Thumb (band)

Thumb was a German Rapcore band formed in November 1993 in Gütersloh. According to the band's official website they appear to have ceased in 2005 into various side projects; Steffen has joined H-Blockx, Jens is in Taetowier Studio, Jan-Hendrik is in Hudson, Claus is in Alternative Allstars and Axel is in Waterdown.

Biography

The first home-made tapes were recorded and copied in 1994. Lupe was the last to join the band in October scratching his way to create a new version of Thumb. Record companies began to show an interest and EMI signed a deal in March 1995. Six months later on 14th September Thumb’s debut was in the shops. A new star had entered the crossover arena. Genre-related bands Bad Religion, Dog Eat Dog, Henry Rollins and Foo Fighters kept the band company in the next two years at live gigs in Germany. Then it was time for the five to set to work in January 1997 and write the songs of their second album Exposure.

The album duly appeared on 5th May that year and proved to be a great surprise, because Thumb had changed direction. Their path even leads them to America where they play in front of nearly 180,000 during the 1998 Vans Warped Tour. They played alongside greats like the Deftones, Bad Religion, NOFX and many more at thirteen shows in three weeks.

Preparations for the third album slowly got underway at the start of 2000 but were abruptly interrupted when guitarist Axel Hilgenstöhler left the band half way through the year, the shock was compounded by the band's creative crisis. The band was on the brink of disintegrating, however, they were saved when new guitarist Axel Praiat along with the new blood coursing through the band's veins took things upwards again. Everything written and recorded up to that point was axed.

Discography

Albums

*Thumb (1995)
*# Haunted
*# Victim Of Your Lies
*# Red Alert
*# Fascism Sucks
*# No More Blood
*# Fed Up
*# Skin Deep
*# Deny
*# Consumer's Rap-Sody
*# It Ain't What You See
*# Boredom
*# (All The Way) Down

*Thumb Encore (1996)
*# Red Alert ´96
*# Aside
*# Haunted
*# Victim Of Your Lies
*# Red Alert
*# Fascism Sucks
*# No More Blood
*# Fed Up
*# Skin Deep
*# Deny
*# Consumer's Rap-Sody
*# It Ain't What You See
*# Boredom
*# (All The Way) Down
*# I Don't Wanna Hear It
*# Victim Of Your Lies
*# It Ain't What You See (Live)
*# Skindeep (Live)
*# Fascism Sucks (Live)
*# Haunted (Live)

*Exposure (1997)
*# Break Me
*# Sell Myself
*# Seize The Day
*# Values
*# Thank You
*# Remember
*# Dad
*# Reality
*# This Life
*# Exposure
*# Cavemen In Disguise
*# Aside

*Maximum Exposure (1998)
*# Break Me
*# Sell Myself
*# Seize The Day
*# Values
*# Thank You
*# Remember
*# Dad
*# Reality
*# This Life
*# Exposure
*# Cavemen In Disguise
*# Dad (Live)
*# Red Alert (Live)
*# Exposure (Live)
*# Thank You (Live)
*# No More Blood (Live)

*3 (2001)
*# Upside & Down
*# Down Like Me
*# Stupid
*# Lie To You
*# Youth
*# Thumbtune
*# Break My Back
*# Fade Away
*# Migraine
*# Suck Me Dry
*# Shorty
*# More
*# Confidence

ingles

*Red Alert (1995)
*# Red Alert
*# Fascism Sucks
*# Haunted"Notes: Their first single to be ever taken from their first album."

*No More Blood (1996)
*# No More Blood (Intro)
*# No More Blood

*Red Alert 96 (1996)
*# Red Alert '96
*# Haunted (live)
*# I Don't Wanna Hear It (Minor Threat Cover)

*Aside (1996)
*# Aside
*# It Ain't What You See
*# Boredom"Notes: "Aside" was supposed to build a link between the first and second albums. They wrote the song right after finishing "Thumb" it represented the type of songs that could be expected on "Exposure"."

*Sell Myself (1997)
*# Sell Myself
*# Dad
*# Thank You

*Seize The Day (1997)
*# Seize The Day
*# Sell Myself (live at Rock Am Ring´97)
*# Values (live at Rockpalast, E-Werk, Cologne)
*# Cavemen In Disguise (live at Collosseum, Munich ´97)
*# Dad (live at Collosseum, Munich ´97)"Notes: The recordings for "Caveman In Disguise" and "Dad" were made on our tour with the Rollins Band."

*Break Me (1998)
*# Break Me
*# Die Wellt Ist Eins
*# Red Alert (live at Roskilde 97)
*# Exposure (live at Roskilde 97)
*# Thank You (live at Roskilde 97)
*# No More Blood (live at Roskilde 97)"Notes: After being on the road for almost all of 1997 and 1998 this single was a great chance to present the live recordings from that period.

*Down Like Me (2001)
*# Down Like Me
*# Break My Back

*Youth (2001)
*# Youth (Radio Edit)
*# Upside & Down
*# Down Like Me (Steddybeats Remix)
*# Youth (Extended Version)
*# Multimedia"Notes: Also included is a "Down Like Me" remix by Steffen and a large multimedia package containing tons of pictures, 2 videos, and a biography."

Members

* Axel Praiat (Guitar)
* Jens Gössling (DJ)
* Steffen Wilmking (Drums)
* Jan-Hendrik Meyer(Bass)
* Claus Grabke (Vocals)

Links

* [http://www.thumbpage.de/ Official Website]