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DEPRESSION
The band was started back in 1989.
I wanted to play in a band that combines the brutal power and
heaviness of Death Metal with the incredible speed and kick-ass
structures of Grindcore. But in my area there were no musicians who
wanted to join such an uncompromising project, so I wrote a couple
of songs on my own and DEPRESSION was born as a one-man-"band". I
released these songs on the first demo ""7a/ der Trdnen " (1990).
This was more Noisecore than Grind, but I was on the right path. It
was the first recording I ever made, so it was really bad and only a
few friends got a copy. in the year of 1992 it was time for my
second demo "Vergessene Welten ". It was a lot better than "Tal der
Tra'nen ", specially the sound and the layout. The music-style
shifted more to Grindcore with some Death Metal influences. I sold
some tapes in Germany, but without much promotion and only for a
short time. In 1993 there were enough songs finished for another
demo and this time 1 tried to find a vocalist for DEPRESSION,
because I don't like my growling. I found the perfect shouter in
Marc Miekeley. He really liked my music and so he joined DEPRESSION.
Since 1993 DEPRESSION was, is and will ever be a two-piece-band!
Marc has written most of the lyrics on the third demo "...in
Verzweiflung. " It was Death Metal with Grindcore influences. This
demo was spread all over the world and we got nice responses from
the fans and the critics (certainly not from all, but most of them).
Due to various reasons it got very quirt around the DEPRESSION camp
after this demo. Well, in 1995, after a long break of two years,
DEPRESSION were back! A lot of fans asked us about those old demo
tapes, but we don't sell them anymore. Marc and I both still like
the old stuff and so we had the idea to release the three demos
again (new recorded and with new layout) on our fourth demo "Erinnerungen
". This tape was really a big success, as the two different editions
we made (400 copies altogether) are sold out and we got a lot of
cool new underground contacts.
In Autumn of 1996 we released our debut 7"EP "Ein Hauch vdn Moder"
on Gulli Records. We were really satisfied with this EP. We got
absolutely fantastic reactions and responses from the underground
world-wide, and needless to say it was a huge step forward for
DEPRESSION! This EP is limited to 800 copies and it was pressed on
purple vinyl and we paytribute to one of our main inspirations,
Blood, with the song "Dogmatize". But instead of resting on this
sucsess we carried on with DEPRESSION to
 keep
on corrupting the world with "groovy Death/Grind".
And so, in late summer of 1997, a split-CD "Boses Blut" (a split-CD
with the gods Agathocles) came out of the dark! This was certainly
the pinnacle in the history of DEPRESSION at the time, a dream come
true, you coul say! I'm still very satisfied with the whole CD. The
songs, the sound and the layout are very nearly perfect to me. This
time we covered "Thy Beauty" from Grindcore legends Fear Of God.
With this release, we reached so many freaks on the globe who hadn't
heard something from us before. The very positive letters showed us
that there was still an active and enthusiastic underground scene
for such brutal music!
At the end of 1997, a new split-7"EP "Die Zeiten andern sich " with
German grinders Maggot Shoes. It was strictly limited to 500
hand-numbered pieces of orange-coloured vinyl and it is well within
the DEPRESSION style and atitude. Some people say that this is the
best recording from DEPRESSION so far and I still like it, too (and
not only because of our crazy version of "Heart fo Illinois" from
Impetigo! ". To have a good start in 1998, Hierba Records unleashed
a DEPRESSION split-tape with the Spanish.Noise-Grindcore band Hierba.
Our part contains really old rehearsals and party-live recordings.
There are really funny versions of Impetigo's "Boneyard" and Bloods
"Dogmatize"... don't take it seriously, it's pure fucking Noise and
a cool rememberance to the ancient times...Enjoy or die! There were
still a few songs left from the "Ein Hauch von Moder"
studio-session'96, so in April of 1998 we finally released these
songs on the "Ein Hauch von Moder Part II" split-7"EP with German
gore-deathers Rejectamenta. In the vein of our debut-EP in 1996,
this split-EP is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies and was a
return to our roots. It's a typical DEPRESSION release the way we
like it. Similar to our debut EP, it was pressed on purple vinyl and
the cover is also a negative of an ancient ruin. Time goes on and at
the first day of 1999 we split the 10"LP "Und keiner weinl uns nach
" with the Brasilian Grindcore-legends Rot, released on Deadly Art
Production. To me, this release was quite important for DEPRESSION.
And it seems that the fans liked this piece of music, too, because
the first edition of 666 hand-numbered, green-coloured vinyl sold
out very quickly and the second pressing on blue vinyl as well! We
dismembered "Suicide Fuck" from Abscess on this record because Chris
Reifert and Autopsy are one of my all-time-faves. This DEPRESSION
stuff is more Death Metal-influenced than the previous stuff and I
suppose it was the heaviest release DEPRESSION had ever made... at
least for the time being!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! In Autumn 1999, DEPRESSION celebrated their
ten-year anniversary! So we released on the 1st day of January in
the year 2000 (again on Deadly Art) our first full-length album "Chronische
Depression " on CD and in spring as a limited two-coloured LP. It
was a present to ourselves (and maybe to a few of you as well). It
contains a bunch of new songs, the obligatory cover version (this
time, "Bloodcraving" from the godly Mortician), the outstanding song
"Depressionen" and as a bonus, one song from each DEPRESSION release
in the last ten years!
We thought it was time for a little break...and so it took ttiore
than a year to fuck the mainstream witji the next sign of life! But
on Xmas'01 the Split-CD "Zur Stillefinden " with the lunatics from
Haemorrhage is available (at Cudgel Agency) containing ten new tunes
of devastating groovy Death/Grind from DEPRESSION. This time
"Enough" from Agathocles is the cover-song and 1 suppose this
recording is the most groovy one for us. By the way, it is the first
output featuring Ron Sanders on guturral grunts!! He is a friend of
us for a long time and his vocal-style fits perfectly to Marc's
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