When you enter a red room the heart begins to beat faster, the eyes begin to focus in the noise of the colour and a certain restlessness crawls up your neck. The room demands your full attention and concentration. The longer you stay in that room, the more you begin to understand its origin and aim. REDLIGHTSFLASH use this feeling and release an album which demands full attention and which to understand and consciously recieve will take some time - FOR YOUR SAFETY.

In a time when the music industry is down on its knees and only trends control the charts, the time will come for every band to make a choice between the music business’ only two cornerstones - trend or quality.

After taking a creative break of 4 years, REDLIGHTSFLASH decided to buck the trend and started working on their fourth album like Noah on his ark. Every screw had to be tight and every word had to be right. The adaptations are like buildings, the songs become houses and the lyrics become rooms. It is hard to follow a band that has set themselves to sound different on every new album and yet maintain their identity.

A band like REDLIGHTSFLASH is hard to find these days. A band that sounds like no other. REDLIGHTSFLASH sounds like REDLIGHTSFLASH and they have always done so and that’s the beauty of FOR YOUR SAFETY. It’s not what you expect and wait for in vain and it’s not what you believe you have heard on the radio before. FOR YOUR SAFETY is a new chapter in the book of underrated bands that, due to the burden of trying to sound different they have placed on themselves, will never be as popular as the ones that wear the trend on their sleves.

Anchored in DIY punk rock, FOR YOUR SAFETY catapults REDLIGHTSFLASH out of this “sandbox” and allows them to walk off the beaten path. As they repeatedly play with effects and dynamics, put their vocal abilities to the test and deliberately deviate from the conventions of punk, FOR YOUR SAFETY is a penetratively diverse album. With tracks like"Cities Burn", a sociocritical rock song, "For Your Safety’" a slightly self-mocking pop song and "Divinity Needs Poverty’" a hardcore punk song that is critical of culture and religion, RLF range from raw punk to charmingly elegant pop.

Mixed and mastered Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore in Fort Collins' Blasting Rooms Studios.

History

1997/98

• Christian Friedl (guitar, vocals), Constantin Pammer (drums), Werner Bauernfeind (bass, vocals), Christoph Riebenbauer (guitar, backing vocals) formed Red Lights Flash in Graz, Austria

1999

• First full length “Stop When…” released on Remedy Records/Vienna

2000

• First Europe Tour with Cameran followed by a tour with Good Clean Fun (US)

2001

• UK Tour With Capdown (Householdname Records of London)

2002

• Second Full length “And Time Goes By” on Householdnamerecords of London
• UK Tour (No Gods, No Sponsors Householdnamerecords Summer Tour)

2003

• UK Headline Tour
• Europe Headline Tour
• Europe Tour Support Anti Flag (US, Fat Wreck Chords)

2004

• The Band signs to A-F Records (US) and releases their third Full length “Free”
• AF Records Europe Tour together with Pipedown (US)

2005

• The Band got invited to support Rise Against (US, Geffen Records) and Alexisonfire (Can, Vagrant Records) on their Europe Tour
• Spirit tour together with Anti Flag (US, RCA Records) in Germany
• Headlinig Tour in Spain and Portugal

2006

• Headlinig Tour in the UK
• “For Blood And Empire” Europe Tour with Anti Flag (US, RCA Records), The Unseen (US, Hellcat Records) and AWilhelmScream (US, Nitro Records)
• Headlinig tour in Austria and Slovenia and accompied by a strictly limited 10inch vinyl record

2007

• The Band returns into the studio to record new songs
• The Band got invited to support Strike Anywhere (US, Fat Wreck Chords) on their Europe tour

2008

• Co-Headlining Tour with A Wilhelm Scream (US, Nitro Records)

to be continued ...