The Traceelords formed in 1999 by Sodom’s ex-guitarist Andy Brings (vocals, guitar) and Haan Hartmann (drums) under the Name “Andy Brings Band”. The german music magazine “Rock Hard” printed an article about them. They renamed in “The Traceelords”. This name is leaned at the name from the US-american porn actress Traci Lords. After that, the singer of the Band “Bullig”, Slick Prolidol, became their bassist.
After a lot of concerts they contracted as the first german band since 10 years with the label Roadrunner Records. In 2004 the made the made the album “Refuse to Kiss Ass”.
The press text for the new album was made by Christof Leim from the magazine “Metal Hammer”, who became a new band member and second guitar player.
In the years 2004 - 2006 they supportet a lot of bands, for example J.B.O., Finntroll or Bela B.
In 2006 came the new album “The Ali of Rock” and they made their first music video for the song “My evil girlfriend”.