In Morpheus' Arms is a Progressive Metal band from Duisburg (Germany). The 5 musicians have been playing together since 2004 and merge technical Prog with brute Metal and atmospheric sounds.
End of 2007 they won the Youth Rock Contest which is the biggest Newcomer Bandcontest in Duisburg and played a series of gigs amongst others the regional established Freefall Festival in Moers and the Park-Kult-Tour Festival in Duisburg. They recorded their debut album "Distrust The Mantra" at the Spacelab Studio of Christian "Moschus" Moos (Everon) in August 2008.
The laying of the foundations of "In Morpheus' Arms" took place in early August 2002 in a music pub in Muelheim a.d.R., when Holger Kalff (Drums), Mira Kohli (Guitar & Vocals) and Sascha Gutkowski (Guitar) decided to pool together as a band. By fluke, Mira knew a bass player and Andreas Hain completed the first lineup. Soon they rented a rehearsal room. As it was the first band for all of them, they agreed to play cover songs for the time being. As the first gigs came closer, they began the search for a suitable bandname and after a long period of searching they chose "Culdesac". After they were quite successful as coverband they decided to begin writing their own material, that they played mixed with cover songs at some gigs.
Thanks to a good friend of them (regards to Stefan Richter...) who studied audio engineering, "Culdesac" got the opportunity to record some songs at the end of 2003. Unfortunately the date had to be deleted, because Holger moved to southern-Germany for job-related reasons. More or less through a fortunate coincidence they became acquainted with Peter, so that they had a flying splice and didn't have to continue without a drummer. Peter was familiarised with the songs pretty quick, and they were able to play a first gig in the new lineup.
The year 2004 was pretty changeable. It began with a lineup-change on the bass, Natalie joined the band and made their music take a step forward. Because of this rearrangement the bandname "Culdesac" was overtaken, because with all the lineup-changes the musical style changed seriously. Mira decided to stop playing guitar in order to concentrate on her vocals, so they had to search for a new guitarist. Due to the fact that they didn't want to wait with the recordings for such a long time, they decided to record at least Lethe.
In March 2004 Jack, an ol friend of us who played guitar and whose band had split up, recently joined "Culdesac". However, the whole thing didn't last long, since in June 2004 Jack decided to leave the band and stopped making music, so the recording sessions had to be rescheduled again. That relapsed the development of the band quite a bit, but they refused to give up and started searching for a new guitarist once more and continued writing songs.
After searching in vain for some months they thought of limiting the lineup to one guitar, what they would have done if Peter hadn't convinced them to search for a keyboard player. They found one on the internet, phoned him and made an appointment to rehearse together. Most of the band members had mixed feelings about Peter's Idea, because a keyboard player would change the sound drastically. But during the first few songs, played together, these feelings were blown away. Karsten got along with the band, musically and personally. Now on it was certain that the bandname "Culdesac" wouldn't fit anymore because only two founding members were left, so they looked for a new name which was found with "In Morpheus' Arms".
Source : www.in-morpheus-arms.de
