Emil
| Emil | |
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| General information | |
| origin | Hamburg , Germany |
| Genre (s) | German punk , crossover , hardcore punk |
| founding | 1985, 2011 |
| resolution | 1998, 2013 |
| Website | http://www.emils.info/ |
| Current occupation | |
| Oliver Makris | |
| Sven Carstens | |
| Carsten Zisowsky | |
singing |
Ille |
| former members | |
Electric bass |
Thomas |
Drums |
Norbert |
Emils was a Hamburg crossover band that was founded in 1985, disbanded in 1998, reunited in 2011 and finally disbanded in 2013.
history
The band was founded in March 1985 and consisted of the singer and guitarist Oliver Makris, the bass player Sven Carstens, the drummer Carsten Zisowsky and the singer Ille. Between 1981 and 1984 all members, except for drummer Zisowsky, were active in other bands. The group got its name from the band Slime , whose name reads backwards to be Emils. As a result, the band developed their first songs and held their first performance on April 12, 1986. Other appearances followed, along with groups like Napalm Death , Die Goldenen Zitronen and Razzia . After the band had released a first demo in March 1987, the label We Bite Records became aware of the band and signed them. In October the debut album Fight Together For ... was recorded and mixed in the Hildesheim Masterplan Studio under the direction of Stefan Grujic . After the recordings, a four-week European tour followed and played together with Attitude Adjustment . In January 1988 the album was released on LP and a year later on CD . The CD version of the album included the songs Noiseless Scream and Legal Murderers as bonuses. Both songs were already included in 1988 on the Hamburg '88 sampler from Bitzcore Records . In February 1988 the band also performed at the Thrash Against Apartheid Festival in the Bochum colliery together with The Idiots , Darkness and Violent Force . The festival was organized by The Idiots singer Sir Hannes Schmidt and was in favor of the victims of the South African apartheid government.
In March 1989 the band returned to the Masterplan Studio to record the second album Es geht uns gut . The album also contained a cover version of The Buttocks song No No No , for which the Buttocks singer Mike Stanger was actually intended. In the July issue of Rock Hard , the band could be heard on the Flexidisc supplement with the song Such him . The band could also be heard on a Flexidisc in the Trust . In October 1989 the band went on a three-week European tour with Gorilla Biscuits . In September 1990 the band returned to the Masterplan Studio to produce the album Wer frisst wen? record. In October also the sampler appeared Festival of Volxmusik on which the band with the song Church no was included. In addition, a music video was created for this song, which could be seen in the youth program Ragazzi on RTL . The video was shot in Cologne . At Christmas time 1990, We Bite Records asked the band to be photographed in Christmas costumes. When the group refused, however, the relationship between label and band deteriorated.
From mid-March 1991 the band went on tour together with Suckspeed from Hanover and Capitol Punishment from Fresno . During the tour, the single No Blood for Oil was released due to the then current First Gulf War . In the first days of the tour, Markis got into a fight in the Hamburg pub Lemitz, in which he broke his hand, which put the tour in danger for a short time. However, since live recordings were planned for the live split release We Bite Live in Osnabrücker Hyde Park and video recordings in the Zeche Carl in Essen and in the factory in Coesfeld , Markis decided not to end the tour early and to select songs that he could play despite his broken hand. After completing the tour, he had to undergo an operation because his hand was broken. After his recovery, the band went to the studio to overdubs for We Bite Live for Markis 'guitar playing, as We Bite Records was not satisfied with the recordings so far, mainly due to Markis' injury. Then the live split release, which also featured Capitol Punishment and Suckspeed, was released. In summer the band also played on the Viva! St. Pauli Benefit Festival in the Millerntor Stadium . After the release of We Bite Live , the band took a break.
At the beginning of 1993 the band began to write new songs and in June they went to the Hamburg White Noise Studio with producer Joszi Sorokowski, with whom they had already worked for No Blood for Oil , to record twelve new songs. These were released as an album under the name Licht am Horizont . In December, the band went back to the studio to record the song The Other Newest One , which was found on the sampler Strange Notes! A Germs cover compilation from Bitzcore Records was included. A tour with English Dogs was planned for the beginning of 1994, but it had to be canceled because drummer Zisowsky suffered a sudden hearing loss after two concerts . In October he then left the band. In 1994 Deutscher W. , the singer of the band OHL , was invited to the stage as a guest singer and they played old songs together.
In January 1995, after Zisowsky's departure, the Slovak Norbert joined the band as the new drummer. After a few rehearsals, the band went into the studio to record the best-of album The Black Spot in order to fulfill the ongoing contract with We Bite Records for an album. The title and album cover were inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson 's novel Treasure Island . The cover was designed by Carsten Bols. After the release, the band split from their label.
In December 1995 they went on tour with Peter and the Test Tube Babies . In the spring of 1996 bassist Sven Carstens left the band. Thomas, the roommate of a friend of the band, came to replace the cast. He had previously worked for Rostok Vampires . The band then began rehearsing and writing new songs at the same time. In July 1997, the CD version of The Black Spot was released late, although the best-of album was supposed to be released for the band's tenth anniversary. At the end of August 1997, the band went to the Masterplan Studio to record the album Partytime . The album was released in November 1997 on Sven Carstens' newly founded label Resistance Productions . In December, the band went on tour with Hate and Third Choice . Several concerts followed in the spring of 1998. In addition, the band recorded six new songs in their practice room, but they were never released. In the late summer of 1998 Thomas announced his departure, whereupon the band split up.
In 2011, Fight Together For ... was re-mastered and re-released with the 1987 demo included as a bonus. Due to the re-release, the band got back together and played concerts again. The band held concerts until June 2013, before it was decided to split up again. The band was active in its founding line-up. In 2016 the band played selected concerts again, such as on October 8th in Bregenz , Austria .
style
According to the band's biography, drummer Zisowsky was heavily influenced by artists such as Keith Moon and Stefan Mahler . The band was heavily influenced by American punk . The texts were kept in German throughout. On the second album Es geht uns geht gut , the group wanted to be more metallic than on the previous album . She dealt with topics such as the social futility under Helmut Kohl's government , genetic engineering , personal issues and criticism of one's own scene. On Anyone who eats? treated the band topics such as personal inconsistency, fast food from McDonald's , concerns one generation to the reunification , money, rape, war and peace, friend or foe. A song in which she deals with racism and the German people coming to terms with the past is also sung in Turkish . The single No Blood for Oil dealt with the then current First Gulf War under the direction of George HW Bush . On the B-side was Deutsch & gut from Wer eats whom? , which dealt critically with the reunification of Germany and at one point contained Helmut Kohl's address on unification. For example, light on the horizon B. in the song '93 about how popular it was to set fire to foreign people and their houses in Germany at the time when people took to the streets and hunted foreigners. Songs like Hype , on the other hand, dealt with the sell-out of the formerly anti-commercial punk scene, while Monopoly dealt with money and the flow of money, globalization and its effects. In addition to punk and hardcore , the band tried to bring in metal and rock influences on the album . At Partytime the band tried to be more punk-heavy again and there was another song in Turkish. The theme of the song is how Turkish society deals with its partially totalitarian system, which kills, imprisons or disappears critical and dissenting people on the street. Other themes on the album are political correctness , police violence , the meaning of life and love.
According to Götz Kühnemund from Metal Hammer , the band played on Fight Together For… hardcore punk with strong metal influences, so it is especially suitable for crossover fans. The music is comparable to that of The Idiots. Except for one song, the lyrics are all in German. Dirk Zumpe from Metal Hammer thought that the band focused on Wer eats whom? too moral, with topics such as fast food, voyeurism , heroin addiction, Germanness, Turkish minorities and war and peace being dealt with. According to Andrea Nieradzik from Metal Hammer , the band played German punk with aggressive lyrics on Licht am Horizont , whereby the band has become more melodic, which is most noticeable in the vocals. Sabine Weisser from Metal Hammer found that the music at Partytime was very aggressive and provocative and dealt with topics such as xenophobia , uprisings against the police and the general inaction of the population.
Abel Gebhardt from Ox-Fanzine counted the band among the pioneers of metal punk or metalcore artists.
Discography
- 1987: Demo '87 (demo, self-published)
- 1988: Fight Together For ... (Album, We Bite Records )
- 1989: We're fine (Album, We Bite Records)
- 1990: who eats whom? (Album, We Bite Records)
- 1991: No Blood for Oil (Single, We Bite Records)
- 1991: We Bite Live (Split with Suckspeed and Capitol Punishment , We Bite Records)
- 1993: Light on the horizon (album, We Bite Records)
- 1995: The Black Spot (compilation, We Bite Records)
- 1997: Partytime (album, Resistance Productions )
- 1998: E (demo, self-published)
Web links
- Official website
- Emil at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Garry Sharpe-Young : AZ of Thrash Metal . Cherry Red Books, London 2002, ISBN 1-901447-09-X , pp. 149 .
- ↑ Thomas Strater: Thrash against Apartheid with: Violent Force Darkness Idiots Emils . Bochum colliery February 28, 1988. In: Metal Hammer . April 1988, p. 113 .
- ↑ a b BIOGRAPHY. emils.info, accessed January 19, 2013 .
- ↑ NEWS - CONCERTS. emils.info, accessed January 19, 2013 .
- ↑ Concert: Never Too Old To Pogo Vol. 2 • DAY I. http://www.between.at , archived from the original on January 6, 2017 ; accessed on January 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Götz Kühnemund : Emils . Fight Together For… In: Metal Hammer . March 1988, p. 160 .
- ↑ Dirk Zumpe: Emils . Who eats whom? In: Metal Hammer . March 1991, p. 94 .
- ↑ Andrea Nieradzik: Emils . Light on the horizon. In: Metal Hammer . December 1993, p. 53 .
- ^ Sabine Weisser: Emils . Party time. In: Metal Hammer . January 1998, p. 78 .
- ↑ Abel Gebhardt: EMILS. "Fight Together For" - Even after all these years ... Ox-Fanzine , accessed on January 19, 2013 .