UPC: 0602475651833 'You sing and it becomes": In the wake of a breakdown, Max Gruber killed off solo artist Drangsal and founded the band Drangsal. At the end of the tunnel is the album 'A phoenix has never risen from any of my bridges that lie in ashes', which will be released in June 2025. Max Gruber has been navigating the zigzagging path of Drangsal through the German pop landscape for over ten years now: 'Harieschaim' from 2016, 'Zores' from 2018 and most recently 'Exit Strategy' - which took him to number 6 in the album charts in 2021 - were all largely conceived by Gruber single-handedly. And then there was something after his 'Exit Strategy': a breakdown. Max Gruber no longer knew whether and, if so, how he wanted to continue making Drangsal, published his literary debut 'Doch' with Ullstein Verlag, founded Die Benjamins, brought Hans-A-Plast frontwoman Annette Benjamin out of retirement together with Charlotte Brandi, Thomas Gotz and Julian Knoth and recently reactivated the duo Die Mausis, which he founded with Stella Sommer in 2016. And yet, from inside and outside, the question of a new Drangsal album kept coming up. If there was to be another one, Gruber realised, he would have to fundamentally change the way Drangsal songs were created. All the struggle was followed by what was unavoidable: the reset. Max Gruber killed the solo artist Drangsal and founded the three-piece band Drangsal - together with two fellow musicians who broke him out of his habits: Lukas Korn and Marvin Holley. The former is a guitarist and producer, plays in the band Lyschko, most recently produced the album 'silber' by Mia Morgan and has played bass in the Drangsal live band since 2020. The latter studied jazz and classical guitar as well as composition in Stuttgart and Vienna, performed on stage with Sam Vance-Law and Fil Bo Riva and arranged for film and theatre. Lukas Korn and Marvin Holley have ensured that the central figure in the Drangsal cosmos is divided into three part...