Hi Folks!

Here is Kai from DEPRESSION, and I want to tell you a few things about us. This is the history of DEPRESSION from the very beginning until today:

The band was started back in 1989. My former bands Gods of Grind and Mortuus weren't very active at that time, so I wrote a couple of songs on my own. I wanted to play in a band that combine the brutal power and heaviness of Death Metal with the incredible speed and kick-ass structures of Grindcore. But there were no musicians in my area who wanted to join such an uncompromising project , so I wrote a couple of songs for my own ,and DEPRESSION was born as a one-man "band". I released these songs on the first demo "Tal der Tränen" (1990). This was more Noisecore than Grind, but I was on the left hand path. It was the first recording I ever made, so it was really bad and only a few friends got a copy!

In the year of 1992 it was time for my second demo "Vergessene Welten". It was a lot better than "Tal der Tränen", especially the sound and the layout. The music style shifted more to Grindcore with some Death Metal influences. I sold some tapes in Germany, but without much promotion and only for a short time.

In 1993 there were enough songs finished for another demo and this time I tried to find a vocalist for DEPRESSION, because I didn't like my growling. I found the perfect shouter in Marc. He really liked my music and so he joined DEPRESSION. Since 1993 DEPRESSION was a two-piece-band! Marc has written most of the lyrics on the third demo "...in Verzweiflung". It was Death Metal with Grindcore influences. This demo was spread all over the world and we got nice responses from the fans and the critics (certainly not from all, but most of them). Due to various reasons (we both joined the band Dismal) it got very quiet around the DEPRESSION camp after this demo.

Well, in 1995, after a long break of two years, DEPRESSION were back! A lot of fans asked us about those old demo tapes, but we didn't sold them anymore. Marc and I both still like the old stuff and so we had the idea to release the three demos again (new recorded and with new layout) on our fourth demo "Erinnerungen". This tape was really a big success, as the two different editions we made (400 copies altogether) are sold out and we got a lot of cool new underground contacts.

In Autumn of 1996 we released our debut 7" EP, "Ein Hauch von Moder" on Gulli Records. We were really satisfied with this EP. We got absolutely fantastic reactions and responses from the underground world-wide, and needless to say it was a huge step forward for DEPRESSION! This EP was limited to 800 copies and it was pressed on purple vinyl and we pay tribute to one of our main inspirations, Blood, with the song "Dogmatize". But instead of resting on this success we carried on with DEPRESSION to keep on corrupting the world with "groovy Death/Grind".

And so, in late summer of 1997, "Böses Blut" (a split-CD with the gods Agathocles) came out of the dark! This was certainly the pinnacle in the history of DEPRESSION at the time, a dream come true, you could say! I'm still very satisfied with the whole CD. The songs, the sound and the layout were almost perfect to me. This time we covered "Thy Beauty" from Grindcore legends Fear Of God. With this release, we reached so many new freaks on the globe who hadn't heard something from us before. The very positive letters showed us that there was still an active and enthusiastic underground scene for such brutal music!

At the end of 1997, we released a new split 7" EP, "Die Zeiten ändern sich" with German grinders Maggot Shoes. It was strictly limited to 500 hand-numbered pieces of orange-coloured vinyl and it was well within the DEPRESSION style and attitude. Some people said that this was the best recording from DEPRESSION so far and I still like it, too (and not only because of our crazy version of "Heart Of Illinois" from Impetigo!).

To had a good start in 1998, Hierba Records unleashed a DEPRESSION split-tape with the Spanish Noise-Grindcore band Hierba. Our part contained really old rehearsals and party-live recordings. There are really funny versions of Impetigo's "Boneyard" and Blood's "Dogmatize"...don't take it seriously, it's pure fucking Noise and a cool remembrance to the ancient times...Enjoy or die!

There were still a few songs left from the "Ein Hauch von Moder" studio-session '96, so in April of 1998 we finally released these songs on the "Ein Hauch von Moder Part II" split 7" EP with German gore-deathers Rejectamenta. In the vein of our debut EP in 1996, this split-EP is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies and was a return to our roots. It's a typical DEPRESSION release the way we like it. Similar to our debut EP, it was pressed on purple vinyl and the cover is also a negative of an ancient ruin.

Time goes by and at the first day of 1999, we split the 10" LP "Und keiner weint uns nach" with the Brazilian Grindcore-legends Rot, released on Deadly Art Production. To me, this release was quite important for DEPRESSION. And it seemed that the fans liked this piece of music, too, because the first edition of 666 hand-numbered green-coloured vinyl sold out very quickly and so did the second pressing on blue vinyl as well. We dismembered "Suicide Fuck" from Abscess on this record because Chris Reifert and Autopsy are one of my all-time-faves. This DEPRESSION stuff was more Death Metal-influenced than the previous stuff and I suppose it was the heaviest release DEPRESSION had ever made...at least for the time being!

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! In Autumn 1999, DEPRESSION celebrated their ten-year anniversary! So we released on the 1st day of January in the year 2000 (again on Deadly Art) our first full-length album "Chronische Depression" on CD and in spring as a limited two-coloured LP. It was a present to ourselves (and maybe to a few of you as well). It contains a bunch of new songs, the obligatory cover version (this time, "Bloodcraving" from the godly Mortician), the outstanding song "Depressionen (Part I)" and as a bonus, one song from each DEPRESSION release from the last ten years! We thought it was time for a little break...and so it took more than a year to fuck the mainstream with the next sign of life!

But since X-mas-day 2001 the Split-CD "Zur Stille finden" with the lunatics from Haemorrhage was available (on Cudgel Agency) containing ten new tunes of devastating groovy Death/Grind from DEPRESSION. This time "Enough" from Agathocles is the cover-song and I suppose this recording is the most groovy one for us so far. By the way, it was the first output featuring Ron on guttural grunts!! He is a friend of us for a long time (former Dismal shouter) and his vocal-style fits perfectly to Marc´s eruptions!

It's time for a new release in 2002! So we did the split-EP "Schatten" with German goremongers Gonorrhoeaction (again on Cudgel Agency). The 8 DEPRESSION songs (including "Radio Hit" from Anal Cunt) were totally back to the roots!! The tracks are fast, more brutal and raw as fuck! The vocal-battles between Marc and Ron were brilliant, and we are all very satisfied and happy with this release!

2003, our debut EP "Ein Hauch von Moder" is sold out for a long time, and also the second part of this session, the split-EP with Rejectamenta, wasn´t available anymore. But people were (and are) still asking for this stuff, so we deceided to re-release the complete studio-session from 1996 again, for the very first time on CD format! All songs were re-mastered and saw, refreshed , the light of day as a 4-way split-CD together with Meatknife, Intestinal Infection and New York Against The Belzebu, released on German underground label Noise Varriations. But not enough: The long-time-sold-out split-Tape with Hierba was only available for a short time and there were only a few copies every made, so we took the offer from Noise V to release some of these old rehearsal/live songs totally re-mastered as a split-7" with Intestinal Infection!! Feel the ancient spirit again!!

Finally, in 2004, the long awaited split-CD with Mesrine reached the DEPRESSION-headquarter!! 2+2=5 Records from Brazil released this brandnew studio stuff, including "Hate the Kids" from Turbonegro and "Behram" from Mesrine (btw, Mesrine did a cover from Depression´s "The Mangler" on this record !). These songs were typical DEPRESSION stuff, but as we acted as a three-piece for some time now, you can feel that the songs -with the vocals- were more "compact". We all are still very satisfied with the release!!! Depression was still fast, heavy and brutal after almost 15 years of existence... Power It Up Records released the LP version! First 500 copies were limited coloured vinyl !! The second 500 LPs were black. It is great to have this release on both formats, CD and LP.

Friday, 17th of September 2004 was a historical day in the career of DEPRESSION !! We played our VERY FIRST gig at the "Deathfest" to celebrate our 15-year-anniversary!! It was a cool night and a big party with our fans! Thanks to everyone who stood in front of the stage and raised his fist to us !! You rule !!

2005: 15 YEARS OF GROOVY DEATH/GRIND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To us it was almost unbelievable: DEPRESSION celebrated its 15th anniversary of existence!!!
It all started in autumn 1989 and in 1990 I released the first Tape. Now, 15 years later in 2005 we were still there and still played this underground dedicated style of extreme music!!
This was a present to ourselves, and to all DEPRESSION-maniacs out there and everyone who supported us in the last years in any way. I´m glad that we survived and who knows, hopefully we carry on for the next decate!! (as we all know by now, we made it!! Yeah!!

Because of the huge demand from fans , year for year, we had decided to re-release the long sold-out split-CD DEPRESSION / AGATHOCLES through Power It Up Records. The new version is re-mastered, so the new sound is straight in your face. Also the layout has minor changes, it was just slightly up-dated. Both bands were very happy, that this underground-jewel saw the light of day again, after almost 8 years of silence.

But of course it was also time for some new stuff !! At the first day of September 2005, the split-EP "Der Weg des Wassers" with german old-school Death Metal lunatics FLESHRIPPER was released by Morbid Reallity Records from the US!! This underground jewel was limited to 500 copies (100 in orange vinyl!!) and contained three new songs from us, including "Vagina Berserker" from GUT! It is still very important for DEPRESSION to release vinyls!!

NOW it was time for the 15-years-anniversary-album!! At the 11.11.2005, the double-CD-Digipak was released through Cudgel Agency!! 15 years after the beginning of DEPRESSION and 10 years after the "Erinnerungen" Demo, we re-released it for the first time on CD, and offerd you also a brand-new CD. "Das Relikt" contains all 22 songs form the Demo totally new recorded in the studio in 2005!I There are also 2 bonus tracks, of course a coverversion: "Underestimation" from Defecation, and "Depressionen (Part II)" as the second part of the trilogy. The 28-pages booklet includes all lyrics, the history, a lot rare photos, linernotes from every band-member and other shit!! ENJOY!!!

Another year, another release. So in the first week of January 2006 Power It Up Records released the DEPRESSION / AGATHOCLES split-album first time on LP !! Both bands were looking for that release for almost 9 years now! The LP was limited to 500 copies and had a different, totally new coverartwork !! A collectors item indeed and a gift to all vinyl-worshippers around.

So DEPRESSION was ready to conquer the Asian market !! With the official split-tape DEPRESSION / MESRINE, limited to 400 hand-numbered copies, Slava Production released our debut for the Eastern South in summer 2006!! Watch out for this jewel, as only very few MCs had made their way over the big sea to Europe.

To complete our history a bit more, Power It Up Records also released the succesfull album DEPRESSION / HAEMORRHAGE (in autumn 2006) first time on limited vinyl ! The sound was re-mastered for an even bigger brutality. The complete layout was improved with a new cover and innersheet. The first 100 copies came in clear blue vinyl. GREAT!!

Due to the succes of the first asian MC release, Roots Active Records signed us for the official Tape-version of the DEPRESSION / AGATHOCLES split-album!! Different artwork, remastered sound, limited to 400 copies, it is worth to be in your collection. This item was also the last release of the 15th-year-anniversary-re-release-series in 2006.

Another chapter was also closed in 2006, and it was a short one: The live-activity from DEPRESSION found their final performance at the AJZ Bahndamm in Wermelskrichen (to round it up perfectly), after 10 incredible stage demolitions, at October, 28th due to private circumstances. It was only a short period, but it was an adventure that we all will never forget!! Thanks to your fans to party with us all the time!! Well, in the meantime we are active again with one or two gigs per year!

But DEPRESSION would not be DEPRESSION if we hadn´t a new release in a new year! In 2007, it was the first live-CD from us ever! The audio-document from our final gig (at that time, hehe) was released at the last day of August, 2007 as "Ein kakophonischer Lebenshauch" on Apathic View Productions from Germany. Besides the gig, the CD contained the exclusive studio-bonus-track "DalaiDahmer", liner notes and the typical untypical DEPRESSION layout. A proof of a rare evening.

2008 was a good year for DEPRESSION! We started with a double-release at the date of February, 22nd with the split-CD with the swedish old-school legend PAGANIZER. 10 brand new studio-songs from DEPRESSION since quite a while. The new stuff was typical old school Death/Grind, but this time with a bit more variety in structure, speed and riffs. A few surprising songs included, beside "Artefacted Irreligion", a coversong from UK-pioneers Benediction. This CD contained the DEPRESSION video-clip "Leichenduft" and was released by Suffer Productions from Germany.
The second strike of this double-release was a split 7" EP with the grindcore veterans from France: INHUMATE. The high-quality packed piece of vinyl ("real" cover, extra inner sheet) contained three DEPRESSION neckbreakers with "Mentally Murdered" from Napalm Death as traditional tribute-song. The EP is limited to 500 copies, and Power It Up was once again the label who was responsible for that shit.
With a delay of three (!) years, the first day of May 2008 was finally the official release-date of the MC/Tape version of "Das Relikt"!! Once again, Slava Productions from Thailand released this jewel, limited to 500 hand-numbered copies with pro-pressed and pro-printed MC and full-coloured, pro-printed booklet with 10 pages! You´ll get the complete new recorded versions from 2005 plus the two bonus tracks, as Disc One from the original Digipak-release. Already a rare collectors item, as there were only a couple of this tapes available in Europe. Watch out!!

2009 started with a nice release: The long delayed split-MC DEPRESSION / PAGANIZER was released on the very first day of January 2009 on the brazilian label Cauterized Productions. It had a nice full-coloured, printed booklet and a different artwork than the CD version. The limited edition of  500 copies is a collectors item now, as only a small amount will reach the European market. We were very glad, that this nice piece of musick is now also available in the underground format.

Since 2009 we are playing live again! Not very often, but at exclusive shows like the MOUNTAINS OF DEATH Festival, for example. Every year, we will play a gig. So watch out for these rare events at our "live" section on this website, haha!

Long awaited, long delayed, finally released: "Eine Rückbesinnung", the vinyl-compilation-CD. Here you got all our vinyl-only-releases, all the EPs, split-EPs, split-10"LP, etc. on once CD, remastered and available for everyone. As the original vinyls were very limited and sold out since years, we deceided to make this CD. As bonus you find the ultra-rare split-MC with Hierba and an exclusive live-track. Value for money! The booklet had all original covers and fotos, with new layout, linernotes and all that shit. A piece of history!

Yeah, 2010 and we were still active!! So we celebrated our 20th anniversary with the new full-lengh-album "Dekade(nz)" on Bloodred Horzion Records from Austria. We did a Digipak-CD-version as a limited edition with a bonus track ("Nuestro Futuro" from Denak), and the regular jewelcase. This album showed all facettes from us, so we demolished some Crust-Songs, Grind-.Attacks, Groovers, a few surprises, a Grave coversong (I"n Love") and the third and final part of the "Depressionen" trilogy. Great record!!

At the very first day of 2013 we released some new shit: a split-7" EP with german old school Deathers Eroded!! This was yet another masterpiece with great packaging! Coloured cover and innerlseve and two different vinyl-versions. The first 100 were pressed in red vinyl and the other 400 in black vinyl. Our songs were definitely back to the roots, so we refilled the grave with 5 grind-bastards, including "Torn to Pieces" from mighty Death. This release is really a collectors item!

In the beginning of 2014 Old Grindered Records released "Chronische Depression" officially on MC with different cover/artwork on pro-printed booklets. Great to had these album finally released as an original MC!

In october of the same year we FINALLY released a split-7" EP with our mates from Kadaverficker. This release was planned for more than ten years!! OMG... We covered BLOOD and took the rest of the songs from the "Abgrund" Session for this multicolored vinyl. A real collectors item!! Grind in the old vein!

2015!!! DEPRESSION celebrated their 25th year of existence with a new full-length album!!!!
The new album "The Dark Dimension" hits with 25 songs in just under 50 minutes, embedded in the best deep-sounding sound the guys have ever had, traditionally recorded in the KALTHALLEN STUDIOS with friend and producer Skaldir (ex-HEL).
Besides the obligatory cover version (this time it’s "A Life's Life" by DISRUPT) DEPRESSION show themselves varied as ever. In addition to classic Grind eruptions, groovy mid-tempo smashers and some Crust elements, there´s a real surprise with the song "Depression".
Due to the jubilee, DEPRESSION re-recorded the very first 7 "EP “Ein Hauch von Moder" completely new - as a bonus for the fans of the first hour.

Besides our legendary "Leichenduft" video, we have a new video-clip for the song "False Apoligies" Grind your ears!
Check out the latest news, such as the new video for the song "False Apologies" , at: DEPRESSION at FACEBOOK

2016 we did another celebration: Goreministers 30th birthday! Our gift to him : A few live songs that were recorded at the party and released as a strictly limited (only 100 copies!!) split-7" with long time friends AGATHOCLES and of course our brothers in blood KADAVERFICKER! REALLY a collectors item for sure!!

In 2017 we released "Eine Rückbesinnung" as an official Tape-Version. Really cool layout, 4 different tape-colours and professional layout and booklet. Great work!

So 2018 we released another classic album on MC: "Dekade(nz)" As usual we chose an exclusive new cover and added the ltd. Digipak-Bonustrack. The MC is a quality collectors item and limited to 100 copies. Hail to Unholy Fire Records!
To salute the 10th anniversary of the "Unglaube" stuff, Tom and Power It Up released the LP version of our songs from the split-CD with PAGANIZER. As always at P.I.U., the release is of high quality with limited coloured vinyl of 100 pieces and 400 blacks, rough paper for the cover and modified layout with linernotes. Be a lucky fukker if you graped one.

2019 ist the year of our 30th anniversary...crazy...! So Snake Oil Kassettforlag released a best of MC named "Abgeerntet" to celebrate this. Really cool and proffessional item, limited to 50 copies! I love to release underground stuff like this!

FINALLY, on the first day of Sempember 2020, we released our 30-years-jubilee-full-length-album “Ära der Finsternis”!!! It took a lot blood, sweat and tears to get this baby alive, but I think it was worth the wait: 30 songs, exactly 70 minutes pure DEPRESSION musick, including the song “Master” from Master as the obligatory coversong, plus the “Ein Hauch von Moder Pt. II” EP re-recorded as bonus tracks. Really value for money, with guest-vocals from Marc Grewe (ex Morgoth). We tried our best to release a piece of music we were all satisfied with, and I have to say, I am VERY satisfied with the songs, the sound and the whole release. Of course our long-time friend and producer Skaldir is responsible for the very nice and organic sound, and with Rotten Roll Rex we found a great underground label for this CD. A video was made for the german-lyric Song “Knochenfäule” and the cover is in the old traditional DEPRESSION-way.

FINALLY, after almost three years of delay, the long awaited split-CD with Coffins was released on Hell´s Headbangers Records on the 11.11.2020!!! Great album with Chris Moyen Cover, a coversong from Coffins on our side plus four new exclusive studio songs from us. We are happy, that this item is finally available!

At December, 30th the LP-vinyl version of "Teufelskreis", the split with Coffins was released via Hell´s Headbangers Records!!! Limited to 500 copies, with only 100 in black/white splatter vinyl and 400 in blacl vinyl. Really cool and great to see this jewel on vinyl!!!!

And at the last day of the year, at 31st of December 2020, "Ära der Finsternis" was released on tape-format as a special edition collectors-item, limited to 150 hand-numbered pieces, with two posters on Murder Records!! We are very glad to see the album released on MC and with long-time mate Danihell made this possible!

A new year was born...and DEPRESSION continues to spread their filthy musick. This time with the official Tape/MC release of the "Zur Stille finden" album with Haemorrhage. Of course, you now it, this is a real collectors item!! Professional booklet, limited to 100 copies (including 2 buttons, 2 stickers, 2 posters, 2 postcards). Released through Unholy Fire Records!!!

Because of the successfully work with Mike an Unholy Fire Records, both, band and label decided to release another historical jewel as an official Tape/MC!! So a few month later the split-MC/Tape with Rot "Und keiner weint uns nach" was released!! Of course, you now it, this is a real collectors item!! Professional booklet, limited to 100 copies (including 2 buttons, 2 stickers, 2 posters, 2 postcards). Released again through Unholy Fire Records!!!

To round up the "Teufelskreis" album, we did the MC version with Headsplit Records from USA in the beginning of August 2021! Great quality release! Professional as always and limited to 250 copies, we are very happy to have this album released on MC!

Aaaaarggghhhhh! On Friday, 13th we released a double-grind-attack!!!! The new split-LP "Das Geisterhaus" with Necrocannibalistic Vomitorium and the new split-CD "Nebeldämmerung" with Oxidised Razor! Das Geisterhaus contains 10 brand new grind-songs plus intro in almost 15 minutes! Including a coversongs from legendary Rot, limited to 262 pieces only in green and black vinyl, this item is something special and rare just from the beginning! Also the Nebeldämmerung split-CD is something special: 3 brand new songs, including a Pungent Stench Coversong, pressed on a clear-picture-CD. Cool shit with cool artworks on both releases and cool split-bands!!