Hero machine / discography
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Heldmaschine at the Rockharz Open Air (2016)
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 Studio albums
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Live albums
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Singles
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Music videos
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This discography is an overview of the musical works of the German NDH - band hero machine . For an overview of the songs see the list of songs by Heldmaschine .
Albums
Studio albums
| year | Title music label |
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| 2012 |
Weichen and Tinder MP Records / Soulfood |
First release: April 6th, 2012 (as band name Völkerball ) Re-release 2014 as Heldmaschine Producer: Tom Dams |
| 2014 |
Propaganda MP Records / Soulfood |
First published: March 28, 2014 Producer: Tom Dams |
| 2015 |
Lies MP Records / Soulfood |
First published: August 21, 2015 Producer: Tom Dams |
| 2016 |
Heavenly Body MP Records / Soulfood |
First published: November 4th, 2016 Producer: Chris Harms |
| 2019 |
In the crosshairs MP Records / Soulfood |
First published: September 27, 2019 Producer: Tom Dams |
Live albums
- 2018: Live and loud (MP Records / Soulfood)
EPs
- 2019: Full board (in the crosshairs)
Singles
- 2011: Rotten meat (switches and tinder)
- 2012: Radioactive (switches and tinder)
- 2013: Next! (Propaganda)
- 2014: Propaganda (Propaganda)
- 2015: Who once lies (lies)
- 2015: Collateral (lies)
- 2016: sex shot (heavenly body)
Music videos
| year | title | Director (s) |
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| 2012 | Radioactive | Mark Feuerstake |
| 2013 | doctor | Michael Bird |
| Further! | Mark Feuerstake | |
| 2014 | propaganda | Mark Feuerstake |
| 2015 | Who once lies | Mark Feuerstake |
| Mask battle | Eduard Bragard, Simone Ripe Barley | |
| 2016 | Sex shot | Mark Feuerstake |
| 2017 | The bride, the sea | Mark Feuerstake |
| 2019 | God damn man | Mark Feuerstake |
Others
Exclusive sampler contributions
- 2012: Weichen + Zunder (Radio Schwarze Welle Vol. 4, 10/2010)
Contributions to other artists
- 2013: Remix for Tanzwut Das Rumor (July 19, 2013)
- 2014: Remix for Ost + Front Liebeslied (December 5, 2014)
- 2017: Remix for Erdling There are not you (March 17th, 2017)
Musical development
The band released their first studio album, Weichen und Zunder , under the name Völkerball , as it was released before the band split. Participants were Anlauff, Kaiser, Vetter, Carbow, Oechsle and Schanowski. Musically and stylistically, the album is based on the Rammstein albums Herzeleid und Sehnsucht . The staccato guitars, the electronic parts and the distinctive vocals of Anlauff are very reminiscent of Rammstein . Rocktimes.de speaks of a "homage" to the band Rammstein part dodgeball and reports to the album "Intelligent [r] and beautiful [e] ambiguous [r] value [e]", but also recognizes that the album "is not the Hitdichte of 'normal' Rammstein albums ”.
In 2014, Propaganda released the band's second studio album. Anlauff, Kaiser, Vetter and Ochsle worked again on the album, Carbow was replaced by Marco Schulte, Schanwoski only worked on a few songs. Except for the title song, all songs are in German. The main focus of the album is in the New German Hardness Style, but the lyrics are more “brutal” compared to the debut album and Heldmaschine remains “clear and direct in their statements”. Compared to the debut, the keyboard is much more important and is sometimes the dominant instrument. So there is in Weiter! and Kreuzzug are much more extreme and longer keyboard parts. The band also increasingly relies on melodic refrains.
A year later the third studio album appeared with Lügen . In addition to the well-known ensemble (Anlauff, Kaiser, Schulte and Ochsle), Stankovic inherited Marco Vetter as a guitarist. Once again you can hear that the keyboard is an important part of the instrumentation and that it can be musically classified in the electro scene. The songs are dominated by “intrusive, funky-spacey synths”, which “pair with jagged industrial riffs, but determine the sound of the work.” The lower tempo of the songs compared to their predecessors is also striking. It was also criticized that the album featured guest artists in seven out of 12 songs. The lyrics were also criticized, some of which are “nonsense” or “which just don't make sense” and that the band cannot find a line in which a musical classification is possible.
In November 2016, the band's fourth studio album, Himmelskörper, was released. This time there was no change in the band members compared to the previous album. As with lies , the electro components are again very strongly represented and form the basic structure of the musical structure of the songs. In general, however, an improvement on the previous album is attested to the album.
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- ↑ Amazon : Friendship , on Amazon.de.
- ↑ Völkerball / Weichen und Zunder , Rocktimes.de of October 7, 2012, accessed on October 13, 2016.
- ↑ If Völkerball doesn't cover Rammstein, they do “Propaganda” with Heldmaschine ( memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Musicheadquarter.de on April 11, 2014, accessed on October 13, 2016.
- ↑ Hero machine - propaganda ... just another Rammstein clone? ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Music-Discovery.de, accessed on October 13, 2016.
- ↑ metal-hammer.de : Heldmaschine Lügen , from September 3, 2015, accessed on October 13, 2016.
- ↑ HERO MACHINE - Lies: From cheering up high to saddened to death. , Power-Metal.de from September 6, 2015, accessed on October 13, 2016.
- ↑ Himmelskörper Review , Darkmusicworld.de, October 29, 2016, accessed on November 4, 2016.
