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  • Genres: Rock
  • Representative Albums: "Mono," "Fury in the Slaughterhouse," "The Hearing & The Sense of Balance"

Biography

Fury in the Slaughterhouse is Germany's equivalent of U2. While FITS is not stylistically similar to U2, they're a big rock & roll band that commands the same respect in their native country that U2 does in Ireland. Fury in the Slaughterhouse is a hitmaker as well, topping compatriots the Scorpions as Germany's most popular group and selling over 600,000 records by the early '90s. Fury in the Slaughterhouse formed in a small backyard in Hanover, Germany, in 1987 by brothers Kai Uwe Wingenfelder (vocals) and Thorsten Wingenfelder (guitar, vocals). The siblings then added Rainer Schumann (drums), Christof Stein (guitar), and Hannes Schafer (bass). Fury in the Slaughterhouse's self-titled debut LP was released on January 10, 1989; keyboardist Gero Drnek also joined the band that year. Fury in the Slaughterhouse immediately became veterans of the club circuit, gaining new converts that would eventually propel the group to superstar status. The band opened for acclaimed international talent like the Pogues and the Jesus & Mary Chain, creating foreign interest in their music. On February 15, 1994, Fury in the Slaughterhouse finally received exposure overseas as the group's fourth album, Mono, was distributed in the U.S. by RCA Records. "Every Generation Got Its Own Disease," a solemn statement about AIDS, was played on modern rock stations and MTV in America. Thanks to Thorsten's ethereal, meditative riffs, Kai's gruff vocals, and vividly bleak imagery (such as "Change the girls like underwear/Using bodies without care/The love has gone and what we've got/Is sweet perfume of sex and blood"), such a relatively mellow song was able to break the stranglehold of grunge on alternative radio. However, "When I'm Dead and Gone," which had a video directed by Cyndi Lauper, wasn't as widely accepted, and Mono vanished into the cutout bins. Nevertheless, the Furies continued to record albums in Germany. ~ Michael Sutton, All Music Guide
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Fury in the Slaughterhouse was a German rock band from Hanover formed in 1987 by brothers Kai Uwe Wingenfelder (vocals) and Thorsten Wingenfelder (guitar, vocals). The siblings then added Rainer Schumann (drums), Christof Stein (guitar) and Hannes Schäfer (bass). The band replaced only one member in the twenty years of their career when Christian Decker took over for Hannes Schäfer in 1996. Schäfer left to study medicine and is now a doctor. The band's name is an ironic allusion to the American TV series centered around a horse named Fury that had been repeated on German TV in the 1980s. The band became successful on the German market in 1988 when they reached the top 50 album charts. In 1992 their record company SPV GmbH and BMG Ariola Hamburg GmbH founded the record label Slaughterhouse Music.

In 1993 the band had its first international success with the hits Radio Orchid and Every Generation got its own Disease from the album Mono and successfully toured several European countries and the USA. Since then Fury has released new albums approximately every other year, but has never been able to repeat the success of Mono. The band has sold more than 4,000,000 albums so far. Unusually, Kai Wingenfelder sings not in German, but excellent idiomatic English.

In September 2007 the band announced their break up. In 2008 they played a farewell tour across Germany with a final concert on 30 August 2008 in their home town of Hanover.

Their hits include: "Time To Wonder", "Every Generation Got Its Own Disease", "Won't Forget These Days", "Radio Orchid", and "Trapped Today, Trapped Tomorrow".

Albums

  • 1988 - Fury in the Slaughterhouse
  • 1990 - Jau!
  • 1991 - Hook a Hey
  • 1992 - Pure Live!
  • 1992 - Mono
  • 1993 - Mono (US version with altered track list)
  • 1994 - Dead and Gone (EP)
  • 1995 - The Hearing and the Sense of Balance
  • 1995 - The Hearing and the Sense of Balance (US version with altered track list)
  • 1997 - Brilliant Thieves
  • 1998 - Nowhere...Fast!
  • 1998 - Super Fury (The Best of Fury In The Slaughterhouse)
  • 2000 - Home Inside
  • 2002 - The Color Fury
  • 2002 - Monochrome (Live)
  • 2004 - Nimby
  • 2005 - Acoustic Grand Cru Classé
  • 2006 - Every Heart is A revolutionary Cell
  • 2008 - Don't look back (Collection of B-sides, rarities and new songs; includes DVD with all F.i.t.S. music videos)

In 2005 and 2006, the band's own record label, Kick it Out Records, released remastered versions of all studio albums up to and including 2000's Home inside. These remastered versions also feature additional material like studio outtakes, live recordings and B-sides.

Videos / DVDs

  • 1991 - Clicksongs & Peppermint Stories (Video)
  • 1997 - Especially Ordinary (Video)
  • 2002 - Monochrome (Live-DVD and -Album)
  • 2004 - Welcome to the other World - Nimby Live (DVD)

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