Mechanical Moth was founded in Darmstadt in the year 2002, by Tandrin, who called the band project ,,Projekt Rosenhöhe?, while searching for a name. From the very beginning till today, the band combines elements of electronic music, gospel and soul as even synphonic and orchestra.
Also in the year 2002 Matricide already joined the project for vocal support. She left the band in 2007, after release of the third album ?The Sad Machina?. During these 5 years she supported the music with lyrics, hervoice and many concerts, Newspaper articles and even top positions in the DAC were reached by her support and acting.
In 2004 the first album was released at Dark Dimensions, called ?fallen into you?, planned as the first part of a trilogy named ?deus ex machina?. Fallen into you reached top positions in several charts. The first live act took place in 2004 as support for the band Untoten in Rüsselsheim. Because of logistic problems, the live band was cut from 4 to 2 people again.
The second album called ?Torment? came out in 2005, on time for release at the Wave Gotik Treffen festival in Leipzig, where the band had a concert too. With the second album the first video clip was released, also called Torment. The song Fluegelschlag was released at the festival sampler and again top places in the charts were reached. But not only the publicity factor got higher, the distance between the second and the third album, that was also the last part of the deus ex machina trilogy, got shorter.
At the end of 2005 the live band finally collapsed because of logistic problems again and the band decided to work with half-playback for concerts. The music was furthermore fully electronic and the vocals as before all live. To present more vocal quality for live acts, the band searched for a background singer and so the third band member Salacity joined the project at the end of the year 2005.
Salacity even had parts on the third album ?The Sad Machina?, too.
The Sad Machina was released in 2007, as also a new video clip for the song time. After release of the last part of the trilogy, Matricide left the band for business and Tandrin and Salacity planned their fourth album without her. After half a year a new singer was not found, Ivy joined the band. She was actually working with Tandrin on a side-kick-rock-project while she convinded the band by her vocal talent. Because of Ivy?s soul and gospel voice the style of the band changed a lot into more experimental mixture of gothic, electronic musik and soul.
The fourth album called Rebirth is supposed to be released at Dark Dimensions in june 2009.
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