Beyond darkness there is light. Like a sparkle of hope it shines from a distance and creates the ideal everyone is striving for. It shows a way through dangers and happiness, full of disappointments and excitement.
Those striving experiences will be found in On The Floor’s music.

The Hamburg (Germany) based Gothic Rock Band started in the late Nineties.
Since then they have united heart-stirring riffs of traditional rock music with electronic elements of their club generation. This mixture creates delicate epics between sinister isolation and an optimistic preview.

"We will all be free tomorrow. We will all be free....tonight.”
On The Floor are: Helge Zielenski (vocals), Henning Thurow (guitars), Dennis Lindner (bass), his brother and songwriter in the band, André Lindner (guitars) and Sahrif (drums).
"The idea of making music developed quite easily: There was no band which had played this style of music we wanted to listen to. So Dennis and I began to write our own songs. On The Floor developed step by step from an idea. The greatest influence on the intensive impression of our songs lies within the relationship between André and the vocalist. "Helge is the ponderer of the band. He can disappear for a few days just to muse. But he needs me to express his thoughts.” A symbiosis which amazes Helge as well: "When I sing André’s lyrics, my thoughts become words – I can perform them thoughtfully or scream them out with rage. His lyrics are like a vent for me.”

"I´ll bring the rising sun. I´ll take your hand... and we will run.”
Their close togetherness is reflected in the substance of their songs. "We do not want to minimize the gothic-scene to darkness and death. First of all everything is about human beings who want to find themselves. In our eyes, light is a symbol for recognition. Sun gives us energy and the power to live. It is the destination for our search. Our music tries to express this way of destination.”
"Like the moon reflects the sun we drift from now to what might come.”
The first stage of their search On The Floor had revealed on their EP "Waiting for the summer” in 1999. For five songs they have striven for light and have created an exciting contrast between brightness and darkness, between hope and despair with straight forward guitar-dominated gothic-arrangements. " I like to describe unreachable things with depth, for example that of an ocean. Even when I am lead by positive things I have to consider the opposite, if I would not do that there would be no contrast and hope would become cliché. We are not here to produce any smash hits.”

"I went away to fall apart. I am the sun that burns your heart.”
Today On The Floor have a great fan community which gets bigger and bigger and supports the band for many concerts. No matter whether they performed as a support for famous acts like: "Clan Of Xymox” "Girls Under Glass”, "Catastrophe Ballet” and "Dive” or on their own like they did at "Herbstnächte 2002”. "One of our greatest stage experiences was this one at 10th anniversary of " The Return of the living dead”- party. The audience´s spirits were very high” Moreover On The Floor’s clubhit "Killing Queen” (known from the compilation "Songs Of Pain”) was the 2nd most wanted song in the club´s Top 100.

"Will you still be with me... when they turn down the light?”
On their debut album "under a heart-shaped sun” this already mentioned clubhit will be introduced to a wide public. Eight songs will mark a new point in their career. Screaming guitars are getting calmer and are shaped with unobtrusive electronic parts which possess a delicate pop-appeal. Together with the complex lyrics the sound develops to a harmonic unity. "We try to be honest in our songs. When the audience feels being reflected in our songs, we know, our work was well done. That is the reason why we do not stick to the nostalgic retrosound. What we say must be important for people today!”