Khmer

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Formed from the ashes of seminal Leipzig punk band Suff, Khmer came into existance in around 1996. They wanted to mix the raw anger of Suff with hardcore. There were a few line up changes in the beginning but pretty quickly an established line up of Goltzsch on the guitars and Flügel on the drums was joined by Arnold on bass and Braunschweig on vocals. Khmer's first demo was released in 1997 with their first song they wrote together 'Seek' which is still a crowd favourite at gigs. A few sample CDs followed such as 'LE-Hardcore Sampler' and 'More than Soccer' which got the band's distinct sound to a wider audience. In 2000 saw the release of Khmer's maiden CD 'F=m.a' which was released on their own label. Recorded at Kackvogel studio in Keil the CD brought for the first time the aural anarchy of the live shows and demonstrated that the boys could actually play their instruments! In 2001 the band was joined by a new guitarist as it was felt that the band needed two guitars live to capture some of the layering on the CD. Michael (from the island of monkeys!) brought a new depth of musicality to the band and the new songs written reflected more of a metal influence to the straight hardcore of old. The band went back to the same studio to record their second CD 'Obstwurst', engineered and co-produced by Ulf Nagel, which was released in 2005. Recently the band have been in the studio again to record a couple of cover songs. One for Steinkind for their new promo CD and one song Skinhead Mädchen for a forthcoming covers CD.