A fire on the moon
| A fire on the moon | ||||
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| Studio album by Totenmond | ||||
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2001 |
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| Label (s) | Massacre Records | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
17th |
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running time |
33 min 16 s |
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Chris von Rautenkranz |
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Studio (s) |
Soundgarten Studio ( Hamburg ) |
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Auf dem Mond ein Feuer is the fourth album by the German metal band Totenmond and was released in 2001 via Massacre Records . At the time of the recording, which lasted from April 9 to 13, 2001, the former bassist Roberto Garcia had already left the band, so Pazzer and Senz had to record the album together. In terms of content, the album is a synthesis of metal and punk music . The album was on 22 April 2013 due to the Slime - cover police SA-SS by the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons indicated .
The album was later reissued in a box together with the previous album Reich in Rost .
Track list
- Police SA SS (Slime) - 3:07
- Buy or Die (Slime) - 1:25
- Everything is gray (Chaos Z) - 1:33
- Coercion (Chaos Z) - 2:05
- Left sow (Inferno) - 1:00
- Stone head (Inferno) - 1:45
- Neo-Nazi (raid) - 1:44
- Not us! (Raid) - 1:42
- Belsen was a concentration camp (OHL) - 1:34
- The East (OHL) - 1:45
- You think (Boskops) - 0:53
- Destroy what breaks you (clay stones shards) - 2:46
- No power for nobody (clay stones shards) - 2:56
- HC HC (EA80) - 1:15
- Marching (wormwood) - 3:26
- Past the red signal - 1:32
- The revolutionary (text: Erich Mühsam) - 2:49
content
With the album, Totenmond return lyrically to their roots. The first 14 songs are cover versions of the well-known German punk bands Slime , Ton Steine Scherben , Razzia , Chaos Z , Inferno , EA80 , Boskops and OHL .
The remaining three songs are older pieces by Totenmond. “Marching” is a song that was written and composed by Pazzer and that dates back to the band's “wormwood” period (1983), which was recorded in a new and also metal style. “Past the red signal” is also an older work by Pazzer, which was created in 1990. “ Der Revoluzzer ” is a setting of the well-known poem by Erich Mühsam , who was murdered in 1934 in Oranienburg concentration camp . In terms of content, it is an allusion to the politics of the Social Democrats in the founding phase of the Weimar Republic during the proclamation of the Republic in Germany .
The lyrics of the songs are mostly directed against right-wing extremism and the German state. In terms of content, however, the songs are not without controversy, as some punk pieces have controversial content. In the song "Polizei SA SS" by Slime, German police officers are referred to as "modern Nazis" and compared with the SS and SA . With the line of text “Baader-Meinhof executed in the Stammheim concentration camp”, the Federal Republic of Germany is also portrayed as a totalitarian government. In addition, the death of Ulrike Meinhof and Andreas Baader is not depicted here as a suicide, but as an "execution" comparable to the Nazi judiciary, and the Stuttgart penal institution is equated with a concentration camp .
Equally controversial are the inferno cover “Linke Sau”, which only consists of the words “Left sow, left sow, left sow - if I catch you, it's over with you”, and the OHL piece “Der Osten” with it textual statements such as “I want a wall that protects the West”.
The intro to “Police SA SS” consists of war-like noises accompanied by sirens , which is probably a harder conflict with the police. At the end of “Marching”, a passage from a news program was added that reported an act of violence with a xenophobic and right-wing extremist background.
style
The style of the album can be attributed to metal, although the punk influences can be heard here most clearly of all Totenmond releases. The online music magazine Vampster , however, did not refer to the album as a metal album, but rather said that Totenmond, who started out with punk rock at the time, “recorded a pure punk album with 'Auf dem Mond ein Feuer'”. A similar view is shared by a review of a Swiss site, in which it was written that this album "still [cracks] like hell", "even if this is not a metal disc". Other reviews spoke of a “metal / hardcore garb”.
Reviews
“You may think what you want of aggression - in certain moments it is healing, which I probably don't need to tell a metal audience. And it is precisely this aggression that exudes this work - a masterful, blatant aggression that goes far beyond the potential of the normal German point . With "Auf dem Mond ein Feuer", Totenmond have raised aggressive, rude and primitive stick music to a new level, remembering the origins of German punk and at the same time bowing to them. A must for every "public enemy", punk and friend of first-class beatings. "
“After their first album Lichtbringer hit the underground almost like a bombshell in 1996, the Pazzer brothers show that they can also set their own fire under the ass with their cover punk album [...]. Exactly punk greats like slime, clay stones shards, inferno or raid are covered in a sound that lifts the speakers out of the frame. Yes, there is a lot of buzz in the Totenmond house again and with the controversial songs the brothers offer exactly the music to show the green men a decent "musical" opinion at the next alcohol test. "
“The 14 songs from the early days of German punk [...] were interpreted with great attention to detail and put into the Totenmond garment. The metalworkers go to work here quite brutally and mostly keep up with the high speed, sometimes even exceed it. In general one comes very close to the originals, only on clay stones shards [...] also Dead Moon fail, like many others. […] [Toten] mond fans get a glimpse into the band's past, everyone else recognizes the (political) point of view of the dark fellows at first glance. A successful CD with a very nice cover artwork on top of that! "
“The tracks are just as typical punk rock, short and dirty and violent, blasted out of the speakers like the dead moon. Certainly a celebration for all fans of the old bands like the not mentioned Inferno, Razzia and OHL, but if you don't know what to do with punk or the political lyrics, you should keep your hands off this part. But otherwise the album is more than a case of beer! "
"[...] the expected" worst case scenario "did not occur, because the Dead Moon do their job surprisingly well. [...] "On the moon a fire" offers crust-impregnated high-speed punk with deep-pitched guitars typical of the Dead Moon, also acts as a remedy for bad moods and sets a great example against brown rabble. "
layout
The record cover is itself a cover, or a homage / parody of the record cover of the album " Underground " by the American jazz musician Thelonious Monk . Similar to the three previous publications, the texts in the booklet are again in Gothic script, but this time all words are in lower case.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information in the booklet
- ↑ Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People Announcement No. 5/2013 on Carrier Media Harmful to Young People of April 22, 2013
- ↑ a b heavyhardes.de: CD review , accessed on November 9, 2008
- ↑ a b vampster.com: CD Review , accessed November 9, 2008
- ↑ schwermetall.ch: CD review , accessed on November 9, 2008
- ↑ metal.de: CD review , accessed on November 9, 2008
- ↑ Metalfactory.ch: CD Review , accessed November 9, 2008
- ↑ amboss-mag.de: CD review , accessed on November 9, 2008
- ↑ Review of the album in issue 44