HISTORY


The original line up of codex was formed in march 1997, after Nick Harras and Martin Mader had met Alex Heilig by putting an advertisement into a local newspaper. Alex was a former band member of “Megaherz”, which was founded by Florian Csar and Mick Glantschnig. Soon it figured out that the five had the same ambitions: to create a new kind of modern rock music; so they immediately started working on their new material.
In may 1997 they performed their first show together, the “austroline band contest”-qualification, still playing as “Megaherz”.

Due to the new musical influences and the change of style to progressive-modern rock the band changed it’s name: codex was born. The new identity and the hard work finally led to success: after performing various live-shows during summer 1997, codex won the “best of austroline” out of more than 100 bands and was chosen “best rock act of the year”.

The following years the band’s musical style and their songs got more profile, the sound harder, and the five worked with new and classical influences, without giving up their own individual codexstyle. At the same time they performed dozens of shows in Austria, including Donauinselfest 2000-2002, Support Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Saga and many more.

In march 2002 keyboarder Martin Mader left the band due to timing problems. So, once again the sound of codex made an enduring change and got “leaner”, rougher and a lot straighter. codex plays now in classical rock - line up (dr, b, git, voc).

In september 2004, codex released their album “high”. Due to musical disagreements, the band broke up with Florian Csar in december 2004, and Michael Buchbinder (Jamcake, Papermoon, Carouge) became the new member of codex.


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