Shameful
| Shameful | |
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 Thomas Lindner, Anna Katharina Kränzlein, Martin Duckstein, Matthias Richter, Stefan Brunner, Birgit Muggenthaler (from left to right) |
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| General information | |
| origin | Groebenzell , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Folk rock , medieval rock |
| founding | 1998 |
| Website | www.schandmaul.de |
| Founding members | |
| Thomas Lindner | |
| Anna Katharina Kränzlein (until 2017) | |
| Stefan Brunner | |
Electric guitar , acoustic guitar |
Martin Christoph "Ducky" Duckstein |
| Birgit Muggenthaler | |
Electric bass , mandolin , hurdy-gurdy, vocals |
Hubert "Hubsi" Widmann (until 2002) |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, accordion, guitar, piano
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Thomas Lindner |
Drums, percussion, vocals |
Stefan Brunner |
| Martin Christoph "Ducky" Duckstein | |
Shepherd's pipe, shawms, Rauschpfeife, flutes, bagpipes, accordion, singing |
Birgit Muggenthaler-Schmack |
Electric bass, double bass , fretless bass
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Matthias "Hiasl" Richter (since 2002) |
Violin, hurdy-gurdy, vocals |
Saskia Forkert (since 2018) |
| former members | |
Electric bass , mandolin , hurdy-gurdy, vocals |
Hubert "Hubsi" Widmann (until 2002) |
| Anna Katharina Kränzlein (until 2017) | |
| Guest musician | |
Violin, hurdy-gurdy, vocals |
Ally Storch (2012-2014, 2017-2018) |
violin |
Tobias "Tobi" Heindl (2012-2014, 2017) |
Bagpipes |
Kristina Künzel (2012) |
Flutes and pipes |
Benedikt Dreher (2012) |
Violin, vocals |
Saskia Forkert (2017-2018) |
Hurdy gurdy |
Jessica Kondermann (2017) |
Hurdy gurdy |
Stephan Groth (2018) |
Schandmaul is a German-speaking medieval folk rock band from Gröbenzell near Munich .
history
Schandmaul was founded in the summer of 1998 by six musicians from Munich and the surrounding area. The first song I wrote was Teufelsweib . The first concert took place on November 14th, 1998 in Groebenzell in the pub "Die Hexe". After the concert, the musicians recorded a CD that was released on June 1, 1999 with the title Wahre Helden .
On December 7, 2000, the second album Von Spitzbuben and other scoundrels was also released in self-distribution. In the same year the band started working with the concert office of Extratours. In addition, the band was awarded the German Folk Prize in 2000 .
After contact with a record company , Schandmaul was able to re-release Von Spitzbuben und other scoundrels as a remix on October 19, 2001 and Wahre Helden as an album on March 3, 2003 . At the same time there was the first major tour in 2001, with concerts at major festivals such as M'era Luna , Zillo , Wave-Gotik-Treffen . The third CD Narrenkönig was recorded in a professional studio and was released on October 7, 2002. It reached number 70 on the German album charts . The band had already separated from Hubsi Widmann in September 2002, he was bid farewell with "Hubsi" choirs and standing ovations on his last appearance (October 2002, Elserhalle Munich). The new bass player was Matthias Richter, who made his debut with Schandmaul in Meschede on September 22nd, 2002 .
On June 23, 2003 the first live CD and DVD Hexenkessel was released . For this purpose, a concert was recorded in Munich's “New Backstage”, at which Michael Robert Rhein from In Extremo had a brief appearance as a guest singer. The Hexenkessel CD reached number 52 in the German album charts.
Wie Pech & Schwefel hit record stores on April 26, 2004 - the first studio album with Matthias Richter on bass and a chart success: 13th place. A tour of over 80 festivals and concerts followed through the entire German-speaking Europe. In the same year the band performed for the first time at the Wacken Open Air . At the end of the year, the band organized the “Funkenflug Festival” in Munich for the first time. In the following year, the band's biggest project to date was launched: an acoustic tour, without an electric guitar, but with a string quartet and additional percussion and finally in April 2005 a concert in Munich's Circus Krone , accompanied by the Puchheim youth chamber orchestra and supported by numerous guest musicians from other bands (including Castus and Wim from Corvus Corax on the bagpipes and Oliver Sa Tyr from Faun on the Celtic harp , who in 2004 set up a folk project called Sava with Birgit Muggenthaler ). This concert was recorded and released shortly afterwards on July 25, 2005 on DVD and CD under the title Kunststück . The CD reached number 12 on the album charts and the live DVD even reached number 3 on the DVD charts. In 2011, the band received the gold record for the DVD . In addition, on June 20, 2005, Schandmaul's first maxi single, entitled I'm on the move, hit record stores, with live recordings from the Circus Krone concert. Also in 2005, the male Schandmaulmitglieder reactivated with Regicide - keyboarder Heiner Jaspers rock band Weto . Further concerts, some with a string orchestra , but also, as usual, with the rock set followed; a collaboration with the German Center for Music Therapy Research was decided.
On March 31, 2006 another album with the title Mit Leib und Seele was released . This album made it as the first Schandmaul album in the top 10 of the German album charts and for the first time in the charts of Austria and Switzerland. In September 2007 the band received the Bavarian rock prize Pick Up for their young talent project "Newcomermusic".
The album Anderswelt was released on April 4, 2008 and entered the German album charts at number eight. A two-month tour followed. On November 14th, 2008 an anniversary concert for the 10th anniversary of the band took place in the Munich Zenith with 7,000 fans. Here the band u. a. supported by guest musicians Ms. Schmitt from Subway to Sally as well as Benni Cellini and Muttis Stolz from the last instance . During the three and a half hour concert, pieces from all albums and phases of her career were played. On the occasion of this anniversary concert, the live DVD and CD Sinnfonie , which were released on April 24, 2009, were recorded. This year Schandmaul was also nominated for the Echo Music Prize.
A club tour originally planned for 2010 was canceled because the band took a break after long and complex tours in order to be able to calmly produce a new album. There were no concerts that year. The following album, Traumtänzer , was released on January 28, 2011, followed by a tour, and reached number four, the highest chart rating in the history of the band.
On August 30th and 31st, 2013, the band celebrated their 15th anniversary at the Tanzbrunnen in Cologne with an anniversary festival in front of 12,000 spectators, in which Saltatio Mortis , Fiddler's Green , Omnia , Die Kammer , Versengold and Lyriel also took part. Schandmaul himself appeared on both days, repeating the feat concert from 2005 with a string orchestra on August 30 , supplemented by several new titles, and playing a rock show on August 31. At the same time, the best of album So far - so good was released on August 30th .
The next - published in different versions - studio album, Infinity was released on January 24, 2014 after a change of record company on the Universal label and includes 15 tracks. The album reached number 2 in the German album charts and was nominated for the Echo. It was the band's most successful album to date, as it had the highest chart positions of all Schandmaul albums in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and was also in the charts for the longest. The album was also awarded the gold record. Schandmaul worked with the bands Russkaja and Fiddler's Green on the track “Der Teufel…” and with Stefan Dettl , the singer of the band LaBrassBanda , on the acoustic version of the song “Kaspar” . The longest song the band had ever released was represented with the almost seven-minute song “Märchenmond”. Already on January 10th, the title “Euch zum Geleit” was released as a preliminary single. This was mainly sold as an mp3 version, with the exception of a strictly limited, hand-signed Digibook edition. In addition, the first music video intended for distribution was released, also entitled “You for guidance”.
Since 2013, the band has devoted itself increasingly to producing children's songs in the typical Schandmaul style. After the band performed on the children's song compilation Der Süd rocks! was represented with a cover song , the album Schandmäulchens Abenteuer , published on October 17, 2014, was recorded in the same year , which contains a children's song and a radio play CD as well as a picture story. In 2014 Schandmaul also contributed a cover song to the children's song CD Giraffenaffen 3 .
On April 17th, 2015, a new version of the Infinite album, the so-called re-edition, was released. In addition to the original titles from the album, this contains four Schandmaul titles from the film Mara and the Fire Bringer . On September 4, 2015, the band performed in front of 12,000 spectators on the open-air stage of the Loreley for the 20th anniversary of the band In Extremo at their festival 20 True Years . In November and December 2015 the band went on an acoustic tour, where they were their own opening act under the name "Schandmäulchen" and as such performed the radio play and the music of Schandmäulchen's adventure .
In 2016 Schandmaul accompanied Unheilig on their farewell tour. The album LeuchtFeuer was then released in several versions on September 16, 2016. With the album, the band reached number 1 in the German album charts for the first time. On the album, the singer Tarja Turunen takes part in the song "For Two Alone". Heiner Jaspers ( Weto , Regicide ) is involved as a pianist on the song “Tjark Evers” .
After a last joint appearance at the Feuertal Festival on August 26, 2017, Anna Katharina Kränzlein left the band. During the “Von Leuchtfeuern und other scoundrels 2017” tour in autumn / winter 2017, the violin was temporarily played by Tobias “Tobi” Heindl from Fiddler's Green, who had already helped out at Schandmaul in 2012 and 2014, and by Saskia Forkert from the trio Ganaim taken over. The hurdy-gurdy was played by Jessica Kondermann ( Krayenzeit ) during the tour . The following year, Ally Storch (Subway to Sally), who had also played the violin as a guest from 2012 to 2014, and Saskia Forkert played both the violin and the hurdy-gurdy at the concerts. The album Artus , which was released in 2019, was recorded with Stephan Groth (Faun) on the hurdy-gurdy in the same year .
On November 16 and 17, 2018, the band celebrated their 20th anniversary festival in Cologne. The band performed on both days, with the band Fiddler's Green performing on November 16 in the sold-out Lanxess Arena in Cologne and at their own concert by musicians from the bands Saltatio Mortis, Subway to Sally, Fiddler's Green, Versengold, last instance and Russkaja and were supported by Tommy Krappweis. On the following day Schandmaul performed again in the E-Werk . In the course of this concert, the band announced that the violinist of their supporting band Ganaim, Saskia Forkert, Schandmaul is now officially a permanent member of the band.
On May 3, 2019, the band released the album Artus in several versions. The bonus CD contains several tracks in an orchestral guise. A recording of the anniversary concert on November 16, 2018 on DVD is included in the album's limited fan box.
style
In addition to the classic instruments of rock music (bass, drums, acoustic and electric guitar), the band uses various instruments of medieval music such as shawm , hurdy-gurdy , flute , pipe , bagpipe , cister and lute . Typical folk instruments such as the violin and accordion are also an integral part of their music. The market bagpipe typical of medieval rock , on the other hand, is not used. Schandmaul see themselves mainly influenced by folk and rock , the Middle Ages play a rather minor role according to their own admission.
The texts are written in German and sometimes have a medieval coloring in syntax and choice of words. They often tell little stories that are mostly embedded in a medieval world. Kings, fools, minstrels ( The minstrel ), certain artifacts ( The Talisman ) or taverns ( drinking song ) appear in the texts. In these cases, the narratives (e.g. due to the narrative style ) look like fairy tales or legends .
In the course of the band's history, the style of music and the lyrics have changed. Musically medieval and folk instruments predominate on the first albums and the lyrics are almost without exception medieval in color. On the newer albums you can find more "harder" sounds, which is expressed, for example, in the use of a more dominant electric guitar. In addition, it can be seen in the texts that the Middle Ages motif is no longer so often the explicit focus and the medieval elements are sometimes dispensed with in terms of language. The latter in particular may also be related to the fact that all band members have contributed lyrics on newer albums.
For the first time, text passages in other languages are included on the 2014 album “Infinite”; specifically: The eponymous line “In Nomine” ( Latin ) and the repetition of the chorus in the song “Der Teufel ...” in Russian (contributed by the band Russkaja) and English (Fiddler's Green) as well as in “Der Teufel 2.4 Internationale version 2015 "titled music video in addition in Spanish (Random), Finnish (Dark Sarah), Polish (decision), French (Les Forbans D'Armorique), Italian (Merendine), Czech (Interitus) and Schwiizerdütsch (Proelium Mortem).
Discography
Studio albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
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| 1999 | True Heroes Self-Distribution (1999) / FAME Artist Recordings (2003) |
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First published: June 1, 1999
New publication: March 3, 2003 |
| 2000 | From rascals and other scoundrels self-distribution (2000) / FAME Artist Recordings (2001) |
- | - | - |
First published: December 7th, 2000
Remix: October 19th, 2001 |
| 2002 | Narrenkönig F.AME Artist Recordings |
DE70 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
First published: October 7, 2002
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| 2004 | Like Pech & Schwefel F.AME Artist Recordings |
DE13 (6 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: April 26, 2004
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| 2006 | With body and soul F.AME Artist Recordings |
DE10 (10 weeks) DE |
AT62 (1 week) AT |
CH99 (1 week) CH |
First published: March 31, 2006
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| 2008 |
Anderswelt F.AME Artist Recordings |
DE8 (15 weeks) DE |
AT43 (3 weeks) AT |
CH44 (3 weeks) CH |
First published: April 4, 2008
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| 2011 |
Dream dancer F.AME Artist Recordings |
DE4th  (11 weeks)DE |
AT10 (5 weeks) AT |
CH36 (3 weeks) CH |
First published: Jan 28, 2011
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2014 | Infinite Vertigo / Capitol ( Universal Music ) |
DE2 (16 weeks)DE |
AT6 (6 weeks) AT |
CH23 (4 weeks) CH |
First published: Jan 24, 2014
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2016 | LeuchtFeuer Vertigo / Capitol (Universal Music) |
DE1 (9 weeks) DE |
AT8 (2 weeks) AT |
CH21 (2 weeks) CH |
First published: September 16, 2016
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| 2019 | Artus Vertigo (Universal Music) |
DE2 (10 weeks) DE |
AT11 (2 weeks) AT |
CH20 (1 week) CH |
First published: May 3, 2019
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bibliography
The band has published several song books:
- 2004: Songbook I - A selection of songs (86 pages)
- 2006: Songbook II - With Body and Soul (176 pages)
- 2008: 10 years Schandmaul (144 pages)
- 2011: Dream Dancer - Songbook (80 pages)
- 2014: The Songbook (254 pages)
Awards
- 2000: German Folk Promotion Prize
- 2007: Bavarian Rock Prize PICK UP
- 2009: Nominated for ECHO Pop (Group National - Rock / Alternative)
- 2014: Nominated for ECHO Pop (Group National - Rock / Alternative)
- 2017: Nominated for ECHO Pop (Rock National)
Trivia
The song "Vogelfrei" is part of the soundtrack of the 2002 real-time strategy game " Robin Hood - The Legend of Sherwood ". The band composed the song especially for the game.
In 2006 the band contributed the song "Magda Treadgolds Märchen" to the Neil Gaiman tribute album Where's Neil When You Need Him . The song is about an episode of the Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman.
Since 2006, the band has supported the German Center for Music Therapy at the Heidelberg University of Applied Sciences for several years. The band made ringtones available for download on their website. The band donated the first proceeds from the campaign to patients who cannot afford therapy. On September 22nd, 2007 Schandmaul played a benefit concert in Heidelberg together with the band last instance and the singer Eric Fish from Subway to Sally .
The booklet of the Anderswelt album , including an enclosed poster, was illustrated by the Munich painter Thomas von Kummant.
On the Anderswelt Tour 2008, the intro of the radio play series Gabriel Burns , spoken by Hans Paetsch , was recorded at the beginning of some concerts .
In the songs “Der Junge Sigfrid” from the album Von Spitzbuben und other scoundrels , “Drachentöter” from Wie Pech und Schwefel and “Krieger” from the album Anderswelt , the band takes on the material of the Nibelung saga . On the CD / DVD album Sinnfonie all three songs are brought together as a "dragon medley ". On the best-of album So Weit - So gut , the three songs are combined under the title “Sigfrid Trilogy”. The song "Tree of Life" from the album Infinite is about the story of Sigfrid's parents.
On the 2011 album Traumtänzer the song “Geas Traum” relates to the novel Infinity by Wolfgang Hohlbein (published in February 2011). The accompanying music video, which is Schandmaul's first, contains as an intro a passage from the book spoken by Hohlbein.
The song "Until Dawn" is, similar to the book of the same name, about a love between vampire and human.
The band has been supporting the Viva con Agua water initiative since 2011 . For this purpose she has u. a. on June 2, 2011 a charity soccer game of her team “1. SC Handmaul “against an all-star team organized by Viva Con Agua, where the 1st SC Handmaul u. a. Members of Schandmaul, Sportfreunde Stiller , Killerpilzen , LaBrassBanda , Fiddlers Green and In Extremo played.
In the total conversion to the game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion , Nehrim - On the Edge of Fate you can find posters of the band all over the world. They even have an appearance with the song "Leb!"
In 2012 Schandmaul were on the benefit CD “ The South rocks! ” With the song “Ritterfest” . Represented in favor of the Association for the Promotion of Children with Cancer and Disabled Children in East Bavaria; On the CD, Bavarian musicians and cabaret artists present Donikkl songs in their own interpretations.
In 2012 Schandmaul had a brief guest appearance in the tenth and final episode of the Dragonbound radio play series . They are announced there as a live band and contribute their title "Dein Anblick".
From 2012 to 2014 Schandmaul worked with Ally Storch , who represented Anna Katharina Kränzlein during her pregnancy at the 2012 concerts. In 2013 she performed with Schandmaul at the acoustic concerts, especially at the anniversary concert in the Tanzbrunnen in Cologne . In 2014 she was supposed to take over the pregnancy replacement for Anna Katharina Kränzlein. After the first three concerts, however, she was also due to pregnancy and was represented during the rest of the tour by Tobias "Tobi" Heindl from Fiddler's Green , who had already stood in for Anna Katharina Kränzlein at several concerts in 2012.
In 2012, Birgit Muggenthaler-Schmack was represented at Schandmaul concerts during her pregnancy by the bagpiper Kristina Künzel and Benedikt Dreher ( Zwielicht ) on the flutes and pipes.
In 2013, Thomas Lindner and Martin Duckstein provided the title topic for the Dark Future radio play series “HumAnemy” from the radio play label Lindenblatt Records and are also involved as speakers. The singer has a leading role with "Lennart, the chameleon". The guitarist can only be heard in the first episode. The founder and owner of Lindenblatt Records is Stefan Lindner, the brother of Schandmaul singer Thomas Lindner.
The CD So weit - So gut or the first CD of the double CD of the same name contains three new tracks, without exception, new recordings of older tracks by the band.
The song "Saphira" from the album Infinite refers to the Eragon novels by Christopher Paolini .
On July 26th, 2014 the band performed a musical with many shameful songs together with the sunshine4kids initiative at the Travemuender Week . A second performance of the musical took place on April 30, 2016 in Sprockhövel .
As a narrator, Thomas Lindner guides you through the story between the 11 songs on the 2014 album Der Punch by the Munich band apRon.
On the radio play CD of the album Schandmäulchens Abenteuer all male voices are spoken by Thomas Lindner and all female voices are spoken by Angelina Jolie - voice actress Claudia Urbschat-Mingues , who also speaks the greeting of the Tagesschau .
Schandmaul contributed four songs to the soundtrack of the film Mara and the Fire Bringer , which was released in cinemas in 2015 and subsequently released on DVD / Blu-ray . They have worked with the Babelsberg film orchestra and the director of the film, Tommy Krappweis , who is a guest singer .
A Schandmaul mead has been available since 2015 , the six flavors of which are named after Schandmaul songs.
Bassist Matthias Richter took part in an episode of the VOX series The Perfect Celebrity Dinner on May 28, 2015 .
The medieval rock band Feuerschwanz has Schandmaul song masters of the winds with altered text gecovert and overall published three times, namely on their debut album nocte Prima (2005), the live album Dragon Dance Live (2008) and finally to the live DVD 10 years of Feuerschwanz live (2015), in which Thomas Lindner participates and sings the original text.
In 2016 Sonic Seducer published the limited Schandmaul Chronicle . This contains revised articles about the band that have been published in Sonic Seducer magazine during the existence of the band, as well as new photo material.
On December 31, 2016, the television broadcaster KiKA broadcast two episodes of the Bernd das Brot series Bernd Channel with the subtitle Singt das Brot! in which Schandmaul has a guest appearance. In episode 6 sing the bread! - I say no , Bernd meets with Schandmaul and sings the song I say no with the band .
On May 27, 2017, Schandmaul performed at the German Evangelical Church Congress 2017 in Berlin in front of the Brandenburg Gate . It was the band's first concert after a six-month concert break; the last concert before the break also took place in Berlin.
On July 19, 2017, Schandmaul organized a live streaming concert together with Versengold and Mr. Hurley & Die Pulveraffen , in which each band covered a song of the other two .
The cover of the album Artus was designed by Schandmaul singer Thomas Lindner.
literature
- Thomas Vogel (editor and production manager): Schandmaul Chronik . Thomas Vogel Media eK, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95897-046-5 .
Web links
- Works by and about Schandmaul in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website
- Facebook site
- Schandmaul at laut.de
- Schandmaul at Discogs (English)
- Schandmaul on MusicBrainz (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ allmusic.de: Schandmaul receives PICK UP
- ↑ metal1.info Prelistening Special
- ↑ Review by Popshot (German, accessed June 28, 2013)