Hammerhead (German band)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hammerhead
Hammerhead at the Rheinkultur 2010
Hammerhead at the Rheinkultur 2010
General information
Genre (s) Hardcore punk
founding 1989, 2008
resolution 2004
Website www.hammerhead.de
Current occupation
Tobias shit
Headbert N.
Electric guitar
 Danilatore Minuti
Ranen
Osche Engelhardt

Hammerhead is a German hardcore punk band that was founded in Bad Honnef near Bonn in 1989/90 .

history

Hammerhead, along with 7Inch Boots (later renamed Bohren & Der Club of Gore ) and Charley's War, was one of the first German bands to play hardcore that had been influenced by New York bands like Agnostic Front or Cro-Mags . They were moving within the nascent straight-edge scene at the time . The band broke away from this image shortly afterwards and made a move towards aggressive hardcore with German lyrics influenced by nihilism . In addition, the band relied more on provocation . For example, they used a photo of the Gladbeck hostage taker as a photo for their first LP cover.

This was followed by concerts with bands such as GO !, Gorilla Biscuits , Quicksand , Extreme Noise Terror , SFA , Yuppicide , Hot Water Music or Lemonheads , as well as a European tour with the band Bad Trip . Controversial were bans on performances in some of the German concert venues, which were based on the band's alleged political inaccuracy and the organizers' fear of rioting. Appearances on television took place in the mid-1990s on MTV or the talk show Arabella . In the mid-90s, Hammerhead decisively shaped the change within the scene from hardcore to a return to the roots of punk rock.

In 2004 Hammerhead gave their farewell tour. In 2006, Headbert produced an autobiographical film documentary entitled Die all! . With this film, the band members toured cinemas nationwide. In 2007 the debut album was re-released on CD and LP on the band's own label. The cover had to be censored with a cover sheet due to objections from the Broken Silence distributor. At the end of 2008, the band got together for a concert in Hamburg and released Cut the Melon , a compilation of rare and out of print pieces, on Per Koro Records / Headbert. Since then the band has been active again with the original line-up.

Discography

  • Split EP with Not the Same (in-house production, 1991)
  • EP Resist (Bodonski Records, 1991)
  • EP Apocalypse Is Near (Amok Records, 1992)
  • LP / CD Stay Where the Pepper Grows (X-Mist Records, 1994), re-released in 2007
  • LP / CD White Album (LP: Hucks Plattenkiste / Faulstufe, CD: Teenage Rebel Records 1998), re-release in 2008
  • 10 inch vinyl / mini-CD color (Hucks record box / Faulstufe, 2000)
  • Single Zum Glück SPD (Hucks record box / Faulstufe, 2000)
  • LP / CD Cut the Melon reprint of the singles and sampler contributions (Per-Koro-Records / Headbert) Nov. 29, 2008
  • 7 inch vinyl grandpa was fine (Heartfirst Records, 2016)

Posts on samplers

  • Free on Laugh & Hate - ZAP Hardcore Fanzine on Vinyl - Vol. 1 CD / Vinyl 1991 ZAP / Rough Trade Records
  • Step Aside on You Make Me Wanna Puke Vinyl 1991 Equality Records
  • I'm drinking alone on Wear Your Smell Vinyl 1996 Potsdam
  • Dead Serious (Attitude-Adjustment-Cover) on Squeal of Blurr - 5 Years Blurr Fanzine Compilation Vinyl 1996 Blurr Records
  • Prejudice on Protest Means Action: The Need of a New World Disorder ( Crucifix -Tribut) CD / Vinyl 1997 Plastic Bomb Records
  • on True Love (Neuwied-Sampler) Vinyl 1998 True Love Records
  • I beat to on AGGROPOP Now - the TERRORGRUPPE 10 Year Anniversary Compilation 2003 Destiny / AGGROPOP

DVDs

  • Die all! Double DVD, Headbertfilme, 2006 (documentary about the band)

Others

  • Tobias shit was in the shadow cabinet of APPD the 1998 federal elections provided as "Minister for Regional Planning, masonry and urban development". In this context he was characterized as a "bricklayer and excessive rioter".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Various artists: Punk Rock BRD . Weird System , 2003, CD 3, pp. 4 .
  2. ↑ The shadow cabinet of the APPD (announcement poster for the press conference of the APPD on August 9, 1998 in the Tommy-Weisbecker-Haus )