Crossfire (ribbon)
| Crossfire | |
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| General information | |
| origin | Altenburg , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Right skirt |
| founding | 1996 |
Kreuzfeuer was a music group from Altenburg in Thuringia , which is assigned to the spectrum of right-wing rock and the NSBM . The group was founded in 1996 by former members of its predecessor Kroizfoier , a well - known neo-Nazi group from the area around Leipzig from the 1990s .
history
Kroizfoier was founded in 1991 as a group of five and initially played Oi! -Music, hence the spelling of the name, with right-wing extremist texts. It was one of the first right-wing rock groups in Germany whose members were sentenced to probation and fines because of the lyrics for sedition , glorification of National Socialism and other offenses. With the second release in 1994, the style of music shifted towards metal and hatecore . In the same year the original guitarist and later singer Jens Rahl had to serve a prison sentence, which led to the temporary end of the group.
After Rahl's release from prison, the group with former members such as the guitarist Ronny and other musicians was revived under the name Kreuzfeuer in early 1996 and from then on they oriented themselves towards heavy metal , thrash metal and pagan metal . After Rahl's suicide on September 10, 2000, the group broke up. Former members play today with the NSHC band Brainwash (Saxony / Thuringia). In 2006 V7-Records published the retrospective Kreuzfeuer - The Years of Oi! which only contained songs from the right-wing rock phase. The pagan metal and right-wing rock group Eugenik dedicated their debut album, released in 2005, to the late singer.
style
The group's first releases are in the typical right-wing rock style of the 1990s, but in contrast to most of the music groups, they had a heavier metal touch. At that time, the lyrics made use of the typical racist , violence-glorifying and National Socialist themes that ultimately led to the indexing of the first albums. After the re-establishment, more extensive heavy metal influences were used with synthesizers and heavier guitars. There was also a guttural chant . The texts remained largely rooted in legal rock, but pagan and anti-Christian themes were added. The recently released split album Tribute to King of Aquilonia contains the song Zünd die Feuer , whose style is very different from the old songs. Black and death metal influences can be clearly seen here .
Discography
As a Kroizfoier
- 1991: Come to us ( demo tape , indexed October 30, 1993)
- 1992: Target recognized (drafted on August 30, 1994, indexed on August 31, 2004, re-released in 1995 as Kroizfoier without the offending song "European Skinheads")
- 1993: The Wild Years (EP)
- 1994: With strength, courage and momentum into the future (indexed on November 30, 1994, removed from the list on November 14, 2019)
As a crossfire
- 1998: back to hurt
- 2000: blood for blood
- 2006: Kreuzfeuer - The Years of Oi! ( Compilation )
- 2010: Tribute to King of Aquilonia (Split-7 "-EP with Graveland )
literature
- Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe : “Unite!” - Kreuzfeuer in: RechtsRock - Made in Thuringia . Erfurt, State Center for Political Education Thuringia, 2006, ISBN 3-937967-08-7 , pp. 19–21
Web links
- Kroizfoier at Discogs (English)
- Crossfire at Discogs (English)