Girls Under Glass

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{{Short description|German band}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Girls Under Glass
| image = Girls Under Glass Nocturnal Culture Night 11 2017 08.jpg
| caption = Girls Under Glass in 2017
| image_size =
| background = group_or_band
| alias =
| origin = [[Hamburg, Germany]]
| genre = [[Darkwave]], [[electro-industrial]], [[gothic rock]]; [[Trance music|trance]] (in side projects)
| years_active = 1986–present
| label = Cellar Door
| associated_acts = Calling Dead Red Roses, Trauma {{small|(electronica, not metal, band by this name)}}, Traum-B; [[The Cassandra Complex (band)|The Cassandra Complex]], Cancer Barrack
| website =
| current_members = Volker "Zaphor" Zacharias ([[Singing|vocals]]/[[Electric guitar|guitar]])<br />Axel Ermes ([[Bass guitar|bass]])
| past_members = Hauke Harms ([[MIDI|electronics]]/[[Electronic keyboard|keyboards]])<br />Thomas Lücke (vocals)<br />Lars Baumgardt<br />Raj Sen Gupta (guitar)
}}
'''Girls Under Glass''' ('''GUG''') is a [[Musical ensemble|musical group]] from [[Hamburg, Germany]], founded in 1986 by Thomas Lücke, Hauke Harms, and Volker "Zaphor" Zacharias. Described as "an indispensable part of the German [[New wave music|wave]] and [[Gothic rock|gothic]] scene",<ref name="Grenzwellen" /> GUG began as a gothic rock band, but quickly crossed genre boundaries, incorporating [[Heavy metal music|metal]] and [[electronic music]] of various kinds. They have generally been classified as a [[darkwave]] act, but have ranged across the [[Goth subculture|goth]]–[[Industrial music|industrial]] "dark music" spectrum, including into [[industro-metal]], and their work has integrated elements of [[Pop music|pop]], [[techno]], and [[trip hop]]. ''Grenzwellen-News'' wrote of the band: "Even after 20 years, it is almost impossible to define and pin-down Girls Under Glass stylistically."<ref name="Grenzwellen" /> A review in 2001 concluded that "even in its most experimental phases, the band has never lost its identity".<ref name="Stieg" />

Axel Ermes joined in 1989, and Lücke left the next year, but rejoined in 2016; Harms retired in 2017. The band's lyrical material is sometimes in German, sometimes English, or a mixture of both on some tracks. '''Trauma''', a Zaphor and Harms side project, is primarily [[Trance music|trance]] with [[New age music|new age]] influences, and '''Traum-B''' (Harms and Ermes) produced [[Goa trance]] and [[psy-trance]]. GUG formed as a replacement for an earlier [[Gothic music|gothic]]–[[New wave music|wave]] band, '''Calling Dead Red Roses''', which formed in 1985, produced one album, then splintered.

== 1980s ==
Hauke Harms, Thomas Lücke, Torsten Hammann, and Roland Weers formed the gothic-wave band Calling Dead Red Roses in Hamburg in 1985, released the album ''1985'' (on LP and CD) on Dark Star Records, then split up before the year was out. The album was reissued on the same label in 1991.

Girls Under Glass was founded in Hamburg the spring of 1986 by Thomas Lücke ([[Singing|vocals]]), Hauke Harms ([[MIDI|electronics]] and [[Electronic keyboard|keyboards]]), and Volker Zacharias {{abbr|AKA|also known as}} Zaphor ([[Electric guitar|guitar]]).<ref name="Metropolis" /> They gave their first live performance, in the Hamburg discothèque Kir, in May of the same year, and self-produced a [[demo tape]], ''The Question - The Answer - Pop'', which included early, raw versions of songs they would re-record later, including "Humus" and "Armies Walking".

The following year, Girls Under Glass released a track "Tomorrow Evening" (recorded in March 1987 in a live session at the White Noise Studio in Hamburg) on the [[compilation album]] ''Gore Night Show''; this was their first vinyl release. Around this time, they also began recording their first proper album, ''Humus'', which was produced by Christian Mevs of the band [[Slime (band)|Slime]], and featured a bassist credited as Dr. Fluch.<ref name="Metropolis" /> Since no label was willing to produce the album, the band decided to finance it themselves. ''Humus'' was completed in 1987, and released in a limited edition of 500 on the label Supersonic Records in March 1988. It sold out, and within two months had been reissued twice (it has since been reissued by Überschall, Dark Star, and Membran). There followed concerts with [[The Neon Judgement]], [[Attrition (band)|Attrition]], and [[Fields of the Nephilim]]. GUG opened for [[Red Lorry Yellow Lorry]] in September 1988 at the Independent Festival in Bremen's Schlachthof. The band put out a second self-produced cassette, ''Girls Under Glass'', that year, a collection of demos recorded at Gas-Rec Studio in February 1988 (including a [[Cover song|cover]] of "Body Electric" by Sisters of Mercy) plus two live tracks; content-wise, it is their rarest release (their original demo tape was re-released as a remastered CD). By 1989, they were becoming well known in the German gothic-wave scene.<ref name="Van Richter" />

GUG released a 12-inch single, "Ten Million Dollars", in January 1989 the Überschall label, but it did not meet with commercial success. Live appearances during this period included two guest musicians: Marcel Zürcher (drummer of the [[post-punk]] band [[Abwärts]], as well as Schwansee, and Shanghaid Guts), and Olaf von Ridder AKA Olaf O. (bass, 1988–1989).<ref name="Metropolis" />

''Flowers'', their second full album, was recorded the same year. Regular members of the band at this time were Lücke (vocals), Zaphor (guitars), and Harms (keyboards). Axel Ermes (bass) joined the band<ref name="Metropolis" /> and was integrated into the full-time line-up, after working for some time with Zaphor on another project, the German cult band Cancer Barrack (formed by Torsten Hammann with Ermes<ref name="Van Richter" /> and others after the demise of Calling Dead Red Roses). Zaphor began to devote more of his time to GUG, though remained in CB as a vocalist for a while.

==1990s==

''Flowers'' was released on January 15, 1990, originally on the Hamburg label Collision Records (later on Dark Star and Membran); like the previous releases, it was conventional [[gothic rock]] in the style of [[The Sisters of Mercy]] and [[Fields of the Nephilim]]. Another 12-inch, "Random" (remixed by [[KMFDM]]), was released in support of the album.

Zaphor left Cancer Barrack to concentrated on a third GUG album, ''Positive'', beginning a renewed relationship with Dark Star Records (Calling Dead Red Roses's old label) that was to last through GUG's 1995 releases. But vocalist Thomas Lücke left the band, and Zaphor also had to take over the singer's part. ''Positive'' was produced by Rodney Orpheus of [[The Cassandra Complex (band)|The Cassandra Complex]], beginning a long-term friendship with Zaphor and Ermes, described as "play[ing] a consistent role"<ref name="AllMusic" /> in CC starting in 1990, joining that band's live lineup, and worked with Orpheus for many years, until at least 2012. ''Positive'', released in 1991 (along with a 7-inch single, "Never Go", actually released in late 1990), marked the first stylistic turning point for the band, who increasingly used electronics and worked in some harder [[industrial rock]] components. The album was described by ''Glansost Wave-Magazin'' as a "hybrid between [[Revolting Cocks]], Cassandra Complex, and The Sisters of Mercy"<ref>{{cite news |title=Rezension zum Album ''Positive'' |work=Glansost Wave-Magazin |issue=26 |page=34 |date=1991}}</ref> [[Project Pitchfork]] played their first gigs as the opening act on the tour for this album. A guitarist, Mark Wheeler, appears to have been working with the band in live shows around this era.<ref name="AllMusic" />

The fourth LP, ''Darius'' (1992), is a multi-layered darkwave album with [[Heavy metal music|metal]] influences, but also some tracks that are almost entirely electronic; it is their most stylistically diverse album.<ref name="Grenzwellen" /> ''Darius'' featured a new guitarist, Raj Sen Gupta,<ref name="Metropolis" /> and two guest musicians: Markus Giltjes as drummer<ref name="Metropolis" /> (formerly of [[Pink Turns Blue]], and then in Project Pitchfork); and Peter Heppner from [[Wolfsheim (band)|Wolfsheim]], who performed guest vocals on the tracks "Gray in Gray" and "Reach for the Stars" (the latter was also released in an alternative version on the compilation ''040 - Hamburg Strikes Back!'', and a remix of "Gray in Gray" was used on 1993 on the label sampler ''Electrocity Vol. 3''). Despite the band turning toward a notably more electronic sound, ''Darius'' was their first studio work with a real drummer instead of a [[drum machine]].

Trauma, a [[New age music|new age]]-inflected [[trance music]] side project of Zaphor and Harms formed in 1993,<ref name="Van Richter" /> recorded ''Fractal 1'' immediately after GUG's ''Darius'',<ref name="Grenzwellen" /> and released it that year on the Machinery Records label (and Futurist in the US). Trauma expressed their "passion for cold electronic music of the 70s ... combined with very new, contemporary elements",<ref name="Grenzwellen" /> and has been compared to a cross between [[Tangerine Dream]] and [[Clock DVA]].<ref name="Grenzwellen" /> The impetus for splitting off a side project was Harms' shift of interest to "very spherical, cinematic music" lacking typical song structures, combined with a feeling that the band might just go all-electronic if they did not "clarify and process our electronic influences and roots even more", shunting too ethereal or experimental work into another outlet.<ref name="Grenzwellen" /><ref>Harms's "very spherical, cinematic music" (German: "{{lang|de|sehr sphärische, filmische Musik}}"), appears to be German idiom, a reference to "the [[music of the spheres]]", implying a cosmic, [[New age music|new age]], ethereal sensibility; he used it in this sense multiple times in the interview.</ref>

On ''Christus'', in 1993, the GUG returned to the harder sound of ''Positive'', again with Giltjes as drummer and Gupta as guitarist. For the following tour, Gupta was replaced by Robert Wilcocks, of [[Cobalt 60 (band)|Cobalt 60]], [[Deine Lakaien]], and [[Sleeping Dogs Wake]]<ref name="Metropolis" /> who accompanied the band on tour for the next three years. Gupta may have actually left {{em|after}} the ''Christus'' tour; accounts are conflicting.<ref name="Van Richter" />

Multiple producers, including Peter Spilles of Project Pitchfork, helped the Trauma side-project complete its second album, ''Construct'', and an EP, ''Silent Mission'', both in 1994 and again on the Machinery label (distributed by CBM in the US). Spilles contributed musically as well, on the track "Le Chant de Baleine".

A Girls Under Glass EP, ''Down in the Park'' (the lead tracking being a cover of that [[Gary Numan]] new wave classic) was released in 1994 also. The release shows the band experimenting with various [[Pop music|pop]] and [[electronica]] influences. The EP and the 1995 release of ''Exitus'', a 2-CD "Best of" anthology with a pointed title, signaled the end (at least for a while) of the band's gothic and darkwave approach. ''Crystals & Stones'' (1995), its "Die Zeit" single (1995), then ''Firewalker'' (1997) were all characterized by an increasing admixture of pop, [[Techno music|techno]], [[industrial metal]], and even [[trip hop]] elements.

By ''Crystals & Stones'', GUG had condensed to a trio again (Zaphor, Harms, and Ermes – which would remain the most stable lineup, the "nucleus"<ref name="Grenzwellen" /> of GUG), recording in the band's own new studio. [[Die Krupps]] did a remix of the track "Die Zeit", which became a club hit in Germany and was band's first CD-format single. For the tour in support of ''Crystals & Stones'', the group employed Robert Wilcocks again, and picked up drummer Tippi Agogo (a musician from [[Vancouver]] who had worked with [[The Legendary Pink Dots]] and [[Skinny Puppy]]). GUG played its first shows in France and Spain in 1996<ref name="Metropolis" /> with their new sound. The band's hardest-rock record,<ref name="Van Richter" /> ''Firewalker'', was recorded in 1997, and was clearly inspired by the industrial metal and [[electro-industrial]] music scene, including such bands such as [[Gravity Kills]], [[KMFDM]], [[Nine Inch Nails]], and [[Stabbing Westward]].<ref name="Metropolis" /> It was described as their "toughest, most aggressive and uncompromising album to date".<ref name="Van Richter" /> Former KMFDM drummer Rudi Naomi joined the live lineup for the tour,<ref name="Metropolis" /> with [[Deathline International]] (an American–German electro-industrial act often active in [[San Francisco]]) as the opening band.<ref name="Metropolis" />

Zaphor's and Harm's Trauma project produced its third and final album, ''Phase III'', in 1998 on the Synthetic Symphony label. Harms and Ermes formed an alternative side project the same year, '''Traum-B''', which produced a single, self-titled [[Goa trance]] and [[psy-trance]]<ref name="Van Richter" /> album, on the B.E.A.C.H. Muskiverlag label.

GUG's ''Equilibrium'' (also 1998) was recorded in a calmer style, a short-term return to their more gothic-wave and electro-industrial roots.<ref name="Metropolis" /><ref name="Van Richter" /> As the album's name suggests, there was a re-balancing reason for the shift back, similar to that which had led to the side-project: a concern that their new-found enthusiasm for a particular style would drown out everything else, and end the diversity of their output, by having "opened a certain flow a little too far".<ref name="Grenzwellen" /> In 2006, Zaphor reminisced: "we had more or less consciously gone into a dead end. However, this deadlock also showed us what we definitely do not want and where our true strengths lie. Girls Under Glass would have become a metal band if we'd followed the path of ''Firewalker'' and gone further.... And that's not really us."<ref name="MusicMight" />

Hauke Harms, in the same much later interview, also indicated he hadn't been happy with the over-produced quality of ''Firewalker'' and the work that led up to it, as if the songs were being suppressed, despite it being their most successful album to date:<ref name="Grenzwellen" />
{{Quote|1=Our way of writing songs has not changed much since ''Flowers''. Songs from ''Flowers'' or ''Positive'' could just as well have been on ''Zyklus'' [in 2005]; only the packaging of the songs has adapted to the time.... I think the album is very good and it holds some of my personal favorite Girls Under Glass songs, like "The Bitter End", "Burning Eyes", or "Sick of You", which are mostly typical Girls Under Glass songs, just a bit too trashily produced.}}

''Equilibrium'' was issued by Hall of Sermon records, and re-released in the United States by [[Van Richter Records]] in 2006, with three bonus tracks (two unlisted on the liner, and the third a Trauma cover of [[Kraftwerk]]'s "Radioaktivitat").<ref name="MusicMight" /><ref name="Van Richter" /> The latter label the next year released the anthology ''Nightmares'' as both a CD and a digital download, a collection of singles, remixes, B-sides, and covers – many out-of-print and some not previously released,<ref name="Metropolis" /><ref name="cmj-09-99">{{cite journal |last1=Comer |first1=M. Tye |title=RPM |journal=CMJ New Music Report |date=20 September 1999 |volume=60 |issue=636 |page=26 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/CMJ/1999/CMJ-1999-09-20.pdf |access-date=11 January 2022 |publisher=College Media, Inc. |location=Great Neck, NY |issn=0890-0795}}</ref> including a dance-oriented cover of the main theme of the 1978 [[John Carpenter]] horror film ''[[Halloween (1978 film)|Halloween]]''.<ref name="Van Richter" />

The stylistic veering in this era is thought to have suppressed the band's popularity, while having little effect on GUG's critical reception. ''Grenzwellen-News'' wrote in 2006 that Girls Under Glass was "a band which from the beginning was highly praised by critics, and not least by colleagues, but whose image and basic orientation often remained too diffuse and difficult to grasp due to the constant sharp turns."<ref name="Grenzwellen" />

== 2000s ==
''Minddiver'' was recorded, in 2001, as the first album on the band's own label, Aragon Records.<ref name="Metropolis" /> It includes a cover of [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]]'s "Frozen". This was released with five other tracks (including a "Wings" remix by Bruno Kramm of [[Das Ich]], featuring vocals by Sandra Bammer of the band Sister My Sister) as a CD single by Aragon Records, and by Van Richter in the US. One review of ''Minddiver'' called it "quintessence and departure at the same time", and was impressed with its emotional depth, noting the "return to the power of the driving, compressed, melancholy wave song ... that carried personality, warmth, love, anger, and pain".<ref name="Stieg" /> The "Frozen" single was re-released by Van Richter in an expanded version, including some Trauma bonus tracks and the ''Firewalker'' track "The Bitter End" (about 30 minutes of music total), to expose American audiences to more of the band's back-catalogue.<ref name="Van Richter" />

GUG made their first appearance in [[London]], UK, co-headlining the 2001 Gotham Festival<ref name="Metropolis" /> with [[Clan of Xymox]] and The Fair Sex. A 16-track live album, ''...In Light & Darkness'', was recorded on their 2002 European tour<ref name="Metropolis" /> for ''Minddiver'', and released that year, along with a new single "Erinnerung", all on their Aragon label. The band took a bit over a year off,<ref name="Metropolis" /> then wrote new material recorded it in 2004, with producer J. P. Genkel in his Impuls Studio in [[Hamburg]]. A collaborative single, with Peter Spilles of [[Project Pitchfork]], "Ohne Dich", appeared in that year on the Dependent Records sub-label Cellar Door (its first release), while the album developed from these session, ''Zyklus'', was released in February 2005 by [[Metropolis Records]], the largest "dark music"-focused label in North America, as well as by Cellar Door in Germany, and Irond in Russia. ''Zyklus'' has been described as "a testament to GUG's open mindedness. Rock music was forged with electronic programming and a mixture of English and German lyrics to run through a spectrum of metal to electro to pop without losing sight of any type of fluency. Solid songwriting, intense atmospheres, and outstanding vocals".<ref name="Metropolis" />

A performance and documentary film about the band, ''Focus: 20 Years'', was produced in 2005 and released on DVD in 2006. The new live performances were filmed at the 2005 [[Wave-Gotik-Treffen]] (WGT) in [[Leipzig]], one of the world's largest dark music and arts festivals, with around 20,000 annual attendees. A chance meeting backstage between GUG and filmmaker/photographer Jeffrey Delannoy through their common friend Carsten Clatte (frontman of La Casa del Cid and guitarist for [[Wolfsheim (band)|Wolfsheim]] and [[Goethes Erben]]) led to the film idea. Delannoy, having seen the band a few times over the years, was enthusiastic about producing the work in such an atmosphere as WGT. The DVD is mostly live performances of material from the album ''Zyklus'', (with Peter Spilles as a guest for a performance of "Ohne Dich"). GUG also provided archival material for production (after putting out a request to fans for footage they shot),<ref name="Grenzwellen" /> and the release includes a retrospective of their work, interviews with band members, reactions from other artists like Spilles, [[Ronan Harris]] ([[VNV Nation]]), Rodney Orpheus (The Cassandra Complex), and departed co-founder Thomas Lücke, plus backstage footage, and other bonus materials, running to a total of over three hours. The new live footage is their entire WGT show, in 5.1 surround sound.<ref name="Grenzwellen" /> In a ''Grenzwellen-News'' interview the same year, Zaphor was philosophical about the band's lack of great commercial success, but consistent fan-base and critical reception:<ref name="Grenzwellen" />
{{quote|I think the unifying element is the fact that so far we have never had the great success that would have led us to pay attention in production to serving a particular audience, or being under pressure to spend a certain amount of money because the record company has invested a lot in advance. We have always escaped these commercial pliers.... This situation gives us great artistic freedom and the ability to redefine Girls Under Glass.... I cannot say that I have anything to do with the gothic scene, so it's very easy to integrate new musical influences into the music. And this openness has always been our strength. We were never a scene band, so never had identity problems.}}

Throughout the rest of the 2000s and into the 2010s, Girls Under Glass made sporadic live appearances at various festivals, often as a different trio of Zaphor, Ermes, and Baumgardt. ''MusicMight'' reports that a female vocalist named Jenny Kähler was also working with the band,<ref name="MusicMight" /> probably some time in this era.

== 2010s until recent years ==
Both Zacharis and Ermes were working as of 2012 with Rodney Orpheus and Andy Booth on a post-Cassandra Complex project. Together they released a new Cassandra Complex album "Plague" in May 2022.

In 2016, 30 years after the band was founded, Girls Under Glass included all members of its original line-up for the first time in more than two decades.<ref name="Sonic Seducer" /> This appears to have begun spontaneously at a live show on 7 May 2016 in the Markthalle in Hamburg, when original co-founder Tom Lücke, in the audience, was invited onto the stage – 26 years after the singer left the band – to sing a ''Humus'' through ''Flowers''-era block of songs. This re-formed crew released a vinyl-only [[remaster]] of their original demo, for old-time fans, and performed additional, planned shows in 2016 and 2017,<ref name="Sonic Seducer" /> including at WGT 2016 and at NCN Festival 2017, with the line-up consisting of Volker Zaphor Zacharias, Ermes, Harms, and Lücke, plus the band's longtime companion Lars Baumgardt on electric guitar.

At the end of 2017, co-founding member Hauke Harms left the band with two farewell concerts, in Bremen and Berlin. GUG played the Amphi Festival on 29 July 2018,<ref name="Sonic Seducer" /> after releasing an online-only single on 13 July,<ref name="Monkey Press" /> "Endless Nights" (produced by Benjamin Lawrenz and Chris Harms of Lords of the Lost) – their first brand-new material since ''Zyklus'' and "Touch Me" in 2005.<ref name="Sonic Seducer" /><ref name="Monkey Press" /> A complete and remastered collection of Trauma tracks was also released in 2018 as a downloadable album, ''Digital Anthology'', on the Van Richter label. German music news site ''MonkeyPress'' described the work as "punchy, dark rock that let's your feet rock right away". After playing a few festivals show with the original singer Tom Luecke, focussing on the early (80s) period the band is now back on the floor with brandnew material! The new album "Backdraft" will by released by Dependend Records by end of 2022 as Vinyl and 2CD Artbook.

== Other work ==
Volker "Zaphor" Zacharias (under a variety of names, including V.Z., V. Zaphor, Zacharias, and others) has also been involved with The Cassandra Complex (since 1990),<ref name="Van Richter" /> Still Silent (with Mindy Kumbaleks of [[Goethes Erben]]),<ref name="Van Richter" /> Rec (with Peter Spilles of Project Pitchfork and York Eysel of [[Love Like Blood (band)|Love Like Blood]]),<ref name="Van Richter" /> Seasurfer, and a parody band, Hilfsorganisation Eigener Label Promotion (H.E.L.P.). Axel Ermes has also recorded with The Cassandra Complex, Nefkom (with Markus Reinhard of Wolfsheim),<ref name="Van Richter" /> Neustart (with Christoph from the band Stalin),<ref name="Van Richter" /> Rec,<ref name="Van Richter" /> and Bhambhamhara. Short-term member and later return-collaborator Lars Baumgardt has long worked with [[De/Vision]] both as a tour guitarist and a studio session musician, though is not a formal band member.

Although both Ermes and Zaphor were early members of Cancer Barrack, their involvement ended before that band's first album was recorded in 1991.

== Discography ==
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* 1986 – ''The Question – The Answer – Pop'' (demo, cassette)
* 1988 – ''Humus'' (LP, CD)
* 1989 – "Ten Million Dollars" (12″ single)
* 1990 – ''Flowers'' (LP, CD)
* 1990 – "Random" (12" single)
* 1991 – ''Positive'' (LP, CD)
* 1991 – "Never Go" (7″ single)
* 1991 – ''Live at Soundgarden'' (live; LP, CD)
* 1992 – ''Darius'' (LP, CD)
* 1993 – ''Christus'' (LP, CD)
* 1994 – ''Down in the Park'' (EP; CD)
* 1995 – ''Exitus: 1986–1995'' (anthology; 2-CD)
* 1995 – "Die Zeit" (CD single)
* 1995 – ''Crystals & Stones'' (CD)
* 1997 – ''Firewalker'' (CD)
* 1999 – ''Nightmares'' (anthology; CD)
* 1999 – ''Equilibrium'' (CD)
* 2001 – ''Minddiver'' (CD)
* 2001 – "Frozen" (promo CD single)
* 2002 – "Erinnerung" (CD single)
* 2003 – ''...In Light & Darkness'' (live; 2-CD)
* 2004 – "Ohne Dich" (feat. Peter Spilles) (CD single)
* 2005 – ''Zyklus'' (CD)
* 2005 – "Touch Me" (CD single)
* 2006 – ''Focus: 20 Years'' (live and documentary DVD)
* 2006 – ''Traumatized'' (joint GUG/Trauma remastered anthology; digital album)
* 2014 – ''Frozen'' (joint GUG/Trauma anthology; digital EP)
* 2016 – ''The Question – The Answer – Pop'' (remastered re-release; LP)
* 2018 – "Endless Nights" (digital single)
* 2023 – "Backdraft" (digital album)
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===Trauma releases===
* 1993 – ''Fractal I'' (CD)
* 1994 – ''Construct'' (CD)
* 1994 – ''Silent Mission'' (EP, CD)
* 1998 – ''Phase III'' (LP, CD)
* 2006 – Girls Under Glass, ''Traumatized'' (joint GUG/Trauma remastered anthology; digital album)
* 2014 – Girls Under Glass, ''Frozen'' (joint GUG/Trauma anthology; digital EP)
* 2018 – ''Digital Anthology'' (remastered anthology; digital album)

===Traum-B releases===
* 1999 – ''Traum-B'' (CD)

===Calling Dead Red Roses release===
* 1985 – ''1985'' (LP, CD)
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==References==
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<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web |title=Girls Under Glass: Artist Biography |first=John |last=Bush |work=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[RhythmOne Group]] |location=Cambridge, England |date=2016 |url= https://www.allmusic.com/artist/girls-under-glass-mn0000663127/biography |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160810133257/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/girls-under-glass-mn0000663127/biography |archive-date=10 August 2016 |access-date=3 December 2018}}</ref>
<ref name="Sonic Seducer">{{cite news |title=Nach 13 Jahren Veröffentlichungspause: Comeback-Single von Girls Under Glass |language=de |trans-title=After 13 Years of a Break in Releases: Comeback Single by Girls Under Glass |date=13 July 2018 |work=[[Sonic Seducer]] |location=Oberhausen, Germany |url= http://www.sonic-seducer.de/index.php/de/5634-nach-13-jahren-veroeffentlichungspause-comeback-single-von-girls-under-glass-hoerprobe.html |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181203113156/http://www.sonic-seducer.de/index.php/de/5634-nach-13-jahren-veroeffentlichungspause-comeback-single-von-girls-under-glass-hoerprobe.html |archive-date=3 December 2018 |access-date=3 December 2018}} Also covered in print edition.</ref>
<ref name="Monkey Press">{{cite news |title=Nach 13 Jahren: Girls Under Glass veröffentlichen am Freitag neue Single 'Endless Nights' |language=de |trans-title=After 13 years: Girls Under Glass Release on Friday New Single 'Endless Nights' |first=Michael |last=Gamon |work=MonkeyPress |location=Geldern, Germany |date=9 July 2018 |url= https://monkeypress.de/2018/07/news/musiknews/nach-13-jahren-girls-under-glass-veroeffentlichen-am-freitag-neue-single-endless-nights/ |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181203115227/https://monkeypress.de/2018/07/news/musiknews/nach-13-jahren-girls-under-glass-veroeffentlichen-am-freitag-neue-single-endless-nights/ |archive-date=3 December 2018 |access-date=3 December 2018}}</ref>
<ref name="Metropolis">{{cite web |title=Girls Under Glass |work=Metropolis-Records.com |publisher=[[Metropolis Records]] |location=Philadelphia |date=2005 |url= https://www.metropolis-records.com/artist/girls-under-glass |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160815191241/https://www.metropolis-records.com/artist/girls-under-glass |archive-date=15 August 2016 |access-date=3 December 2018}}</ref>
<ref name=MusicMight>{{cite web |title=Girls Under Glass |work=[[MusicMight]] |publisher=MusicDetector |date=2010 |url=http://www.musicmight.com/artist/germany/girls+under+glass |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194135/http://www.musicmight.com/artist/germany/girls+under+glass |archive-date=3 March 2016 |access-date=3 December 2018}}</ref>
<ref name="Grenzwellen">{{cite interview |title=Interviews: Girls Under Glass |first1=Volker ("Zaphor") |last1=Zacharias |first2=Hauke |last2=Harms |interviewer=Stieg, Ecki |lang=de |date=3 July 2006 |work=Grenzwellen-News |location=Hanover |url= http://www.grenzwellen.de/gw_redaktion/modules/news/article.php?storyid=233 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181203133217/http://www.grenzwellen.de/gw_redaktion/modules/news/article.php?storyid=233 |archive-date=3 December 2018 |access-date=3 December 2018}}</ref>
<ref name="Stieg">{{cite news |title=Rezensionen – Artist: Girls Under Glass; Titel: Minddiver |language=de |work=Grenzwellen-News |first=Ecki |last=Stieg |date=2001 |url= http://www.grenzwellen.de/gw_redaktion/modules/lykos_reviews/index.php?op=r&rev_id=62&cat_id=3 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181203153216/http://www.grenzwellen.de/gw_redaktion/modules/lykos_reviews/index.php?op=r&rev_id=62&cat_id=3 |archive-date=3 December 2018 |access-date=3 December 2018}}</ref>
<ref name="Van Richter">{{cite web |title=Girls Under Glass Bio |work=VanRichter.net |publisher=Van Richter Records |date=2006 |url= http://www.vanrichter.net/gug_bio.html |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160327025617/http://www.vanrichter.net/gug_bio.html |archive-date=27 March 2016 |access-date=3 December 2018}}</ref>
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==External links==
* [https://www.facebook.com/GirlsUnderGlass2018Official Official GUG Facebook page]
* [https://www.metropolis-records.com/artist/girls-under-glass Official page at Metropolis Records]
* {{Webarchive |title=Former official band website |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070115210601/http://www.girlsunderglass.de |date=15 January 2007}}

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