What it´s all about
DUST - A brief history
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Bandmembers German five-piece heavy doom rock formation DUST was founded in October 1998 by Igor Popovic (dr.), Kay Grossmann (g.) und Christoph Kröger (g.). These three already played together in earlier projects but without a straight direction and without much success. After a little break from playing, time had come to form a new uncompromising band that would combine their numerous and and sometimes unusual influences…. After a while the line-up was completed by Olli Karic on vocals and Thomas Kröger on bass, who was replaced by Thomas “Doc” Pflug in Winter 2005. |
| early days and first demo The band played hours of jam sessions what soon resulted in their first songs. These were recorded on the first demo titled “Olympus Trip”. Today, these recordings are rather useless concerning sound and arrangements… but certainly an important part in the history of DUST. (see classic tracks “Black Head” or the enormous title track) |
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| influences The musical influences of the band are pretty versatile and include a large spectrum reaching from 70´s Psychedelic Space Rock to Doom- or Death Metal of the 80´s. Some important bands for DUST are obviously: Black Sabbath, Hawkwind, Saint Vitus or Pentagram and also acts like Celtic Frost, Entombed and Bathory. | |
| second demo The second demo “Smell the Burning” was released in early 2001. It contained 4 tracks and was a fine mixture of heavy doom riffs, psychedelic stoner parts and ass-kicking uptempo beats. Definitely an improvement compared with the first output… |
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sound and equipment From the very beginning DUST was fascinated by using and experimenting with equipment from the good old 70´s. Current amplification is provided by MusicMan, Orange, Sunn and LondonCity. Pearl drums and various keys/fx in addition. Heavily downtuned guitars are a basic part of the DUST-Sound… |
| live The band played a lot of local clubs as well as national gigs and festivals with various acts like VST-M, VOLTRON, SPANCER … and al lot more! They gained a lot of respect concerning sound, heaviness and energy. Live, DUST even beat their studio versions by far… for they play themselves into extasy which projects on the unsuspecting audience. |
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| present… The CD-R “Dust” was released in September 2002 and contains the heaviest material so far. This was followed up by their two regular releases “Reblown”, a raw EP from 2005 and their debut full-length CD “High Density Amplitude” one year later. DUST can match with every stoner, doom or extreme metal band and creates a very heavy fusion of downtuned euphoria with a massive sub-groove and a certain blues feel…probably the most aggressive doom rock band around… In august 2008 DUST finished Recordings for their new LP “Receive the Frequency” which will be (officially) released in october 2008!
Watch out for DUST playing in your town… Doom on! |