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MEKONG DELTA BIOGRAPHY
Mekong Delta is a thrash metal band from Germany. Taking their name from the geographic location of a massive massacre that took place during the Vietnam war, when about 4 million civilians were killed by US military forces. Mekong Delta pioneered the genre that is known as progressive thrash metal today, implementing strong melodical elements and classical concepts (usually based on Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky's pieces) into their thrash/speed metal sound, which became most prominent on their Kaleidoscope album. It is clear that the band is the key influence on modern technical progressive metal bands like Spiral Architect.
When the band first started, they were surrounded by a cloud of mystery, as all of the band members were under contracts with other bands, and thus had to use pseudonyms to avoid any legal problems.
The current line-up is:
Ralf Hubert - Bass
Uli Kusch - Drums (Masterplan, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Holy Moses, Roland Grapow)
Peter 'Lake' Sjöberg - Guitars (Theory in Practice, Mutant, Sorcery)
Leszek 'Leo' Szpigiel - Vocals (Wolf Spider, Scanner, Duke)
However, big names such as Jörg Michael (Drums, Rage, Stratovarius and Saxon) , Peter Haas (Drums, Krokus), Jochen Schröder (Guitar, Rage, Avenger), Frank Fricke (Guitar, Living Death, U.D.O.), Reiner Kelch (Guitar, Living Death), Uwe Baltrusch (Guitar, Sodom and PETER "PEAVY" WAGNER (Bass, Rage) have also been members of Mekong Delta at certain points.
A new album, titled "Lurking Fear", is set for release at 24.08.2007.
MEKONG DELTA GENRES
Progressive Thrash Metal
MEKONG DELTA LYRICAL THEMES
Philosophy, Fear, Metaphysics
MEKONG DELTA ORIGIN
Germany (Velbert/Nordrhein-Westfalen), formed in 1985
MEKONG DELTA CURRENT RECORD LABEL
AFM Records
MEKONG DELTA STATUS
Active
MEKONG DELTA CURRENT LINE-UP
Leszek "Leo" Szpigiel - Vocals (Wolf Spider, Non Iron, Crows, Scanner, Duke)
Ralph Hubert [Björn Eklund] - Bass (X-Mas Project)
Peter Sjöberg - Guitar (Theory in Practice, Mutant (Swe), Sorcery (Swe))
Uli Kusch [Patrick Duval] - Drums (Masterplan, Shock Machine, Sinner (Ger) (guest), Helloween, Gamma Ray, Holy Moses, Roland Grapow, Beautiful Sin, Axe La Chapelle, Ride The Sky) (1988, 2006-)
MEKONG DELTA PREVIOUS LINE-UP
Vocals:
Wolfgang Borgmann [Keil] - Vocals (1987-1990)
Doug Lee - Vocals (Siren (US))
Guitars:
Jochen Schröder - Guitars (Rage (Ger), Avenger (Ger)) (1985-1987)
Frank Fricke [Rolf Stein] - Guitars (Living Death, U.D.O., X-Mas Project) (1987-1989)
Reiner Kelch [Vincent St. Johns] - Guitars (Living Death, X-Mas Project) (1987-1988)
Georg Syrmbos - Guitars (1991)
Uwe Baltrusch [Mark Kaye] - Guitars (House of Spirits, Sodom)
Bass:
Peter "Peavy" Wagner [Jake Jenkins] - Bass (Rage (Ger), Avenger (Ger), Der Riß, Victor Smolski) (-1987)
Drums:
Jörg Michael [Gordon Perkins] - Drums (Avenger (Ger), Axel Rudi Pell, Beto Vázquez Infinity (Guest), Der Riß, Grave Digger, Headhunter (Ger), House Of Spirits, Rage (Ger), Running Wild, Saxon, Stratovarius, Tom Angelripper, Unleashed Power, Laos, Schwarz Arbeit) (1987-1990)
Peter Haas - Drums (Krokus, Calhoun Conquer, Poltergeist (Che), Babylon Sad, Clockwork (Che))
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