Long Distance Calling is a

post-rock Post-rock is a form of experimental rock characterized by a focus on exploring textures and timbre over traditional rock song structures, chords, or riffs. Post-rock artists are often instrumental, typically combining rock instrumentation with ...

band from Münster, Germany, formed in 2006. The majority of their tracks are extended instrumentals.

History

In 2008, Long Distance Calling played at the

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and Roadburn festivals, and toured

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in 2009. In 2010, Long Distance Calling and Finnish death/doom band

Swallow the Sun Swallow the Sun is a Finnish death-doom band founded in 2000 by Juha Raivio. Their death-doom style emphasizes melody and atmosphere, and occasionally steps into gothic and black metal territory. They have released eight full-length albums, one ...

supported

Katatonia Katatonia are a Swedish heavy metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström. The band started as a studio-only project for the duo, as an outlet for the band's love of death metal. Increasing popularity led them to ...

during the New Night Over Europe tour. They supported Protest the Hero on their 2012 European tour. Off the back of the release of ''Boundless'' the band performed live at a number of European summer festivals, including

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in 2018. As of 2022, Long Distance Calling have released eight full-length albums, including: ''Satellite Bay'' (2007), ''Avoid the Light'' (2009), ''Long Distance Calling'' (2011), ''

The Flood Inside ''The Flood Inside'' is the fourth studio album by German post-rock/ post-metal/progressive rock band Long Distance Calling. It was released on 4 March 2013, through Superball Music Superball Music is a German independent record label, launche ...

'' (2013), ''Nighthawk'' (2014), ''Boundless'' (2018), ''How Do We Want to Live?'' (2020), and ''Eraser'' (2022). The band have also released two demos and/or split EPs: ''DMNSTRTN'' (2006) and ''090208'' (2008). The band has collaborated with guest vocalists including

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from

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("Built Without Hands" from ''Satellite Bay''), John Bush from

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(ex-

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) ("Middleville" from ''Long Distance Calling'') and

Jonas Renkse Jonas may refer to: Geography * Jonas, Netherlands, Netherlands * Jonas, Pennsylvania, United States * Jonas Ridge, North Carolina, United States People with the name * Jonas (name), people with the given name or surname Jonas * Jonas, one of ...

from Swedish metal band

("The Nearing Grave" from ''Avoid the Light'').

Members

Current members

* David Jordan – guitar * Janosch Rathmer – drums * Florian Füntmann – guitar * Jan Hoffmann – bass

Past members

* Petter Carlsen – vocals * Martin Fischer – vocals and sounds

Discography

Studio albums

* 2007: ''

Satellite Bay ''Satellite Bay'' is the first studio album by German post-rock band Long Distance Calling. The album was recorded April 2007 at Tonmeisterei in Oldenburg Oldenburg may also refer to: Places *Mount Oldenburg, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica *Oldenbur ...

'' (Viva Hate/ Cargo Records) * 2009: ''

Avoid the Light ''Avoid the Light'' (German: ''Meide das Licht'') is the second studio album by the German post-rock/post-metal band Long Distance Calling. It was published on 24 April 2009 by Superball Music. Production Avoid the Light was the first album of ...

'' (

Superball Music Superball Music is a German independent record label, launched on 1 October 2007. Superball Myspace page states that Superball have attracted significant attention for bringing out Oceansize's third album '' Frames'', which was a commercial s ...

/ SPV) * 2011: ''

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'' (

/ SPV) * 2013: ''

'' (

/ SPV) * 2016: ''Trips'' (InsideOut) * 2018: ''Boundless'' (InsideOut) * 2020: ''How Do We Want to Live?'' (InsideOut) * 2022: ''Eraser'' (earMUSIC)

Demos & split EPs

* 2006: ''DMNSTRTN'' (Limited demo album) * 2008: ''090208'' (Viva Hate/ Cargo Records, Split EP with

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) * 2014: ''Nighthawk'' (Avoid the Light Records) * 2021: ''Ghost'' (Avoid the Light Records)

Singles and music videos

*"Jungfernflug" (2008) *"Into the Black Wide Open" (2012) *"Tell The End" (2013) *"Getaway" (2016) *"Trauma" (2016) *"Out There" (2017) *"Ascending" (2018) *"Hazards" (2020) *"Voices" (2020) *"Immunity" (2020) *"Kamilah" (2022)

References

External links

*
Long Distance Calling at progarchives.com
* *
Long Distance Calling
at Last.fm
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at

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interview
with Jan Hoffmann
Long Distance Calling
at Myspace
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