Long Distance Calling

German post-rock/metal band Long Distance Calling were formed in Münster in 2006. After their search for a vocalist failed, they decided to make primarily instrumental music, with the lineup settling on guitarists David Jordan and Florian Füntmann, bassist Jan Hoffmann, and drummer Janosch Rathmer. Their first studio album, Satellite Bay, was released in 2007, featuring guest vocals from the Haunted vocalist Peter Dolving. Avoid the Light followed in 2009, and two years later they released their self-titled third album, their first to successfully enter the album charts in their homeland. The Flood Inside (2013) featured vocalist Martin Fischer on selected tracks. Trips arrived in 2016, followed in 2018 by Boundless and in 2020 by How Do We Want To Live?, all released by Inside Out Music, before the band jumped ship to Ear Music; that label released 2022's Eraser and 2026's The Phantom Void. ~ James Pearce