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General information
Genre (s) Right skirt
founding 1981
Website http://www.endstufebremen.de/
Current occupation
Jens Brandt
Christian Schröer
Carsten Löhmann

Endstufe is a German right-wing rock band from Bremen .

Band history

The band was founded in 1981 by three young people in Bremen-Findorff under the name H2O . Later the name was changed to Zyclon . In 1982 the group played live for the first time in the auditorium of their school together with a Greek folklore band of the caretaker. The appearance was canceled by the teachers present after three songs.

In 1984 the group released their first demo cassette entitled Greetings to Germany . After this tape made the rounds successfully, the band started looking for a record label . At that time it made sense for the Rock-O-Rama label, under the direction of Herbert Egoldt , to sign more and more bands with nationalist and ultimately neo-Nazi ideas. Nevertheless, the first record of Endstufe was only released in 1987, as Egoldt, according to the singer Brandt himself, had concerns that the group name could be perceived as a reference to the term “ final solution ” (which, according to Brandt, was not intended). The LP with the title Der Clou (which opens with the best-known piece by the group In die Eier ) celebrated considerable success in the scene and is now considered a classic of German right-wing rock . Initially relatively unnoticed by the press and the judiciary , the band recorded the second album Skinhead Rock'N'Roll in 1990 and the split CD Always Ready with the band Volksgemurmel, also from Bremen . The first two official sound carriers ended up on the list of the Federal Testing Agency for Media Harmful to Young People (at that time still the Federal Testing Agency for Writings Harmful to Young People, or BPjS for short) as part of the indexing wave at the beginning of the 1990s, like most legal rock publications at that time . A confiscation order was issued for two CDs.

The split CD was confiscated nationwide in 1994 because of pieces by the band Volksgemurmel, but was not indexed until 2004. Five final stage pieces from this release were later released on the compilation CD We'll Get You All re-released and are still legally available to this day.

The band has had numerous line-up changes to date, but is still active. Only the singer and guitarist Jens Brandt alias Brandy remains of the original line-up , who ran his own right-wing rock record label and mail order company Hanse Records in the 1990s. The oldest and most important core of the Bremen neo-Nazi scene, the " Hammerskin-Section Bremen" with around 10-15 members, was grouped around the band . They also included members of the clearly Nazi- oriented rock bands Schlachtruf und Endlöser , some of whom are now involved in the reactivated band Endstufe after the band broke up.

Music genre

Bands like UK Subs , The Exploited , Sex Pistols , Sham 69 , The 4-Skins and Skrewdriver are among the early influences of Endstufe. The band usually plays Oi! -Music in the style of old English groups of this genre like The 4-Skins or The Last Resort . The texts are in German and some are nationalist . However, there were contributions by the band on various samplers , alongside well-known greats of the neo-Nazi scene. The most provocative example would be the sampler The Germans Come - Vol. 1 (not to be confused with the Rock-O-Rama release of the same name), indexed in 1999 and withdrawn shortly afterwards , on which, in addition to the final stage, relevant bands such as Landser or Kraftschlag are represented.

Discography

Albums

  • Greetings to Germany (MC, self-distribution, 1984)
  • A Way Of Life (MC, contains the complete Gruß-an-Deutschland -MC as well as some recent recordings, self-distribution, 1986)
  • The Clou (LP / CD, Rock-O-Rama , 1987) - indexed
  • Skinhead Rock'N'Roll (LP / CD, Rock-O-Rama , 1990) - indexed
  • Always ready (LP / CD, Rock-O-Rama , Split with Volksgemurmel, 1990) - indexed and confiscated
  • Bald Party (Double LP / CD, Rock-O-Rama , 1993)
  • Protect Your Children (CD, Rock-O-Rama , 1994)
  • Rarities 1983–1994 (CD, Rock-O-Rama , 1994) - indexed
  • Death is everywhere (CD, Hanse Records, 1996), (LP, Dim Records , 2006)
  • Live on Mallorca '98 (CD, Hanse Records, 1998)
  • 9698 (CD, Hanse Records, 1999)
  • On tour with the boys (CD, Hanse Records, 2000)
  • Feuer Frei (LP / CD, Dim Records, 2006)
  • We're Not Angels (Split CD with Last Riot, Dim Records, 2007)
  • Live (Where We Are Burns the Air) (CD, Pure Impact Records, 2009)
  • Stands up! (CD, Pure Impact Records, 2013)

Singles / MCD

  • Germany, we stand by you (tattooed, bald, brutal) (7 ", Rock-O-Rama , 1990)
  • Pour another one (Germany, we stand by you) (7 ", Rock-O-Rama , 1990)
  • The world was ours (MCD, Rock-O-Rama , 1995)
  • Auf die Ears Vol. 1 Split EP with Kampfzone (7 ", in-house production, 2007)

Others

Under the project name Störstufe together with members of the band Störkraft :

  • Parole Fun (single, Street Rock'n'Roll / Rock-O-Rama, 1990) - indexed until 2018

Project with musicians of the band category C :

  • Adrenalin - Bootboys Bremen (CD, Rock-O-Rama , 2001), (LP, Rock-O-Rama, 2007)

Project with musicians from the bands Boots Brothers, Nordlicht and Endstufe

  • Mad Martens - Das Beste am Norden (CD, Rock-O-Rama 1995)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jean-Philipp Baeck: Rechtsrock: Brown tones in the gray zone , June 20, 2013, accessed on August 27, 2013.
  2. ↑ Andrea Röpke : Jubilee concert with “Endstufe” , August 15, 2011, accessed on August 27, 2013.
  3. ^ The Bremer Land from right to right-wing extremists. Antifa Bremen, accessed October 4, 2013 .
  4. ↑ The story of power amplifier. Power amplifier, accessed on October 17, 2015 .
  5. ↑ BAnz AT June 29, 2018 B9