Cyborg Attack

Cyborg Attack
Origin	Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Genres	EBM, Electropunk
Years active	1995–present
Labels	Black Rain, NoiTekk
Website	Cyborg-Attack.de
Members
[Eucha] Tino Weidauer , Keyboard [Punisher] Sandro Franz, Vocals [Zerindi] Uwe Schimmel, Keyboard [Eno] Enrico Laukner, Sampling
Past members
Raik Wild

Cyborg Attack is a musical group formed in 1995 in Germany near Leipzig. The music style are generally categorized as a symbiosis of EBM and Electropunk. Their more recent material has incorporated a disparate set of influences, notably the musical symbiosis of EBM with influences of punk, creating a more accessible and inventive output but remaining reasonably under the umbrella of industrial music.

History

The beginning

The band was founded in the early part of 1995 by Tino Weidauer, alias Euscha, (Keyboard) and Raik Wild (Vocals). Inspired through the revival of EBM in the middle of the 90s and through bands like Front 242, Cat Rapes Dog and Tyske Ludder they started to produce songs like "Paranoid", "Kalter Stahl" and "Orange Sector".

Soon after this, Cyborg Attack started receiving requests for live gigs and Uwe Schimmel (Keyboard) alias Zerindi joined the band. Their first produced songs went well within the scene so they got the chance to prove their live ability once more again on different gigs throughout Germany.

The first demo tapes were produced and released in 1996. But at this point it wasn't possible for Cyborg Attack to find a label that was willing to release an album with such an extreme and aggressive sound. In fact the first official release of Cyborg Attack was the CD TOXIC in 1997 produced in own production and released and distributed through OMB, a distribution of the German Synthie-Pop project Obscyre.

Raik Wild the co-founder and at that time frontman of Cyborg Attack left the band overnight to attend himself to a more Pop music oriented project. More as 2 years should it take until the band was always completed with the new singer and frontman Sandro Franz alias Punisher.

New territories

In early 1999, the band added new songs, promotional material, and successful reunion gigs through Germany. The most important gig was in 2000 on the 9th Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival in Leipzig. Marco Gruhn, the label head of NoiTekk saw the show and was swept off his feet as was the audience. So he offered the band a record contract and the deal with Noitekk - a sublabel of BlackRain (the label of Feindflug) - was executed. The first LP BLUTGELD was released in the beginning of 2001. The Longplayer BLUTGELD was re-released after the change-over in early 2003 to the main label BlackRain. Through the label BlackRain also the latest Longplayer for now STOERF***TOR was released in 2006.

Style and themes

Cyborg Attack developed step by step their typical harsh but charismatic sound. Mainly it could be called electronic cyber punk sound. The sound was going to be the figurehead of Cyborg Attack. The lyrical main topics of Cyborg Attack basically themes like war, surreal end of time-forebodings, as well as socio-critical facts.

Career highlights

The band was invited to perform at the 9th (2000), 11th (2002), 13th (2004), 17th (2008) Wave-Gotik-Treffen music festival in Leipzig, Germany.

In Summer of 2004 the band was invited to perform on the BlackRain / NoiTekk Birthday Tour through Middle Europe.

In early 2007 the band was invited to perform on the BlackRain European "Wintergewittertour" through Middle and North Europe.

Discography

Studio albums

• 1997 TOXIC own production / OMP
• 2001 BLUTGELD Noitekk (release edition) - Black Rain (re-release, 2003)
• 2006 STOERF***TOR Black Rain

Compilation appearances

• 1998 The Nightingale Compilation (Track "Warrior") SPV / Steady Beatz
• 1999 Maschinenwelt Compilation III (Track "Kalter Stahl") Maschinenwelt Records
• 1999 Black Rain Compilation - A Collection Of Underground Tracks3 (Track "Warrior") BlackRain Rec.
• 2000 Black Rain Compilation II (Track "Bitch") BlackRain Rec.
• 2000 Triton Volume 3 (Track "Agony") Triton
• 2001 Forgotten Dreams: Machines And Electric Beats (Track "Cyborg Attack V.2") Emmo.Biz Records
• 2002 Elegy - Numéro 21 (Track "Bitch") Elegy
• 2002 Störsequenz (Track "Blutrausch") Black Rain Records
• 2004 Different ( DVD Cyborg Attack - Live on 13th WGT) Black Rain Records
• 2005 Aderlass 3 (Track "Dunkle Visionen") Totentanz
• 2006 10.ELEKTRISCH FESTIVAL (Track "Stoerf***tor") Emmo.Biz Records
• 2006 A Compilation 2 (Track "Stoerf***tor") Black Rain Records
• 2007 Extreme Sündenfall 5 (Track "Born Dead") UpScene

External links

• Official Website
• MySpace
• Labelsite Black Rain
• Cyborg Attack discography at MusicBrainz
• Cyborg Attack discography at Discogs
• at German Wikipedia