North wind (band)

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Nordwind was a German right rock band from Nuremberg. The band members described their style of music as Viking rock .

Band history

Nordwind was founded in 1994 by Ronald Haser, among others. The band's forerunners were the groups Volkszorn (in the early days) and Odin's Heirs .

The band has released around 12 CDs so far and operates their own label, Nordwind Records . Haser also ran the right scene store “Utgard” until around 2000 and then a tattoo studio. In 2002/2003 Christoph Markgraf and Jörg Kazubowski left the band.

With two new members there were new recordings in 2003, which were released in 2004 and 2006 under the titles Soulless Place ( Maxi-CD ), Your sick world is our stage (in-house production) and "A Very White X-mas". The latter release is a split CD that only contains Christmas carols. The split partner is the band Agitator.

There were disputes within the band between the releases of the two albums. The drummer, who also played for the band AufBruch , was kicked out of the band by the band head Haser via SMS. The group found a replacement with the drummer Klaus, who had previously played with the Bavarian band “Fadenkreuz”.

Ronald Haser passed away on January 10, 2020.

Music genre

Nordwind plays Viking rock , ballads and cover versions of German hits (“Im Wagen vor mir”) and American songs (“Be my Baby”) from the 50s and 60s in rockabilly style. Nordwind belongs to a current of bands that emerged in the 1990s and expanded the German skinhead scene to include Celtic and German cults. Especially in the founding period, the texts were also kept nationalistic:

"We march hand in hand
Only for our fatherland Will
fate take its course
This time nobody will stop us!"

- North wind : hand in hand

She also belonged for a while to the “Identity through Music” initiative, which tried to “lead right-wing rock out of its supposed subcultural marginalization” in the sense of a European identity movement. The initiative wanted to create a German "identity music" based on the model of rock identitaire français .

The band is assigned to the right rock. Although Nordwind has distanced itself from any right-wing or left-wing activities for a number of years, the band is on the other side of the NPD 's " Schulhof CD " and has also released some cover songs, such as B. "Stiefel auf Asphalt" or "Twelve White Horses" from the right - wing extremist predecessor band Volkszorn , in which Haser was active as a singer in the original line-up.

Musically the Nordwind is comparable to the Swedish viking rock band Ultima Thule .

The band sings about their ideas about the time of the Vikings or deals with Nordic mythology . Sometimes the band uses the style of national romanticism , for example with the title “Mein Land”, with which the band is represented on the “Schulhof-CD” 2006 of the NPD.

Discography

Studio albums

  • 1995: Walhalla is calling! (Funny Sounds)
  • 1996: Stolz & Stark (Funny Sounds)
  • 1997: The Viking Party (Live, Nordwind Records)
  • 1999: Love, Lust & Lemonade ( Dim Records )
  • 1999: To New Shores (Nordwind Records)
  • 2003: Your sick world is our stage (Nordwind Records)

EPs

  • 1996: ... for the children of this country (Funny Sounds)
  • 1998: Patriotic Ballads (Funny Sounds)
  • 1998: We (Funny Sounds)
  • 1998: Words of Odin (Nordwind Records)
  • 2002: Soulless Place (Nordwind Records)
  • 2009: Vaterland (7``, Street Rock n Roll)

Republication / other publications

  • 2005: A Very White X-mas ... ( Split -CD, Wotan Records )
  • Donnerhall (DVD)
  • 2000: Welcome (re-release of "Walhalla ruft!" But without the song "Johannes Paul", Nordwind Records)
  • 2000: Boots on Asphalt (summary of the CDs "Patriotic Ballads"; "For the Children of This Country" and "We", Nordwind Records)
  • 2014: Stolz & Stark (Limited Collectors Edition) (Re-release of Stolz & Stark from 1996)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Farin , Henning Flad: reactionary rebels. Right-wing extremist music in Germany . In: Archive of youth cultures (ed.): Reactionary rebels. Right-wing extremist music in Germany . Tilsner, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-936068-04-6 , pp. 28-29 .
  2. ↑ Klaus Farin, Henning Flad: reactionary rebels. Right-wing extremist music in Germany . In: Archive of youth cultures (ed.): Reactionary rebels. Right-wing extremist music in Germany . Tilsner, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-936068-04-6 , pp. 55 f .
  3. ↑ quoted from Klaus Farin, Henning Flad: Reactionary Rebels. Right-wing extremist music in Germany . In: Archive of youth cultures (ed.): Reactionary rebels. Right-wing extremist music in Germany . Tilsner, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-936068-04-6 , pp. 28-29 .
  4. ^ Arguments eV: abbreviations, codes and clothes . In: Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe (Ed.): RechtsRock. Inventories and counter-strategies . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89771-808-1 , p. 416 .