Midsummer 2003. The curtain between the visible and the invisible world is permeable. Augury is favourable. Guarded by Ivy tendrils, singer Sarah and guitar player Fabian are bending over the map of the music-moloch Rock City. Apart from the main streets they mark their hideout at E-Lane with a compass and draw the first circle. Anticlockwise. Widdershins – according to the orbit of the moon. The spirits are invocated. The journey to the musical aggregation of the power and the beauty of darkness has begun.

Four years (and some rotating of the line-up-carousel) later the time has come: The band had already been able to take a step out of the shadows and received positive response from media as well as from listeners when releasing the first EP “Awake Your Senses”. Now, driven by the high-energy performance of Thommy (drums) and chriz (bass), they are capable of evoking the essence of dark Rock’n’Roll with all their might.. Dark NuMetal monsters are fanned by the alluring elegance of gothic melancholy, gloom is coupling with sweaty up-tempo-ogres by candlelight.

Bonded by a common love for the nightside of things, weld together by numerous shows and surrounded by a growing circle of friends, E-Lane are expanding their musical horizon again in 2007. Darkness shows different shades of black. Thus the new release “Encircled” is rounded by remixes from artists like the TANZWUT-branch K.D.A., the Swiss based electronic experts BAK XIII, the Italian indu[bstrial] masters DEFLORE WHISPERS IN THE SHADOW, the band of ASHLEY DAYOUR, the live-guitar player of L’ÂME Immortelle. Not to forget LEANDRA, the blessed pianist, also known as OPHELIA DAX from German High-flyers JESUS ON EXTASY. For the mastering E-Lane were able to engage THOMMY HEIN, who produced and mastered albums by TANZWUT, CORVUS CORAX and ZERAPHINE in the past, to name but a few…

French mathematician Blaise Pascal stated, the Universe was a circle with a centre that was everywhere and an amplitude that was nowhere. E-LANE on the other hand are the central point of a circle, that is following the orbit of the starry sky. Widdershins. Turning left, it slowly enlarges. Its amplitude might soon be anywhere, where the shadows start breaking through the daylight. You’d better prepare. You’re already encircled