THE STORY 

SHOCK TROOP RISED FROM THE ASHES OF BANDS LIKE SOCIAL GENOCIDE
MIKRO SEKUNDA ;BERESERKER;DREADED INSTINCT AND SOCIALKADAVER.
SHOCK TROOP STARTED TO PRACTICE IN THE HOT SUMMER OF 1996!
AT THIS TIME TWO GUYS FROM EX SOCIAL GENOCIDE MET EACH OTHER
TO START A NEW PROJECT. CAUSE ABOUT SOME MUSICALY AND PERSONAL
DIFFERENCES THE BAND SOCIAL GENOCIDE BROKE UP IN AUGUST 1996
AFTER A SMALL EUROPE TOUR!

ONE HOUR LATER THESE TWO GUYS,TETSU (DRUMS) AND BANDIT (GUITAR)
DID THEIR FIRST PRACTICE AND WROTE THE SONG “HYMN FOR BASTARDS”
THE IDEA WAS BORN TO MAKE NOISE MORE IN THE VEIN OF THIS COOL
JAPCORE BANDS!DUE THE FACT THIS GUYS LOVED THIS KIND OF HC SOUND!!
AS MUSICALLY INFLUENCES THEY PREFERED BANDS LIKE:LIPCREAM,GAUZE
CRUCIFIX,DEATHSIDE,NIGHTMARE,DISCHARGE,DIATRIBE,SYSTEMATIC DEATH,
BATTALION OF SAINTS,GISM………..

THE CONCEPT WAS TO PLAY A KIND OF JAPCORE SOUND BUT NOT TO CLONE
OR RIP OFF THIS BANDS!!(LIKE NOWADAYS OTHER DO)AN UNIQUE TOUCH
WAS THE IDEA AND IS STILL THE
MESSAGE AND THE PRIORITY OF SHOCK TROOP!!
IN FACT THEY WAS BORED ABOUT ALL THIS CLONE BANDS FROM THE MID
90s WITHOUT OWN IDEAS,STOLEN RIFFS,STOLEN LYRICS…etc
BUT OF COURSE THEY ARE FUNNY GUYS AND SO THEY HAD AFTER A DRINKING
SESSION THE STUPID IDEA TO GIVE THEM SELF THIS SILLY PSEUDONYMS!!
AND HAVE STOLEN THE BANDNAME FROM A TITLE OF A ACID LP!!! SO THE
CONCEPT WAS PERFECT(TAKE US NOT TOOO SERIOUS!!!???)

BUT BACK TO THE STORY,A SHORT WHILE LATER CHERRY JOINED THE TROOP
AND THE LINE-UP WAS NOW COMPLETE!BANDIT-GUIT- VOCALS/CHERRY-BASS
TETSU-DRUMS!!!AFTER SOME PRACTICE SESSIONS SHOCK TROOP ATTACKED
THE STUDIO FORTHEIR FIRST TIME TO RECORD A 4 SONG DEMO FOR THE
JAPANESE FFT LABELTHE STUDIO SESSION WAS FINISHED IN DECEMBER 1996.
FFT RELEASED THIS RECORDING AS THE S/T DEMO-TAPE.ALSO ONE SONG OF
THIS RECORDING “MUSICAL DESTRUCTION” APPEARED IN THE YEAR 1997
ON THE VA:EUROPE IN DECLINE LP(SIX WEEKS)
ANOTHER SONG FROM THIS RECORDING “HYMN FOR BASTARDS” ALSO APPEARED
IN THE SAME YEAR ON THE VA:CRIPPLE HEROES TAPE WHICH WAS RELEASED
ON THE JAPANESE LABEL LAME FACTORY. A LABEL FROM MIE-CITY!!
IN SPRING 1997 SHOCK TROOP ATTACKED A STUDIO ONCE MORE TO RECORD
4 TRACKS FOR A AUSTRIAN HC/PUNK COMPILATION TAPE!
THIS TAPE WAS CALLED “ATTACK IS THE BEST DEFENCE” AND was PRODUCED
BY BANDIT!ABOUT NOT ENOUGH MONEY ,ONLY 112 TAPES WERE MADE AND
SOLD OUT THE SAME DAY WHEN IT WAS RELEASED!!!!
THE RELEASE PARTY WAS THE PURE PUNK HELL!!!!

AFTER THIS PROJECT “MIDNIGHT BABY” FROM THE BAND SOCIALKADAVER
JOINED THE BAND AS SINGER IN SUMMER 1997!!NOW THE LINE UP WAS PERFECT!!
MIDNIGHT BABY-VOCALS/BANDIT-GUITAR/CHERRY-BASS/TETSU DRUMS!!
AFTER SOME GIGS IN THE NEAR AREA AND OTHER AUSTRIAN CITIES SHOCK
TROOP SUPPORTED THE JAPANESE BAND “ARGUE DAMNATION” WITH 3 GIGS
(2 SWITZERLAND GIGS AND 1 GIG IN AUSTRIA) ON THEIR EUROPE TOUR!!
IT WAS A FUNNY AND NICE PARTY WITH THIS COOL GUYS!!!A FEW WEEKS
LATER WE SUPPORTED “BATTLE OF DISARM”FOR ONE SHOW ON THEIR ONLY
AUSTRIAN GIG!!!IN GRAZ!!!WHAT A COOL ACTION IN ALL WAYS! VERY NICE
GUYS AND OF COURSE YUKITERU ASAI!!

SHOCK TROOP WENT IN SPRING 1998 AGAIN TO STUDIO TO RECORD WITH
THE NEW LINE-UP A 6 SONG PROMO TAPE WHICH WAS SELFRELEASED BY THE
BAND IN SUMMER 98 AND WAS A PROMO ONLY AND HAD 30 COPIES!!!
THIS RECORDINGS WAS RELEASED IN 1999 BY OVERTHROW RECORDS FROM
JAPAN WITH A DIFFERENT COVER ART AS THE “GÖTTLICHE OFFENBARUNG”
DEMO AND HAD 300-400 COPIES WHICH WAS SOLD OUT BEFORE THE TAPE
WAS RELEASED!!!!! IN OCT.98 WE SUPPORTED “DROP DEAD” FOR A SHOW
IN AUSTRIA IN THE KONRET (R.I.P) IN HOHENEMS!!!
IN THE YEAR 1999, ALSO ONE SONG FROM THIS RECORDING “HYMN FOR
BASTARDS”APPEARED ON THE VA”SUB” LP WHICH WAS AN INTERESTING
AND LEGENDARY PUNK/ POLIT-ZINE FROM AUSTRIA!THIS LP CAME WITH A
MASSIVE BOOKLET ZINE AND HAD A EDITION OF 500 COPIES!!
AFTER A SMALL AUSTRIAN TOUR WITH THE SPANISH BAND “12 AULLIDOS”
AND THE RECORDED LIVE FINAL IN VIENNA, THE TROOP APPEARED ON THE
VA:”LIVE 99 TAPE” ON THE VIENNA LABEL” RIOT TAPES” WITH TWO LIVE
TRACKS ,WHICH ONE WAS A “DEATHSIDE” COVERVERSION!!
OVERTHROW RECORDS OFFERED US TO MAKE OUR DEBUET EP ON HIS LABEL
AND THE TROOP WENT TO STUDIO AGAIN TO RECORD 4 SONGS FOR IT!!
THE STUDIO SESSION WAS AN BRUTAL ASSAULT WITHOUT COMPROMISSES
AND THE RESULT WAS THE “SPEEDCORE REBEL” MOTTO!! CREATED BY THE
TROOP AT THIS RECORDINGS!AND WAS FROM NOW ON THE SIGNIFICANT
SYMBOL AND MESSAGE FROM THE BAND.

AFTER A LITTLE DELAYING THE EP WAS RELEASED IN 2000 TO 2001.
A SHORT WHILE AFTER CHERRY LEFT THE BAND AND DION JOINED HER AS
THE NEW BASSIST.THE TROOP DID SOME LIVE GIGS,AND AS SPECIAL IN
DECEMBER A SUPPORT GIG FOR “HELLCHILD” OTHERWISE WE WORKED FOR A
EUROPE TOUR AND A SPLIT EP WITH A JAPANESE BAND! THE CHAOTIC
REASONS AND MAYBE SOME THINGS MORE ABOUT THE ORGANISATION
AND….WOUNDED THE SHOCK TROOP DEEP!!!SO THEY STOPPED THE ACTIVITY
IN A STATE OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION FOR NEARLY A HALF YEAR.
MEANWHILE DION LEFT THE BAND AND MOVED TO VIENNA:
IN AUTUMN 2001 BANDIT,TETSU,MIDNIGHT BABY STARTED NEW
PRACTICE SESSIONS.BUT AFTER A FEW PRACTICES THE PRACTICE ROOM
BURNED DOWN!!MAYBE IT WAS AN ATTACK BY AN ENEMY?!!!
SO ,WHATS TO SAY:THE TROOP CAN´T FIGHT WITOUT THEIR WEAPONS!!
TO COLLECT, LEND OR BUY NEW EQUIPMENT NEEDS TIME AND MONEY.
BUT IN SUMMER 2002 THE TROOP HAD THEIR FINAL REINCARNATION!!
TETSU LEFT THE BAND TO GO OVER TO COLOMBIA AND CRACKHEAD HELPED
WITH THE DRUMS ALSO WARCHILD THE BROTHER OF MIDNIGHT BABY
PLAYED THE BASS FROM NOW ON!! BANDIT STILL FUCKED AND RAPED
THE GUITARS AND IS STILL THE HC VETERAN FROM THE TROOP!!

AFTER SOME LIVE SHOWS THE TROOP APPEARED ON THE VA:”JOIN THE
EVIL SIDE OF LIFE” A AUSTRIAN HC/PUNK COMPILATION 7” A IRONICAL
TITLE WHICH SOME STUPID BRAINS DON´T UNDERSTAND!!!
THE SONG ON THIS WAS THE HC-METAL STOMPER”WE LIVE IN HATE/WE
NEVER FEAR!! A SONG ABOUT ALL THIS AGRESSIONS AND FEAR THAT OUR
GOVERNMENTS STILL FILL US UP!!! THIS IS THEIR METHOD TO MAkE
US QUIET!! SO STAND UP AND FIGHT AGAINST THIS POLITICAL SITUATION!!
MEANWHILE SHOCK TROOP GOT THE OFFER FROM THE PORTLAND LABEL
“WHISPER IN DARKNESS” TO MAKE A 2nd EP THE IDEA WAS TO MAKE A KIND
OF CONCEPT RECORD WITH A STORY BEHIND EACH SONGS! A LITTLE BIT
HORROR AND THE POWER OF EVIL! THE FIGHT OF GOOD AND BAD
AND THE CHOICE WHICH WAY EVERY PERSON CAN GO!!!AND THAT YOUR
INNER VOICE WILL SHOW YOU THE RIGHT WAY!!!FIGHT FOR THE TRUTH!!
THE EP WAS RELEASED AS THE”SUCK MY BLOOD” EP IN SPRING 2004
THAN “TETSU”CAME BACK HE WAS NOW A HC GUERRILIA DRUMMER
AFTER HIS TIME IN SOUTH AMERICA!! ALSO A STRONG FORMER MEMBER
FROM THE AUSTRIAN HC/PUNK TROOP AND BACK TO FIGHT WITH US TOGETHER!!
THE BAND HIGHLIGHT WAS ALSO IN 2004 WHERE WE HAD THE HONOR TO
SUPPORT THE ALMIGHTY “DISCHARGE”!!
ABOUT THE WORLDWIDE SITUATION OF STAGING USA WARS IN IRAQ
AND AFGHANISTAN ALSO THE ISRAEL CONFLICT AND THE NUCLEAR-TESTINGS
EVERYWHERE AND THE GROWING EXPLOITATION ON EARTH, SHOCK TROOP
BECAME IN 2004 MORE AND MORE TO AN ANTI-WAR HARDCORE TROOP
TO FIGHT FOR THE TRUTH, PEACE, FREEDOM, ECUALITY AND AGAINST WARS,
NUCLEAR-TESTINGS, CONSPIRACIES, CONTROL AND EARTH DESTRUCTION!!!

IN DECEMBER 2004 THE TROOP MARCHED ACROSS INNSBRUCK AND PLAYED
AN CHAOTIC GIG!!! ALSO ON THE START THE GERMAN BAND”BURIAL”.
IN MARCH 2005 SHOCK TROOP DID A 2 DAYS TOUR WITH AMNESIE AND
KURWA APARATA. THE GIG IN EKH – VIENNA WAS GREAT ALSO PLAYED
THE BAND” SOTATILA”! THE AFTER SHOW PARTY WITH THIS BANDS WAS A
EXCITING EXPERIENCE AND WE WILL REMEMBER MANY YEARS!! HA HA
THE DAY AFTER IN GRAZ WAS INCREDIBLE:FUCKER FUCKER FUCKER!!!
WHAT A LIVE DESTRUCTION!!!!!!!!! A REAL HC/PUNK ORGY!!
IN MAY THE TROOP ATTACKED GERMANY FOR THE FIRST TIME, TO PLAY
WITH APATIA-NO IN FREIBURG-YEAH IT WAS A DISASTER!!
IN THE END OF 2005 THE TROOP RECORDED 3 SONGS FOR AN AUSTRIAN
HC/PUNK COMPILATION LP ON” NOIZE ART RECORDS” WHICH IS THE 2nd issue
OF THIS NOW RUNNING SERIES TO SHOW AUSTRIAN BANDS ON VINYL AND
DISTRIBUTE THEM WORLDWIDE!! SUPPORT THIS!!!SUPPORT DIY LABELS!!
AND WATCH OUT FOR NEW AUSTRIAN HC OR INTERNATIONAL HC WORKS IN
NEAR FUTURE FROM THIS AMAZING LABEL!!!!
AFTER SOME PERSONALLY AND MUSICALLY DIFFERENCES THE TROOP KICKED
OUT MIDNIGHT BABY, A SHORT WHILE LATER HIS BROTHER ALSO LEFT THE BAND!!
FUCK THEM!! ! THE TROOP CAN´T ACCEPT DESERTERS!!!
BUT GLAD TO SAY WE FOUND A MORE THAN EFFECTIVE SINGER WITH MUCH
MORE ENERGY, AGRESSION AND POWER IN HIS VOICE !!
AND AS BASSIST A FIGHTING GIRL!!! YEAH, TO FIGHT AGAINST WARS
COSTS US MANY BAND MEMBERS. MANY TROOPERS LOST THEIR LIVES!!
NEW LINE-UP: BELTANE-VOCALS/BANDIT-GUITARS/A-BASS/TETSU-DRUMS!
IN NOVEMBER 2006 THE VA:”LAST MONARCHO PUNK AUSTRIA “LP WAS RELEASED
ON NOIZE ART RECORDS!!

ALSO THE STUDIO SESSIONS FOR THE FIRST SHOCK TROOP LP IS NEARLY
DONE AND WILL RELEASED AS A CONCEPT ALBUM UNDER THE TITLE”A NIGHTMARE IN 2012”
HOPEFULLY IN SPRING 2007 !!!!! WATCH OUT HARDCORE FIGHTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!