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{{short description|German industrial/techno artist}}
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| caption             = Elias in 2004
| background          = solo_singer
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| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1972|5|31|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Wittlich]], [[Rhineland-Palatinate]], [[West Germany]] (now Germany)
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| genre               = [[Industrial music|Industrial]]<br />[[Digital hardcore]]<br />[[Techno]]<br />[[Noise]]
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| years_active        = 1992–present
| label               = [[Fatal Recordings]]<br />[[Digital Hardcore Recordings]]<br />[[Phonogram Records]]
| associated_acts     = [[Atari Teenage Riot]]<br /> [[Pigface]]
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'''Hanin Elias''' (born 31 May 1972) is a [[Syrians in Germany|Syrian German]] [[industrial music|industrial]]/[[techno music|techno]] artist. She was a member of [[Atari Teenage Riot]] and is now a solo artist.

After Atari Teenage Riot's non-definitive break in 2000, and the subsequent death of [[Carl Crack]] from a [[drug overdose]], the members of ATR split up, and Elias set up her own record label, [[Fatal Recordings]].

==Background==
Elias was born in [[Wittlich]], [[Rhineland-Palatinate]], Germany to a [[Syrians|Syrian]] father and a [[Germans|German]] mother and spent three years of her early life living in [[Syria]].<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Washington Post |date=19 December 1997 |title=There's an Atari Teenage Riot going on |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/24016678.html?dids=24016678:24016678&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+19%2C+1997&author=Mark+Jenkins&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=There%27s+an+Atari+Teenage+Riot+Going+On&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713125646/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/24016678.html?dids=24016678:24016678&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+19,+1997&author=Mark+Jenkins&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=There's+an+Atari+Teenage+Riot+Going+On&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 13, 2012 |first=Mark |last=Jenkins }}</ref> A member of a conservative family living under an [[autocracy|autocratic]] father, when the family moved to [[Berlin]] she ran away from home and started [[squatting]] in the city. Elias started participating in the Berlin [[punk ideology|punk]] and [[Goth subculture|goth]] scenes, developing a musical career and ended up helping to found [[Atari Teenage Riot]].

== Atari Teenage Riot ==
After a brief, unhappy spell with the [[Phonogram Records|Phonogram]] record company, ATR set up their [[Independent record company|own label]], [[Digital Hardcore Recordings]], which became known for its distinctive sound – a hybrid of [[Punk rock|punk]], [[techno]], and [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]], also known as [[Digital Hardcore]].

== Fatal record company ==
After the members of ATR split, Elias' DHR spin-off company, 'Fatal', went [[Independent record company|independent]], establishing itself in Berlin instead of London.<!-- Need to explain that ATR was in London a lot in the previous graf. Explain also why the move back to Berlin.--> Elias has since released several albums,<ref>{{cite magazine |date=5 July 2005 |url=http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/e/eliashanin-future.shtml |title=Hanin Elias: Future Noir |first=Tim |last=O'Neil |magazine=Pop Matters }}</ref> and her Fatal label has boasted such artists as [[The Vanishing (band)|The Vanishing]], [[Phallus Über Alles]], [[Kunst (band)|Kunst]] and [[Tara Delong]]. Elias has also performed [[duet]]s and remixes with such artists as [[Le Tigre]], [[Thurston Moore]], [[J Mascis]], [[Alexander Hacke]], [[Merzbow]], and [[Alec Empire]]. In 2005, Elias began working with the industrial project [[Pigface]], joining them on their US tour.

In 2006, it was announced that Fatal Recordings was to close. Elias announced on her [[MySpace]] blog that she would be taking an indefinite hiatus from the music industry and relocating to [[French Polynesia]] with her family. <!-- describe -->In 2010, Hanin moved back to Berlin/Germany in order to prepare a new album for 2011.

==New album and comeback==
In June 2011, the new album ''Get It Back'' on Rustblade Recordings was released.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://haninelias.com/2011/06/hanin-elias-get-it-back-out-now/ |title= HANIN ELIAS "GET IT BACK" OUT NOW!!! &#124; Hanin Elias - official riot space|website=haninelias.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326111553/http://haninelias.com/2011/06/hanin-elias-get-it-back-out-now/ |archive-date=March 26, 2012}}</ref> In February 2014, Hanin Elias released an album under the name of 'Fantome', with her co-musician [[Marcel Zürcher]] who plays guitar and writes songs for [[Die Krupps]]. The album was titled ''It All Makes Sense''.

In 2016, her collaboration with the French producer [[Electrosexual]] marks the release of the single ''Hold Me''<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://open.spotify.com/album/1COZd8j84yO8IBPvPAG6Yk?si=8jiqDuTwSyeZzyVTAhloJg&dl_branch=1 | title=Hold Me EP | website=[[Spotify]] | date=19 March 2016 }}</ref> and ''Automatic People''.<ref>https://open.spotify.com/album/7ivor3oW8YxxTBaNxgDBkG?si=BGqYhACgQgGQ4inqRVh4EA&dl_branch=1/ (Rock Machine Records)</ref>

==Discography==
{{See also|Atari Teenage Riot#Discography|l1=Atari Teenage Riot discography}}
* ''Parfum'' EP (Force Inc. 1992)
* ''Show'' EP (DHR 1996)
* ''In Flames (1995–1999)'' (DHR Fatal 1999)
* "In Flames" EP (DHR Fatal 1999)
* "In Flames" remix EP (DHR Fatal 2000)
* ''No Games No Fun'' (Fatal 2003)
* ''Future Noir'' (Fatal 2004)
* ''Get It Back'' (Rustblade 2011)
* ''Fatal Box'' (Limited Edition Box Set. Includes: "Future Noir," "No Games No Fun," Bonus CD of new tracks and remixes, plus postcards, sticker, cameo pin.)  (Rustblade 2011)
* ''Fatal Bag'' (50-copy Limited Edition Set. Includes: "Get It Back" on CD; "Future Noir" on LP – signed; Bonus CD of new tracks and remixes; plus postcards, sticker, cameo pin, deluxe glass butterfly pendant and earrings; certificate of authenticity.)   (Rustblade 2011)
* "Love"/"Fantome" Digital Single including [[Electrosexual]] Remix (Snowhite 2014)
* "It All Makes Sense"/"Fantome" (Snowhite 2014)
* [https://open.spotify.com/album/7ivor3oW8YxxTBaNxgDBkG?si=BGqYhACgQgGQ4inqRVh4EA&dl_branch=1/ "Automatic People"] – with [[electrosexual]] (Rock Machine Records)
* [https://open.spotify.com/album/1COZd8j84yO8IBPvPAG6Yk?si=ydsA_7mvQ2i-ry7Nri-Ndg&dl_branch=1/ "Hold Me"] /"Kraken" – featuring [[electrosexual]] (Fatal Recordings)

==In popular culture==
Her name appears in the lyrics of the [[Le Tigre]] song "[[Hot Topic (song)|Hot Topic]]."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://slate.com/culture/2019/10/hot-topic-lyrics-le-tigre-who-is.html|title=57 Champions of Queer Feminism, All Name-Dropped in One Impossibly Catchy Song|first=Tammy|last=Oler|date=October 31, 2019|website=Slate Magazine}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.myspace.com/haninelias Hanin Elias] at [[MySpace]]
* {{official website|http://www.haninelias.com}}
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hanin+Elias Hanin Elias] at [[Discogs]].com

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