2005–08: Musical beginnings at
Reggio nell'Emilia (March 2012). The
tattoo on his arm contains the
geographical coordinates of the house where he has grown up near the German town
Nordhorn. The band was founded in November 2005, the three band members having already made music together since 2003. Their first official release was "The Moon", an italo-dance track released in July 2006 on an EP by their label Zooland called
Zooland Italo EP. In 2007, they gained growing popularity with the release of "
Moonlight Shadow", a
cover version of the 1980 release of the same name by
Mike Oldfield and a cooperation with German dance group Tune Up! called "Colours of the Rainbow". In 2006 and 2007, they also released various remixes of songs by other musicians for which they re-recorded the vocals and published them as "Italobrothers New Voc Rmx". Sometime in 2008, they released a cover of
(I Just) Died In Your Arms by
Cutting Crew and
Learning To Fly by
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but those two songs were never released onto streaming services or CDs. Their next two releases, "Counting Down the Days" and "Where Are You Now?", established a fanbase throughout Europe.
2009–2010: Commercial success in Scandinavia A new single, "
So Small", which is a cover of the
Carrie Underwood song of the same name, was published in November 2009. It is the only single that was directly available on CD. Another release, the digital
Love is on Fire EP, was released in March 2010. The song "
Stamp on the Ground", which was originally released in September 2009, was selected as official song for the Norwegian
Russefeiring event 2010. The song was therefore re-released in Scandinavia and became a huge success, reaching the Top 20 in Norway and Austria. The song was certified gold for 15,000 sold units in Denmark. Following the success of "Stamp on the Ground", an album called
Stamp! was released in December 2010 which contains all to this point released singles and five new tracks. One of this tracks with the title "Upside Down" was said to be a copy of the Russian singer
Reda's track "Ja budu s Taboj". Her label
DaTa Music took proceedings against the further release of the track, but the end of this lawsuit is unknown. A follow-up single called "Radio Hardcore" was released in December 2010 and was able to recreate the success of "Stamp on the Ground" in Denmark. which was released on 13 April 2012.
2012–2014: "My Life Is a Party" and singles On 27 July 2012 the band released a single called "My Life Is a Party" which is a cover of the track "
Dragostea din tei" by
O-Zone from 2004. The radio edit of the song is still in typical ItaloBrothers style but the video features a remix by German dance band
R.I.O., and was released on
Kontor Records thus gaining a huge amount on YouTube views. The song entered the Top 20 in Austria, and was released as single two days later. The band changed their music style similar to the style of the video remix of their last single because it was much more successful than their old style. The song was able to recreate the success of the last single in Germany which was officially released on 19 April 2013. Italobrothers released the single "
Up 'N Away" on 28 March 2014. On 28 November 2014, then they released another single "P.O.D." (People of DreamHack). Also, the single "Let's Go" Feat. P. Moody was released in December 2014.
2015-2017: "One Heart", "Summer Air" and singles In January 2015 the single "One Heart" was released, ItaloBrothers worked with Floorfilla as well as rapper P. Moody for the track. The song embodies their first placement in the French single charts. After the song was released, Zacharias Adrian would leave ItaloBrothers and Hanno Lohse (aka. Cody Island) would soon join. April 2015 saw the release of "Springfield" with the ItaloBrothers working alongside Norwegian DJ
Martin Tungevaag to produce the song. The track reached major success in Norway. In May 2015 the single "Welcome To The Dancefloor" was released. The single is a cover of "
Rhythm Is a Dancer" by German eurodance band
Snap! from the years 1992. They returned to their hands-up style with the song "Sleep When We're Dead", which was released in August 2015. In November 2015 a collaboration track with Danish singer Amalie Sølberg was published, called "Kings & Queens". With their track "Generation Party", released in July 2016 they released a song in a similar style as "Springfield". Later in summer 2016 the ItaloBrothers released the single "Summer Air", which became their biggest hit single yet. After a re-release in early 2017 the tropical-house/future-bass track reached high success in several Scandinavian countries as well as in Central Europe. In Norway they jumped on number 2.
2018–2019: "Looking Back Someday" and further singles In 2018, Italobrothers released three singles within the year, the first being "Looking Back Someday" then "Inside Out" and finally "Till You Drop". On April 13, 2019, they released “Games”. On July 5, 2019, they released Ocean Breeze. Most of these songs around this time were produced by either Cody Island or The Ping Ping Dudes.
2020–present: “Let Go”, “Down For The Ride”, and signing to Virgin Records In 2020, ItaloBrothers released their first single to Virgin Records with
Kiesza called “Let Go”. It was disclosed by Mathias in an interview with Lennon Cihak in the “When Life Hands You Lennons” podcast that releases stopped due to having to sign to Virgin Records and leaving Zooland. ItaloBrothers released “Stay” in December 2020. In April 2021, they released “Down For The Ride,” which became their most streamed track as part of Virgin Records. They released “Daydream” in August 2021 which includes vocals from songwriter
Charlott Boss. In November 2021, they released “One Day” that was partially written by
Séb Mont, who has also collaborated with ItaloBrothers producer Hanno Lohse. 2022 saw the release of “Mission 1” which was a single that contained songs like “Young At Heart,” “Dive Deep,” and “Best Mistake.” In July 2022 came the release of “Summer” and in August 2022, they released a remix of The BossHoss’ song “Dance The Boogie,” which was highly anticipated by The BossHoss on
YouTube as their first EDM song, with Mathias being featured in a video. The Hardstyle community got a taste of the ItaloBrothers music after ItaloBrothers collaborated with Hardstyle band
Harris & Ford on “Weekend Party”. The song was released on October 21, 2022. The song was leaked on YouTube a day before its debut release, but it is unknown as to how it was leaked.
Miscellaneous appearances Mathias Metten was featured in
YouTube musical duo 2busk. The channel that 2busk was hosted on is currently inactive. Kristian Sandberg worked with duo
Rob & Chris on songs such as “Durchgemacht” and “Mond,” providing vocals for those songs. He went under the stage name Sandberg. He was also featured in some songs with the band Leuchtturm where he also provided vocals. He went under a different alias by the name Kristian König. His latest vocal appearance was on
KYANU’s song “Sleepwalking”, though, he is not a credited artist. Hanno Lohse went under the name Cansis for a few years, releasing the song called “Trip To Paradise” alongside Spaceship. He now goes under the name Hanno and has collaborated with Séb Mont on a few different occasions. Dietmar Pollmann has helped write songs for Cody Island as well as for KYANU and Helene Fischer. ==Discography==