(Photos by Falco Gerlinghoff / Sebastian Weißgerber)
Dead Poetry was founded in spring 2006 in the near of Nordhausen, quite in the middle of Germany. At that time still with a guy at the keyboard, we played some kind of homogenous compositions between death- and trashmetal influences and parts, more inspired by classical music and dominated by the keys. Most of us played in other bands before and so the songwriting process progressed quite fast. Fortunately, in summer 2006, we had the opportunity to record our first album, entitled “Fragile†in a small underground studio in the near of our hometown. It was the first output for all of us and despite obvious faults, we were nevertheless satisfied at first. Some live performances followed, and beeing supported by a lot of friendly bands, in march 2007, the well attended release party for “Fragile“ took place in our hometown. From there on
without keyboarder, who is still replaced by a sample-machine, numerous local live appearences followed. In summer 2007 we recorded the “Broken Harmonies“-EP in the same studio where we recorded the older output some time ago, but the recording production and technical quality was a giant step forward compared to “Fragile“. Almost everbody within the band was satisfied with the result. The sound changed in some ways and could be described as technical influenced death metal, sometimes supported by synthesizer sounds. Again there followed some gigs and the biggest show, worth to mention, was propably the release show of the „In The Cold Heart Of The Sun“-Album of Germany's Metalcore pioneers Maroon. In the beginning of 2008, the “Broken Harmonies“-EP was finally mastered in the „Rape Of Harmonies“-Studio (Heaven Shall Burn, Maroon) and the band was now hopefully looking forward to get some feedback of the metal underground.
In May 2008 the band decided to go on with another frontman - Nicolas Jantosch, and was very happy to acclaim a new development with him.
And meanwhile more and more really nice sounding reviews are flowing in. At the moment we're writing new songs for the upcoming album... So keep an eye on us...
