![]() The band would stay there to have their ‘homebase’ until their band´s end. ![]() So it was logical to move the rehearsal room from outside of town (a cheap, yet, dark and really run down barn where electricity could fail any minute) to a new home: the Schalander tower of Herrenhäuser Brewery. During that time first band members moved away from Garbsen to live in the nearby 530k citizens town of Hanover. In 1997 they parted ways with drummer Tobias Wachner and found a new drummer in Florian Bewer. Yet, the experience of recording and having a weekend as a band, sleeping on the floor of a Gymnasium just to be ‘all in’ was invaluable.”. “It is with a reason we later never mentioned that release in our official discography. First and foremost my singing!” Kai remembers. But truth be told, the recording more than not revealed the things we still needed to improve. Kai: “I remember after one of our gigs some guy from the audience came to me and told me to not leave the venue, because some angry boomers who hated our music wanted to beat us up after our show.”.ġ996 they recorded their first demo “pale blue stones”. Their sound was raw and clearly influenced by metal bands like Metallica, Pantera, Prong and Faith No More. ![]() As was with many school bands during that time it was easy to draw a large following from their school mates, so the band started playing in front of crowds of 200+ people right away, stage diving included. In October 1994 Sonic Front had their first ‘real’ public gigs in and around their hometown of Garbsen. ![]() A name that described the heavy sonic wall their music was supposed to build, as Christoph Renne described back then. In summer that year they decided to change their band name into Sonic Front. They played their first gig inside the school halls on May 31, 1994. The band then was allowed to practice in their school Johannes Kepler Gymnasium. Metal sounds do not fare all too well when distorting the otherwise quiet surrounding of a fine residential neighbourhood. But that lasted only 2 or 3 jam sessions. Their first rehearsal room was in the basement of the house of Christoph´s parents. ![]()
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