Asgardsrei (EP)
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1999 |
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CD |
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Title (number) |
5 |
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running time |
27 min 22 s |
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Studio (s) |
Eagle Notch Studio, Isengard Studio |
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Asgardsrei is a mini album by the NSBM band Absurd . It was financed in 1999 by Steffen Zopf, the operator of the No Colors Records label , and operated under the fictitious label IG Farben Produktion - the name of which is an allusion to IG Farben , which was entangled with the Nazi regime and which was mainly caused by the production of the toxic substance Zyklon B. became known is - published. It was the last Absurd album to include members of the original line-up. It was indexed in September 2010 .
Track list
- .... life is war, war is life .... - 4:06
- Asgardess - 3:38
- Crux gammata - 2:54
- Germania above all - 10:09
- Sun Knight - 7:04
Some new releases also have one or more of the following titles:
- For Germania - 4:03
- Death Before Sunrise - 2:41
- When the old were still young - 2:44
- Vampires - 4:20
The track Vampire was first released in 1998 on the No Colors Records Compilation Vol. 2 .
Background and content
The material was written in 1996 and 1998 and except for the intro .... Life is War, War is Life .... and Sun Knight was recorded in November 1998 in the Adlerskerbe studio. Asgardsrei is seen by Hendrik Möbus as the first "holistic" work, which was also "coordinated" in terms of concept and layout. For him, the work means turning away from the musical dilettantism of the first publications. His brother Ronald, however, said in an interview that the EP suffered “from a totally screwed up final mix”.
The name Åsgårdsrei comes from Germanic mythology and describes the Scandinavian version of the wild hunt . According to the statements of the volume in the booklet, the term Asgardsrei denotes a divine, Germanic warriorism, which is said to have manifested itself in the Knights Templar , the German Knights of the Order and the Waffen SS during the Middle Ages and modern times in Europe . Part of the Asgardsrei are " Aryan values and skills" to ensure the survival of the race and the "holy blood". Asgardsrei openly shows the right-wing extremist attitude of the band, which propagates a neo-paganism mixed with the racial teachings of National Socialism .
In the run-up to this, Wolftower Productions released the cassette Sonnenritter , which was intended solely for promotion, with the titles Germanien über alles , When the old were young and Crux gammata . In addition, a limited edition of 88 copies of the EP was released; 88 stands in the right-wing extremist symbolism for the Hitler salute . The mastering of the EP was carried out by Peter Kubik from the band Abigor , for whom Hendrik Möbus wrote the lyrics in 1995.
The intro .... life is war, war is life .... , which combines industrial / ambient with marching rhythms, was composed and recorded by Rob Darken of the Polish band Graveland . The song Crux gammata (Latin for ' swastika ') is instrumental, in the background the speech of a National Socialist politician and the speech of Otto Ernst Remer , which he gave on July 20, 1944 in front of the guard battalion “Greater Germany” in Berlin . The text of Germania over everything glorifies the time of National Socialism and propagates a "Greater Germanic Empire" that has existed "for eons" "from East to Engeland / From the Arctic, from the Arctic Ocean to the southern edge of the Alps". The title song Asgardsrei glorifies death on the battlefield . The song Sonnenritter was written by Hendrik Möbus during his imprisonment; then he sent it to Josef Maria Klumb , who edited the text slightly and sang it, while Raymond Plummer from his band Von Thronstahl composed the music; marching and industrial / ambient elements mix here as well. According to his own statements, Klumb knew neither about Möbus' right-wing extremist sentiments nor about the Sondershausen murder .
Presentation
The cover of the first pressing shows warriors armed with swords during an attack. The logo on the cover has taken the pentagram a curved around Swastika, the inverse cross was a Mjölnir replaced.
The booklet of the first pressing contains the lyrics and the text A Call to Arms ... , an essay by Varg Vikernes . It is illustrated by photographs and drawings from the Third Reich . Where a swastika appeared in the original images, it was replaced by the logo of the All-Germanic Pagan Front , which depicts Wotan's eye. On the back of the booklet there is the command “Fight and win for a united Greater Germany” in runes .
There are various reprints of the Asgardsrei album, which mostly contain additional songs and are equipped with alternative covers. A new edition published by the US label Resistance Records shows an SS officer on the CD print in front of a drum on which the words "Adolf Hitler Standarte" are written, as well as a sea of swastika flags on the inlay with the text "Absurd hails all those who believes in the 14 Words “ . An LP “special version” limited to 100 copies, which was released on the Polish label Wolftower Productions, shows an SS skull as a front motif and a photo of Adolf Hitler as a gatefold design. In the cassette version published on the same label, the pentagram of the logo was exchanged for a black swastika on a red (cover) or white (inlay) background.
Publications
- 1999, IG Farben production (CD)
- 1999, Wolftower Productions (12 "vinyl and cassette)
- 2002, Resistance Records (CD)
- 2004, Valknut Records (Digipak CD)
- 2004, World Terror Committee (12 "vinyl, picture disc )
- 2006, Hammerbund (CD)
- 2008, Nebelfee Klangwerke (CD)
- 2012, Strong Survive Records (CD, Remaster )
- 2012, Satanic Skinhead Propaganda (12 "vinyl)
- 2012, Totenkopf Propaganda (CD, Remaster)
- 2016, IG Farben production (12 "vinyl)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Dornbusch / Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism, rat (series of anti-fascist texts), Unrast Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2005, p. 150
- ↑ BAnz. No. 148 of September 30, 2010.
- ^ Moynihan, Michael / Søderlind, Didrik: Lords of Chaos, Zeltingen-Rachtig: ProMedia, 2002 ISBN 3-936878-00-5 , p. 311ff.
- ↑ Interview with the Fanzine Sheol-Mag , archive on oocities.com
- ↑ ABSURD Discography ( Memento of July 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ CD entry at Discogs
- ↑ Supplement to the album Nachthymnen (From the Twilight Kingdom) , CD, 1995, Napalm Records : "All lyrics by Abigor, except" The Dark Kiss "by JFN."
- ↑ Mention on the back of the inlay: “Intro was composed and recorded by Rob Darken in the ISENGARD studio. Hail to you!"
- ↑ a b Text on Germania about everything in the booklet of the CD.
- ↑ Interview with Josef Maria Klumb ( Memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Images at CultMetal ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (currently with incorrect image display).
- ↑ Figure in: Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe : RechtsRock - Made in Thuringia . State Center for Political Education Thuringia, 2006, ISBN 3-937967-08-7 , p. 71.
