Colour Haze
Encyclopedia
Colour Haze is a stoner
/psychedelic rock
group from Munich
, Germany
, consisting of singer and guitarist Stefan Koglek, drummer Manfred Merwald and bassist Philipp Rasthofer.
Formed in the mid-nineties, Colour Haze is one of the oldest German stoner outfits, and have since then become one of the flagships of the German stoner rock scene. Tours of the band have included headline spots at smaller national and international rock festivals, such as the U.S.
festival Emissions from the Monolith
in 2006 alongside Orange Goblin
, Boris
, and General Tso
. Local media coverage have included a broadcast of a concert on national television, when Colour Haze appeared at Rockpalast
in 2007.
Emerging from a sound heavily influenced by Black Sabbath
on their first records, they moved away from a heavy to a more melodic sound, e.g. on their album All (2008), as remarked by Denmark's LowCut webzine.
Stoner rock
Stoner rock or stoner metal is a subgenre of heavy metal, combining elements of psychedelic rock, blues rock, traditional heavy metal and doom metal. Stoner rock is typically slow-to-mid tempo and features a bass-heavy sound, melodic vocals, and 'retro' production...
/psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...
group from Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, consisting of singer and guitarist Stefan Koglek, drummer Manfred Merwald and bassist Philipp Rasthofer.
Formed in the mid-nineties, Colour Haze is one of the oldest German stoner outfits, and have since then become one of the flagships of the German stoner rock scene. Tours of the band have included headline spots at smaller national and international rock festivals, such as the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
festival Emissions from the Monolith
Emissions from the Monolith
Emissions from the Monolith is an annual heavy metal festival that showcases mainly doom metal and sludge metal bands, considered to be the premiere heavy/doom/sludge metal festival in the US...
in 2006 alongside Orange Goblin
Orange Goblin
Orange Goblin are a stoner metal band from the United Kingdom that formed in 1995. The band's lineup currently consists of singer Ben Ward, guitarist Joe Hoare, bassist Martyn Millard, and drummer Chris Turner.-History:...
, Boris
Boris (band)
is a Japanese experimental rock band, known for often combining and switching between different music genres including drone metal, sludge metal, noise rock, psychedelic rock, ambient and pop...
, and General Tso
General Tso (band)
General Tso is an underground American ambient metal band formed in 1974. Their sound has evolved to combine elements of stoner rock, ambient metal and sludge metal into what fans call ambient elevator metal...
. Local media coverage have included a broadcast of a concert on national television, when Colour Haze appeared at Rockpalast
Rockpalast
Rockpalast is a German music television show that broadcasts live on German television station Westdeutscher Rundfunk . Rockpalast started in 1974 and continues to this day. Hundreds of rock and jazz bands have performed on Rockpalast...
in 2007.
Emerging from a sound heavily influenced by Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward . The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22...
on their first records, they moved away from a heavy to a more melodic sound, e.g. on their album All (2008), as remarked by Denmark's LowCut webzine.
Current Line Up
- Stefan Koglek - GuitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
, vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Philipp Rasthofer - Bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
(1998–present) - Manfred Merwald - drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
(1998–present)
Former Members
- Tim Höfer - Drums (1994–1997)
- Christian Wiesner - Bass guitar (1994–1998)
- Felix Neuenhoff - Vocals (1997–1999)
Albums
- Chopping MachineChopping MachineChopping Machine is the debut album by the stoner rock band Colour Haze, released in 1995.- Track listing :# "Subversive" – 14:24# "Why Don't You" – 5:50# "Mud" – 6:38# "Chosen Way" – 5:24# "Dirt" – 8:57# "God's Eyes" – 8:31# "Sometimes" – 4:15...
CD (1995 David Records) - Seven CD (1998 "Selfburn" Records)
- Periscope CD (1999 Toaster Records)
- CO2 LP/CD (2000 Homegrown Records/MonsterZeroRecords)
- Ewige Blumenkraft LP/CD (2001 MonsterZeroRecords)
- Los Sounds de Krauts LP/CD (2003 Nasoni Records/Elektrohasch Records)
- Colour Haze LP/CD (2004 Elektrohasch Records)
- Tempel LP/CD (2006 Elektrohasch Records)
- All LP/CD (2008 Elektrohasch Records)
- Colour Haze - Burg Herzberg (live) DCD (2009 Herzbergverlag)
- She Said TBA
EPs
- Colour Haze/Gas Giant Split 7 inch (2004 Elektrohasch Records)
- Colour Haze/Hypnos 69Hypnos 69Hypnos 69 is a Belgian rock band. The band recorded several albums, like the Eclectic Measure, The Intrigue of Perception, and Timeline Traveller.-History:...
Split 10 inch (2004 Elektrohasch Records)
Compilation appearances
- "Pulse" on A Tribute to Mr. Betonohr (2002)
- A cover of Cactus'sCactus (band)Cactus is an American hard rock supergroup, formed in 1970.-Biography:Cactus was initially conceived as early as late 1969 by the Vanilla Fudge rhythm section of bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice with guitarist Jeff Beck and Xylophone player Adele Smitchell acted as the counterpart and...
"One Way...Or Another" on Sucking the 70's - Back in the Saddle AgainSucking the 70's - Back in the Saddle AgainSucking the 70's – Back in the Saddle is a follow-up album to the 2002 compilation Sucking the 70's. It was released in 2006 by Small Stone Records...
(2006 Small Stone RecordsSmall Stone RecordsSmall Stone Records is an American record label based in Detroit, MI. It was founded in 1995 by Scott Hamilton and is a self-dubbed "heavy rock" label...
) - The Psychedelic Avengers and the Curse of the Universe(Fünfundvierzig 2004, 148) http://www.aural-innovations.com/2004/july/psychav1.html
External links
- Official website
- Website of Elektrohasch Records, Stefan Koglek's record label
- Colour Haze at MyspaceMyspaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
- Colour Haze, live at Rockapalast - Crossroads: Bonn, Harmonie (requires FlashAdobe Flash PlayerThe Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other...
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