CHARON IS NEAR is a German Metalcore band which was founded in autumn 2007 by Mirco Rosendahl (guitar), Christoph Ruthenfranz (drums/vocals) and Tim Wilhelm (guitar). Mirco and Chris were former members of the band “Calessia”. When the right time was ripe they wanted to try something new - something like Metal and Metalcore...
During their search for a shouter/singer fortune was with them: One day, when the 3 founding members, were practicing in the “Bunker” in Dortmund, someone was entering the door and listened to their music. This person was Enrico Schimmel who was the shouter and drummer of the band “Die Millionäre” (The Millionaires) at that time. The rehearsal room of “Die Millionäre” was on the same floor as the one of Chris, Mirco and Tim. Well, Rico liked their sound and offered himself as a shouter. Besides the fact that they needed a shouter Rico wanted to join in because he wanted to play more harder music than he was able to play with his German rock band before.
With the entry of Rico the guys killed two birds with one stone. So it was Rico who brought Max Groß along - the bassist of the band “Kickstern”. From January 2008 on the new metalcore band was complete! But there was still something missing when they thought about attending the “Emergenza Newcomer Festival: the name of the band. But that wasn’t a problem at all. Soon the 5 guys found the perfect name for their band:
Before they started to play various “Emergenza” gigs CIN recorded their first demo in their new rehearsal room - the former “Die Millionäre” rehearsal room (You can listen to some songs here on myspace!). In spring and summer of 2008 they passed different gigs of the “Emergenza Festival”, so that they finally played on the Western German Finals in Cologne! CIN played “Emergenza” gigs in Dortmund (2 shows, Live Station), Bochum (1 show, Matrix) and Cologne (1 show, Essigfabrik).
After the gigs in the summer time Tim quitted CIN because he decided to move to another city. Only a few weeks later Alex Schröder joined CIN as the new guitarist.
Then in October 2008 CIN went to the studio of “Werner Wiese” and recorded their first EP “I am Hydra” (date of publication: 12/19/2008)!
The recording of the EP was also the last time that the bassist Max participated in CIN. All band members decided to let Max go because of scheduling problems with the work in 2 bands. So the song “An unintended burden” was yet already recorded together with the new bassist Daniel Ruthenfranz who is now an inherent part of CIN.
In spring 2009 CIN will enter the “Emergenza Festival” again - so keep alert, stay metal and rock on!!!
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