KONTRUST began in 2001, and the band had been playing together in the same line-up for five years when their videoclip Bomba (you can watch it here) started bringing them popularity at an explosive speed.

Bomba comes from KONTRUST's album Time to Tango. Before that, KONTRUST had released three albums and already had a following of faithful fans, in Austria and outside its borders. Things started happening faster when Eric Corton, one of the DJs of an influential Dutch radio station 3FM, noticed the link to the video on one of community websites. That led to a lot of airplay on 3FM, where Bomba got rather high in the charts and stayed there for weeks. Bomba got also to No. 1 on iTunes, where it became the most downloaded rock song.

The video was the idea of Stefan, the male vocalist of the band. He had had the idea to make a video in a traditional folk setting for about two years, and in the end he managed to convince the band to do it. Hear more details about it in an interview with Stefan in this edition of TalentCast.

Airplay and chart success on in the Netherlands brought more opportunities. During the summer of 2010, KONTRUST was invited to numerous festivals, mostly in the Netherlands, and also played many gigs in rock venues. Success in their home country, Austria, followed: in September 2010, KONTRUST won the Amadeus Austrian Music Award in the category Hard&Heavy. 50 K Music Mag interviewed Manuel, the percussionist of the band, about winning the award.