Kristallnacht (band)

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Crystal Night
General information
Genre (s) NSBM
founding 1996
resolution 2002
Last occupation
Vocals , all instruments
 Laurent "LF" Franchet

Kristallnacht was a French National Socialist Black Metal solo project from Toulon , Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur , which emerged from the band Funeral.

history

1994–1996: Prehistory Funeral

In 1994 Black Christ ( guitar ), Krof ( drums ) and Amaobscuradeo (pseudonym, keyboard ) founded the band Funeral. In the further course Anthony "Xaphan" Mignoni ( vocals ) and Laurent "Hades" Franchet (guitar, bass , vocals) joined them.

In 1995 the band released the demo tape Black Flame of Unholy Hate . In August 1995 Black Christ left the band to devote himself exclusively to Blessed in Sin, whereupon Hades took over the guitar. A year later a split MC followed with Osculum Infame via AMSG

On the night of 8 to 9. June 1996 exhumed four teenagers the corpse of Yvonne Foin and pushed one inverted Latin cross in her heart. They were arrested two days later; In a report by France 3 , the questioning of those arrested was described as "very philosophical ", the young people are said to have called themselves adepts of Satan . In media reports, an anti-Christian profile was also mentioned, which accused Jesus Christ of crimes against humanity and comes from the magazine Napalm Rock in the context of Christian Bouchet's Nouvelle résistance . In the case of Anthony "Xaphan" Mignoni, France 3 mentioned belonging to Funeral and quoted statements by Funeral member Antitheos from a neo-Nazi fanzine , which, according to L'Express , is Christophe Mignoni who was also involved in the desecration of the grave . Instructions for making bombs, Molotov cocktails and explosive lightbulbs belonging to Christophe Mignoni were later discovered.

1996-2006: Kristallnacht

Franchet also dropped the name Hades, as an atheist did not want to be taken for a pagan , and initially called himself Herr Wolf. In addition to Kristallnacht, he worked with Xaphan at Seigneur Voland. Since Franchet liked the Blutrausch MC of the band Morke and their Nazi orientation, he asked in 1996 about a planned split MC; this appeared in 1997 as the first publication under the name Kristallnacht; this refers to the term Kristallnacht for the November pogroms in 1938 and was chosen because the band was "full of anti-Semitism ". Shortly after the first release, a split tape with the Bavarian band Morke, he was sentenced to prison in May 1998 for neo-Nazi propaganda and calls for racial hatred.

In 1999, the EP Warspirit, limited to 500 copies, followed via Hate Records and Darker Than Black Records ; on this Franchet gave his first name Laurent instead of a pseudonym, an unnamed guest musician operated the keyboard and drum computer . A cassette was released under the Warspririt Productions label. A drawing by Adolf Hitler can be seen on the cover of individual publications : a half-destroyed church that was drawn during the First World War . In 1999 the NSBM sampler The Night and the Fog appeared , on which Kristallnacht is represented with A Strife ... A Victory .

Franchet finally dropped the name Herr Wolf and only used his initials LF 2000 followed by the EP Soldiers of Triumphant Sun , which contains a cover version of the Burzum title Lost Wisdom . As a guest guitarist and singer, Rimmon (Seigneur Voland), Infect and Rost (Seigneur Voland) programmed the drum computer for the Kristallnacht titles; in Lost Wisdom , both were taken over by Duke Satanael. Published in 2001 Kristallnacht Compilation Of Elitism and War , the pieces of Warspirit and Soldiers of Triumphant Sun contained. Another production was the split CD Gathered under the Banner of Concilium with Blessed in Sin and Seigneur Voland , which was re-released in 2004; here LF was supported by Hylgaryss and Malkira.

In 2002, the Funeral material was re-released along with the Kristallnacht title Reigning with Honor and Tyranny by the split MC with Morke and Lost Wisdom (both with the support of Duke Satanael) on The Funeral Years (1994-1998) . In the same year the EP Adversary was released via Sombre Records (again with support from Rost). In the same year, the cassette Creation Through Destruction appeared on Warspirit Productions; in this Black Christ and Rost worked as guest musicians. In 2004 both releases were re-released together as Creation Through Destruction / Adversary via Autistiartili Records.

In 2006 Blooddrenched Memorial (1994-2002) , a compilation of Funeral / Kristallnacht recordings, was released as a CD via Wotanstahl Klangschmiede and as an LP via Grievantee Productions. The L'Express newspaper article can be seen in the fold-out cover of the LP .

Laurent Franchet also published Strength Through War Magazine and operates his own label under the name Adversary Productions.

Music genre

The use of the keyboard was characteristic of the band's early releases; Franchet declared his renunciation of this with his wish to go a more raw and brutal way; a song like Soldiers of Triumphant Sun is still as intense as before, even without keyboards.

ideas

Antitheos von Funeral stated that the band's goals were to spread his ideas based on "the genocide of the human race, the destruction of the Jewish / Christian / Muslim religions [and] the purity and supremacy of the Aryan race". The band followed the tradition of the SS and Heinrich Himmler . Franchet's attitude propagated in the lyrics and interviews suggests a biologic view of man. For Franchet, the focus is on the ideal of an extremely racially biologically oriented people's community , “which is oriented towards the 'eternal laws of motion of nature' and believes that it is threatened by external and internal enemies.” As the name suggests, Kristallnacht was extremely anti-Semitic.

In contrast to the band Absurd , which sees National Socialism as "the most natural ideology for Black Metal " and describes that Black Metal originates in the unconscious of people, Laurent Franchet disagrees. He said that black metal was “not exclusive NS music: NS fits with the worldview of black metal, but that is not the only thing: Satanism , paganism , nihilism can be spread through black metal. Elitism and anti-Semitism (or anti-Judeo Christianity, if one should prefer that) are, in my opinion, the basis of the ideological side of Black Metal. "

Discography

Funeral

  • 1995: Black Flame of Unholy Hate (demo, in-house production)
  • 1996: Osculum Infame / Funeral (Split-MC with Osculum Infame , AMSG)

Crystal Night

Splits

  • 1997: Kristallnacht / Morke (with Morke, Unholy War Productions)
  • 2001: Gathered under the Banner of Concilium (with Blessed in Sin and Seigneur Voland, Warspirit Records)

EPs

Demos

  • 2000: Soldiers of Triumphant Sun (Promo, Warspirit Productions, indexed)
  • 2002: Creation Through Destruction (Warspirit Records)

Compilations

  • 2001: Of Elitism and War (Warspirit Productions, indexed)
  • 2002: The Funeral Years (Autistiartili Records)
  • 2004: Creation Through Destruction / Adversary (Autistiartili Records)
  • 2006: Blooddrenched Memorial 1994-2002 (Grievantee Prod / WKG)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Kristallnacht . In: Capricornus, Syrragh: Dark Blaze / Into the Pentagram , 2001.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g TV Profanation cimetière Toulon 1996 Blessed in Sin , France 3, 1996, accessed on February 16, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Michael Moynihan , Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground . Venice: Feral House 1998, pp. 274-276.
  4. ^ A b c Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Unholy alliances. Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. 2005, p. 153 .
  5. ^ Christian Dornbusch , Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. council (series of anti-fascist texts), Unrast Verlag , Hamburg / Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 136-137 .
  6. ^ Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Unholy alliances. Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. 2005, p. 152 .
  7. ↑ Final Solution, No. 3, 2003, no page: Uruk-Hai [interview with Defernos]. Quoted from Unheilige Alliances , p. 221.
  8. ↑ BAnz AT 06/30/2014 B8
  9. ↑ a b BAnz AT 07/28/2020 B4