Fool the demon!
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| Studio album by Subway to Sally | ||||
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Publication |
April 15, 1996 |
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| Label (s) | Red Rooster | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
13 |
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running time |
42 min 15 s |
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Fool the demon! is the third studio album by the band Subway to Sally . It was released in 1996 by the Red Rooster record company .
meaning
Musically and visually, the album is a further development of its predecessor MCMXCV . Here the medieval elements are clearly in the foreground. Large parts of the album have a melancholy effect like the predecessor ( Kyrie , Kain , Abgesang , Herbstzeit , Maria ), the contrast to this are fast, rocky pieces like Sag dem Teufel , Der Sturm or Auf der Reise , but most of all that is affectionately called " Bommerlunder “is the title of the chanting piece Julia and the Robbers , in which a traditional children's song was accompanied by bagpipes and punk rock and which is still played at concerts today. At every concert the fans get in the mood for the band's performance by shouting “Blood, Blood, Robbers are drinking blood ...”.
Fool the demon! is the last album on which the first drummer TW took part. He was succeeded by the trained jazz drummer David Pätsch, which was noticeable on the next album with a significant musical change.
The album has since been re-released as a double album with MCMXCV .
Cover
The cover artwork is by Andreas Marschall . It shows the stone head of a demon or gargoyle with two horns, the eyes of which are blindfolded and which therefore seems a little helpless, in other words “fooled”.
The motif of the two horns is a stylistic device that runs continuously through the covers of the first four albums: The horns adorn a cow on the 1994 album, the bull's skull on MCMXCV , the demon on Fops! just a demon skull and on its successor, Bannkreis , a devil figure . It also returns in the video clip of Tell the Devil , in which singer Eric Fish as the devil (with horns on) presents a baroque -looking scene in which the seven deadly sins are presented, which lurk as often hidden longings in the people who are after on the outside seem nice, harmless and friendly.
The inside of the booklet shows the symbols of the zodiac signs of the individual band members page by page and gray in gray.
Track list
- Kyrie - 0:59
- The storm - 3:57
- Cain - 3:20
- Tell the devil - 2:51
- The Jester - 3:26
- The rats - 3:28
- Swan song - 5:15
- Autumn time - 3:05
- Julia and the Robbers - 2:28
- On the journey - 3:19
- Dream of Death II - 3:16
- The vagabond - 3:54
- Mary - 2:18