Almost exactly 25 years ago 4 bored Punkrock-Teenagers from the small Bavarian City of Augsburg found the Hardcore-Punk group INFERNO. Their most important motivation: Being louder, faster and harder as the British Proto-Crust-Pioneers of "DISCHARGE" !
23 years ago INFERNO release their worlwide much appreciated and well-respected debut-album "Tod und Wahnsinn" (Death and Insanity), which has been re-released and bootlegged several dozen times until today and has been spread all over the planet, especially in the USA, Japan, Brazil,. but also in (former socialist) Yugoslavia,
in Australia or Malaysia.
In the Mid-80ties INFERNO are a worldwide well known (the most known) Hardcore Band from Germany.even though most lyrics are sung in German.
The group tours all over Europe, as an active cell of the continental Hardcore-network, a network which reaches from the Basque Country up to Helsinki, from Amsterdam to Athens, from Bristol to Belgrade.
21 years ago big Thrash- and Speedmetal-Acts such as Hirax, Slayer, Anthrax or S.O.D name INFERNO as one of their biggest influences in several interviews and features. S.O.D even cover the tune "Ram It Up" while recording their first album. (compilation "From The Megavault" / Metalblade)
Scott Ian: „INFERNO were the hardest, fastest, most brutal hardcore band of their time and were a direct influence .“
2 years later Archi (git.) leaves the band towards West-Berlin, becoming a founder of the Aggropop-Band TERRORGRUPPE. Until then INFERNO have released 2 studio-albums, 2 EPs, a live album and a split-LP
with EXECUTE from Japan. Many more (exclusive) songs have been recorded for several international compilations.
15 years ago, after many line-up changes, INFERNO record their last 2 songs for a German compilation. They split a few months later.
10 years ago the last official CD-re-release, called "Die Radikalen Jahre" (The Radical Years /AM Records) is being manufactured, since this pressing only bootlegs have appeared .
5 years ago the idea for this anthology is born to present the whole material in a good quality and package.
Many months and years are being spent with legal bureaucracy to reacquire the master- and publishing-rights from former labels . and also with remastering and renovating the damaged mastertapes from the 80ties.
This anthology contains all studio-sessions except those songs, which appeared originally on the both compilations
"Ultra Hardcore Power 1+2", these are still uncleared, legally.
"I was wild, naive, paranoid, messy, disturbed and really really angry,I just wanted to live as fast and as much as
possible. On top of that there was this big experiment in the center of all my ambitions: How fast can you play a 4/4 bar? INFERNO was the ideal environment for all these damages of character and suddenly, without any plan or method behind it, we were one of the most important and most influential bands, whenever and wherever the development of EXTREME guitar-music was the main topic."
Archi Alert about Inferno
