Boomerang was founded in 1996. The band originated from the former thrash-band Arcus, to which Thomas Fahrnbach, Axel Johann and Stefan Zobel belonged. Here is the story of the band name out of the horses mouth:

After Arcus was disbanded, Axel said to Thomas ( he insists to this day, that if he had said it at all, he did so whilst being totally drunk), that he wanted to make music again, and that they would return to the world of heavy metal (heavy music), like a boomerang?.and so Boomerang was born. After taking turns at bass and drums for a couple of years Boomerang has a definite line up from 1998 with Andreas Reichard at the drums and from 2001 with Stefan Groetzinger at the bass. But Stefan Groetzinger had to leave the band in 2005. The new bass-player is Daniel Schäfer.

The demo "Real Unreal" was published in 1999 and was seen extremely positive by the fans of hard melodic music, which lead to national and international interest for Boomerang.