deutsch 1990 Maik Hartung, Sven Mertens, Susann Heinrich and Ralf Donis form LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH 1991 Love is colder gives a solemn concert at HAMBURG INDEPENDENT NIGHTS, several record labels try to deal with the band. In the same year the band signs a contract with HYPNOBEAT. 1991 The EP WILD WORLD as the debut of Love is colder gives an insight into the musical style as it will be characteristic as for the album TEIGNMOUTH that was intended for the same year. WILD WORLD appears exclusively on vinyl. 1991 The first album TEIGNMOUTH is published. 1991 HYPNOBEAT founds HYPERIUM RECORDS and starts the so-called Heavenly Voices Series based on music of Love is colder. These series will be well-known later. 1992 Love is colder gives a concert at the DOKUMENTA in Kassel. 1992 The 2nd album MENTAL TRAVELLER is published. 1993 Love is colder splits. Sven devotes to his own project IN DEYAGORA together with Ralf Jehnert. Ralf Donis becomes co-founder and front man of THINK ABOUT MUTATION. But Love is colder continues to exist and goes on with Maik, Susann and Andrew Porter, formerly the drummer of ROSE OF AVALANCHE. 1994 The 3rd studio-album OXEIA. The international popularity strengthens. The band goes on tour to South-America. 1995 The preference for the use of video-technology in live-concerts is conceived with TEXTURA IMAGINA by the cooperation with Peter Barczewski more considerably than it was the case before. For the first time elaborate films, based on the computer, and three-dimensional artificial picture-worlds become a part of the live-conception. 1995 The CD-maxi SPELLBOUND is directly connected with the previous release of the CD OXEIA. 1995 A review about the former artistic work of Love is colder will be published with the compilation AUTER. Susann Heinrich and Andrew Porter leave the band and Maik starts a cooperation with Manuela Budich. In the meantime Sven and Ralf give their first concert with IN DEYAGORA. Shortly after there are considerations with Maik Hartung concerning a renewed teamwork. In the same year it comes to the association. 1997 Love is colder decides to part from HYPERIUM RECORDS as of now. 1998 The dependency on the restrictions of expensive rental studios within a given time is removed by the structure of an own sound-studio which is in accordance with the high-quality claim of the band. Only in this way protracted artistic productions like the album ATOPOS which will be published in 1998 are possible. 1999 Since 1997 an intensive cooperation with CHROM RECORDS has taken place. But there is no commitment to a contract. 1999 The 4th production ATOPOS - that is most elaborate one - is published. Manuela Budich takes over the female singing voice of this album. 1999 Love is colder starts its own disk-label with IN DEYAGORA MUSIC. 2000 The work with the 5th studio-album ECLIPSE has been started. 2000 Susann gets back to the band after her parental leave (Emily). 2002 Love is colder starts the cooperation with SAN DIEGO MUSIC. 2003 The 5th album ECLIPSE is released on 25th May. The presentations of ECLIPSE at Völkerschlachtdenkmal Leipzig and at Wave-Gotik-festival in Schauspielhaus Leipzig become the demanding live-concerts of the band. The brilliant percussionists Anja Herrmann and Michael Metzler (both with SARBAND among other bands) can be won for live-performances. Together with the animations of our intimate friend and video-artist Peter Barczewski concerts are produced in which the musical and the pictoral expression is combined.