Funeral procession (tape)

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Funeral procession
General information
origin Wilkau-Haßlau , Zwickau district , Saxony
Genre (s) Pagan metal
founding 2002 or 2003
Founding members
All instruments, vocals
 Bile (Paul M.)

Leichenzug is a German pagan metal group from Wilkau-Haßlau in the district of Zwickau in Saxony. She is assigned to the NSBM scene and observed by the Saxon constitution protection . Its only member is Paul M. (Bile), who is also active as a singer with the right-wing extremist groups Halgadom and Camulos .

Band history

Leichenzug was founded by Bile as a solo project alongside his bands Camulos, Halgadom and Frozen Abyss. So far four albums have been released, two of which have been released on the Blasphemous Terror Records label founded by Paul M. There are also split releases with the death metal band Eviscerated from Zwickau and the Canadian pagan metal band Pagan Flame.

According to his own statements, Bile began writing the first songs for funeral procession in 2002. The founding date is unclear: On the one hand, there should have been no real date because the funeral procession was a one-man band, but he stated in an interview in 2002. On the other hand, 2003 and 2004 (release of the first album) were also given as the year of foundation.

Leichenzug first performed live around 2008. The concert took place in Annaberg-Buchholz in the Ore Mountains , but Bile doesn't remember the other bands and is not entirely sure about the year. In 2013 the project was supposed to appear at an NSBM festival in Finowfurt , Brandenburg, together with Stahlfront, Forgotten Tomb , Lucifer's weapon carrier and Funeral Winds . The concert, announced under the name Fireblade Force Festival, was to take place on a site that had previously been rented for right-wing rock concerts. However, this was prohibited by the city and the local police department. Since no suitable venue could be found and all bands also dropped out, the festival was finally canceled. Overall, the band made three live appearances in the first 10 years.

Music genre

Funeral procession plays Pagan Metal, whereby Bile tries to create "hateful, hard, but melodic music" according to his own statements. zeyn play from House of the Whipcord Zine compared the band with Absurd and Totenburg with some melodic German folk influences. He also sees influences from heavy metal and thrash metal or from another European context. In a review of the Sturmglanz webzine, the Pfaffenschwein EP pieces are described as “two absolutely typical funeral parade songs, more of the faster pace and as usual hateful and direct”.

Content and direction

The group's texts are primarily anti-Christian and anti-Jewish in nature that glorifies violence . The depictions of violence in the texts are quite broad in nature, for example they can be very splatter- heavy or also fecal in nature, some also describe targeted extermination of large crowds. Based on the lyrics, the album The Last Prayer was indexed by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People (BPjM). Some texts also have a warlike context, mostly set in a fictional pagan past. On the other hand, clear political content is rarely found, but some songs can certainly be interpreted as glorifying the National Socialist past, for example in Totenkopflied , which quite clearly means a glorification of the SS :

“They march proudly dressed in black - the order of knights in enemy territory / Bringing death to the eternal enemy, whose nature unites lies and envy [...] / They have only one goal in mind, the extermination of unclean faith / Who is reluctant of their kind because he is from Fear and weakness live [...] / The storm breaks out, the earth shakes when the skull rises / This is how they fight for the greatest good - loyalty, pride, honor and blood "

- Funeral procession : skull song , quoted from the constitution protection report 2010

On a tribute publication called Tribute to the Tyrants of German Black Metal for the right-wing extremist group Absurd in 2005, Leichenzug was also involved with two titles, one of which was a cover of the openly National Socialist absurd title Germanien über alles . On the Absurd- Tribute Soldiers of the Eternal Winter , the band is represented with Colors of Autumn . The song In Nomini Socordia by the right-wing rock group Kreuzfeuer was also covered by Leichenzug (together with Eviscerated). The debut album Meisterwerk was also distributed by Nebelfee Klangwerke, the label of the absurd singer Ronald Möbus . Bile himself said that one should discuss current politics and not that of the past, and denies the links between the absurd and the Third Reich and National Socialism. The Saxon Constitutional Protection Report 2010, on the other hand, mentions a self-classification of the funeral procession to the NSBM.

In addition, Paul M. is also involved in the right-wing rock band Blitzkrieg. At times he was a member of the Zwickau district association of the AfD , but was excluded after his involvement in Blitzkrieg became known.

Bile runs the independent label and the online shop Blasphemous Terror Records, on which, in addition to his own band's releases, the Camulos album Leichenlieder and an album by the NSBM band Chysta Krynycya (Чиста Криниця) have been released. In the online shop, Bile sells numerous publications from the NSBM environment, including productions by Nebelfee Klangwerke and albums by Totenburg . There are also some right-wing rock publications, including by Brainwash , available there.

Trivia

In 2017, the magazine Katapult published a graphic with the names of German metal groups that would sound particularly "harsh" from the name. For the state of Saxony funeral procession was listed there alongside two other groups.

Discography

Albums

  • 2004: Masterpiece (Blood and Pain Music)
  • 2010: The Last Prayer (Blasphemous Terror Records, indexed)
  • 2013: The Flaming Return ... (LP, Purity Through Fire)
  • 2017: Black (Blasphemous Terror Records)

Compilations

  • 2013: The flaming return / death by fire (MC, Hammerbund)

Split releases

  • 2007: Feuertod / Death in Its Nicest Forms (Split CD with Eviscerated, Blasphemous Terror Records)
  • 2013: The Flaming Return of Hyperborean Wrath (split CD with Pagan Flame, Wolftyr Productions)

EPs

  • 2013: Pfaffenschwein (Purity Through Fire)

Sampler contributions

  • 2003: Werwolf ( Absurd Cover) and The Last Battle on Germania Incognita - Kulturkampf (CD, Donnerschlag Rex)
  • 2006: Pesttanz und Germanien über alles on Absurd Tribute to the Tyrants of German Black Metal (CD, Hammerbund)
  • 2016: Shadows over Transylvania and victory of the pagans on Hammerbund - Compilation 2016 (3xCD, Hammerbund)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Robex Lundgren: interview with funeral procession. In: Robex Lundgren. January 23, 2014, accessed May 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e zeyn play: Funeral procession interview. In: House of the Whipcord Zine. April 4, 2013, accessed May 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ 1.7 Right-wing extremist music groups and concerts . In: State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Saxony (ed.): Sächsischer Verfassungsschutzbericht 2013 . 2014, p. 5 ( sachsen.de [PDF]). 1.7 Right-wing extremist music groups and concerts ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verfassungsschutz.sachsen.de
  4. ^ "Fireblade Force Festival": Nazi metal meeting in Brandenburg. Belltower News, accessed May 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c "Fireblade Force Festival": Nazi metal meeting in Brandenburg. Belltower.News , October 25, 2013, accessed October 1, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Land Brandenburg (Ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht Brandenburg 2013 . 2014, p. 107 ( brandenburg.de [PDF]).
  7. ↑ Xanthor: funeral - Pfaff pig (Purity Through Fire 2013). In: Sturmglanz Black Metal Manufactory. November 27, 2013, accessed May 13, 2018 .
  8. ↑ State Ministry of the Interior: Constitutional Protection Report 2010 . 2010, p. 29 ( sachsen.de [PDF; accessed on May 13, 2018]).
  9. ^ 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. 163 .
  10. ↑ State Ministry of the Interior: Constitutional Protection Report 2010 . 2010, p. 28 ( sachsen.de [PDF; accessed on May 13, 2018]).
  11. ↑ "In steel thunderstorms". Insights into the right-wing Neofolk scene . In: Antifascist information sheet . No. 108 (3/2015) , November 19, 2015 ( antifainfoblatt.de ).
  12. ↑ Right-wing rock musician is involved in Saxony-AfD. Welt.de , September 3, 2014, accessed October 1, 2017 .
  13. ^ Kerstin Köditz: Pre-revolutionary AfD. Preliminary polemical remarks on the occasion of some elections . In: Friedrich Burschel (Ed.): March through from the right. Volkish awakening: racism, right-wing populism, right-wing terror (=  manuscripts new series ). No. 17 . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation , 2016, ISSN  2194-864X , p. 103 ( rosalux.de [PDF]).
  14. ↑ The "hardest" names of German metal bands , Katapult, accessed on October 7, 2017