Eisbrecher

Eisbrecher (“Icebreaker”) is a splinter band of Megaherz, the greats from the Neue Deutsche Härte (“new German hardness”) that was formed in 2003, when vocalist/songwriter Alexx Wesselsky quit because of creative distinctions and proceeded to create electronic trip-rock, a slightly altered, even more synth-reliant edition of his previous band’s audio, along with Noel Pix, who all had played tips on two of Megaherz’s albums. They debuted in 2003 using the singles “Mein Blut” and “Fanatica,” implemented in 2004 with the self-titled full-length, which provided an unconventional countermeasure from what the music group dubbed “criminalization from the supporters” — the initial 5,000 from the 20,000 sold-out copies from the record was included with a empty CD as well as the authorization to duplicate the record. The record didn’t graph, but its follow-up, Antikörper, which arrived in 2006 and shifted the band’s sound toward commercial steel, climbed to amount 85 in Germany, while an individual, “Kann pass away Liebe Sünde Sein” (2008) off the 3rd album Sünde strike number three within the German Alternate Charts. The recording itself reached quantity 18 in Germany in 2008 and in addition entered the Western Best 100. The group, which used Olli Pohl of Megaherz like a live bassist, continued a big Western tour to get the record, playing Austria, holland, Russia, and Switzerland. In ’09 2009, Eisbrecher authorized to the U.S. Metropolis Information, and Wesselsky actually expressed hopes to become another big German stateside feeling after Rammstein, even though sales from the American launch of Sünde dropped well in short supply of his anticipations. However, this year 2010, Eisbrecher were able to enter the German singles graphs for the very first time with “Eiszeit,” as well as the 4th full-length, also called Eiszeit, reached quantity five on the house turf and came into the very best 100 in Austria and Switzerland. Eisbrecher had been invited to aid Alice Cooper in his 2010 tour following the launch of the recording.