Sun was an

Alternative rock Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstre ...

band from

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with English lyrics and styles described as

Crossover Crossover may refer to: Entertainment Albums and songs * ''Cross Over'' (Dan Peek album) * ''Crossover'' (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles album), 1987 * ''Crossover'' (Intrigue album) * ''Crossover'' (Hitomi Shimatani album) * ''Crossover'' (Yoshino ...

and

Progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...

. The band was founded in 1991 b
Ralf Aussem
and Jörg Schröder. ''Sun'' was considered for long time on critics as "German answer" of

Pearl Jam Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. The band's lineup consists of founding members Jeff Ament (bass guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), Mike McCready (lead guitar), and Eddie Vedder (lead vocals, guita ...

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. Furthermore, the band supported

on their ''Ten'' Release Tour in 1992 and also

Monster Magnet Monster Magnet is an American rock band. Hailing from Red Bank, New Jersey, the group was founded in 1989 by Dave Wyndorf (vocals and guitar), John McBain (guitar) and Tim Cronin (vocals and drums); they have since gone through several lineup c ...

in the year 1995. Two years after founding their band they got their Majordeal on the label Gun Records. The band became good known by their albums ''Murdernature'', ''XXXX'' and ''Nitro'' as also by co-projects for sequels of the serial rock sampler ''Crossing All Over''. Further, the band used instruments atypical of rock, like English flutes. In the year 2001 the band split up after different exchanges of bandmembers and severe illness of their singer. Their founder and musicwriter Ralf Aussem plays currently in the Scottish/German band

Dead Guitars In 2003 Pete Brough, one of the founder-members of German banTwelve Drummers Drumming and Ralf Aussem, guitarist from the original 12DD cast, founder and mastermind behind Sun (German band), joined forces with vocalist Carlo van Putten and ...

Members

Ralf Aussem
(songwriting, guitar) - founder of ''Sun''; current band:

- * Jörg Schröder (vocals) and founder of ''Sun'' * Holger Seeling (bass) * Peter Körfer (guitar) * Jörg Schneider (drums) * Björn Lucker (drums) * Kurt Schmidt (bass) & Bogdan Skowronek (orig.drummer)

Discography

* 1991 - Urban Glowing * 1992 - Murdernature * 1993 - Jam House Wah * 1994 - XXXX * 1996 - Nitro * 1998 - Launches (Best Of) * 2001 - Sun

As support band

*for

(1992) *for

(1995)

External links

Biography Sun
{{Authority control German alternative rock groups Musical groups established in 1991 Musical groups disestablished in 2001 German progressive rock groups 1991 establishments in Germany 2001 disestablishments in Germany People from Mönchengladbach Musical groups from North Rhine-Westphalia GUN Records artists