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Farmer Boys is a German metal band from Stuttgart. They reached their peak of popularity with their album The World Is Ours, released in 2000; the videos for singles "Here Comes the Pain" and "If You Ever Leave Me Standing" were put into heavy rotation by German alternative music channels such as VIVA Zwei. Farmer Boys has obtained a cult following in later years.

Farmer Boys
The band in 2003
Background information
Origin	Stuttgart, Germany
Genres	Groove metal, gothic metal, alternative metal
Years active	1994–present
Labels	BMG, Motor Music, Nuclear Blast
Members	Matthias Sayer Alexander Scholpp Richard Duee Ralf Botzenhart Timm Schreiner
Past members	Antonio Ieva Denis Hummel Till Hartmann
Website	farmerboysmusic.com

Their musical style is a blend of Machine Head's groove metal and Paradise Lost's gothic metal; their lyrical matter, however, unusually to the style, often revolves around the darker side of agriculture – bestiality and incest ("Farm Sweet Farm"), torture of animals ("When a Chicken Cries for Love"), suicide ("Relieve the Tension") and slaughterhouses ("When Pigs Fly"). Their later albums have strayed away from the subject matter.^{[citation needed]}

Matthias Sayer also provided guest vocals for Apocalyptica's single "Hope Vol. 2".

Four years after the release of The Other Side, in 2004, the group performed a reunion concert in Stuttgart on 22 December.[1] Aside from their appearance at the 2011 Summer Breeze Open Air on 20 August in Dinkelsbühl, Germany, the band remained relatively silent and inactive.

At the end of 2016, guitarist Alexander Scholpp announced the return of the band, with three shows scheduled in Germany for the spring of 2017, as well announcing the band's plans for a new album. The album, named Born Again, was released in 2018.

Members

• Matthias Sayer – vocals
• Alexander Scholpp – guitars
• Richard Duee – keyboards
• Timm Schreiner – drums
• Ralf Botzenhart – bass (–1999, 2014–)

Former members

• Antonio Ieva – bass (1999–2014)
• Dennis Hummel – keyboards
• Till Hartmann – drums

Discography

Albums

Year	Title	Position
		GER [2]
1996	Countrified	—
1997	Till the Cows Come Home	—
2000	The World Is Ours	27
2004	The Other Side	70
2018	Born Again	58

Singles

• Farmer Boys (cardboard promo single) (1995)
• Farm Sweet Farm (1996)
• Never Let Me Down Again (Depeche Mode cover; featuring Anneke van Giersbergen) (1996)
• Till The Cows Come Home (1997)
• When Pigs Fly (1997)
• If You Ever Leave Me Standing (2000)
• Here Comes the Pain (2000)
• While God Was Sleeping (promotional single) (2001)
• Stay Like This Forever (2004)
• You and Me (2017)
• Revolt (2018)
• Tears of Joy (2018)
• Isle of the Dead (2020)

Music videos

• Farm Sweet Farm[3]
• Never Let Me Down Again[4]
• When Pigs Fly
• Here Comes the Pain[5]
• If You Ever Leave Me Standing[6]
• While God Was Sleeping[7]
• Stay Like This Forever[8]
• You and Me[9]
• Revolt [10]
• Isle of Dead (Acoustic)[11]

References

External links

• Official site
• Tieflader, a band featuring Alex Scholpp
• Stereo.Pilot, a band featuring Antonio Ieva
• Dacia & The WMD, a band featuring Alex Scholpp and Ralf Botzenhart Archived 29 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine

На других языках

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[de] Farmer Boys (Band)

Farmer Boys ist eine Alternative-Metal-Band aus Stuttgart, die 1994 von Matthias Sayer, Dennis Hummel, Alexander Scholpp, Till Hartmann und Ralf Botzenhart gegründet wurde.

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- [en] Farmer Boys (band)

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[es] Farmer Boys

Farmer Boys es una banda alemana de Rock procedente de Stuttgart. Esta banda fue formada en 1994. En el álbum "Countrified", la canción "Never Let Me Down Again" es una versión del tema de la banda Depeche Mode y contiene la colaboración de Anneke Van Giersbergen vocalista de la banda holandesa The Gathering. El vocalista de la banda "Matthias Sayer" colaboró en el sencillo Hope Vol. 2, de la banda finlandesa Apocalyptica. Su último lanzamiento fue el álbum de estudio "The Other Side". Desde 2017 la banda se encuentra trabajando en su quinto álbum de estudio, del cual revelaron el primer sencillo titulado You and Me, lanzado el 21 de abril.

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