Farmer Boys (band)

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Farmer Boys
Origin Stuttgart, Germany
Genre(s) Metal
Years active 1994-Present
Label(s) Universal
Website Official site
Members
Matthias Sayer
Alexander Scholpp
Denis Hummel
Antonio Ieva (1999 - present)
Till Hartmann
Former members
Ralf Bozenhart (1994 - 1999)

Farmer Boys is a metal band from Stuttgart, Germany. They reached their peak of popularity with their album The World Is Ours, released in 2000; the videos for singles "Here Comes The Pain" and "If You Ever Leave Me Standing" were put into heavy rotation by German alternative music channels such as VIVA Zwei.

Their musical style is a blend of Machine Head's groove metal and Paradise Lost's gothic metal; their lyrical matter, however, unusually to the style, often revolves around the darker side of agriculture - incest ("Farm Sweet Farm"), torture of animals ("When a Chicken Cries For Love") and slaughterhouses ("When Pigs Fly"). (Their later albums have strayed away from the subject matter.)

Matthias Sayer also provided guest vocals for Apocalyptica's single Hope Vol.2.

As of June 2007, very little news regarding the band has been forthcoming since the release of The Other Side in 2004. There are concerns amongst the fans that the band has split up, however there has been no formal press release regarding this.

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[edit] Members

[edit] Former members

  • Ralf Bozenhart - bass (-1999)


[edit] Discography

[edit] Singles

[edit] Music videos

  • Farm Sweet Farm
  • Never Let Me Down Again [1]
  • When Pigs Fly
  • Here Comes The Pain [2]
  • If You Ever Leave Me Standing
  • While God Was Sleeping
  • Stay Like This Forever [3]

[edit] External links

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