Eugenics (band)

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Eugenics
General information
Genre (s) Pagan Metal , right rock
founding 1996

Eugenik is a pagan metal / right-wing rock band from Gera in East Thuringia . Although it has only had a few publications so far, it has a great importance for the right-wing rock scene due to numerous appearances.

Band history

According to their own statements, the band was founded in autumn 1996. At first they wrote themselves with the slang expression Oi! Which is typical of the skinhead scene. as oigenik . The name eugenics refers to the affirmation of the National Socialist racial policy . Later she changed the spelling in connection with the turn to right-wing extremist as well as neo-pagan positions, in addition "[t] he once dull bald skirt [...] was polished up with some borrowings from metal". The head and singer of the band is the Gera neo-Nazi Jens Fröhlich . This was in the " White Youth Movement ", the German youth organization of Blood and Honor, a leader. Both associations were banned in 2000 by the Federal Ministry of the Interior because they were directed against the constitutional order. Other band members, John (guitar), Niebs (bass) and Robert (drums) also referred to themselves as members of the movement in interviews such as the Voice of the White Youth magazine . In 2001 the apartments of the band members were searched as part of an investigation for disseminating propaganda and using symbols of unconstitutional organizations as well as defamation. The band had improperly used the logo of a local brewery and added the numbers 14 and 88 .

The band completed a number of appearances with other right-wing rock bands such as Odessa (Leipzig), Blutstahl (Jena), Protest (Gera), Kreuzfeuer , Stahlgewitter and Radikahl, especially in East Thuringia and West Saxony. She is now a regular guest at the NPD Open Airs Rock against War and Rock for Germany in Gera. But she also finds her fans among fans of Black Metal and often played with NSBM bands at joint concerts, for example with Peststurm; Fröhlich is now also involved in the Peststurm successor Totenburg and has regular guest appearances on Absurd .

Publications

After only a demo CD of the band had been released for a long time, the band released their debut album Tag des Raben in 2005 . The CD, which has several tracks with pagan and ethnic content, was dedicated to the late Kreuzfeuer singer Jens Rahl. In addition, the band is represented on some samplers, such as the 2003 released sound carrier Despite Ban not dead for the banned "Division Germany" of the neo-Nazi music network Blood and Honor . Thereupon, among others, Jens Fröhlich's house was searched on November 25, 2003 as part of the preliminary investigation into the alleged “support for the organizational cohesion of a prohibited association”.

Discography

  • 1999: Gates of Time (demo CD)
  • 2005: Day of the Raven (CD / LP)
  • 2008: Schlachtenhall (MCD / LP)

literature

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  1. Unholy Alliances , p. 170