The line-up and the history of german band Mekong Delta was to be the best kept secret in the world. At the end of ’85 an idea was born to start a studio project with german metal musicians. It was suppost to outshine all independent releases musically. The thought that german musicians would not be accepted, made the people of the project decide to keep everything about the band a secret. The name Zardoz was rejected followed by the acceptance of the name “Mekong Delta”, named after a riverbed in Vietnam. The entire project was started by Ralf Hubert, sound-engineer of Warlock, Steeler and Living Death, and owner of the recordlabel “Aaarrg”. The first demo’s are recorded with the following line-up:
Jochen Schroeder (ex-Rage) on guitar
Peavy Wagner (Rage) on bass
Joerg Michael (ex-Rage and Paganini) on drums
Wolfgang Borgmann on vocals
Working on the re-issue of Suite for Group and Orchestra (Visions Fugitives) complemented with Five Fragments for Group and Orchestra (two of those can be found on Lurking Fear). Also the first four albums will be re-released as limited editions on vinyl.
