The intention was to found a melodic thrash band, when drummer Tom Kräutner and guitarist Thomas Pippersteiner decided to bring DEMOLITION to life in 1996. Hans Peter Rapp on bass and Peter Musch, serving both vocals and rhythm guitars completed the first line-up.
In 1998 the band recorded their debut-album ...in the beginning which was distributed by the bands own label DN Records through various mailorder companies. About 1000 sold copies showed a first indication of the bands potential by being sold through companies such as The Metal Merchant, Hellion Records or Rising Sun Records.
Following up the band got a lot of great opportunities to open up for a big variety of national and international metal bands such as TESTAMENT, ANTHRAX, RONNIE JAMES DIO, OVERKILL, ANNIHILATOR, DESTRUCTION, KREATOR, SODOM, MERCYFUL FATE, NEVERMORE, SOILWORK, DEW-SCENTED,... and many many more. These gigs helped the band a lot to increase their reputation as a very intense, hard working live band.
As a logical next step, the band tried to improve also on the recording side of things and so in 2000 they chose to record their next album under the veils of a experienced producer. Having signed a deal with Gutter Records a division of Massacre Records from Germany previously, DEMOLITION in late 2001 hooked up with Producer Milos Dodo Dolezal in his Hacienda Studio situated in southern Czech Republic to record the follow-up Out Of Noland. Among others the album featured guest musicians such as Ritchie Krenmaier of STYGMA IV fame.
During the preparations for the songwriting of the third album the band decided to replace shouter Peter Musch. The vacant post behind the microphone was handed over to Wolf of DARKSIDE. This added a lot of power and edge to the new material which was finally recorded in Slovakia, namely the Studio Exponent (Krabathor, Hypnos, Darkside) in summer of 2003. Entitled Existence, the new stuff shows a development towards more concise songwriting without denying the bands roots.
In 2004 the band finally succeeded in the search for a powerful partner in the music industry and signed a deal with the independant metal label TWILIGHT from Germany. Existence was released in September 2004 and got Great reviews all throughout the metal media worldwide.
In May 2005 DEMOLITION got the opportunity to support one the forces majoures in the international thrash metal scene, Bay Area based giants TESTAMENT. As TESTAMENT decided to return to the european stages in the Classic line-up featuring Chuck Billy, Eric Peterson, Alex Skolnick, Greg Christian and both drummers Louie Clemente and Johnny Tempesta. Together with SUSPERIA and DIVINE EMPIRE , DEMOLITION supported the mighty TESTAMENT on 8 dates throughout Europe and it can be said that it was a blast !
Newest announcements from the DEMOLITION camp talk about a tour supporting SUSPERIA in December 2005, be sure to not miss them VENTING THE ANGER !
NEWS FROM THE DEMOLITION CAMP
DEMOLITION will be out on tour again. Austrian thrashers are going to support SUSPERIA on their upcoming european tour in December 2005. View the dates at the end of this newsletter for more details.
DEMOLITION is going to be enforced by italian guitarist Janos Murri from RESURRECTURIS for this tour. Janos has already arrived to Vienna and is currently rehearsing the set with the band. Looks like this is gonna be one hell of a tour...Janos was really quick to learn all the songs, now the band is working out some stage show together. Looks like your are all going to see the best DEMOLITION ever !
In case you wonder how DEMOLITION came along with Janos, here´s a short story....
Wolf went to see VITAL REMAINS in Slovakia last month, where actually RESURRECTURIS made part of the tour party supporting VITAL REMAINS on their current european tour. As Wolf has italian roots, it was more than obvious that they came into contact. Shortly after that DEMOLITION got the offer for the tour with SUSPERIA and so they were in need of a second guitar player - Wolf hooked up with Janos while they were playing in Serbia and Janos simply agreed to join DEMOLITION for the tour and maybe more...we´ll see
Pics from Fuck The Commerce Festival 2006 - thanx to Yükcel of Baden Metal
Pics from Up From The Ground Festival 2006