 Defeated Sanity was formed in <unk> , Germany in 1994 by guitarist Wolfgang Teske and drummer Lille Gruber , initially as a side project . In 1996 , bassist Jonas Gruber and vocalist Robert Colnik joined the band as session musicians . This line @-@ up recorded the first two demos , <unk> by the Black in the same year , followed by Withdrawn from Beauty in 1998 . After undergoing a line @-@ up change , Defeated Sanity eventually recruited guitarist Christian <unk> and bassist Tino Köhler . Colnik departed the band shortly after recording a demo in 2000 . He was replaced by Markus Keller , who re @-@ recorded a track from the demo ; the track was included on the split with Poppy Seed Grinder , released through the Czech label <unk> in 2001 . Later that year , <unk> left the band to join <unk> . Defeated Sanity released a 7 @-@ inch split EP with Brazilian death metal band <unk> <unk> through Merciless Records in 2003 . 
