German Metalband Crossroads was built in 1987 by Reent Froehlich (vocals), Stefan Ellerhorst (leadguitars) and Christian Stöver (leadguitars).

In 1988 they recorded their first musical sign-of-life, a 2-Track-demo ("The sign of the times" and "Fire in heartland") with the line-up: Reent Froehlich (vocals), Stefan Ellerhorst (leadguitars), Christian Stöver (leadguitars), Peer Würfel on drums, Axel Ellerhorst on bass.
Diligent touring through all Germany they quickly got the reputation of one of Germany's finest - and wildest - live-acts. And strengthened that reputation 'til their split in 1994.

In 1989 Crossroads won the Metal Hammer Newcomer-Festival in Ludwigsburg, signed a major recorddeal with EMI Electrola. In 1991 they released their steaming debutalbum "The Wild One", produced by Tony Platt (Engineer on AC/DC's "For those about to rock", "Flick of the switch", Motörhead's "Another perfect day" and Ronnie James Dio's "Lock up the wolves"). With Raven they following supported Running Wild on their "Blazon Stone"-Tour through Germany, Austria, Switzerland.
In 1992 Crossroads released the a-little-too-melodic album "Hype", produced by Dirk Steffens ("Pink Cream 69"), on bass-guitar Running Wild-Member Jens Becker, and startet a double headlining-tour with Hannover's Thunderhead.
In 1993, as a fourpiece and after their separation from EMI, Crossroads recorded "Crime circus", a 6-Track-EP, line up: Reent Froehlich (vocals), Stefan Ellerhorst (leadguitars), Peer Würfel (drums) and Thomas Röben (bass). 1994 they released their latest, rude and reckoning album "Gasolined" on Griffin music/Semaphore, produced by Detlef Mohrmann (Risk, Kreator), they shot a video of the Ramones-Cover "Blitzkrieg Bop" and startet a tour with Annihilator and Therion through Germany. They played a few shows with Axxis, Heaven's Gate and Mob Rules. On bass: Bauke de Groot ("Hatesquad"). At the end of 1994 Crossroads split.

In 1996 Stefan "Stef" Ellerhorst formed the project "egotrip" and released a same-titled, more funky-less-metal-styled 8-tracks solo-album with german lyrics, line-up: Stefan Ellerhorst (vocals, leadguitars, keys), Stephan Meyer (bass) and Dirk Leiner (drums). [1] In 2008 he is going to release his much-more-metal 12-track cd-successor "stefcore". Official website: www.stefcore.de [2]

Source : wikipedia.en