Traffic Jam Open Air

Ruk Yale Ketema

Metal aus Mainz/Wiesbaden

Ruk Yale Ketema (what means 'a far distant place' in Amharic, a semitic dialect that is the official working language in Ethiopia) is a band from Mainz/Wiesbaden.
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The music should be described as metal in general with many influences from all kind of music but not joining or following the main characteristics of an existing subgenre.
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Ruk Yale Ketema has shared stage with those bands: Contraption (Death), Necrorgasm (Doom), Bloodshorph (Deathrock), Fallen Temple (Death/Thrash), Moshroom (Metalcore), New Blast Chaos (Tech-Death/Grindcore), Orcus Patera (Black/Doom/Ambient), Fenfire (Black/Death), Diskriminator (Thrash/Death), Adorned Brood (Pagan/Folk/Metal), Lyftrasyr (Black/Electronic), All will know (Melodic Death).
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Official releases or produced cd/dvd/etc material doesn't exist until now cause of the well known lack of money.
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Songs written until now:
- Cascades of light (2009/10)
- Back to Universe A (2009/10)
- Invader (2009/10)
- Repeat Oblivion (2009/10)
- Trillion Bazillion Mothership 2009/10)
- None of your business (2009)
- Unplugged (2010)
- Relieve me from my sins (2010)
- The Artefact (2010/11)
- Let not the mortals (2010)
- The Mission (2011)
- Echoes (2011)
- Morpheus Shore (2011)
- Some new stuff not played until now

It was founded by Sonia in early 2009. The first line-up is still the current line-up (Iris: Clean Vocals, Lyrics, Sascha: Guitars, Growls, Composition, Lyrics, Booking, Sonia: Bass, Composition, Lyrics, Booking, Susanne: Guitars, Alex: Drums, Composition) in late 2011.
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Bandmembers are known mainly in the midwest of Germany (Mainz, Darmstadt, Wiesbaden, Cologne) for beeing in those bands (or had been for several years): Iris: Ex De.Mented, Sascha: Ex Core Dump, Ex Red Velvet, currently: Freakenzy Square, Zerlegoland, Sonia: Ex Fenfire, Ex Aphelyon, Ex Antagonism, Ex Karambole, Ex Demonic Symphony, Ex Necrorgasm, etc., currently: Sugar of the Universe, Zerlegoland, Susanne: Ex Age of Aggression, Alex: Ex Arven, Ex Bad Ass Society, Ex Soulforged, etc., currently: Antagonism