Mortuary

Mortuary
Studio album by Eisregen
Publication (s)	2000
Label (s)	Last episode
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Dark metal
Title (number)	11
running time	58:41
occupation	M. Roth: Singing Yantit: pulse, electronics, tweeters Lenz boy: tweeter, 6- and 12-string The woods: low tones Two-T: violin
production	Uwe Hörmann
Studio (s)	"Kick Traxx" studio
chronology Cancer Colony (1998) Mortuary Color Eclipse (2001)

Leichenlager is the third album by the Thuringian dark metal band Eisregen , which was released in 2000 by Last Episode .

History of origin

The album was the band's most successful album to date and - in contrast to its predecessor, Krebskolonie - was a deliberately quieter album. Roth already announced in the development phase of the successor, Color Eclipse , that the contrasts in particular would be better worked out, as the band found that this was a little too "watered down" at Leichenlager in the end.

Thematically, Leichenlager is based on previous publications. As usual, the lyrics are morbid, even if not as strong as was the case with Krebskolonie , and some of the songs are given more profound themes.

Track list

1. The Savior's Skin - 3:58
2. Mortuary camp - 8:00
3. Enemy man - 3:28
4. And she only bled for one summer - 5:35
5. The Gate (Sado Mix) - 5:54
6. Salt of the Earth - 5:16
7. The stillborn soul - 2:57
8. Army of rats (only for the digipak version )
9. Just your flesh - 3:54
10. At the graves - 3:33
11. Black rose - 5:00
12. Die smiling ( digipak version only )
13. Time to play - 5:40

Mortuary

The song has strongly religious-critical content. Similar to songs like “Ode to decline” or “For you who live”, the song is again written from the perspective of a higher being, in this case probably death. The lyrical self describes how it takes a deceased who thinks he will go to heaven to the hereafter. The hereafter does not correspond to his ideas, since instead of an otherworldly realm, only one place has been reserved for him, where his corpse will rot. At the end of the song there are also influences from the zombie genre, as death sends the deceased back and the latter kills his wife and then brings him to the mortuary.

The Gate (Sado Mix)

The song "Das Tor (Sado Mix)" is a lyrically and musically modified version of the song "Ich bin das Tor", which was featured on the demo Das Ende des Weges . Above all, criticism of religion plays a bigger role in the Sado mix. It is the only time that the band - apart from their debut album Zerfall - covers a song from the demos .

The soul of the stillborn

“The soul of stillbirth” describes how a child is safe in the womb and not yet born. However, when the birth is imminent, it resists, as all that is out there is the madness of everyday life. The child is ultimately born stillborn .

Army of rats

"Heer der Ratten", often incorrectly called "Herr der Ratten", is a paraphrase of the political development in Germany during the Nazi era, whereby the rats are supposed to represent the German people who blindly run after a leader who they ultimately do leads to perdition.

"Brainwashing for the masses
Propaganda as an art form transfigured
self-abandonment as a goal in life
And the army of rats follows"

- Army of rats

The last lines of the text allude to the survival of ideas in the form of neo-Nazi groups in the Federal Republic:

“But the rat never sleeps.
It has more than 1000 lives.
If you think it has been exterminated.
If its bite hits you in an ambush.
When a leader orders
, the army of rats is re-formed
as an entry ticket
into the world of comrades
…… and the army of Ratten follows ... "

- Army of rats

The music here is rather unusual for freezing rain, as it was deliberately kept march-like and with little harmony.

In issue 4/04 of the MIZ , which dealt with the topic of the National Socialist activities in the black metal scene (especially absurd ), the song was named as a positive example for bands trying to defend themselves against this development:

“Fortunately, there are also counterexamples. For example, the Thuringian combo Eisregen wrote a song that turns against the National Socialist madness. "

At the graves

After the death of his father, the protagonist becomes a corpse washer as a profession, as he feels more and more drawn to the dead, so that he also sleeps outside by the graves at night. The two corpses he has to wash a week are no longer enough for him at some point and he begins to take care of supplies himself by killing people. At night, when he is outside by the graves, he hears the voices of the murdered who curse him. After all, he is waiting there for his death.

Black rose

“Black Rose” tells the story of a man who dies. His youth is long gone, the woman died of cancer and the son died in the war, he is taken to the old people's home , where he finally dies. His body is burned. As the smoke rises through the chimney, the ashes are carried away by the night wind, which blows the remains onto a meadow. A black rose grows at this point, which a child finds and takes home. When the black rose on the window sill begins to wither under the influence of the sun and its leaves fall to the ground, the mother sweeps them up and throws them in the garbage with a smile.

Time to play

The protagonist meets a young woman in the discotheque and invites her to a glass of red wine . After a long conversation with her, he finally invites her to his home. Instead of the expected sexual contact, however, he begins to attack her. She tries to fight back, but succumbs and is mutilated bit by bit. A siren can be heard and the song ends with two shots from a revolver .

The song was released on the Fleischfestival- EP before the album was released, but in an alternative vocal version.

layout

The cover shows several corpses lying on the floor . The motif comes from the final scene of the film Über dem Jenseits by Lucio Fulci , where the two main characters enter the shadowy world and find themselves in the image of the deceased artist.

For the booklet, scenes from various horror and splatter classics were used, such as B. from And again is Friday the 13th , Beyond the hereafter , A zombie hung on the bell rope and Halloween II . In addition, the individual band members can be seen in the photos with naked women whose faces are covered by gas masks .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with M. Roth, August 2001. Archived from the original on August 19, 2005 ; Retrieved July 29, 2011 .