Forthcoming Fire
| Forthcoming Fire | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Rock , electronica , dark wave |
| founding | 1990 |
| Website | www.forthcomingfire.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Josef Maria Klumb | |
| Lars Wehr | |
| former members | |
| Bernhard Klumb (until 1998) | |
| G. Dorn (1991-1994) | |
guitar |
Jens Weimar (1995–1998) |
Forthcoming Fire is a band from Bingen am Rhein that was founded in 1990. In the first half of the 1990s she enjoyed some fame in the dark wave scene, but increasingly turned away from it with her third album Je suis from 1995 due to the use of non-genre elements.
history
Forthcoming Fire was founded in 1990. In particular, with the 1993 album Illumination , for which Deutscher W. was won over by the punk band OHL as a guest singer, Forthcoming Fire found approval in the black scene . In the mid-1990s, there was a change in style through which more hard rock and metal elements were used in the composition. The third album, Je suis, from 1995 shows clear parallels to the Neue Deutsche Hütze with titles like Der undbesiegte Sonnengott , which were reinforced some time later with the band Weissglut . In 1998 guitarist Jens Weimar and keyboardist Bernhard Klumb, who had been responsible for the majority of the compositions until then, left the band.
In 2004 Forthcoming Fire released the album In Flammen , dedicated to Reinhold Elstner , as a duo , on which contemporary compositions between industrial rock and electronic music, especially drum-and-bass and hip-hop elements, can be heard for the first time. In October 2010, published Forthcoming Fire album titled Set the World on Fire , the remixes , cover versions contained and new pieces.
Right-wing extremism allegations
The band is often confronted with the accusation that they propagated National Socialist and Fascist ideas. Especially front man Josef Maria Klumb (alias "Jay Kay", formerly Circle of Sig-Tiu , now also Von Thronstahl ) made headlines again and again through controversial statements, for example about an alleged Zionist world conspiracy or through contacts with right-wing extremist circles.
The protection of the constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia counted Forthcoming Fire among a number of bands in which it could be observed that “Nazi symbols were picked up and positive references were made to leading figures of right-wing extremism”. However, “in the vast majority of cases, the texts of the pieces of music did not show any direct and obvious right-wing extremist statements”. The Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People has not indexed any piece of music by Forthcoming Fire.
In 2000, Klumb published a book entitled Easily Flammable Material . In it he describes the band life of Forthcoming Fire and takes a position from his point of view on the allegations of Antifa and the press.
Discography
- 1991: Longing for Light (CDS)
- 1992: Ekhnaton (LP / CD)
- 1993: Illumination (LP / CD)
- 1994: Heliopolis (EP)
- 1995: Je suis (CD)
- 1997: Convicted, Judged and Burned Alive (CD) - Retrospective
- 1999: Watching Rome Burn (CD)
- 2004: In Flammen (CD)
- 2005: Siberian Summer (MCD)
- 2010: Set the World on Fire (CD)
literature
- Josef K .: Easily inflammable material . VAWS , Duisburg 2000, ISBN 3-927773-38-7 .