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Biography

Kofte: Voice
Stein: Guitar
Holly: Bass
Tex Morton: Guitar
Hellvis: Drums

If you thoroughly look back on the story of MAD SIN it is surprising that the band still exists without any split-up, collective suicide or at least regular internal fights. Founded 1987 by Köfte, who just dishonorable left school, Punk- and Rockabilly- guitarist Stein and four-week-bass-playing Holly, they struggled around with the help of some mates, who organized gigs in several shady bars of berlin. The daily booze was financed through gigs as streetmusicians in shopping-malls, where they played Rockabilly-, Country- and Blues-Songs to get the tourist's money.

Without any suspections about the business MAD SIN signed their first record-contract 1988 with a dubious figur of Hamburgs underworld - the result was an album which became a classic in the Psychobilly scene. Despite of the problems MAD SIN was getting more and more known. Their travelling brought them also to Holland where they got in touch with the Indie-Label 'Count Orlock' which released their masterpiece 'God Save The Sin'. This record showed for the first time the typical mixture of Rockabilly, Punk Rock, classical Hardcore and a lot of Psychobilly, which became pretty fast the trademark of the quartet. What followed were gigs with Bands like Faith No More, Gwar, Misfits, Suicidal Tendencies, Meteors and many more, and with their enthusiastic sound, Köftes oustanding stage madness and an explosive live-show that includes firespitters and similar attractions MAD SIN got fans of all kinds on their side. Because MAD SIN didn't want to live longer on the level of social security they soon forgot all doubts when Polydor lured with an unbelievable mass of cash. As soon as possible they went to Hamburg to the hand over of the money case and short after it to Malta to record an album.The result was 'Sweet and Innocent? ... Loud and Dirty!!!' which was released in August 1998, some airplay and many on open air festivals. MAD SIN and the Polydor label couldn't get along very well. They thought the band was too excessive and not mainstream enough. To MAD SIN it seemed like a joke when they received another big case of cash from the label, just to leave again. HAHAHA! But they still had loads of gigs to do and after 12 years they took the step of a second guitarerro.

No less than Tex Morton (ex-Sunny Domestosz, ex-Lolitas) and his 59 Gretsch guitar joined the band and brought the MAD SIN sound and their humour to a new level. After this crazy 3 years it was a bit quiet around MAD SIN but not in their private life. Köfte spent every penny for enjoyment and then wrote a hell load of songs to do his side project the DEAD KINGS, a punkabilly band with members of Batmobile, Nekromantix, Klingonz & Milwaukee Wildmen, which was pretty successful. Holly and Tex followed their Rockabilly roots and with the brother of Holly they founded DUSTY GRAY AND HIS ROUGH RIDING RAMBLERS, an authentic 50s style band with loads of balls. And old Stein? He also had a side project, the UNITED SWINDLERS (members of Frantic Flintstones and Ripmen), and yes - they rocked the house too. But now MAD SIN is back with the hellbilly rocker album SURVIVAL OF THE SICKEST on People Like You Records! They produced 16 killer tracks for the first time between autumn 2001 and spring 2002 in Berlin. The album will see the daylight on the 24th of june 2002. Tours in europe, US, and Japan getting booked in this moment and fans alll over the world can't wait to get into the madness again and see them play live while they wreck their guts out to the psychotic hellbilly beat of the one and only MAD SIN!

Artist Forum


Discussion Topic	Creator
great band i love this band more and more each day. but why is 12xSxR the only related band? thats dumb...	shadowbug26

Replys	Listener
Where do you see 12 Step Rebel listed as a related band? I only see Neckromantix listed as a related band. I think the related band thingy is done when the site is first established, at least that is what happened when I added the bands I did. I had to put in the related artist stuff and only the artists and bands I listed showed up. So maybe the person who first put Mad Sin up only listed the one band.	GrayBeard
Hey, I just read their BIO and noticed that you wrote it Becca. Great job!!!! Did you launch their site on iSound? I had no idea that these guys were around for so long, almost 20 years pretty soon!!	GrayBeard
i added them, but i believe i copied and pasted their bio. shhh anywho, Love Is Dead, good song. i want this mad sin hoodie i found, but its like, $40. so fuck that...	shadowbug26
Hey Becca, here's what you do to get a Mad Sin hoodie. (1) Go to Ross or Marshalls or some other discount store and buy a nice hoodie for like next to nothing. (2) Find a nice picture of Mad Sin you like. (3) Take it to one of the flea markets near you and get one of those t-shirt printer ppl to use their equipment to put the picture on your hoodie. It is illegal for them to use a copywrited picture but they won't care. They want the $$$$ so they will do it. And they will only charge you like $5-10. You can get the hoodie for like $5-10, so the total will be $10-20. Do 2 of them and sell one to a friend and yours will be free!!!	GrayBeard
ha, where are you finding $5 hoodies? hoodies are more like, 30 around here... but, since i dont buy cds too often, i do want to support the bands in any way i can. so no fake merch!	shadowbug26
$5 hoodies, $3 T-shirts, $6 mini skirts, $4 shoes - Sandi knows where to get ALL THE DEALS!!!! Don't u have any deep discount stores back east? Like Marshalls, or Ross or Buells? They always have some super super deals!!! BTW, you might consider this in your idea of supporting a band by buying their merch - most bands do not own the rights to their merch. Most often their managing company makes them sign away their merch rights up front to get a record deal. And most bands that do get a piece of their merch get like 1-3% of the sales, so a hoodie that sells for $30 nets the band like 30-90 CENTS. Sad, but true. The only good exceptions to this are the indie bands. So bands like 12 Step Rebels and such could really benefit from their merch sales.	GrayBeard