Desertion (band)

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Desertion
Fahnenflucht.jpg
General information
origin Rheinberg (Germany)
Genre (s) Punk rock , hardcore punk
founding 1996
Website www.fahnenflucht.com
Founding members
Guitar , vocals
 Purer
guitar
 Malte (until 2001)
Torsten (until 1999)
Krolle (1996-2007)
Current occupation
singing
 Thomas (since 1998)
guitar
 Purer
guitar
 Kai (since 2017)
bass
 Dennis (since 2015)
Drums
 Jan (since 2009)
former members
bass
 Nils (2001-2004)
guitar
 Mike (1999-2006)
bass
 Marc (2004-2015)
guitar
 Mole (2010-2017)
Drums
 Marc Schumann (2007-2009)

Fahnenflucht is a German punk rock band . Current and historical events form the content structure of the German-language lyrics.

history

Deserted desertion was founded in 1995 under the name “ No idea ”. In 1998 the band was represented with the songs Without Way Out and Democracy on the sampler Schlachtrufe BRD V by AM Music. In 2000, the album Terrorist Split was released with the band Zaunpfahl in an edition of 1000 copies. Their debut album, Beissreflex , was released by Soupenkazpers Noize Imperium in the summer of 2000, after they had only produced a promotional tape at the local level. Various concerts with fence posts , morning death , concrete death , general chaos command and terror group followed . In addition, the piece minority was released on Partisan Sampler No. 5 .

In 2000, Willkommen in Deutschland was published on the sampler Schlachtrufe BRD VI . In autumn 2002 the band played on the Schlachtrufe tour in 2002 in Berlin, Hamburg and Wiesbaden, among others. Two years later the album KO System was released . Concerts with ddp , Betontod, Rasta Knast , ACK and No Respect followed . In December 2003 bassist Nils left the band. This was replaced by Marc from the Vageenas . In 2006 the album Wer Wind sät… was released and the band toured Germany and Switzerland.

Several changes followed in summer 2009. A replacement for the drums was found in Jan. Mole joined in on the guitar. The song On days like this from Fettes Brot was covered and the piece appeared on the punk chartbusters Sampler Vol. 6 . Furthermore, Fahnenflucht changed the label. The new label Aggressive Punk Productions released the studio album Schwarzmaler in March 2011 . Since 2010, Fahnenflucht have been touring Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy and playing in various clubs and at festivals.

In 2015 bassist Marc left the band and Dennis joined the band. The pre-production for the album Angst und Empathie began and, like its predecessor, was recorded at the end of the year in the DocMaKlang recording studio Osnabrück and produced by Matthias Lohmöller. The album was finally released again on May 13, 2016 via Aggressive Rock Productions. At the end of 2016, Mole announced that he would be leaving the band. Kai, who has accompanied the band several times and also often helped out on the guitar, joined him for him. At the beginning of 2017 he was officially presented as the new guitarist.

Music and lyrics

Flagflucht play German-speaking punk rock with slight influences from hardcore punk . The group's texts deal with political issues and are strictly anti-fascist oriented. Newer albums deal with terrorism , the surveillance measures introduced with it and the refugee crisis .

Discography

Sampler contributions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nine bands prefer to rock "colorful rather than brown" // "Fahnenflucht" is the headliner of the open-air concert at JFS Brackel. Lokalkompass.de, accessed on February 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Fahnenflucht on MuttisBooking.de ( Memento from September 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ desertion. Ugly-punk.de, August 2011, accessed on February 12, 2017 .
  4. ↑ FLAG - Especially now. Westzeit, May 2016, accessed February 13, 2017 .
  5. ↑ desertion. Ugly-punk, May 26, 2016. Retrieved February 12, 2017 .