Element of Crime was founded 1985 in West-Berlin, Germany by Sven Regener, Jakob Ilja Friderichs, Paul Lukas, Jürgen Fabritius and Uwe Bauer. After 4 recordings in English, Sven Regener decided to write all his lyrics in German. Their first German song Der Mann Vom Gericht however appeared on their album The Ballad Of Jimmy & Johnny (1989). After Damals Hinterm Mond was released in 1991, the band has gotten more and more known, but still remained underground.

Read more about Element of Crime on Last.fm.


User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.