Exchased was founded in 1996 when Burkhard and Peter were playing the guitar in a schoolband. The drums were played by Arne Birken. At that time they had no bassist.
In 1997 Tobias Back joined the band after some songs were already finished musically. His previously written poems were fitting perfectly to the music.
Unfortunately the rehearsal-room in the schools' basement had to be abandoned. Bassist Thomas Vollmer joined during the move. First small gigs were performed.
Due to his studies, Arne Birken had to move to Aachen and left the band. Thomas was concentrating on new goals as well. Christian Kowalkowski joined the band and became the new drummer of Exchased.
Christian was trained in order to record the first demo "disclosure" in 1998. As a substitute to the missing bass-man Gregor Kubecki supported the band.
David Krieger was asked to support Tobi in his singing on the album. After that he became a real member of Exchased. Since then Tobias and David were both acting as frontmen; even the vocals could be arranged in two voices.
April 1999: Ralf Wörz joined the band as the new bassman.
1999 was the year where Exchased was on the move when they had to move from one rehearsal-room to another. Christian began to loose interest in the band and left the band. Martin Blum (Ex- Sea:Of:Silence) replaced Christian as the drummer in june '99.
March/April 2000: The Album "blue passion" was recorded. Due to muscial differences Ralf Wörz left the band in october 2000. Christian Droste joined the band as the new bassman.
Tobias Back left the band in december 2001. Since then he dedicates himself to his home-recording-studio. Musically he likes to work more on projects than being dependent to a band.
Since June 2002 new songs were recorded in Tobias' studio. Unfortunately the results didn't satisfy the band, so that they decided to record the whole stuff once again with their technician Marius in their rehearsal-room.
In october 2002 Christian had to move to Paderborn due to working reasons. We wish him the best!
A familiar face from old times ;-) became Christians' replacement. Reini is now abord.
In December 2005 David had to leave the band due to his studies which he is doing beside his normal job. His part is being taken by Jonas who joined the band in January 2006 after he was asked to do so by Burkhard.
