Fury in the Slaughterhouse was founded in 1986 by brothers Kai and Thorsten
Wingenfelder, along with Christof Stein-Schneider, Rainer Schumann, and Hannes
Schäfer, as a rock-oriented project designed to set itself apart from the Neue
Deutsche Welle movement that was dominant at the time. After two commercially
less successful albums, Jau! entered the German charts for the first time in
1990 (No. 40). The follow-up, Hook-a-Hey , immediately climbed to No. 32 in
1991, before Mono, released in 1993, earned Fury in the Slaughterhouse its first
gold record—including a No. 12 spot on t...