The Crimson

The Crimson consists of five musicians, drawn together by their passion for powerful melodic music. All The Crimson members already gained experience in various projects, reaching from blues to metal and have already proven their musical skills on stage as well as on recordings. Their music might be described best as a modern kind of Metal, combining elaborated songwriting and ambitious arrangements. Melodic elements alternate with powerful riffing all held together by driving rhythms. Lyrically, dealing and coping with no fiction – just every day’s philosophy, expressed by vocals that sing, shout and scream out what has been buried inside for far too long. The story of The Crimson started in the beginnings of 2008, when Michael Sauermoser (g) and Andreas Zeller (d) decided to seek for musicians to form a new band. Soon Thomas Stock (g) and Thomas Iberer (b) joined and a few months later Andreas Juwan (v) finally completed the lineup. With the combined power of five well experienced musical individuals, which each spent several years as parts of the Austrian underground music scene, The Crimson entered their rehearsal room and went on with writing songs. Unsurprisingly, they made a quite quick progress in merging their different musical influences into The Crimson and just some months after getting together they entered the studio and recorded their 6-track debut EP "Buried Memories" (released 03/2009). Their debut gained overwhelming feedback by both critics and fans and the song “Memories” appeared on the Sampler “Heavy Hitters” (Metal Hammer UK/Issue 194, 08/2009) with Bands like Killswitch Engage, Lamb Of God and Dream Theater. Besides numerous live appearances with many local scene heroes The Crimson has already played support-shows for giants like DevilDriver (USA) and Malefice (UK). For the actual single (release in Winter 2010) The Crimson joined forces with Cubeaudio Studios (GER) and the producer Markus Gumball (Tamoto, Guano Apes, All Ends). The songs got their finishing touch by the hands of UE Nastasi (SterlingSound/NY), who has already worked for bands like Fear Factory, Tokio Hotel and many more. Due to this auspicious collaboration The Crimson has now a product according to current industrial standards out and is ready to get signed… Open your eyes, open your ears! metal. melodic. music.