in 1998 Torchous arose from berlin's independent music scene. in the past five years, they have played countless shows all over the country, supporting and teaming up with bands like blonde redhead, sensefield, cable car theory, kevlar, slowride, pale, pleasure forever, sometree, delbo, masonne and seidenmatt, to name but a few. in 2001 they autonomously released the ep »rock beat break«. in 2002 the band produce their first album »cut the plans« under the direction of berlin based producer anton k. feist. sinnbus records releases »cut the plans« in july 2003. a number of compilations feature Torchous songs, among them the sinnbus transport sampler and the blunoise-compilation »finest noise #10«. it was in december 2002, during a quiet concert evening, that torchous presented rewritten versions their songs for the first time. what then was a mere project dubbed »variations« soon took on shape, leading to the recording of a live-album in an acoustically priceless location. In 2006 Torchous disbanded. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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