E nomine

E nomine
General information
Genre (s)	Monumental Dance , Gregorian Vocals , Trance , Techno , New Age
founding	1999
resolution	2008
Last occupation
producer	Christian "Chris Tentum" Weller
producer	Friedrich "Sir Fritz" Graner
actor	Senad Fuerzkelper Giccic

E Nomine (literally "From the name", based on the Latin in nomine , "in the name") was a German-language music project.

history

E Nomine was founded in 1999 by producers Christian "Chris Tentum" Weller and Friedrich "Sir Fritz" Graner. The project was published through licensee David Brunner. The music corresponds to a combination of trance / techno and a vocal accompaniment that is reminiscent of Gregorian and classical Gregorian vocals . The producers themselves described this style of music as "Monumental Dance".

Like the name of the project, the texts not only have a Christian -religious background, they also deal with mystical sacreds, stories and legends about magic and the struggle between good and evil. Biblical content such as Psalm 23 , the devil (“God's contribution and the devil's work”), the Ave Maria or prophecies (“Black Sun” from The Prophecy ) are also taken up.

Dubbing of well-known actors like Robert De Niro ( Christian Brückner ), Al Pacino ( Frank Glaubrecht ), Bruce Willis ( Manfred Lehmann ), Anthony Hopkins ( Joachim Kerzel ), Robert Redford ( Rolf Schult ), Nicolas Cage ( Martin Keßler ), John Travolta ( Thomas Danneberg ), Brad Pitt ( Tobias Meister ), Mel Gibson ( Elmar Wepper , Frank Glaubrecht, Joachim Tennstedt ), Liv Tyler ( Elisabeth Günther ) and many more stood in front of the microphone for the titles of E Nomine. The titles are visually represented in music videos by Senad Fuerzkelper Giccic.

From 2005 onwards it became quiet about E Nomine. Friedrich "Sir Fritz" Graner left the project. In the meantime, a new single called "Heilig" was announced for the end of 2007, but it was never officially released. Since the single was available for download for a short time, it came into circulation on platforms such as MyVideo and YouTube . With “Excalibur”, which, like “Heilig”, was planned for a new album (and actually called “Erdenblut (Stahl von Avalon)”), there is another song that was only played once live.

In 2008 Fritz Graner and Christian Weller founded the project “ Schlafes Bruder ” as “Evolution E Nomines” , which in 2013 released the singles “Heilig” and “Absolution” as well as the album “Today was God not here”.

Vocalists

• German Opera Berlin

Voice actor

speaker	title
Christian Brückner	Our Father
	E Nomine (Because You Don't Know What You're Doing)
	The Lord's Supper
	Our Father Part II (Psalm 23)
	midnight
	Dracul's blood wedding
	Your world
	The Omen (In the Circle of Evil)
	Mysteria
	The animal in me
	Pontius Pilate
Otto Mellies	Who sows the wind ...
	The ring of the Nibelung
	The Prophet (Re-Release)
	Since the beginning of time (re-release)
	Dragon gold
	God's contribution and devil's work
	8 the black riders (single version)
Frank Glaubrecht	The Lord of Darkness
	Alleluia
	The exorcist
	The wheel of fortune
	The trumpets of Jericho
Martin Keßler	Heaven Hell
	Ave Maria
	From the beyond
	Carpe Noctem
	Magnum opus
Joachim Kerzel	The 10 Commandments
	The flood
	Per L'Eternita
	6 the beast in me (wolfen)
Thomas Danneberg	Bible words of the Almighty
	Under the sign of the zodiac
	Fog trails
Michael Chevalier	Anger - The 12 Forbidden Tones
	Lord of the Shadows
	Mirror images
Eckart Dux	fear
	The night watch
	Lullaby
Rolf Schult	The Black Riders
	Witch hunt
Helmut Krauss	The evil
	Black sun
Joachim Tennstedt	Death
	Peace hymn
Jürgen Thormann	Since the beginning of time
	the Prophet
Volker Brandt	The blueberry mouth
Manfred Lehmann	Seance
Wolfgang Pampel	Otherworld (Laterna Magica)
Elmar Wepper	The runes of Asgard
Gerrit Schmidt-Foss	Laetitia
Elisabeth Günther	Morgane Le Fay
Tobias Master	Moon angel
Ralf Möller	Black sun
	The tower

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1999	The testament	DE23 (21 weeks) DE	AT17 (11 weeks) AT	CH85 (5 weeks) CH	First published: November 15, 1999 Republished: November 25, 2002
2002	darkness	DE3 gold (18 weeks)DE	AT6 (14 weeks) AT	CH61 (7 weeks) CH	First published: January 21, 2002 Sales in Germany: 150,000+
2003	The Prophecy	DE12 (11 weeks) DE	AT18 (7 weeks) AT	CH76 (3 weeks) CH	First published: April 14th, 2003 Special edition published: November 10th, 2003

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2004	The best of ... God's contribution and the devil's work	DE30 (6 weeks) DE	AT37 (5 weeks) AT	-	First published: December 13, 2004

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2005	The evil	DE44 (7 weeks) DE	AT56 (3 weeks) AT	-	First published: February 14, 2005

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1999	Our Father The Testament	DE4th gold (18 weeks)DE	AT1 gold (17 weeks)AT	CH10 (14 weeks) CH	First published: September 27, 1999 Sales in Germany: 250,000+ Sales in Austria: 25,000+
2000	E Nomine (Because they don't know what they're doing) The will	DE29 (7 weeks) DE	AT27 (8 weeks) AT	CH90 (1 week) CH	First published: February 28, 2000
2001	Midnight darkness	DE13 (11 weeks) DE	AT12 (16 weeks) AT	CH47 (5 weeks) CH	First published: October 29, 2001
2002	The beast in me (wolves) & the black riders darkness	DE29 (9 weeks) DE	AT26 (9 weeks) AT	CH92 (4 weeks) CH	First published: February 11, 2002
	Your world The prophecy	DE24 (11 weeks) DE	AT29 (12 weeks) AT	-	First published: December 9, 2002
2003	The Omen (In the circle of evil) The prophecy	DE24 (9 weeks) DE	AT36 (6 weeks) AT	-	First published: March 31, 2003
	Black Sun The Prophecy (Special Edition)	DE36 (6 weeks) DE	AT41 (4 weeks) AT	-	First release: October 20, 2003 feat. Ralf Moeller
2004	Our Father Part II - Psalm 23 The best of… God's contribution and devil's work	DE53 (9 weeks) DE	AT42 (4 weeks) AT	-	First published: December 6, 2004
2007	Holy	-	-	-	First published: December 28, 2007

Others

• 2003: Black Sun , 10-inch MiniCD

statistics

Chart evaluation

DE  AT  CH Number one albums DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH Top 10 albums DE1DE AT1AT CH-CH Albums in the charts DE5DE AT5AT CH3CH

DE  AT  CH Number one singles DE-DE AT1AT CH-CH Top 10 singles DE1DE AT1AT CH1CH Singles in the charts DE8thDE AT8thAT CH4thCH

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	2 × gold2	-	400,000	musikindustrie.de
Austria (IFPI)	gold1	-	25,000	ifpi.at
All in all	3 × gold3	-

literature

• Uwe Böhm, Gerd Buschmann: Pop music - religion - teaching. Models and materials for the didactics of popular culture ( Symbol - Myth - Media Volume 5). Münster 2002. pp. 163-175.

swell

1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Single Heilig at Universal Music )
2. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: details about the single Heilig )
3. ↑ new-metal-media.de: Sleep Brother - Holy (March 8, 2013)
4. ↑ Sleep brother
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE AT CH