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Kahlkopf was a right-wing rock band from Bad Homburg , Hesse, founded in 1983 .

Band history

Kahlkopf was founded in 1983. After the group had recorded a demo in 1985 , they played on August 17, 1985 at the “Rock gegen Links” festival in Lübeck in front of about 600 skinheads. It was the first major concert of the German right-wing rock movement. In addition to the then unknown Kahlkopf, the British bands Indecent Exposure and Die Hards as well as the Böhsen Onkelz performed . The originally announced Skrewdriver was refused entry. Another self-titled demo followed in 1986 and was indexed on June 30, 1994.

Kahlkopf then received a record deal with the Cologne record company Rock-O-Rama , which published punk albums in particular until 1984. In particular, through the releases of the British band Skrewdriver , the label became an internationally successful provider of the legal rock that had just emerged .

In 1987 the debut album Der Metzger was released . This had a certain status in the neo-Nazi scene at the time , as there were only a few self-confessed scene bands that released LPs. In addition, Kahlkopf gave concerts with well-known Oi! -Bands like the Böhse Onkelz and Vortex , but they should soon distance themselves from combos like Kahlkopf. The butcher and a demo of the band were indexed . In 1991 the band switched to Metal Enterprises .

After three regular studio albums, various sound carriers were released under the name Kahlkopf, which were not recorded by the original line-up. This happened because Ingo Nowotny from Metal Enterprises owned the rights to the group name and therefore continued to use the well-known name. In 1997 the album Pogo was released in Parliament . This was created with the participation of Daniel Giese ( Stahlgewitter , Saccara ) who recorded the album completely with guest musicians. Subsequently, an album called We have a suitcase in Berlin was released under the name Kahlkopf, which gathers songs and hits from the 1930s . Among other things, the Comedian Harmonists , Zarah Leander and Theo Mackeben were used here . The tracks were sung by an unknown guest singer. In 2001 and 2003 two more albums with Daniel Giese were released, namely In the Name of the Lord and Carpet Knife Terrorists .

The Kahlkopf Group returned in 2010 with its own website. The original members distance themselves from the albums that were released after Album III under the name Kahlkopf. In 2015 the band released a new single about the Spanish record company Metal Bastard, Die neue Zeiten , but without their then singer Lutz Christopher. Instead, he founded the band Der Metzger. The name refers to the band's first album. In 2015 he released the debut album Hackfleisch Rock'n'Roll as an in-house production. The band with the former singer Lutz Christopher returned in 2018 with a new website.

Music genre

The band's lyrics dealt with violent fantasies, drinking songs, horror topics and xenophobia. The song German Blood , in which the blonde, blue-eyed woman serves as an ideal of beauty , also comes from the early days of the band . The music was a mixture of simply played heavy metal , right-wing rock and Oi !, which was quite untypical for the right-wing rock scene. The singing was performed with a “natural deep voice” and thus appeared “powerful and convincing”. Nevertheless, until the mid-1990s it was a rather moderate neo-Nazi band. After Daniel Giese took over the band, the band developed into a tough right-wing rock band in the usual Giese style. The textual spectrum expanded to include racism and anti-Semitism .

Discography

Official publications
  • 1985: Demo 85
  • 1986: Kahlkopf (demo, indexed)
  • 1987: The Butcher (Rock-O-Rama Records, indexed)
  • 1989: Wet Cat (Single, Street Rock n Roll)
  • 1990: Soldat (Rock-O-Rama Records)
  • 1991: III (Nowotny's Noize)
  • 1993: Signs of the Times (single, street rock)
  • 2015: The New Times (Single, Metal Bastard)
  • Unknown year: Friends (United Records, The Butcher Without Indexed Songs)
Ingo Nowotny's bald head
  • 1997: Pogo in Parliament (Metal Enterprises, indexed)
  • 1999: We still have a suitcase in Berlin (Metal Enterprises)
  • 2001: In the Name of the Lord (Nowotny Music Enterprises, indexed)
  • 2003: Carpet knife terrorists (Nowotny Music Enterprises, indexed)

Sampler contributions

  • 1990: 6 for Germany (Metal Enterprises)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe : 20 years of legal rock . In: Christian Dornbusch, Jan Raabe (Ed.): RechtsRock. Inventories and counter-strategies . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89771-808-1 , p. 29 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Naumann: Rechtsrock im Wandel: An analysis of the texts using the example of the bands' Landser . diplom.de, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8366-2901-0 , p. 24 .
  3. ↑ a b Indexed sound carriers ( Memento from July 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe : 20 years of legal rock . In: Christian Dornbusch, Jan Raabe (Ed.): RechtsRock. Inventories and counter-strategies . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89771-808-1 , p. 31 .
  5. ↑ apabiz e. V .: Directory of right rock bands . In: Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe (Ed.): RechtsRock. Inventories and counter-strategies . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89771-808-1 , p. 443 .
  6. ^ National legal rock publications . In: Archive of youth cultures (ed.): Reactionary rebels. Right-wing extremist music in Germany . Tilsner, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-936068-04-6 , pp. 215 .
  7. ↑ a b Luni and Gigi - The new icons of the scene (PDF) - Article about Michael Regener ("Luni" or "Lunikoff") and Daniel Giese ("Gigi"), chapter 1.5.3 of Ingo Heiko Steimel's dissertation with the Title Music and the Right-Wing Extreme Subculture at RWTH Aachen University from 2007, pp. 168–175 (PDF; 12.7 MB)
  8. ↑ Kahlkopf - The New Times. Discogs , accessed May 19, 2017 .
  9. ↑ About the butcher. Official website, accessed May 19, 2017 .
  10. ↑ The butcher at Discogs (English)
  11. ^ Stefan Jacoby: The virtual underground. Neo-Nazis on the Internet . In: Searchlight, Antifaschistisches Infoblatt, Enough is Enough, rat (Ed.): White Noise. Right-wing rock, skinhead music, blood & honor - insights into the international neo-Nazi music scene . Right-wing rock, skinhead music, blood & honor - insights into the international neo-Nazi music scene . 1st edition. series of anti-fascist texts (council) / Unrast Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2000, ISBN 3-89771-807-3 , p. 131
  12. ↑ Thomas Mayer: "Our life means fighting to the death" - right-wing rock as message rock . In: Research Center for Popular Music of the Humboldt University of Berlin (Ed.): PopScriptum 04 - Right Music . 1995 ( hu-berlin.de ).
  13. ↑ Banz. No. 120 of June 30, 1994, indexed again on May 8, 2019 ( BAnz AT May 29 , 2019 B6 )
  14. ↑ BAnz. No. 224 of November 28, 1992
  15. ↑ BAnz. No. 82 of April 29, 2006
  16. ↑ BAnz. No. 204 of October 31, 2001
  17. ↑ BAnz AT 07/28/2020 B4