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A band from the Ruhrpott area (Bochum/Dortmund/Gelsenkirchen) that was active during the late 80's. If you got more info, please get in touch.

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QUASIMODO from the capital of the ex-GDR, Berlin, was launched back in 1982 by childhood friends Ronald Czyrny (guitar, vocals) and Marco Wegener (guitar), who wanted to emulate their heroes AC/DC, BLACK SABBATH and DEEP PURPLE. Gerd Wölk on bass and Jörn Landeck on drums were part of the band right from the start as well. The quartet initially started out under the name PHANTOM, while the guys in early 1983 were allowed to record their song “Hey Girl” in the studio of ex-PUHDYS drummer Gunter Wosylus, with which they applied for a spot on the TV program “rund”, hoping for the start of a successful career as musicians. After this undertaking wouldn’t work out as expected, they decided to try the classic route and began playing smaller concerts in schools and gyms, f. e. with the band JUNGFRAU, which later became the nationally well known CHICOREE and later DIE ZÖLLNER. The band had already changed its name to QUASIMODO in 1984 and the first line-up change followed briefly. Michael Minge joined as singer in the course of '84 and Falco Amberg replaced Jörn Landeck on drums for the time being. More local gigs followed, but as early as 1985 QUASIMODO reunited with the original line-up of Ronald Czyrny, Marco Wegener, Gerd Wölk and Jörn Landeck to continue rocking out and were finally able to celebrate their classification as a temporary upper level band in July 1986, while at that very time the guys already prefered to play tunes of AC/DC, ACCEPT, WASP and JUDAS PRIEST. Unfortunately Ronald Czyrny and Marco Wegener were not able to enjoy this success for too long, as both were called up to the army in the course of that year, whereupon Gerd Wölk and Jörn Landeck were forced to restructure the band with Egbert Schütz (vocals, guitar) and Stefan Preuhs (guitar). However, this scenario could only be carried through until 1988, when QUASIMODO ceased to exist for the time being. When Ronald Czyrny and Marco Wegener got back together after the political change in 1990, they initially formed the band CONAN with Jörg Trumpf (bass) and David Fack (drums), until they finally brought their old drummer Jörn Landeck and Sascha Schnabl (bass) back on board in 1992 and breathed new life into QUASIMODO. A first demo tape “We'll come to rock you” was then produced, followed by another “12-Track-Demo” in the same year and the “7-Track-Demo” the following year in 1993, all of which offered a rock-solid Metal sound strongly influenced by MÖTORHEAD, with raunchy vocals that reminded strongly of Lemmy aswell. During 1994 another selftitled Demo was released, before Marco Wegener and Jörn Landeck left the band afterwards, that after a correction of their musical direction to a rather Thrash sound, recorded a selftitled Demo CDR in 1998 (S.M.R. Records) with completely new line-up consisting of Sascha Schnabl (vocals, bass), Ronald Czyrny (guitar) and Michél Domaing (drums). The quite complicated sounding debut album "C.Y.R." (Noiseworks), that delivered several early 90's PANTERA/PRONG like influences, was recorded with the same musicians like already "Quasimodo" before, but right with their 3rd effort "Härtetest" the casting carousel had turned once again, back in 2002 already. Ronald Czyrny remained on vocals and guitar, but the ex-FORSAKEN guitarist Frank Seidel, as well as Steve Schmäring (bass) and the old Metal veteran Frank Müller on drums, better known as Franky Miller, previously of COUNTDOWN/PHARAO and RESISTENCE fame, had joined the band by then. Between "Härtetest" and the next independently released album “Be strong” (2013) recorded with Stephan Kohlhoff (vocals), Ronald Czyrny (bass), Marco Wegener (guitar) and Jörn Landeck (drums), there's a difference of 10 years, a period that the lads bridged under the name of MAD DOG 2020, mainly as a cover band, though there’s also a CD entitled "Hands up" available from that special era of the band too, whose participating members being Ronald Czyrny (guitar), Marco Wegener (guitar), Marko Laabs (vocals), Detta (bass) and Frank Müller on drums. For the following CD "One shot" (2017) the line-up of the previous album almost remained the same with just one exception. The new QUASIMODO drummer Renè Jauernik was previously playing with THRASH ATTACK/INFLUENCE/ABSCESS and FLAMING ANGER, while remaining positions on guitar (Marco Wegener), bass (Ronald Czyrny) and vocals (Stephan Kohlhoff) hadn’t changed at all. QUASIOMODO's Thrash style once again offered a rather modern 90's Thrash backbone with a few groove passages, but could remind in places of the new METALLICA. On their so far latest album "Cancer city" (2022) the METALLICA vibe was audible even more. Stephan Kohlhoff in the meanwhile left the guys right after the "One shot" CD release and QUASIMODO decided to work with different singers on the album, like f.e. Franz Herde (SIEGES EVEN), Gerre (TANKARD) or John Gallagher (RAVEN).

(Thanx to Marco Wegener for explict info!)

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Quasy Modo from Feldhausen was founded by Erwin and Gebhard Schmid in 1983, together with Reiner Müller and an unknown guitarist. In the fall of 1986 Hubert Türk replaced Reiner Müller and Phillip Kurz (guitar) as well as Ralf Fink (keyboard) joined. A single was planned to be recorded during late '86, but never realized. Finally in March '89 a selftitled 4 track EP was recorded privately, but the band fell apart in April due to most of members being busy with their studies. It took the Schmid brothers more than a year till in November '90 another gig with the old crew could be conducted. 1991 together with old drummer Reiner Müller and the new guitarist Martin Winheim they recorded the "We are the people" 7" in July '91 and the "Here we go" Demo tape (1994), that both once again was published and distributed privately on gigs of the band, till Quasy Modo disbanded in 1999. The band's sound on the 12" was a sort of leightweight Heavy Metal, that on "Pub on wheel" shows some Deep Purple tendencies, but tends to draw influences from the Metal scene, somewhere between Mad Max and the Scorpions. The two highlights are the slow creeping "Quasimodo" and "White dog", a style that they repeated on "We are the people" from the 91er single as well. You can visit Quasy Modo's Homepage here

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Rockers from Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz), that appeared on local stages in their wider area of the ex-GDR during the mid 80’s, influenced by the classic 70’s Hard Rock sound. From Led Zeppelin’s "Stairway to heaven", as well as other Led Zep material, Deep Purple or Neil Young the band mainly covered Blues and Hard Rock classics.