Stygma IV

Stygma IV (also known as: ex-Muddy Crutch, ex-Big Heat, ex-Stigmata IV) is an Austrian Heavy Metal band formed in 1990 in Salzburg, Salzburg. 1990: Günter Maier, Alex Hilzensauer and Herb Greisberger founded a band whose musical spectrum ranged from blues and rock'n'roll to complex instrumental songs. Over the following two years, the band strove to find an adequate and suitable singer. In the meantime, they released an album titled "Scenes Of Fire" under the name Big Heat. In 1994, the band finally found the right frontman in the person of Ritchie Krenmaier, and recorded "Grand Ominous Dreams" a year later.