for the band: equipped with skulls, bones and axes the guys went to the
fotoshooting at a local cemetery and just when the work was finished and the band left the
graveyard several armed policemen arrived at the scene. The Grave Stompers managed to
escape but they got charged with grave violation. The case got dismissed after some
witnesses got questioned and stated that they didn't felt threatened by the band...
At that period of time the sound of the Grave Stompers became very hard and dark with
metal influenced guitar riffing and fast drums+bass.

Two years later the Shouter left the band and guitarist Gernot did the vocals as
well — first to hear on the 1999 release "Funeral Suite" on Crazy Love Rec. It was the
band's aim to create an album on which EVERY song is connected to the dark, sick and
morbid things in life. For this purpose even lyrics got changed: the first song ever
written for the Grave Stompers was entitled "Summertime" (dated back to 1991) and was
never released before because of it's groovy and positive vibes. Then lyrically rearranged
and sung in a different way it turned into "Haunted House" and found it's way on this
record.

GRAVE STOMPERS — Rock City Beat

TRACKLIST:

01 — GRAVE STOMPERS — Intro
02 — GRAVE STOMPERS — Fiery Abyss
03 — GRAVE STOMPERS — MME Bondage
04 — GRAVE STOMPERS — Call From The Grave
05 — GRAVE STOMPERS — Souls Of THe Dead
06 — GRAVE STOMPERS — Halloween In Haddonfield
07 — GRAVE STOMPERS — Just One Date
08 — GRAVE STOMPERS — Morbid Past
09 — GRAVE STOMPERS — Zombiefied
10 — GRAVE STOMPERS — Hearse Cruise
11 — GRAVE STOMPERS — Ed Gein
12 — GRAVE STOMPERS — More Blood
13 — GRAVE STOMPERS — No Chance
14 — GRAVE STOMPERS — Hellraisers' Night
15 — GRAVE STOMPERS — Moonstruck

Gernot — guitar + vocals
Holzi — double bass + back vocals
Martin Sledgehammer — drums

VINYL / CD&#96S:
1997-Rising From The Darkside (CD, Eigenproduktion)
1999-Funeral Suite (CD, auf Crazy Love Records)
2000- Splittsingle mit Pot Belly (Eigenproduktion)
2003- Bone Sweet Bone (CD, auf Crazy Love Records)
2004- Jumping To The Batcaverock (Single, auf Fantoom Records, ab Dezember 2004)

Хотя группа и сыграла несчетное количество раз повсюду в Германии на сайко-фестивалях,
они долго не могли найти удовлетворяющую студию звукозаписи.В 1997 они нашли небольшую
студию в Мюнхене, чтобы записать свой дебютный альбом "Rising From The Darkside",который был
выпущен ими самими.

The Grave Stompers now known as a trio played several Headliner Shows in Europe and went
on a small tour in Italy — but the following years the boys didn?t went too much on stage.
They released a limited and now pretty rare split 7" with garage friends "Pot Belly"(2000)
and wrote new material for their follow up album "Bone Sweet Bone" (Crazy Love Rec. 2003)
— which took more time than expected. Their style returned back to their roots: twangy
guitars, fast double bass, jackhammer beat and smart vocals with tons of delay —
traditional, oldschool Psychobilly! Now in 2006 it's time for the follow up album and the
"13 years of Grave Stompers Anniversary seven inch" — watch out!