Frontal force

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Frontal force
General information
origin Spremberg , Germany
Genre (s) Right skirt , Oi!
founding 1992, 2001
resolution 2001
Founding members
Thomas (until 2001)
Sten Söhndel
Role (until 1999)
Alex (until 1994)
Current occupation
singing
 Sten Söhndel (since 1992)
1st guitar
 Alex (since 2001)
2nd guitar
 Cat (since 2002)
bass
 Wolfi (since 2001)
Drums
 Fritze (since 2005)

Frontalkraft is a right-wing rock band from Cottbus and one of the oldest bands on the neo-Nazi Hammerskins scene in Germany.

Band history

Even before his music career, the singer Sten Söhndel gained nationwide fame in November 1992 when the then 17-year-old Sachsendorfer was introduced in an issue of the magazine Der Spiegel as a youth activist of the neo-Nazi party Deutsche Alternative (DA). The then federal chairman of the DA and today's Cottbus city ​​councilor Frank Huebner ( NPD ) praised Söhndel in the article as a "reliable comrade".

The band was founded in Spremberg in October 1992 . For some time the band had their rehearsal room in a local youth club . After a demo in 1995, the two albums, Wenn der Sturm ist auf sich , and Operation Deutsche Nation were released via DiKo Musikverlag , the label of NPD politician Dieter Koch . In 2001 the self-published Volksmusik appeared , which was republished in 2005 via Rebel Records and indexed in January 2016 by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People (BPjM). The band then switched to the Front Records label , on which the two albums Wir confess us (2003) and songs we wrote for Germany (2005) were released. Since 2005, all other publications have appeared on the label Rebel Records , which comes from the band's environment and was founded that year by the Cottbus NPD activist Martin Seidel. The label also produces other right-wing rock bands from home and abroad. Probably the most complex production of the label was a box on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of Frontalkraft, which contained three long-playing records as well as extensive material supplements.

Frontal force often appeared around the NPD, for example at the Sachsentag 2007, the Rock für Deutschland 2010, the Schwabentag 2011 and the National Rally Day 2014. In the course of their band career they have played more than 100 concerts, including in other European countries.

In October 2016 Frontalkraft played alongside u. a. Steel storm in front of over 5000 neo-Nazis in Switzerland at one of the biggest right-wing rock concerts of the last 20 years.

Music style and lyrics

Musically, the band mainly plays classic rock, but also hard rock, sometimes ballads. A CD was designed entirely as a ballad CD. The lyrics are usually nationalistic. "Frontal force more or less openly glorifies National Socialism, propagates an alleged Nordic-Germanic paganism and calls for the fight against the 'system'," said the social pedagogue Jan Raabe in a publication by the Federal Agency for Civic Education .

The strong right-wing politicization of the songs is explained by the self-image of the band: In an interview with the British scene magazine Blood & Honor , the band defines the goal of their musical activities as “bringing nationalistic messages and thoughts to the people”. In her opinion, music is "the ideal medium to wake up people in Germany and Europe."

Discography

Demo recordings

  • 1995: Demo '95 ( cassette , self-published)
  • 2009: Demo '95 ( CD , Rebel Records) ( mastered and digitized version of the 1995 demo cassette)

Albums

  • 1996: When the storm rises (CD, DiKo Musikverlag )
  • 1998: Operation Deutsche Nation (CD, DiKo Musikverlag)
  • 2001: Folk music (CD, self-published), indexed
  • 2003: We profess (CD, Front Records)
  • 2005: Songs we wrote for Germany (CD, Front Records)
  • 2008: Nacktes Land (CD, Rebel Records), (first edition indexed , further editions appeared without the song Talkshownation )
  • 2015: Ready to Dare (CD, Rebel Records)
  • 2015: Songs we wrote for Germany (CD, Rebel Records) (mastered version of the 2005 album of the same name)

Split life

Band projects

Sampler contributions

Best of albums

Videos

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Green city with brown youth. How neo-Nazis became the third largest member party in Cottbus, Brandenburg . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1992, pp. 43-49 ( Online - Nov. 23, 1992 ).
  2. ↑ a b BAnz AT January 29, 2016 B7
  3. ^ Rebel Records / The Devils Right Hand Store (Cottbus, Brandenburg) - Network against Nazis. In: netz-gegen-nazis.de. May 2, 2008, accessed October 14, 2015 .
  4. ↑ "Frontal Force" on the stage - look to the right. In: bnr.de. August 3, 2015, accessed October 14, 2015 .
  5. ↑ a b c Jan Raabe: Braune Töne - an overview of eleven right-wing bands - bpb. In: bpb.de. November 13, 2014, accessed October 14, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Scandal in Switzerland: How could a Nazi concert with 5000 visitors be approved? Stern, October 18, 2016, accessed April 3, 2017 .