Mondo Kane is a German

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...

 rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band from Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

. Their sound has been shaped by musical traditions of the 1970s. The influences of the band, according to their own statements, are heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 and hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 bands such as AC/DC

AC/DC

AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...

, Danko Jones

Danko Jones

Danko Jones is a Canadian rock band from Toronto, Ontario. The band consists of Danko Jones and JC...

, Rainbow

Rainbow

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 and 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...

.

History

Friends Timo Lindenschmidt and Colin Gäbel (brother of Tom Gaebel

Tom Gaebel

Tom Gaebel is a German singer and leader of a big band named after himself. He changed the spelling of his last name, avoiding the umlaut to give it an international sheen. In addition to singing and arranging music, Gaebel writes lyrics in English....

) were active in various bands until they formed a new band in early 2006. The drummer Christian Hülsmann joined the band in mid-2006. On New Year's Eve 2007/2008, Mondo Kane made their debut at the New Year's Eve Special Show at GIGA Television

GIGA Television

GIGA was the brand name of a digital TV channel and several German television shows. The channel ceased operations in 2009.-Early Days:...

, and played three of their songs.

Band name

The musicians are fans of the Italian film

Film

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, Mondo Cane

Mondo cane

Mondo cane is a documentary written and directed by Italian filmmakers Paolo Cavara, Franco Prosperi and Gualtiero Jacopetti. The film consists of a series of travelogue vignettes that provide glimpses into cultural practices around the world with the intention to shock or surprise Western film...

. To work without legal problems, they replaced the letter 'C' with 'K' to create Mondo Kane and made it their band name.