PLATTI

In 1983 Markus worked the whole summer to get money to buy his first bass. It was a 16 year old rickenbacker. That same year Markus changed his first color tv into a bass amplifier and a 15 inch speaker. He was addicted. After he played in his first band in his hometown in Germany at an American military base. Meaning Markus had also played in his first band with American soldiers. A great time! After this, Markus played in a lot of bands locally. Making a lot of gigs and a lot of demos but nothing happened. In 1990 the band Wasteland was born. We pooled all of our money together for a 4 weeks recording session. and a great demo came out of this. We were in all the great metal magazines we even get demo of the month. But then something evil called grunge music killed their kind of music (they hate this stuff to that time ) we get no record deal and the band quit. Well in 1991, they started a german lyrics singing band called Prolopower first out of a joke. But the audience showed them a lot respect by our first gig. So, they thought about making some more songs. After they played in every club all around germany. By 1994 the battle of the bands called metal hammer nachwuchsfestival. (its the german big metal magazine) Prolopower won at the end. Very crazy because over 400 bands starting there and boom we get our record deal by bmg ariola. Prolopower released 2 albums and quit in 1999 because our singer is now playing drums in the famous band Primal Fear. In 1994 starting the band Kashmyr as well; they make their first demo and get the same good reviews in all the bigger magazines. So in 1995 Kashmyr got their first major deal by east west. They record our album. They play a lot. Kashmyr got a lot supports for bigger bands as well - such as krokus and bands like this - but this time was a real hard time for melodic bands. They had no luck attaining new or good contract. Afterwards did a lot of demo songs but nothing is formally released. In 2002 our old Wasteland demo came out on cd in stores.