CODEX

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codex - progressive power rock
the band
Alex Heilig_bass
Mick Country_drums
Nick Harras_vocals/guitar
music
codex plays progressive power rock. Since we got together in 1997, we were looking for the songs that might change the lives of our audience as they change us. So we're heading for the tunes, inspiration and passionately perform at our livegigs.
bio
The original line up of codex was formed in March 1997, after Nick Harras and Martin Mader had met Alex Heilig by putting an advertisement into a local newspaper. Alex was a former band member of “Megaherz”, which was founded by Florian Csar and Mick Country. Soon it figured out that the five had the same ambitions: to create a new kind of modern rock music; so they immediately started working on their new material. In May they performed their first show together, the “austroline band contest”-qualification, still playing as “Megaherz”. Due to the new musical influences and the change of style to progressive-modern rock the band changed it’s name: codex was born.
The new identity and the hard work finally led to success: after performing various live-shows during summer 1997, codex won the “best of austroline” out of more than 100 bands and was chosen “best rock act of the year”.
The following years the band’s musical style and their songs got more profile, the sound harder, and the five worked with new and classical influences, without giving up their own individual codexstyle. At the same time they performed dozens of shows in Austria, including Donauinselfest 2000-2002, Support Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Saga and many more.
In March 2002 keyboarder Martin Mader left the band to focus on his other projects. So, once again the sound of codex made an enduring change and got “leaner”, rougher and a lot straighter. codex played now in classical rock - line up (dr, b, git, voc).
In September 2004, codex released their album “high”. Due to musical disagreements, the band broke up with Florian Csar in December 2004, and Michael Buchbinder (Jamcake, Papermoon, Carouge) became the new member of codex. In 2008, Michael quit the job as the 'cx'-guitarplayer, and finally, Nick took over his duties - so codex became a 'power-trio'. Dig in!
web
[ www.codexrocks.com ]