Colour Haze

Colour Haze
Origin	Munich, Germany
Genres	Stoner rock Psychedelic rock
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Elektrohasch Schallplatten MonsterZeroRecords
Website	http://www.colourhaze.de/
Members
Stefan Koglek Philipp Rasthofer Manfred Merwald
Past members
Tim Höfer Christian Wiesner Felix Neuenhoff

Colour Haze is a stoner/psychedelic rock group from Munich, Germany, consisting of singer and guitarist Stefan Koglek, drummer Manfred Merwald and bassist Philipp Rasthofer.

Formed in the mid-nineties, Colour Haze is one of the oldest German stoner outfits, and have since then become one of the flagships of the German stoner rock scene. Tours of the band have included headline spots at smaller national and international rock festivals, such as the U.S. festival Emissions from the Monolith in 2006 alongside Orange Goblin, Boris, and General Tso.^[1] Local media coverage have included a broadcast of a concert on national television, when Colour Haze appeared at Rockpalast in 2007.^[2]

Emerging from a sound heavily influenced by Black Sabbath on their first records, they moved away from a heavy to a more melodic sound, e.g. on their album All (2008), as remarked by Denmark's LowCut webzine.^[3]

Members

Current Line Up

• Stefan Koglek - Guitar, vocals
• Philipp Rasthofer - Bass guitar (1998–present)
• Manfred Merwald - drums (1998–present)

Former Members

• Tim Höfer - Drums (1994–1997)
• Christian Wiesner - Bass guitar (1994–1998)
• Felix Neuenhoff - Vocals (1997–1999)

Discography

Albums

• Chopping Machine CD (1995 David Records)
• Seven CD (1998 "Selfburn" Records)
• Periscope CD (1999 Toaster Records)
• CO2 LP/CD (2000 Homegrown Records/MonsterZeroRecords)
• Ewige Blumenkraft LP/CD (2001 MonsterZeroRecords)
• Los Sounds de Krauts LP/CD (2003 Nasoni Records/Elektrohasch Records)
• Colour Haze LP/CD (2004 Elektrohasch Records)
• Tempel LP/CD (2006 Elektrohasch Records)
• All LP/CD (2008 Elektrohasch Records)
• Colour Haze - Burg Herzberg (live) DCD (2009 Herzbergverlag)
• She Said TBA

Reissue

• Periscope LP/CD (2003 Elektrohasch Records)

EPs

• Colour Haze/Gas Giant Split 7 inch (2004 Elektrohasch Records)
• Colour Haze/Hypnos 69 Split 10 inch (2004 Elektrohasch Records)

Compilation appearances

• "Pulse" on A Tribute to Mr. Betonohr (2002)
• A cover of Cactus's "One Way...Or Another" on Sucking the 70's - Back in the Saddle Again (2006 Small Stone Records)
• The Psychedelic Avengers and the Curse of the Universe(Fünfundvierzig 2004, 148) [1]

Notes

1. ^ Stonerrock.com (2006-04-17). "Emissions from the Monolith Festival News". Stonerrock.com. http://www.stonerrock.com/news/news.asp?NewsID=5606. Retrieved 2009-04-28. 
2. ^ WDR (2007-10-19). "Rockpalast - Bands - Colour Haze". Rockpalast. http://www.rockpalast.de/bands/colour_haze/. Retrieved 2009-04-29. 
3. ^ Lowcut (2008-08-09). "All album review". Lowcut. http://www.lowcut.dk/joomla/index.php?view=article&catid=29%3Aalbum-reviews&id=366%3Acolour-haze-all&option=com_content&Itemid=54. Retrieved 2009-04-30. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Official website
• Website of Elektrohasch Records, Stefan Koglek's record label
• Colour Haze at Myspace
• Colour Haze, live at Rockapalast - Crossroads: Bonn, Harmonie (requires Flash)