The Empire returns
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1992/1996 (as CD) |
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18th |
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44:25 |
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Das Reich comes again is the only demo recording by the German right-wing rock band Landser . It was released as a music cassette in 1992 and was also released as a CD in 1996 with a limited edition under the title Berlin remains German . The music cassette has been indexed since November 1993 , the CD edition since March 1997.
background
After the band had given their first public concert in the Konradsberg youth club in Hennigsdorf and the recordings that were distributed were successful, they decided at the end of 1992 to record their first official sound carrier. Michael Regener acted as a singer for the first time, as the previous singer Sören B. had recently been arrested for a crime he had committed, no longer appeared at the rehearsals and therefore left the band. The songs were recorded on cassette in a bar in Berlin-Weißensee using simple studio technology, then reproduced using unprofessional means and initially only distributed among the band's friends.
content
Musically, most of the songs belong to the hard rock genre. Only the song Nordland is a quieter ballad in which Scandinavia and the Nordic people are sung about. Thematically, the songs are mostly dedicated to typical right-wing extremist topics. This includes the rejection of ethnic groups who are perceived as inferior and those who think differently, such as blacks ( niggers ); Turks , Arabs and Greeks ( Kanake verrecke , Berlin stays German ) and Communists ( beat them to death! ). Among other things, these groups of people are subjected to derogatory statements, the use of force against them is called for, or their deportation is requested. The play Kanake verrecke also announces revenge for the neo-Nazi Rainer Sonntag , who was shot in 1991 . In addition, certain hostile public figures are named. Thus, in the song right radical whose melody of the piece Yellow Submarine by The Beatles which leans Jews Heinz Galinski , Edgar Bronfman and Simon Wiesenthal mentioned. Another topic is the rejection of the Federal Republic of Germany , which the title Faul calls for combating , while at the same time calling for the German Reich to return ( The Reich is coming again ). In addition, the recapture of the territories lost to Poland after the First and Second World War ( Danzig , Wroclaw and Stettin ) is announced. In Whale Father Wotan , one turns against Christianity and glorifies Nordic mythology . The melody of the ZAst song is based on the Beatles' song I Want to Hold Your Hand and is directed against asylum seekers . Beat them to death! based on Take 'Em All from Oi! -Band Cock Sparrer . Only the pieces Proll-Power and EKU 28 are pure drinking songs and hardly contain any neo-Nazi text passages. In the court ruling on the band's ban, special reference was made to the title Aryan Fighters , which emphasizes the band members' will to fight and calls for the right-wing extremist scene to stand together against those who think differently.
Cover design
The cover is in black and white and shows the drawing of a soldier with a steel helmet . In the background there are two planes and two ships. On the upper edge of the picture is the Landser lettering in Fraktur and on the right edge from top to bottom the title The Reich is coming again . The cover of the CD version shows a black-white-red flag on a white background. At the top and bottom of the picture are the words Landser and Berlin remains German in black.
Track list
| # | title | length |
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| 1 | Whale father Wotan | 2:54 |
| 2 | Aryan fighters | 3:01 |
| 3 | Berlin stays German | 2:45 |
| 4th | Right-wing radical | 2:14 |
| 5 | North country | 2:59 |
| 6th | Beat them to death! | 2:29 |
| 7th | For Anne | 0:34 |
| 8th | Lazy | 3:09 |
| 9 | nigger | 2:14 |
| 10 | Turkish mouse | 0:45 |
| 11 | Kanake crazy | 3:38 |
| 12 | The Empire returns | 3:01 |
| 13 | Nordland (instrumental) | 1:27 |
| 14th | Gdansk, Wroclaw and Szczecin | 2:26 |
| 15th | ZAst song | 2:06 |
| 16 | Lollipop | 0:50 |
| 17th | Proll power | 3:35 |
| 18th | EKU 28 | 4:07 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jana Funke: Popular music as a means of expression for right-wing ideology - an inventory of right-wing extremist music in Germany , p. 83
- ↑ In the booklet of the later released album Deutsche Wut / Rock gegen Oben , the recording is referred to as a demo cassette .
- ↑ a b c Judgment of the Berlin Court of Appeal of December 22, 2003, Az. (2) 3 StE 2/02 - 5 (1) (2/02). (PDF; 547 kB) Internet service Dullophob, accessed on May 20, 2013. ( Possible alternative on snafu.de. ( Memento from September 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))
- ↑ Senate Department for Internal Affairs and Sport, Department for Protection of the Constitution [Berlin] (ed.): Info right-wing extremist music . 2nd Edition. Berlin November 2007, p. 16 ( berlin.de ( memento from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 785 kB ; accessed on May 2, 2013]). Info right-wing extremist music ( Memento of the original dated November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Empire is back on discogs.com
- ↑ Album cover Berlin stays German
