Hybris (band)
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Hybris is a gothic rock band formed during a cold winter in the city of Kiel, in Northern Germany in 1998. The local musician scene was mostly represented by heavy- and trash-metal bands, but gothic and other dark music styles are quite popular at several clubs and local events. Seven musicians had the dream of creating powerful melancholic music - representing the emotions of the local gothic rock community.
[edit] History
Gothic rock has as many facets as other music styles and a poll of seven musicians will have at least 14 opinions about the right way. The first try at Hybris ended in failure and only two half-completed songs. The failure led to disharmony and the band came apart.
Those members of the band who had decided to not give up were in a difficult situation. Gothic rock musicians are not as common as representatives from other music styles and even in the cold of Northern Germany there won't be so many guitarists with the "right" emotions. So they've decided to start an experiment. Instead of working with seven musicians with very strong emotions about "the right" style of gothic music they opened the band for musicians with wider and different experience in different music styles - and due to that a more experimental approach to the right music style.
One of the new members was Janis Schibalski, a former guitarist and songwriter of a glam rock/party-metal band. Despite his changed preferences (more serious, darker music instead of event driven music) the differences between him and most of the other members could not be bigger. Hybris was never planned as a project of friends - it was planned as an experiment, a melting pot of emotions, ideas and extremely different individuals. It was a courageous plan with a strong dedication to at least local success. This led to the band name: Hybris (which means Hubris in English).
Helge Barth (bass guitar), Anne Kampmann (backing vocals) and Thyra Christmann (keyboards) were the most "classical" gothic musicians, Malte Volquardsen (drums) had several roots in Punk, Folk and other music styles. Bent Maczewski (guitar) was the bands representative of solid rock music, Gerret Goos (Lead Vocals) had several roots in gothic rock and metal and Janis Schibalski (guitars) with his long experience as live musician and songwriter completed the band.
Above text from www.magnatune.com, used by permission.
