Imperium internum

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Imperium internum
Studio album by Von Thronstahl

Publication
(s)

1999

Label (s) Cold Spring Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Martial Industrial , Neofolk

Title (number)

14th

chronology
Storm Time (10-inch)
(1998) 		Imperium internum E Pluribus Unum
(2001)

Imperium internum (Latin for 'The Inner Realm') is the 1999 debut album of the Von Thronstahl formation, originally founded as a forthcoming fire side project .

Music style and text content

Stylistically, the material can be classified as Martial Industrial , but it also contains pieces strongly influenced by Neofolk .

In addition to passages sung and spoken by Josef Maria Klumb and his partner, the album also contains foreign language samples and passages. In the play Sturmzeit a chorus sounds ( "In the new era!" ) Of the Reich Labor Service from Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will , one of Adolf Hitler commissioned propaganda film about the Nazi Party - Nazi Party . These workers wore spades in the film, which can also be found in a group photograph in the booklet on which Von Thronstahl is posing with spades in his hands on the former Nazi party rally grounds. This photograph was also mentioned in a report for the protection of the constitution by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The piece Pontifex solis (The glowing white) is essentially based on excerpts from the sermon Rest or Sect of the Catholic pastor Hans Milch , which is directed against the zeitgeist of the 20th century. Milk is aimed at the individual human being, who is unique to him and created by God with words in which the values ​​"number, time, fashion, majority, mass" are described as "pure variants and expressions of nothing". Never before (the 20th century) had "so much time and intellectual power been wasted on so much nothing". He values ​​being hated, persecuted and despised by the world and the masses as positive - resistance must be offered against this era and its spirit, living in it is to be understood as an imposed burden. Von Thronstahl combine Milch's words with gentle guitar sounds and a calm marching rhythm as well as the words "The Deepest Black - The Glowing White - The Burning Red - Such Beauty - Our Pride!" ('The deepest black - the glowing white - the flaming red - what beauty - our pride! '). The color combination black, white and red formed the flag of the North German Confederation from 1867 and was the color of the German Empire from 1871 to 1922 (and in the form of the swastika flag from 1933 to 1945) . The booklet of the CD contains an essay on the colors black, white and red from an alchemical point of view, the entire design of the pages is also kept in these colors.

The spoken combination “home earth, mother soil, fatherland” in the play of the same name is supplemented by the sampled sentence “woe to him who has no home” from Friedrich Nietzsche's poem Vereinsamt .

The sentence "Three drops of blood color the snow" was taken from the Parsifal stage festival by Richard Wagner . Several images in the CD booklet allude to this piece, the CD cover shows a person kneeling in front of an altar with the Holy Grail , over which a twelve-pointed sun wheel shines from Siegrunen (see Black Sun )

Hidden in the spirit is a poem set to music by Uwe Nolte (singer of the Orplid group ), which is dedicated to "child royalty". This breaks with the lies that find their way into the life of the child on the way to adulthood and leave behind an "orphaned heart" on which the person now "wanders around without a home".

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Due to the many positive references to National Socialist aesthetics and the anti-modernist stance that becomes apparent when looking at the album, it is controversial, as is Von Thronstahl's entire work.

Critics accuse the formation of glorifying the era of National Socialism ; Fans appreciate the sound, which is perceived as original and unique.

Track list

  1. Imperium internum
  2. Forward, the ravens of the end times
  3. Black White Red
  4. The Majestic Return
  5. Crystal / crystal
  6. Under the Mask of Humanity
  7. Storm time (version)
  8. Homeland, topsoil, fatherland
  9. Still blossoms hidden in the spirit
  10. Atlantic low
  11. Turn the centuries (version)
  12. The New Kingdom
  13. Three drops of blood paint the snow
  14. Pontifex solis (The Glowing White)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Constitutional Protection Report of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 2004 (PDF; 4.9 MB) ( Memento from June 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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