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GumoManiacs
12+ albums
thrash metalgermanModern thrash metalmetalgerman thrash metal
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GumoManiacs is brought to life in Jan 2007 by Daniel "Gumo" Reiss, and since being a one-man-project in the beginning, the early history of the band is the history of a single person. During his tender teenage years Gumo (born Jan 1980 in Regensburg, Germany) already starts to develop a great passion for the legendary Thrash Metal heroes of the 80s. All that happens in the middle of the 90s – a decade where Thrash Metal is declared dead… When his first band Thargos (which looks back on a 11-year long history itself) came to an end, a first demo called "Metal Mafia" is recorded in Jan 2007. It is the birth of GumoManiacs. Besides a drum machine, only Gumo himself can be heard on all instruments and vocals. While searching for musicians in the following period, he first gets in contact with the Mexican label Blower Records. On Feb 28th, 2008 the 3-piece band from Regensburg plays its very first concert at Skullcrusher Club in Dresden, whereupon a couple of record labels (some of them quite well-known) show interest in the band. But the band's line-up at that time is extremely unstable and the never ever released demo recordings of that period have to suffer from that fact. Conclusion: "the big deal" does not happen yet. Only the interest of Blower Records is still unbroken, and also the German underground cult label G.U.C. offers the option to release the album on vinyl. Looking for stable band members during 2008, Gumo finally comes across the brothers Robert "Hubi" Hofmann (B
