Amok (band)
| amok | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Right skirt |
| founding | 2004 |
| Founding members | |
| Kevin G. | |
| Thomas Mächler | |
| Marc Weiersmüller | |
| Nathanael Fischer | |
Amok is a Swiss right-wing rock band whose CD Forbidden Truth caused a sensation in the Swiss public.
Band history
The four-piece right-wing rock band was founded in 2004. The members come from Hombrechtikon , Wolfhausen , Siebnen , where the rehearsal room was also located, and Zetzwil . You are part of the Swiss right-wing extremist , violent scene and are close to the Blood and Honor network.
In 2007 they published the CD Forbidden Truth , on which the journalist and politician Hans Stutz was threatened. The journalist from Lucerne is known for his research and reports on the right-wing extremist scene and racism in Switzerland. After the journalist reported the members of the group, the police found the names of the members and seized a songbook with racist and anti-Semitic texts.
When the allegations against the group became known, Thomas Mächler stated that he still stood by the texts today. However, the death threats to Stutz were intended as a “verbal exchange of blows”, but not to be understood as a “serious threat”. Thomas Mächler was represented in court by the well-known lawyer Valentin Landmann , who characterized the members of the group as people who “enjoy a neoconservative attitude and soldierly songs”. "And they sometimes go lavishly wrong in assessing how an unreflected text can work."
The band also stated that they were no longer active. Nevertheless, in 2008 she performed at a Blood and Honor Festival in the Netherlands and in Bümpliz near Bern.
The band members were sentenced on June 2, 2010 for threat and on the basis of the racism criminal norm to fines of 120 to 125 daily rates . Two members of Amok were also convicted of violating the Swiss weapons law .
In 2010 Amok released the second CD Kraft aus dem Herzen , which according to the CD booklet was recorded on the HRD Records label.
In 2015 the new album Das Lumpenpack von Bern and the compilation Lauf gegen das System with material from the first two albums were released.
Discography
- 2007: Forbidden Truth
- 2010: strength from the heart
- 2015: Run against the system (uncontested material from the first two albums, indexed)
- 2015: The rags from Bern
- 2019: Tars & Feathers (indexed)
Web links
- Radical right-wing extremists in Switzerland , report in the Rundschau of Swiss television
Individual evidence
- ↑ Police unmask Swiss neo-Nazi band. Neue Luzerner Zeitung , September 24, 2009, accessed on June 10, 2010 .
- ↑ Stefan Hohler: Racism specialist on CD threatened with death. Tages-Anzeiger , November 8, 2007, archived from the original on June 7, 2010 ; Retrieved June 10, 2010 .
- ^ Frank Speidel: Amok - neo-Nazis from the region. September 25, 2008, accessed June 10, 2010 .
- ↑ Daniel Ryser: Were you the murderer? - Interview with Valentin Landmann. The weekly newspaper , October 9, 2008, accessed on June 10, 2010 .
- ↑ Police unmask Swiss neo-Nazi band. SF Tagesschau , September 24, 2008, accessed June 10, 2010 .
- ↑ Fines against right-wing radical band. Tages-Anzeiger , June 2, 2010, accessed June 10, 2010 .
- ↑ a b BAnz AT 08/30/2019 B6 , double CD from Front Records
- ↑ Martin Sturzenegger: He's already agitating against Jews again . In: Tages-Anzeiger . December 26, 2019, ISSN 1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed December 27, 2019]).
- ↑ BAnz AT March 30, 2020 B10