Cancer colony
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Krebskolonie is the second album by the Thuringian dark metal band Eisregen .
The album is the first with violinist Theresa "2T" Trenks, who at the time lived in the same apartment block as guitarist Michael Lenz. Since then, the violin accompaniment has been an integral part of the band's musical conception.
indexing
Cancer colony has been indicated in Germany since August 7, 2003 . Reasons for the indexing are the texts considered by the Federal Inspectorate for Media Harmful to Young People (BPjM) as brutal and uncritical with regard to topics such as cannibalism ( cancer colony ), torture ( night birth ) and necrophilia ( pale blue lips ). The song feed for the pigs was viewed by the BPjM as inhuman or misogynistic:
“This song also has references to misogyny. The singer is of the opinion that the life of a prostitute should be valued so little that it is only suitable as pig feed. "
This equates singer and narrator. In interviews, singer and lyricist Michael Roth stated other intentions:
“In principle, humanity always takes itself too seriously and always places itself at the top of the food chain [...]. It was just really interesting that you put a being over it. Humans are sometimes degraded to feed […]. I took up the topic again in 'Feed for the pigs', that the food chain is just different from what is commonly understood. The story is written from a pretty sick and cynical point of view. "
On November 28 and 29, 2008, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the album's release, an appearance was held in the Leipzig Club Hellraiser , where all the tracks on the album were played with a slightly different textual concept and songs from other releases were also played. In addition, a live recording called Bühnenblut was released as a double CD and double LP.
status
The album is now considered one of the best works by Eisrain in fan circles. Michael Roth said in 2008 about the album that rehearsing the old songs “is anything but fun in places”, it is “very confused, [has] hardly any repetitions” and the songwriting is strange from today's perspective. He also said that he “likes the new things much better” because he feels comfortable in the present and “some fans [...] prefer to [live] in the past”. Taking the Eisregen- and Eisblut-Werke together, he put the cancer colony in 7th place, and the last place was taken by cadaverous camps .
Track list
- Eve of the battle - 6:26
- Night birth - 1:57
- Scarlet Dress - 5:27
- Cancer Colony - 7:35
- For you who live - 2:54
- The little life - 8:54
- Pale blue lips - 4:15
- Reflection from the light - 5:37
- Feed for the pigs - 4:25
- THÜ.RINGEN - 4:20
Eve of battle
The song begins with the sound of rain , which is then accompanied by the sound of a siren. The song is about a warrior who, on the eve of the battle, thinks about his life so far and what kind of person the war has made him:
"I lost my youth in the war
My innocence was washed away by the blood of the enemy
Your death screams kill a part of me
Until all that remained was what I am now"
The next morning he saddles his horse and rides into battle, where he eventually falls.
Night birth
Night birth begins with raven croak and describes how a man can be tortured to death by his partner. In the night, however, he is born again, returns to her and now does the same to her.
The song is mentioned in the indexing report because of the representations described as "cruel and sadistic " such as the peeling of the skin in strips or the hammering of a thousand nails into the body. A live version of the song can be heard in Lager Leipzig , a video recording of the performance at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen .
Cancer colony
The title song is about a virus that came into the country from the ocean and spread quickly. In order to prevent the spread, entire areas were depopulated by the governments and the infected people were brought to so-called cancer colonies. The protagonist went to the colony voluntarily when he discovered the symptoms and wanders past the mountains of corpses in the cordoned-off area at night. Every evening corpses are brought to the colony, on which the protagonist feeds in his distress. Knowing that he will soon die from the virus, he kills a guard on the edge of the colony, takes the guns, and shoots anything in the city that comes in his way. Eventually he kills himself with a headshot.
In the indexing report, the song was mentioned for describing cannibalism. Roth commented on the allegations as follows:
"The text is about the fact that in the future a virus will break out that will attack more and more people and against which there is no antidote, which is why the infected are then placed in colonies and the real problem is ignored. Rather, it should be related to the fact that it also happens in our society that minorities are marginalized. Even if it's an extreme and blatant story, that doesn't mean that I'm trying to make any sociopolitical comments. If you do not read it carefully, you will certainly get it wrong, but I did not plan on it. "
Although the song is titled Cancer Colony , not all of the symptoms described in the song are reminiscent of cancer . There are also viral infections that cause cancer or increase the likelihood of cancer (for example in the case of HIV / AIDS ) and metastases forming on the protagonist's body are mentioned, the other symptoms of the fictitious virus described in the song, in which the bodies of the infected rot and always more disintegrated, but more reminiscent of diseases like leprosy .
The action was continued in 2007 with the song Back to the Colony on the album Blood Courses.
For you who live
The song is written from the point of view of a higher being who looks down on people disparagingly, but in the end is in some ways impressed by the way people fight one war after another. The wars in Vietnam , Iraq and Yugoslavia , where the being participated, are mentioned. In the end, the being still says that humanity will certainly soon lead a new crusade .
The little life
Thematically, the song goes strongly in the direction of the plague cycle on the previous album Zerfall . Here, too, the cruelty of the plague is shown, with the protagonist, as in the plague cycle, the only one in the family who is still alive:
"My family has already left me
a few days ago when the reaper called them
The corpses burned with the others
The ashes in the wind are what remained of them"
The protagonist has meanwhile also lost his faith in God, and he also sees that the plague has now made all people equal and that the nobility now have the same problems as the common people. Since he can no longer stand it in the city, he goes outside the city, into the cold, where he hears a voice calling him. He follows her further and further into the cold until he meets a woman with whom he has sexual intercourse . After completing the act, she is dead and the protagonist now carries the seeds of the plague and moves on as her messenger until his little life is over.
Feed for the pigs
This song describes how a protagonist at the train station picks up two prostitutes , anesthetizes them with chloroform , takes them to a pig fattening facility and grinds both of them in a feed mill (oversized meat grinder ) into pig feed, whereby he particularly enjoys their suffering. The song also takes up the atrocities of Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton . He is said to have killed around 49 women (mostly prostitutes) between 1983 and 2002 and fed them to his pigs.
The passage at the end of the song, which was interpreted in such a way that the band was of the opinion that the life of a prostitute was no more valuable than being processed into pig feed, was seen as inhuman:
"So your life still fulfills a good purpose.
As fodder for the pigs
At least her dead body has its value
As fodder for the pigs
A whore is left that night
As fodder for the pigs"
At the end of the song there is an accompanying grunt of pigs .
THURINGIA
The song is on the one hand a strong emphasis on the state of Thuringia , but on the other hand it also shows strong socio-critical tendencies. Roth commented on this in an interview:
“No, no way, we have absolutely nothing to do with the right-wing scene. 'Thuringia' were just a few thoughts about the country in which we live. I mean, if you read the text, you will absolutely not be able to read any right tendencies. It's just thoughts and reflections about our home country, but not in the nationalistic way. If we lived in Bavaria or Lower Saxony, the song would be called that too. "
The song Thuringia from Eisregen is a modification of the traditional Heimatlied / Rennsteiglied Thuringia, you my dear homeland .
The song THÜ.RINGEN was set to music under the name Thuringia in 2005 and was released on the mini-album Hexenhaus for the tenth anniversary of the band. In order to avoid the content being identical to the Krebskolonie version, the text has been slightly changed and the melody has been restructured:
- Thuringia
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- Thuringia 2005
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Meat festival
A year later the EP Fleischfestival was released . The song Scharlachrotes Kleid then appeared in a different version and a new recording by Herzblut , which was first featured on the first album Zerfall . Between the releases, bassist Lenz joined the retired K. Matthes.
2003 Cancer colony with the meat Festival - EP republished; because the content is identical to the cancer colony , this republication is also to be regarded as indexed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Indexing report: "Krebskolonie (Eisregen)" ( Memento from January 11, 2005 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ a b vampster.com: Interview with Michael Roth , accessed October 19, 2008
- ↑ rapidforum.de: Official forum: The people speak: "Your opinion on BONE CULT" - October 9, 2008 , accessed on October 19, 2008.
- ^ Diana Glöckner: Provocation or Tastelessness? ( Memento of July 18, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), accessed October 19, 2008.
- ↑ EISREGEN - Cancer Colony - The Metal Observer
- ↑ Where does the term “green heart” come from? ( Memento from March 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Albums: Decay (1998) | Cancer Colony (1998) | Mortuary camp (2000) | Color Eclipse (2001) | Wundwasser (2004) | Blood vessels (2007) | Bone Cult (2008) | Snake Sun (2010) | Rust red (2011) | Days of Death (2013) | March Music (2015) | Fleischfilm (2017) | Purgatory (2018)
EPs: Meat Festival (1999) | Witch House (2005) | One Received (2007)