The two German musicians and producers Harald Neumann (guitar, vocals) and Hellmuth Opitz (guitar, harmonica, vocals) from Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia formed the two-man band Target in the late 1970s. In 1979, the duo decided to release an album independently. With the support of guitarists Jürgen Schildmann and Ulrich Schultz, as well as Wolfgang Hafner on bass and drummer Matthias Schrumpf, they recorded their debut album When Silent Rebels Rise on 27 and 28 October 1979 at the Toncooperative in Hanover.

It opens with „Something in the Night“, a cover of the Bruce Springsteen classic, followed by „You Ain’t Going Nowhere“, a Bob Dylan cover, and features guitar-heavy (four guitarists!), hard-hitting and bluesy Krautrock with English lyrics. The private pressing was released in 1979 in a handmade white sleeve with a glued-on photo and an accompanying lyric sheet, in a mini-run of just 40 (!) copies, and went completely unnoticed. The two musicians subsequently went their separate ways, and Target therefore remained one of numerous German bands that vanished entirely into oblivion. To this day, their first and only LP has not been reissued, making it virtually impossible to find a copy.