Brainwash

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Brainwash
General information
Genre (s) Hatecore
founding 2001
Current occupation
singing
 Major Williams
guitar
 Bill
Earl
Drums
 Henry

Brainwash is a German, right-wing extremist Hatecore band from Altenburg and Dresden .

Band history

Brainwash emerged in 2001 from the bands Kreuzfeuer and Might of Rage . In 2002 a split EP was released with the Hungarian band Vérszerzödés and a split CD with the American right-wing rock band No Alibi . The debut album Moments of Truth followed in 2005 on the Ludwigshafen label Gjallhorn Klangschmiede. In 2007, the second work Hate Is Our Justice appeared , which includes the tracks of the first two split releases.

Music style and ideology

After the band had resisted any categorization for years, they are still considered one of the most important German-speaking Hatecore and Nazi hardcore bands today. Live performances took place both in Germany and abroad, including at the Festival of the Nations in 2008 and at Rock for Germany in 2009 for the NPD . The band was also featured on the first Projekt Schulhof CD. That and appearances at the European Hammerfest in Hungary for the Hammerskins movement based in Germany or the VFS & USGI Fest in Italy, which was hosted by two Italian skinhead groups, show that the band has no reservations about the tougher right-wing extremist spectrum . The texts are written in English and dispense with neo-Nazi statements, anti-Semitic statements are "packed in synonyms". While the band is more moderate in their lyrics, the statements in interviews are far more right-wing extremists.

The band members are also active in other right-wing extremist groups, including the Hatecore bands Moshpit, Forbidden and Sharon Tate. In particular, the singer Rene Weisse, who works under the pseudonym “Major Williams”, is very active in the scene. He publishes his own clothing line called Drive by Suizhyde Clothing , which publishes his own shirts, but also merchandising products from other Hatecore bands.

Discography

  • 2002: Support the POWs (split single with Vérszerzödés, Backstreetnoise Music)
  • 2002: In Defense (split CD with No Alibi, STFU Records, indexed )
  • 2005: Moments of Truth (CD / LP, Gjallarhorn Klangschmiede)
  • 2007: Hate Is Our Justice (CD, Levensboom)
  • 2013: Time to Act (CD / LP, One People One Struggle Records)
  • 2015: Hate Is Our Justice II (CD, One People One Struggle Records indexed)
  • 2015: Save Our Kind, Defend Europe (7 '' + MCD, One People One Struggle Records, indexed)
  • 2016: Day of Victory (Split-CD with Bound for Glory , PC-Records )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thuringian Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Constitutional Protection Report 2009 Free State of Thuringia (press version) . 2009, p. 57 ( thueringen.de [PDF]).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Jens Breuer: Brainwash - Portrait of a Thuringian NS hardcore band . In: The right margin . No. 130 (May / June), 2011, pp. 14 .
  3. ↑ Monthly Chronicle July 2009. Protection of the Constitution of Thuringia, archived from the original on May 23, 2006 ; Retrieved May 27, 2011 .
  4. ^ A b Christine Lang: Popular bands of the right-wing extremist scene 2011. Netz gegen Nazis , January 25, 2011, accessed on May 27, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young Persons : Announcement No. 12/2013 on carrier media harmful to young people of 23 October 2013.
  6. ↑ Announcement No. 10/2016 on carrier media harmful to minors BAnz AT 30.10. (?) 2016 B3
  7. ↑ BAnz AT 02/28/2017 B6