Summiteer
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| Unheilig studio album | ||||
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Publication |
December 12, 2014 |
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| Label (s) | Vertigo Records | |||
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CD, digital, vinyl |
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Title (number) |
16 (+ bonus tracks) |
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running time |
64:59 (+ bonus tracks) |
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| occupation | The Count • Henning Verlage | |||
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Thorsten Brötzmann • Kiko Maßbaum • Roland Spremberg • Markus Tombülle • Henning Verlage |
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Studio (s) |
The Bad Room Studio • Principal Studios • Tinseldown Studios • TrueBusyness Studios |
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Gipfelstürmer the eighth is studio album of the German pop-rock - band Unholy . This is a concept album all about the mountain world and the lifestyle in it.
Creation and artwork
All pieces on the album were composed by the Count , Kiko Maßbaum, Markus Tombäne and Henning Verlage ; where Maßbaum contributed the least with only three compositions. The songs were produced by Thorsten Brötzmann, Kiko Maßbaum, Roland Spremberg, Markus Tombülle and Henning Verlage. The album was mastered in the TrueBusyness Studios in Berlin, under the direction of Sascha Bühren. The album was mixed in the Berlin Tritonus Studios, under the direction of Moritz Enders. The album was arranged by Christoph Assmann and Cornelius Hager (“Orchestral Arrangements”). The latter also worked as a sound engineer. The album was released under the music label Vertigo Records . The album was recorded in the following recording studios: The Bad Room Studio ( Cologne ), Principal Studios ( Senden ), Tinseldown Studios (Cologne) and TrueBusyness Studios (Berlin). The album is published by Fansation Musikverlag and Universal Music Publishing . The red and black cover of the album shows - in addition to the artist name and album title - a comic representation of an old steam locomotive in motion. The photographs in the booklet come from Erik Weiss. The artwork and the illustrations of the cover and the booklet come from the Dirk Rudolph office .
Publication and promotion
The first publication of Gipfelstürmer took place on December 12, 2014 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland . The album consists of 16 new studio recordings. In addition to the regular album release, a "Limited Deluxe Edition" was released at the same time. This includes a bonus CD with ten demo recordings of the album. A published “Limited Special Fan Edition” includes a bonus CD, a triple 10 "vinyl plate (180 g), an individual piece from the Unheilig stage banner from the previous Best Of tour , a DIN A1 poster and a large sticker , as well as a button and postcard set.
In order to promote the album, a live appearance followed in the last issue of Wetten, dass ..? . This should also be the Count's last TV appearance. During the performance, the Count sang the piece “ Time to Go ” against the backdrop of a huge Vidiwall, where the best scenes from 33 years Wetten, dass ..? were seen. From April 6th to September 25th, 2015 Unheilig went on the climbers' indoor tour .
background information
A month and a half before the release of Gipfelstürmer, Unheilig heralded their farewell to their fans with the single release Time to Go . One day before the announcement that Time to Go will be the album's first single, Der Graf published an open letter on the Unheilig homepage on October 5, 2014. In this he thanked all fans who have remained loyal to them for years also announced that Gipfelstürmer is the last album and that Unheilig will retire after a farewell tour in 2016 so that he can devote more time to his family.
“With the feeling that I had written the best songs of my life for this album, it became more and more clear to me that I had unconsciously opened a last chapter on Unheilig. (...) I made the decision to say goodbye musically. "
In the 52nd edition of the ProSieben - late-night talk show Circus Halligalli of 13 October 2014, made Evil Jared Hasselhoff fun of said suicide note. He read the letter out loud and choked constantly, rather than throwing himself up violently at the end over a portrait of the count. After the broadcast, a shit storm broke through the Circus HalliGalli team. In the following issue, Joko and Klaas announced that they had to suffer a shit storm because of Hasselhoff, completely through no fault of their own, because he smuggled this action into the show. To prevent this action just stand and to do justice to the Unholy fans justice, they found Hasselhoff to a pillory . On this, he was booed by the studio audience and then Sasha packed all the hateful comments into one song and sang them while Hasselhoff was pilloried.
The Count himself described the album in the following words:
“I have never been able to write and produce an UNHEILIG album so intensely and for so long as with GIPFELSTÜRMER. I have processed the last years of my work in the texts. Never before have so many emotionally moving things happened. Never before has an album been as autobiographical as this one. I feel that for me the album is musically and lyrically the best and most beautiful work in the UNHEILIG discography. "
content
All lyrics are completely written in German. The music for all the pieces was written by the Count, except for Glück auf die Leben , he was supported by Markus Tombülle and Henning Verlage. They were supported by Kiko Maßbaum on three titles. The lyrics of all pieces were written by all three together. The titles Der Berg (Intro) and Der Gipfel (Outro) are purely instrumental pieces . Musically, the songs move in the field of pop-rock . The pieces are sung by Unheilig frontman Der Graf. In the background you can hear the voices of band colleague Henning Verlage and co-composer Markus Tombülle, as well as singers Johanna Hackert and Billy King and the children's choir Lucky Kids - children's choir of the Rheinische Musikschule .
The instruments were by Erik Asgeirsson (cello), Thorsten Brötzmann (keyboard), Stephan Gade (bass), Der Graf (keyboards and programming), Steffen Häffelinger (guitar), Stephan Hinz (bass), Sebastian Lang (keyboard), Kiko Maßbaum (Keyboards, piano and programming), Stefan Pintev (strings), Roland Spremberg (guitar, keyboards and programming), Jörg Wartmann (guitar) and Peter Weihe (guitar). Further instrumentalizations were carried out by Markus Tombülle and Henning Verlage.
| # | title | Author (s) | Producer (s) | length |
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| 1 | The mountain (intro) | The count , Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing | 4:48 |
| 2 | Down to one | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Thorsten Brötzmann | 3:24 |
| 3 | time to go | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing | 4:13 |
| 4th | The wisdom of life | The Count, Kiko Maßbaum, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Kiko Maßbaum, Markus Tombülle (Co), Henning Verlage (Co) | 3:28 |
| 5 | Between light and shadow | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing | 4:30 |
| 6th | Happiness on life | The Count, Kiko Maßbaum, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Kiko Maßbaum, Markus Tombülle (Co), Henning Verlage (Co) | 3:09 |
| 7th | Like the good old days | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing | 3:56 |
| 8th | Everything has it's time | The Count, Kiko Maßbaum, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Kiko Maßbaum, Markus Tombülle (Co), Henning Verlage (Co) | 3:52 |
| 9 | echo | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Roland Spremberg | 3:48 |
| 10 | My mountain | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Roland Spremberg | 4:24 |
| 11 | Gold rush | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Thorsten Brötzmann | 3:45 |
| 12 | Hero for a day | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Roland Spremberg | 4:06 |
| 13 | So close to heaven | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Thorsten Brötzmann | 3:42 |
| 14th | We are the summiteers | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Thorsten Brötzmann | 3:49 |
| 15th | hand in hand | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Roland Spremberg | 4:02 |
| 16 | The Summit (Outro) | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing | 6:03 |
| Limited Deluxe Edition (CD 2; demo versions) | ||||
| 1 | time to go | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing | 4:00 |
| 2 | Between light and shadow | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing | 3:55 |
| 3 | Hero for a day | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Roland Spremberg | 4:47 |
| 4th | echo | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Roland Spremberg | 3:39 |
| 5 | hand in hand | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Roland Spremberg | 3:15 |
| 6th | So close to heaven | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Thorsten Brötzmann | 3:35 |
| 7th | The wisdom of life | The Count, Kiko Maßbaum, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Kiko Maßbaum, Markus Tombülle (Co), Henning Verlage (Co) | 3:27 |
| 8th | Everything has it's time | The Count, Kiko Maßbaum, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Kiko Maßbaum, Markus Tombülle (Co), Henning Verlage (Co) | 3:50 |
| 9 | Down to one | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Thorsten Brötzmann | 3:38 |
| 10 | My mountain | The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage | Roland Spremberg | 4:24 |
Single releases
A month and a half before the album was released, the single Time to Go was released on October 31, 2014 . The single was immediately placed in the single charts in all DA-CH countries and reached the top 10 in Germany and Switzerland. The second single Mein Berg was released on March 13, 2015 and the last single was Glück auf das Leben on July 19 Released in 2016. Only time to go could celebrate chart successes, the two subsequent singles missed entry into the official hit parades.
Chart successes in the single charts
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Time to go mountaineer |
DE6 (14 weeks) DE |
AT16 (8 weeks) AT |
CH8 (5 weeks) CH |
First published: October 31, 2014
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Reviews
“If you really want to have a reason to cry, you can just listen to this farewell record without a skip key. The swell of entire centuries drips from these 16 songs. It sounds so pathetic, as if Liberace and Elton John met at the telephone counseling to make a hit tribute for Rammstein . (...) Woodcut-like lines culminate in the same slogans for perseverance, in which Graf Unheilig conveys a single emotion above all: The emotion of himself. (...) There is not a single new musical idea on the whole record. Instead, the well-known producer team Brötzmann, Masbaum and Spremberg reliably provide the sound-technical fourth infusion of lame template tracks, whose melodies and rhythms were hardly convincing on the last album. (…) Anyone who brings all the pieces of Unheilig's farewell work behind them has certainly learned one thing from the Count Rosamunde Pilcher of Music, who became flesh: There is a big difference between melodrama and Schmonzette. "
Awards
During the Echo Awards 2015 , Unheilig were awarded an Echo Pop in the group rock / alternative (national) category due to the great success of the album .
Charts and chart placements
Summit striker reached number one on the album charts in Germany and was able to stay at the top for a total of two weeks, 13 weeks in the top 10 and 56 weeks in the charts. For a period of two weeks, the album was the most successful German-language album in the German album charts . In Austria the album reached position three and was able to stay in the top 10 for eight weeks and in the charts for 43 weeks. In Switzerland, the album reached position two and stayed in the top 10 for seven weeks and in the charts for 41 weeks. In 2014, Gipfelstürmer placed tenth in the annual album charts in Germany, despite just one week of charts. In 2015, Gipfelstürmer placed 13th in the annual German album charts, 28th in Austria and ninth in Switzerland. For Unheilig this is already the eighth chart success in the German album charts, as well as the fifth in Austria and the fourth in Switzerland. It is her fourth top 10 success in Germany and Switzerland, and her fifth in Austria. In Germany, Unheilig reached position one in the album charts for the third time with Gipfelstürmer .
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Awards for music sales
In the first week of July 2017, Gipfelstürmer was awarded a five-fold gold record in Germany and a platinum record in the first week of January 2015 in Austria. Across Europe, the album was awarded a total of one gold record and three platinum records for over 515,000 units sold.
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Germany (BVMI)
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 5 × gold
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500,000 |
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Austria (IFPI)
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 platinum
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15,000 |
| All in all |
1 × gold 3 × platinum |
515,000 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Summiteer (Limited Deluxe Edition) . CD booklet
- ↑ Der Graf: Open Letter from the Count ( memento from October 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) unheilig.com, October 5, 2014, accessed on April 14, 2019.
- ↑ a b laut.de criticism / Der Graf as Rosamunde Pilcher of Music incarnate. laut.de, accessed on December 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Jared Hasselhoff reads Farewell to the Count. youtube.com, accessed November 2, 2014 .
- ↑ Hate comments from Unheilig fans - Jared Hasselhoff in the pillory. youtube.com, accessed November 2, 2014 .
- ↑ Gipfelstürmer - available from today ( Memento from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) unheilig.com, December 12, 2014, accessed on April 14, 2019.
- ↑ Unholy, summiteer. officialcharts.de, accessed on December 26, 2014 .
- ↑ Unheilig - Gipfelstürmer (album). austriancharts.at, accessed on January 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Unheilig - Summiteer. swisscharts.com, accessed December 26, 2014 .
- ↑ Annual charts 2014 - Longplayer. mix1.de, accessed on January 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Top 100 annual album charts. officialcharts.de, accessed on January 8, 2016 .
- ^ Annual hit parade albums 2015. austriancharts.at, accessed on January 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Swiss Year-End Charts 2015. swisscharts.com, accessed on January 5, 2016 .
- ↑ 5-fold gold for “summiteers” in Germany. musikindustrie.de, accessed on July 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Platinum for “summiteers” in Austria. ifpi.at, accessed on January 9, 2015 .