Lightbringer (album)
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1996 |
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| Label (s) | Massacre Records | |||
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CD |
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9 |
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Gerhard Magin |
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Commusication Studio (Frankenthal) |
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Lichtbringer is the debut album by the German metal band Totenmond and was released in November 1996.
Emergence
The recordings for the album were preceded by three demos , which were recorded in 1993, 1994 and 1995 respectively. The last of these demos was entitled The Battle and already contained the songs Sagenwelt , Ragnarök and The Battle, which were recorded again for Lichtbringer . As with the follow-up album, the recordings took place under the direction of Gerhard Magin in Frankenthal's Commusication Studio.
The album was only released on CD. In addition to the normal jewel case version, there was also a limited edition that came in a box. The box was black and only had the band logo and the album title in Gothic script; as bonus material it contained a sticker and autographs from the band members. In 2004 the album was released as a 3CD box set together with its two successors Fleischwald and Reich in Rost under the title "Platinum Edition".
The album was released on a tour of Germany with the bands Atrocity , In Flames and Heavenwood . The band line-up for the debut album remained until Roberto Garcia left in 2001.
The cover artwork was designed by Matthias Kerkle. It shows a cross on the right side, to the left of which there is a drawn medieval scene in which a person kneels in front of a church dignitary. Behind him stands the one who strikes with his sword. The same illustration is used again on the back cover, but the kneeling person is no longer wearing his head. In addition to a picture of the band, the booklet also contains photos of crosses, cemeteries and a skull with bones resting in a wall niche. As with Fleischwald and Reich in Rost , all of the texts in the booklet are printed in thick Gothic font , but only with the round "s" .
In addition to some greetings to other bands such as Wollkammer 12, Narsaak or Atrocity , there is also a dedication to Gert Möbius in the booklet with the quote in brackets “Break what breaks you”.
Track list
- Intro - 0:27
- The battle - 8:25
- Ragnarok - 2:32
- Death is joy - 7:21
- Fatherland - 4:00
- Mythical World - 3:28
- Cellar steel - 10:35
- Cross nail - 5:37
- Necrophilic Sunday - 3:52
content
Towards the end, the song “Die Schlacht” used samples from Adolf Hitler's speech on September 14, 1935 to 50,000 members of the Hitler Youth (“ Nimble as greyhounds, tough as leather, hard as Kruppstahl! ”) And from the pronouncement of the verdict by Roland Freisler against some of the assassins of July 20, 1944 , Carl Goerdeler , Wilhelm Leuschner , Josef Wirmer and Ulrich von Hassell .
Songs such as cross-nail , however, feature a high degree of morbidity , in the song basement steel states, for example. B .:
Cellar steel for the women
There are the bodies - The ax is stuck
Blood splatters on the walls - The time is over.
She bites, she screams and lolls in
this warm puddle
One critic found that the lyrics and song titles were "created with a deliberately provocative calculation". "Ragnarok", by its namesake a mythological text background.
Musically the work is a mixture of elements from Death Metal , Doom Metal and Hardcore . Critics drew comparisons to bands like Carnivore , Broken Bones or Anti-Nowhere League .
Reception and meaning
What was new at Totenmond was that a very extreme kind of Metal was provided with German lyrics. The metal magazine Rock Hard wrote that the band had "its own profile, if only because of their unusual lyrics" and called the album "one of the meanest records of '96." The site metal.de also wrote that the album "almost like a bombshell in the underground ”and as“ a journey through the world in its most bizarre, darkest way [that] [secured] this band a secluded place in hell ”.
The German music magazine Intro , however, commented negatively on the work of the band and described Totenmond as “just a worn-out punk band”, whose lyrics are no longer “incoherent Hitler language samples that require explanation, hollow phrases like 'Long live terrorism', song titles like 'Kellerstahl' or 'Necrophiler Sonntag' and stupid Gebolze 'that don't show what the band thinks so bad about society.
Ox magazine described the album as "a masterpiece that merges the monumentality and clarity of Laibach with the violence and menace of Sonic Violence ".
The band photo in the booklet caused some irritation, in which singer and guitarist Pazzer showed himself with typical skinhead characteristics such as bald head, suspenders, combat boots and trouser legs tucked into his shoes, which led to the band being “by self-appointed guardians of political morality the right corner ”was placed.
Pazzer himself describes Necrophiler Sonntag as the best song by Totenmond, his colleague Senz "Kreuznagel".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dead Moon - Bringer of Light. discogs.com; Retrieved November 2, 2008
- ↑ Interview with Dead Moon. metalmessage.net; Retrieved November 2, 2008
- ↑ a b review. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Rock Hard , No. 116; Retrieved October 27, 2008
- ↑ Review of Fleischwald . ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. discover.de; Retrieved October 26, 2008
- ↑ Review of a fire on the moon . metal.de; Retrieved November 2, 2008
- ↑ Review of Father Frost . metal.de; Retrieved October 26, 2008
- ↑ CD review Lichtbringer . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. intro.de; Retrieved October 26, 2008
- ↑ Review of the album in Ox-Fanzine, issue 26
- ↑ Frank Albrecht: Review of the album ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. amazon.de; Retrieved November 2, 2008
- ↑ Information on the official homepage of the band
