ManisOnFire

ManisOnFire stands for honest and exclusive rock and roll with depth - sometimes driving and loud, sometimes balladic and atmospheric.

Since their formation in 2008, the band from Freiburg has established their very own style: "Manic Twang", as their friends the Lombego Surfers once called it.
At the heart of the band is songwriter Manis, whose songs are characterized by personal intensity, emotional turmoil and a fine sense of dynamics. What once began solo quickly became a band: drummer Benjamin Berthold provided the necessary pressure, bassist Matze Faller the foundation - the beginning of a long-standing musical relationship from which the first album "Ode to Solitude" emerged in 2009.

With the addition of guitarist Gregor Jehle (known from the Liquid Laughter Lounge Quartet), the sound opened up - more spherical, deeper, sometimes almost cinematic. This resulted in the album Old Stories, New Sorrows in 2014. Since 2016, Dr. Patrick Hesse (Assorted Nails, among others) has been on drums, lending the sound additional power and precision.

Live, ManisOnFire unfold their full range: from raw rock'n'roll to almost fragile ballads, from desperate rage to melancholy expanses.
Three studio albums - most recently The World Spinning 'round Without You (2019) - impressively document this path.

ManisOnFire is not an off-the-peg rock band. They tell stories - and do so with soul, style and twang.

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