Terminal Choice

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Terminal Choice
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Origin	Germany
Years active	1993–present
Genres	Industrial
Members	Chris Pohl Jens Gärtner Gordon Mocznay Louis Manke
Past members	Manuel Selling

Terminal Choice is a German industrial band. It was formed by singer Chris Pohl (also of Blutengel, Tumor, Pain of Progress and owner of the Fear Section label) in 1993. Their lyrics are divided fairly equally between German and English. The sound was originally primarily doomy electronic industrial with hard EBM rhythms, but with the 1998 album Navigator guitars were added which gave the band a harder rock edge.

Besides Chris, the original lineup included Jens Gärtner who provided the drums and loops. In 1997, Manuel Selling was added to the lineup to provide the guitars. In 2000, Manuel left the band and Gordon Mocznay took over on guitar and bass guitar. A year later in 2001, Louis Manke joined the band as well, adding a second guitar to the band.

Terminal Choice is currently Chris Pohl's main and most well-known project, and they have enjoyed great success both in Germany and abroad, and are often compared to and sometimes referred to as a precursor to another popular German industrial-stomp band, Rammstein. The success of Terminal Choice has also transferred to the other members of Terminal Choice, as Chris helped Gordon form his own band known as Mordorn and also helped Louis form a band named Staubkind. Despite being involved with numerous bands, all members are still creating music with Terminal Choice and a new album with a tentative working title of "New Born Enemies" is expected in summer of 2006.