Necronomicon (thrash metal band)

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Necronomicon
Necronomicon.svg
General information
origin Weil am Rhein , Germany
Genre (s) Punk , Thrash Metal
founding 1983
Website www.necronomicon-online.de
Founding members
Volker "Freddy" Fredrich
Lars Honeck
Axel knitted skirt
Current occupation
Vocals, electric guitar
 Volker "Freddy" Fredrich
Electric guitar
 Michael Kusch
Electric bass
 Marco Lohrenz
Drums
 Christopher Speicher
former members
Electric guitar
 Andreas Gern
Electric guitar
 Jürgen "Jogi" Weltin
Electric bass
 Andreas Nagel
Electric bass
 Mac Meder
Electric bass
 Bernhard Matt
Electric bass
 Alex
Electric guitar
 Benjamin Rogg
Drums
 Klaus Enderlin
guitar
 Michael Lohrenz

Necronomicon is a German punk / thrash metal band from southern Baden .

history

Necronomicon was founded in 1983 by the head of the band Volker “Freddy” Fredrich (vocals and guitar), Axel Strickstrock (drums) and Lars “Lala” Honeck (bass) in Weil am Rhein . Freddy attended the same school together with Marcel “Schmier” Schirmer from Destruction . The band originally came from punk . Fredrich founded the punk band Total Rejection in 1981, and Necronomicon’s early stages were influenced by Discharge , The Exploited and GBH . Due to the influence of Motörhead , Metallica and Slayer , the band soon became more metal- heavy.

In 1985 the quartet signed their first record deal with the record label GAMA-Records and released their debut album Necronomicon - a year earlier the guitarist Jürgen “Jogi” Weltin was hired . on the cover the band can still be seen in a punk outfit. With the album, a mixture of hard Thrash with clear punk influences, the band gained first notoriety in the underground scene. In 1987 the second album Apocalyptic Nightmare was released . On an Eastern Bloc tour that began in Austria and led via Hungary, then Czechoslovakia to Russia, the band gained a large fan base.

At this point in time, at the end of the 1980s, German thrash metal reached its peak, German thrash metal bands such as Kreator , Sodom or Destruction with Freddy's childhood friend Lubricated a national and international sensation. Necronomicon had less success in this regard. After the third LP, Escalation , was released on GAMA Records in 1988, the label ran into financial inconsistencies. Necronomicon then separated from the management. When this threatened with a legal dispute, the band agreed to give up the complete rights to the songs including the use of the name for ten years. She was also forced not to sign any further record deals.

In 1993 Necronomicon succeeded in signing a new recording contract after the blocking period negotiated by GAMA Records was successfully challenged over ten years. A new contract with the label D&S Records was signed and in 1994 the album Screams was mixed under the new management . This surprisingly filed for bankruptcy in the same year and broke off all contact with the band. In addition, a fire had destroyed the rehearsal room in Kirchheim's Spygel studio and a large part of the equipment. The band was about to break up, especially since Thrash Metal was no longer popular at that time and was replaced by Nu Metal .

Comeback 2004

At the beginning of 2000 a thrash revival broke out on the international music scene, bands like Destruction or Exodus went on tour again and produced new albums. Necronomicon also made their comeback in March 2004 when the band signed a contract with the Hamburg label Remedy Records and released the CD Construction of Evil . Before that, the long-term collaboration with the guitarist "Jogi" had to be terminated due to a tinnitus disease.

In 2007 Necronomicon was signed by the Spanish label Xtreem Music . There the album Revenge of the Beast was released , which was also mixed as a special edition in a rougher retro mix of classic 1980s Thrash in Neuenburg am Rhein .

In 2009 there was a European tour that led through Greece, Spain and Russia. Drummer and founding member Axel Strickstrock quit and was replaced by Klaus Enderlin.

style

Since Necronomicon was originally a punk band and was influenced by Discharge, The Exploited and GBH, the first demo recording Total Rejection is kept in the appropriate style. The influence of Motörhead , Metallica and Slayer resulted in a synthesis of the old style and the new metal influences. The band's mid-1980s style was described by the online magazine Metalize.Me as a mixture of Hellhammer and Sodom .

With the 1987 album Apocalyptic Nightmare , Freddy himself is dissatisfied; the songs were good, but the musicians were not yet mature enough to perform them appropriately. Construction of Evil (2004) by Martin of Heavy-Metal.de "classic [r] rather than heavy metal old school" and "up-tempo power metal without andauerndem [sic] Double Base -Gewitter" [sic] described , musically, the band remained true to themselves. The seventh album Invictus , which was released in 2012, combines the 1980s style with contemporary elements; According to Metalize.Me it sounds “charmingly like rumble metal, but it no longer rumbles”, they are now being played precisely.

Necronomicon’s music is often compared to that of Destruction, which Freddy describes as a coincidence, and in addition, Schmier, who attended the same school with Freddy during his school days, did not write any songs for Destruction at that time. When asked what was characteristic of the style of his band, he replied that this was probably because he wrote all the songs, which was probably reflected in the music; Martin from Heavy-Metal.de sees Freddy's somewhat rough vocals as a specific characteristic of the band, that it “stands out from the crowd of power and heavy metal bands in Germany”. In the meantime, according to his own statements, Freddy is no longer inspired by bands, but by films and the music that goes with them.

Discography

  • 1985: Total Rejection ( Demo )
  • 1985: Necronomicon
  • 1986: Break Out - German Metal Tracks No.2
  • 1987: Apocalyptic Nightmare (Gama-Records)
  • 1988: Escalation (Gama-Records)
  • 1994: Screams (D&S Records)
  • 2004: Construction of Evil (Remedy Records)
  • 2008: Revenge of the Beast (Xtreem Music)
  • 2012: Invictus ( Massacre Records )
  • 2015: Pathfinder ... Between Heaven and Hell ( Trollzorn Records )
  • 2018: Unleashed Bastards ( El Puerto Records )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Christian Wachter: Necronomicon . Uncompromising maturation process . In: Legacy , No. 76, pp. 38f.
  2. ^ Ralf Siedek: Interview with Necronomicon. (No longer available online.) In: Metalstorm. January 11, 2005, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 23, 2010 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.metalstorm.de  
  3. ↑ Always full of juice. (No longer available online.) In: Metalstorm. February 3, 2009, archived from the original on February 11, 2010 ; Retrieved March 26, 2010 . Info: The archive link was 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.metalstorm.de
  4. ^ Necronomicon - biography. In: Metal-Inside.de. Retrieved March 23, 2010 .
  5. ↑ a b c Martin: The book of evil. In: Heavy-Metal.de. August 17, 2004, accessed March 23, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Hans "Hans of Steel" Dammann: Necronomicon - Interview with band leader Freddy! (No longer available online.) In: Igel Metal. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 23, 2010 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.igelmetal.de  
  7. ↑ a b NECRONOMICON with Invictus .
  8. ↑ “It's quite an [sic!] Weird that everybody talk [sic!] About VENOM , BATHORY and HELLHAMMER as the old Evil bands, but nobody mention SODOM and DESTRUCTION. […] So many copy BATHORY but I have never heard anyone copying DESTRUCTION, exept [sic!] For NECRONOMICON. " Esa Lahdenpera: Mayhem . Northern Black Metal Legends . In: Kill Yourself !!! Magazine , No. 4, 1995, p. 44.