Placebo Effect was a German

Germany

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 dark electro band.

The band was formed in the late 1980s by Axel Machens, Christoph Kunze, and Achim Windel. They have an early electro-industrial

Electro-industrial

Electro-industrial is a music genre drawing on EBM and post-industrial that developed in the mid-1980s. While EBM has a minimal structure and clean production, electro-industrial has a deep, complex and layered sound. The style was pioneered by Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, and other groups,...

 sound which has been credited as the inspiration of several other industrial bands like Front Line Assembly

Front Line Assembly

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In 1995

1995 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995.- January–February :*January 18 – Jerry Garcia crashes his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California, USA, but is not injured in the accident....

, Placebo Effect parted ways, but Machens has teamed up with Ecki Stieg to form the side project "Accessories" and cut an album entitled Vendetta.

In 1999

1999 in music

-Events:*January 7**After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation.**Paul McCartney attends the first of his stepdaughter Heather's first housewares collection in Georgia....

, Machens also performed his solo-project called "Breathe" and cut The Laughing Dolls EP and several single mixes. Breathe live performances also consist of keyboardists Sascha Garthof and Daniel Sachse, and drummer Nick Zärban.

In 2011,as part of the Infacted Recordings classics collection, Gargoyles & Galleries was re-mastered and released worldwide limited to 1000 copies. Tracks 1-14 were originally released as the 1992 debut album "Galleries of Pain". Tracks 15 to 18 were originally released as the 1990 demotape "Gargoyles".

Discography

• Placebo Effect - Home Production (1989)
• Gargoyles - EP Danse Macabre (1990)
• Galleries of Pain - Danse Macabre (1992)
• Splashed Open - Pre-release EP Ausfahrt Records (1993)
• Slashed Open - EP Ausfahrt Records (1993)
• Manipulated Mind Control - CD Ausfahrt Records (1994)
• MCMLXXXIX-MCMXCV Past...Present - CD (collection 1989-1995) Ausfahrt Records (1996)
• Gargoyles & Galleries - Infacted Recordings (2011)

Compilation appearances

• Official Techno Club Compilation Volume 2 - CD
• Electronic Techno Music - LP
• Danse Macabre Sampler I - CD Danse Macabre (1991)
• Danse Macabre Sampler II - CD Danse Macabre (1992)
• Celtic Circle Sampler Part I - CD Celtic Circle (1993)
• Electrocity Vol. 4 - CD Ausfahrt Records (1993)
• Moonraker - CD Sub Terranean (1994)
• Body Rapture 3 - CD Zoth Ommog (1994)
• Art and Dance Volume 5 - CD Gothic Arts (1994)
• We Came to Dance Vol. 3 - CD Sub Terranean (1994)
• Touched by the Hand of Goth Vol. II - CD Sub Terranean (1996)