Ripmen

History

Founded in the mid' 90's by Kubi, Rakow and Wachi. They were schoolmates but there was no deep relationship except sitting in the same classroom. Somehow, the Psychobilly-thing caught them and it's surprise that they met again and again on various Psychobillyconcerts and -festivals in the early 90's They'd always talked about their plans of founding a band.....

The original line-up was Wachi on drums, Rakow on guitar and even Kubi on guitar. About early 1999 Kubi bought a doublebass and slapped the bass from this day on. Another half year later they had their first set and their first gig on a wedding party of a friended couple calling themselves "The Ripmen" (further gigs had been under different names). In October 1999 Wachi died in a tragic way by falling from a skyscraper. They lost their drummer and of course one of their best friends. They suffered but decided to try another start.....Only two months after Wachis death they found a new drummer called Gordian by putting an announcement into a newspaper. Gordian joined the band in early 2000.

Rapidly he learned the songs and they created a lot of new songs. That was the point when Ripmen really started. In April 2000 they went to the Octosound Studio in Berlin where they recorded the 5-Track Demo "With Love From Beyond". They got a great response on that recording and sent it to Crazy Love Records. Rapidly they got the first record deal . The first longplayer "Party With the Dead" was released in summer 2001 and it's nearly sold out. After playing various shows with most of the biggest bands in the Psychobilly-scene (like Mad Sin, Demented Are Go!, Frenzy, Long Tall Texans, Gorilla, Nekromantix, Meteors and many more) they just recorded their second longplayer called "Terror of the Beagle Boys" which was released in summer 2004.

It's filled with 12 thrilling songs offering a variety of styles. This longplayer was promoted at a lot of shows - even on a US-Tour in Los Angeles, San Francisco, .... After some quite time around the Ripmen they signed to Wolverine Records and released a Mini Album in April 2007.

Members

Demos

LP/CD's

Compilations