Kontrust is a crossover

Crossover (music)

Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers appearing on two or more of the record charts which track differing musical tastes, or genres...

 band from Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

, with lead singer Agata being Polish

Poles

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, which formed in 2001 out of a band called Suicide Mission. The band is famous for wearing lederhosen

Lederhosen

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 and their lyrics are predominantly in English, though German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 and Slavic languages

Slavic languages

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 have also been incorporated into some songs.

In 2006 the band won the Austrian Newcomer Award, made their first music video

Music video

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 for the song "Phono Sapiens" and played at the freeride

Freeride

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- and snowcross-competition Vertical Extreme.

Their second album, Time To Tango, was released on June 19, 2009 in Austria. "The Smash Song" was the first single of the album. Their song "Bomba" landed them a spot in the Dutch

Netherlands

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 charts and was the number one downloaded rock song on the Dutch iTunes Store

ITunes Store

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In 2010 Kontrust was awarded with the Amadeus Austrian Music Award (category Hard & Heavy). They played at the 2011 Przystanek Woodstock

Przystanek Woodstock

Przystanek Woodstock is an annual free rock music festival in Poland, inspired by and named for the Woodstock Festival, that has taken place since 1995...

 and were requested by Jerzy Owsiak

Jerzy Owsiak

Jerzy Owsiak is a Polish journalist and social campaigner.He is a founder and President of the Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy , one of the biggest non-governmental, non-profit, charity organizations in Poland.He is the main initiator and activist for the group's Grand...

 to play "Bomba" a second time as an unscheduled encore

Encore (concert)

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. According to official information over 300,000 visitors saw Kontrust's performance making it the most attended gig of an Austrian artist up to now.

Albums and EPs

#	Title	Year
1	Teamspirit 55 (EP)	2001
2	Make Me Blind (EP)	2003
3	We!come Home	2005
4	Phono Sapiens (Single)	2006
5	Go (Single)	2008
6	Time To Tango	2009
7	The Smash Song (Single)	2009
8	Bomba (Single)	2009
9	On The Run (Single)	2010
10	Zero (Single)	2011
11	Czas na Tango (MP3 download)	2011

Video

#	Title	Year	Director	Album
1	"Phono Sapiens"	2006	Florian Neiss	We!come Home
2	"The Smash Song"	2009	-	Time To Tango
3	"Bomba"	2009	-	Time To Tango
4	"On The Run"	2010	-	Time To Tango
5	"Zero"	2010	-	Time To Tango