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BRAINSTORM BAND PAGE
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CURRENT NAME
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Brainstorm | |
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FORMER NAMES
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ORIGIN
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Heidenheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | |
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STATUS
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Active | |
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FORMED IN
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1989 | |
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LABEL
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AFM Records | |
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GENRE
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Power metal | |
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STYLE
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LYRICAL THEME
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| BAND ADDED | 2005-01-25, 00:00 | |
| LAST UPDATE | 2009-07-11, 19:41 | |
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| Band biography |
They recorded 11 songs for their second demo "HEART OF HATE" in 1992 with Stefan, but he had to leave and was finally replaced by Marcus Jürgens (ex-Twisted Minds) a few months later. Four of the songs were re-recorded with him, two ("Heart of Hate" and "Valley Of The Kings") appeared on the tape. The third demo "THE FIFTH SEASON" (six songs) was released in 1994 and the German magazine Rock Hard named them Newcomer Of The Month. One song, "Up From The Ashes", appeared on a compilation CD in 1995. BRAINSTORM made their fourth demo tape in 1996, "PROMO '96" and one of the two songs ("Suck My Energy") appeared on another compilation CD.
BRAINSTORM signed with B.O. Records and their first CD "HUNGRY" was released in 1997. They toured with Morgana Lefay and Solitude Aeturnus, and with Skyclad and Maraya and wrote new songs for their second album. "UNHOLY" was released in 1998 and had a much better sound, because they had the opportunity to work with some well known people in the power metal scene: Dirk Schlächter (Gamma Ray), Harald Sprengler (Stormwitch) and famous producer Charlie Bauerfeind (produced a.o. Blind Guardian, Gamma Ray, Virgin Steele, Angra)! Not long after that, Marcus left the band and BRAINSTORM found an excellent replacement in Henne Basse (ex-Powerslave). His first gig was the CD presentation on September 6th. A few weeks later they toured for four weeks with Wicked Angel, Sentenced and Iced Earth. Early 1999 they went to Greece with Labÿrinth.
In March Henne left the band to concentrate on new power metal band Metalium and Brainstorm spent months to find a new singer. They (and Metalium) played at the Wacken Open Air festival that year. Brainstorm brought the very talented Dirk Barron along for the festival, but in the end they decided on Symphorce's frontman Andy B. Franck as a permanent replacement. Andy will continue to sing in Symphorce as well. Brainstorm's third CD "AMBIGUITY" was released by Metal Blade in May 2000 (US: July 2000) and the reviews were extremely positive! In the fall they toured with labelmates Jacobs Dream and Armored Saint in spite of Andy breaking his collar-bone shortly before the tour (Torsten had to take over for half the shows though). At the end of 2000 the Helloween tribute "THE KEEPERS OF JERICHO" was released with Brainstorm covering "Savage" from the Dr. Stein EP.
In October 2001 the band released their new album "Metus Mortis".
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