Victim (25)

Michael Kaspar fomed Victim together with drummer Thomas Stief in early 1984, having the aim to compose own material, instead of covering western bands like most of the East German bands did at that time, and trying to sound like a western band. In contrary to other east-bands, Victim composed music in English right from the start. During September '84, Michael met Maik and Jörn Gerullis who joined immediately. When Thomas Stief left in '85 another Gerullis brother, Dirk, joined on drums. The guys composed a number of songs to compile a first Demo tape in 1986, entitled "Hard To Hold" which was recorded at Maik Gerulli's flat. Due to the english lyrics of their songs, Victim had problems to pass the national classification standards, which they finally could achive in spring '87. A second Demo "Second warning" was produced, now with Stephan Kaspar on bass, who jumped in to replace Jörn Gerullis (in the army now), that either 2 of it's songs got broadcasted in the weekly GDR's Heavy Metal show, gaining the band alot of attention by national fans. Michael and Stephan Kaspar decided to form their own band, Badboy in December '87, while Victim shortly after disbanded.