Fire in the Attic is a German Post-Hardcore band, founded in October 2003 in Bonn

Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

. The band features singer Ole Feltes, guitarists Richard Meyer and Daniel Crebelli, bassist Dennis Meyer and drummer Daniel Plotzki. All musicians played in former bands Summer´s Last Regret and Fastplant.

Biography

The first CD the band released was the Decision & Action EP in May 2004. In 2004 FITA opened for bands like Billy Talent

Billy Talent

Billy Talent is a Canadian post-hardcore band from Streetsville, Ontario. They formed in 1993 with Ben Kowalewicz as the lead vocalist, Ian D'Sa on lead guitar, bassist Jon Gallant and drummer Aaron Solowoniuk ....

 and Coheed and Cambria

Coheed and Cambria

Coheed and Cambria is an American progressive rock band from Nyack, New York. Formed in 1995, the group incorporates aspects of progressive rock, punk rock, metal and post-hardcore....

. In April 2005 the album début Crash/Rebuild followed on the EP. The same year FITA played some support gigs with groups like Taking Back Sunday

Taking Back Sunday

Taking Back Sunday is a rock band from Long Island, NY, formed in 1999 by guitarist Eddie Reyes. Current members of the band are Adam Lazzara , John Nolan , Eddie Reyes , Shaun Cooper and Mark O'Connell ....

, Hot Water Music

Hot Water Music

Hot Water Music is a punk rock band from Gainesville, Florida. The members of the band are Chuck Ragan, Chris Wollard, Jason Black, and George Rebelo. HWM first formed in 1993...

, Millencolin

Millencolin

Millencolin is a punk rock band that was formed in October 1992 by Nikola Šarčević, Mathias Färm, and Erik Ohlsson in Örebro, Sweden. In early 1993, drummer Fredrik Larzon joined the band...

, Finch

Finch (American band)

Finch was an American rock band from Temecula, California. The band released an EP Falling Into Place and two full-length albums, What It Is to Burn and Say Hello to Sunshine before declaring a hiatus in 2006. Finch reformed in 2007, playing a reunion show on November 23 at the Glasshouse in...

 and Boysetsfire

Boysetsfire

Boysetsfire is a post-hardcore band from Newark, Delaware and West Chester, Pennsylvania that formed in October 1994. Boysetsfire is composed of guitarists Chad Istvan and Josh Latshaw, drummer Matt Krupanski, and vocalist Nathan Gray. The band is currently auditioning for a new...

. Fire in the Attic played on Rheinkultur 2005 in front of more than 145,000 people.

On 2 June 2006 the band released their second studio album I´ll Beat You, City!. The album was released on German label Redfield Records (We Butter the Bread with Butter

We Butter the Bread with Butter

We Butter the Bread with Butter is a German band from Lübben. Founded in 2007 by Marcel Neumann. Their debut album Das Monster aus dem Schrank was released on November 21, 2008 through Redfield Records. Their second album, Der Tag an dem die Welt unterging was released May 14, 2010...

, Face Tomorrow

Face Tomorrow

Face Tomorrow is a Dutch indie rock band. It was formed in 1997, and consists of lead singer Jelle Schrooten, guitarists Aart Steekelenburg and Marc Nolte, bass player Tijs Hop and Sjoerd van der Knoop on drums....

, Heroes & Zeros

Heroes & Zeros

Heroes & Zeros is a rock band from Norway. The group is composed of Hans Jørgen Undelstvedt, Simen Krogstie Lagesen, and Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen. Its members grew up together in a small town on the southern coast of Norway called Lillesand...

 and more) and published on Cargo Records. In May and June 2006 the band supported Alexisonfire

Alexisonfire

Alexisonfire was a five-piece, Juno-nominated post-hardcore band that formed in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada in 2001. The band consisted of George Pettit , Dallas Green , Wade MacNeil , Chris Steele , and Jordan Hastings .They describe their music as "the sound of two Catholic high-school girls...

 and Moneen

Moneen

Moneen is an indie rock band from Brampton, Ontario, Canada.-History:The band formed in 1999 after the dissolution of another band, called Perfectly Normal. Moneen's original bass player, Mark Bowser, was replaced by Chris Slorach, who left the band after the release of The Theory of Harmonial Value...

 on their German tour. In November 2006 FITA shared stage at the Taste of Chaos

Taste of Chaos

Taste of Chaos is a hardcore tour that was started in the winter of 2005 by Kevin Lyman, the creator of the successful Warped Tour along with friend and business partner, John Reese. The Taste Of Chaos tour caters for fans of the post-hardcore, screamo, and metal genres, while offering the same...

 2006s tour with Anti-Flag

Anti-Flag

Anti-Flag is a punk rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States, formed in 1988. The band is well known for its outspoken political views. Much of the band's lyrics have focused on fervent anti-war activism, criticism of United States foreign policy, corporatism, U.S. wealth...

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On 18 April 2008 the band released their third album Cum Grano Salis. Two days before official release date the whole album was published on German magazine VISIONS and had sold over 87,000 copies.

In August 2008 singer Ole Feltes left FITA. He was replaced by British singer Thomas Prescott of Kenai

Kenai (band)

- Shows & Touring :Kenai's most high profile tour to-date took place in March 2009, through Germany with A Day To Remember & For The Fallen Dreams, playing such venues as Essigfabrik, Cologne & Columbia Club, Berlin...

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On 13 March 2009 the band released their fourth self-titled studio album on Redfield Records. Since 2009 the band paused.

Musical style

The band's musical style often was compared with Emocore. FITA is a post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

 band with harder and melodic screams since 2008 when Thomas Prescott became lead vocalist of the band. The music often was compared with the band Thrice

Thrice

Thrice is an American rock band from Irvine, California, formed in 1998. The group was founded by guitarist/vocalist Dustin Kensrue and guitarist Teppei Teranishi while they were in high school....

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The band uses influences of Alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 and modern Emocore.

Albums

• 2005: Crash/Rebuild (Redfield Records)
• 2006: I´ll Beat You, City! (Redfield Records)
• 2008: Cum grano Salis (Redfield Records)
• 2009: Fire In The Attic (Redfield Records)