Blackmail is a German alternative rock band from Koblenz, Germany which was started briefly in 1993.

The response from the studios was quite shaky, but they were able to engage in the services of recording legend, Stuart Bruce, who had just moved into the area of Koblenz.

As Abay explained on the biography section of the site: Prior to the show, one good-humoured and extremely drunk black guy took great pleasure in presenting his genitals to everyone in the crowd.

[1]Instead they managed to approach Guido Lucas, who had started his own label "bluNoise Records".

Stuart Bruce, who currently works at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios, produced the band's first demo recordings from this album.

In October 1997, they went on their first ever tour, that was in conjunction with the album release alongside Swedish rock band B-Thong.

In 2000, the band released an entirely remixed version of Science Fiction entitled Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?

In the same year, they signed a contract with City Slang/Rough Trade and approached producer Andi Jung to help them mix tracks for their next album.

After all the necessary preparations they released their latest album, Aerial View, on 13 January 2006, and were on tour in countries such as Austria and Switzerland to promote it.

One track, "Never Forever", which originally appeared on Kammerflimmern's soundtrack was also re-released in Aerial View.

On 11 December 2008 Blackmail announced the separation from lead singer Aydo Abay for personal reasons and aborted their tour.

In 2010, Mathias Reetz joined the band and they started recording a new album with the working title Judas Love in March 2010.