The Young Gods

The Young Gods emerged in Fribourg in the mid-1980s around Franz Treichler, the project's founder and voice, soon joined by Cesare Pizzi on samplers and Frank Bagnoud on drums. The trio quickly forged a distinct identity built on intensive use of sampling, industrial textures and a quasi-orchestral approach to noise. From the earliest releases, notably the self-titled 1987 album and L’Eau Rouge (1989), the band imposed a radical aesthetic that left a lasting mark on the European scene. The 1990s extended this exploration with landmark records such as TV Sky (1992), Only Heaven (1995) and Heaven Deconstruction (1996), each opening new sonic territories between experimental rock, ambient, industrial and electronic music. With Second Nature (2000) and Super Ready/Fragmenté (2007) The Young Gods continued to evolve, incorporating more organic keyboards and hypnotic structures. The following decade opened with the more direct Everybody Knows (2010), and in 2019 they released Data Mirage Tangram, a slow, immersive work that condenses the band's legacy into a more contemplative form. Still active on stage, the trio keeps developing its musical language, nourished by several decades of experimentation and transformation.