Fury in the Slaughterhouse were founded in 1986 by the brothers Kai and Thorsten
Wingenfelder as well as Christof Stein-Schneider, Rainer Schumann and Hannes
Schäfer as a rock project that set itself apart from the Neue-Deutsche-Welle
movement that was prevalent at the time. After two less commercially successful
albums, Jau! entered the German charts for the first time in 1990 (position 40).
Its successor Hook-a-Hey immediately rose to 32nd place in 1991, before Mono,
which was released in 1993, became Fury in the Slaughterhouse's first gold
record - including 12th place in the ...