Rustbone
This article is about the German Band Rustbone
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| Origin | Hamburg, Germany |
| Genres | Alternative Rock |
| Years active | 2019-present |
| Website | www |
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Rustbone is an alternative rock band from Hamburg, Germany. The band was founded by Michael "Michi" Pfaff in 2019.
Biography
Formation
In 2019, after spending years gigging with Betty – a veteran Helmet cover band – Pfaff decided to form a new group with a focus on the alternative music genre. He called his old friend Frank, who agreed to play drums with him and brought a bass player named Steffi.
First Year (2019)
After forming the band, which consisted of Frank, Steffi, and himself, he invited Robert to fill the vocal duty, and he agreed. Robert joined eventually in Spring 2019.
After a few rehearsals with the band, Robert began to show some symptoms of depression and became distant. During his last rehearsal, Robert went outside for a quick cigarette and never came back inside, which worried his bandmates. Frank tried to reach him with no success.
The band kept going despite the vacancy of the singer. They started to rehearse in Probebunker-Eiffestraße.
Later that year, through a contact of a fellow user of the Probebunker, the band became acquainted with Felippe "PhilBone" Barreto, a renowned guitarist/singer from Brazil, previously of FreiRaum. After a few jam sessions with the band, he joined as their lead singer.
The four-piece line up (2019 - 2021)
The newly formed band began to rehearse together. They started doing cover songs of nineties bands, mostly Nirvana and Helmet songs, but some straight rock like Danko Jones.
Tired of doing covers, the band started to write their own songs. Barreto, unlike the previous singer, had abilities to write music and lyrics, which he did extensively.
Rustbone then began to gig in the Hamburg area with their own music, quickly becoming well known due to Frank's precise drumming and Barreto's ability to scream, combined with catchy riffs from Pfaff, which he played in an unusual way.
With the pandemic hitting the world, particularly the music scene in Germany, Rustbone was forced to put down their activities in 2020. The band secretly held meetings for rehearsal and was able to write ten songs ready to be recorded.
Rustbone recorded five songs with the help of Dirk, a former recording engineer of the heavy metal band Accept. The songs were all taken in one single day, mostly live-recorded. After a few weeks, Dirk managed to master the tracks.
Barreto then had a contact from a student of Deutsche POP – an institute for training and further education in the field of sound engineering – who was looking for a band for his small recording project. Together with him, they recorded Gallow's Vain.
After the Deutsche POP recording session, a dissension strained within the band, which led to the departure of Frank and Steffi. Left with no other members, Pfaff and Barreto decided to take a break from the band.
Formation to a five-piece band (2022)
Desperate for new members, Pfaff and Barreto began to place ads online. After a few weeks, the ongoing ads found their way to Inti, a Hamburg-based IT programmer who previously played bass in a punk band, and Agni, a musician from Indonesia. Both of them were interested in filling the bass player position. Overwhelmed with their enthusiasm, both were quickly invited to an audition in February 2022. Because Rustbone didn't have a drummer at that time, Barreto asked Lilian Stenzel – a former bandmate of his in FreiRaum and a well-known drummer of Kommando Kant – to help with the band with the audition. Stenzel learned most of Rustbone's songs just before the audition.
Agni and Inti showed up to the audition. Given the songs just a few days before, they tried to improvise a few bass lines to fit into the songs. Impressed by this, Pfaff and Barreto wanted to keep both in the band. Inti became the new bass player, and Agni was asked to be Rustbone's guitarist beside Pfaff, effectively their second guitarist. After this decision, Pfaff and Barreto asked Stenzel to fill the drummer's position, which she agreed to.
First Record
Barreto then decided to go with the plan of publishing Rustbone's music online. On January 28, 2022, Rustbone released its first record, a self-titled EP containing five tracks. Also on July 29, the band released its unreleased recorded track Gallows Vain as a single.
The lineup containing Inti on Bass, Agni on Guitars and Stenzel on drums had its first show in Summer 2022 at ForcedFest in Rahlstedt and later in August at Campus Fest organized by AStA Uni Hamburg.
Stenzel's Departure
As a drummer who played in three separate projects (Kommando Kant, Josie, and Rustbone) at that time, Stenzel was having difficulties catching up with all the projects she was working on.
Lilian Stenzel left Rustbone on October 22, 2022.
References
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