Almost everything in this city revolves around the giant Volkswagen factory. The Ruhr-area, Germanys Metal-stronghold, is about 300 kilometers away, and only about approximately 200-300 of wolfsburgs 125.000 inhabitants are Metalheads.

In the summer of 1986 drummer/vocalist Michael Hasse, who had just left Wolfsburgs first Speed Metal-band DEATH ATTACK, and guitarist Hansi Müller decided to form a Thrash Metal-band, and to name it PROTECTOR. They teamed up with bass player Michael Schnabel, started writing songs and rehearsing them at Michaels parents little summer-cottage in a village called Heiligendorf just outside of Wolfsburg. In November '86 they went into the White Lines Studio in nearby Braunschweig, where they recorded a demo that contained the two songs ”Protector of Death” and ”Apocalyptic Revolution”.

In the beginning of 1987 Ede Belichmeier replaced Michael Schnabel on bass, and some weeks later vocalist Martin Missy joined the band. Just a few months after that PROTECTOR got in contact with Atom H, a new-formed record company, that had been started by Jürgen Engler, who, in the beginning of the 80's, had been (and later again would be) a member of the band DIE KRUPPS. In the end of June / beginning of July PROTECTOR entered the White Lines Studio again, this time to record their first vinyl ”Misanthropy”, a 6-track-Mini-LP, that hit the stores in early fall that year. On the 12th of September Protector played their first gig in Eupen/Belgium together with ASSASSIN, and one week later they played their first gig in Germany (Braunschweig) together with SODOM, for whose fan club Michael Hasse, some years earlier, had been in charge of. Gigs with among others MESSIAH and TANKARD followed the same year.

On the 19th of march 1988 Protector performed for the first time in their hometown Wolfsburg at a local Metal-festival. In August, the band recorded their first longplayer ”Golem” (the title-track was inspired by the jewish myth with the same name) at the Phoenix Studio in Bochum. Some weeks later, on the 3rd of September 1988, the band played their second gig with SODOM, this time in Bamberg, where SODOMS singer Tom Angelripper performed the song ”Spacecake” together with PROTECTOR for the first and only time.

In the beginning of 1989 vocalist Martin Missy left PROTECTOR due to psychological problems caused by smoking hash, and was replaced by Oliver Wiebel. In March / April the same year PROTECTOR went on their first tour, together with the american band WEHRMACHT, through Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. On the 22nd of April '89 the band played their biggest gig ever at the ”Metalmania” festival in Katowice/Poland in front of thousands of enthusiastic fans, and back in Germany PROTECTOR entered the stage together with KREATOR, RAVEN and TANKARD in Braunschweig on the 1st of May. In the summer of '89 Martin Missy joined the band again, and PROTECTOR recorded their second LP ”Urm the Mad” (the title-track was inspired by the comic ”Le fou” by Phillipe Druillet) at the Phoenix Studio in Bochum. On the 27th of November PROTECTOR played at the Popkomm in Düsseldorf, together with among others RAGE, and shortly after that gig Martin Missy was once again, and this time finally, replaced by Oliver Wiebel.

In may of 1990 Protector went into the Phoenix Studio for the third time, where they recorded the 4-track-Mini-LP ”Leviathan's Desire”. In april PROTECTOR played at the ”Metalmania festival” again, and they also did a gig in Prague with KREATOR. On the 2nd of June 1990 PROTECTOR performed on the Rock Hard festival in Lichtenfels, together with RUNNING WILD, SEPULTURA, TANKARD and SACRED REICH. In autumn that year the band went on tour together with the brittish band NAPALM DEATH.

Vocalist Oliver Wiebel took over the guitar as well after that Hansi Müller had left the band in the beginning of 1991. Shortly afterwards, Ede Belichmeier was replaced by Matze Grün. That same year PROTECTORs third longplayer ”A Shedding of Skin” was released by Major Records. ”A Shedding of Skin” was recorded at Music Lab Berlin, and produced by Harris Johns, who, among others, earlier had produced SODOM, KREATOR and VOIVOD. In fall that year PROTECTOR hit the road together with FUNERAL NATION and RAVENOUS. Unfortunately that tour had to be cancelled after only one gig.

After two shows with INCUBATOR and TORCHURE in the beginning of 1992, the last remaining member of the original line-up, Michael Hasse, was replaced by Marco Pape. Shortly afterwards PROTECTOR went on tour together with D.V.C. and CRUSHER. On the 2nd of May '92 Marco, Matze and Olly played an open air-gig in Istanbul/Turkey together with HOLE IN THE WALL and the turkish PENTAGRAM.

In June of the year 1993 PROTECTOR recorded their fourth studio LP ”The Heritage”, which was produced by Tim Buktu and released by Major Records, at the T & T Studio in Gelsenkirchen.

On the 26th of february 1994, PROTECTOR played their last gig (in Wolfsburg) in the formation Oliver Wiebel, Matze Grün and Marco Pape. The band decided to take a break, and to start up the band again after a year.

In September 1994 Michael Hasse tragically died, and was laid to rest on the Nordfriedhof in Wolfsburg.

In 1995 Major Records released a compilation-CD with 16 tracks named ”Lost in Eternity”.

When the above mentioned ”sabbatical year” was over, only drummer Marco Pape was still interested and motivated enough to start up the band again. Around 1997 he had found a permanent linup, which included Matthias Lindner on bass, Jacek Zander on vocals and Hendrik Bache on guitar. This lineup recorded a four-track-demo named ”Resurrected” in 1999, which was released in 2000. Although the band very rarely performed live after 1994, hadn't recorded an album since 1993 and permanently struggled to find a constant line-up, PROTECTOR still existed until about 2002/2003. The final concert of this lineup was on the ”Hell on Earth” festival in Vienna / Austria in 2001. After this the band slowly but surely broke up, and it became quiet around PROTECTOR..

On the 26th of March 2005 the swedish Black Metal band NIFELHEIM played a gig in Stockholm, which former PROTECTOR-singer Martin Missy attended, and he also went to a party at the flat of one of NIFELHEIMs guitarists after the show. At this party he met ultra-Metalhead Jonas Svensson. The two discussed about oldschool Metal in general and the old german Thrashband PROTECTOR in particular. The idea came up to form a PROTECTOR-coverband, with Martin on vocals. Jonas went back to his hometown Uddevalla and recruited Mathias Johansson (bass, vocals in SUICIDAL WINDS and AXIS POWERS), Michael Carlsson (guitar, also in MASTEMA) and Carl-Gustav Karlsson (drums, also in -among others- GRIEF OF EMERALD and MASTEMA) for the coverband MARTIN MISSY & THE PROTECTORS. Between 2006 and 2011 the band played 24 gigs in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Czech Republic, Italy and Germany.

The band focused on playing PROTECTOR-coversongs live during the first five years of its existance, with the exception of the song ”Sepulchral Voice”, which they recorded for the SODOM-tributealbum ”In the Sign of Sodom” (released by Hells Headbangers) in 2007.

On the 8th of October 2011 MARTIN MISSY AND THE PROTECTORS announced on the ”Way of Darkness” festival in Lichtenfels / Germany that they from that date on officially would continue under the name PROTECTOR. On the same festival a 4-track rehearsal-demo ("The Return of Thrash and Madness", recorded in August 2011) was released and one of the songs ("Road Rage") was also played live by the band that evening.

In 2012 the Return of Thrash and Madness-demo was released on vinyl by Undercover Records and in the same year PROTECTOR recorded a song (”The Dimholt”) for a splitsingle with ERAZOR (also released on Undercover Records).

In may 2013 PROTECTOR recorded ”Reanimated Homunculus”, its first studio-album in 20 years, in the Sunlight Studio outside of Stockholm. It was produced by Tomas Skogsberg. ”Reanimated Homunculus” will released by High Roller Records on the 13th of September 2013.