Ostara (band)
| Ostara | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Rock , Neofolk |
| founding | 1991 as Strength Through Joy |
| Website | www.ostara.net |
| Founding members | |
| Richard Leviathan | |
| Timothy Jenn (until 2001) | |
| Current occupation | |
| Richard Leviathan | |
| Stu Mason | |
| Tim Desmond | |
| Dave Renwick | |
Ostara is an Australian rock and neofolk group founded in 1991 under the name Strength Through Joy . Despite the name, which is based on the National Socialist community Kraft durch Freude , the musicians show no Nazi ideology, but rather speak of an interest in the irony, in their opinion, connected with the name of the organization; also Richard Leviathan is of Jewish origin (actually Richard Jason Levy).
history
After sending some demo recordings to Douglas Pearce of Death in June , who produced and released Strength Through Joy's single Dark Rose , her debut album The Force of Truth and Lies and the double CD Salute to Light . In 1999 the musicians moved from Australia to Levy, England and Germany and Ireland. Because of the associations of the project name, they chose the name Ostara, which, however, also evokes associations due to the Ostara magazine published by the ariosophist Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels . The debut album under the new name Ostara, Secret Homeland , was released in 2000. Among other things, it dealt with esoteric topics and the company Walküre during the time of National Socialism in Germany.
After the style had meanwhile changed from simple neofolk to rock music, the band returned to the neofolk genre with the acoustic album The Only Solace . In 2008 they also played with the Neofolk groups Lux Interna and Luftwaffe.
Discography
- as Strength Through Joy
- 1994: Dark Rose (single)
- 1995: The Force of Truth and Lies (album)
- 1996: Salute to Light (double album)
- as Ostara
- 1999: Operation Valkrie (single)
- 2000: Secret Homeland (album)
- 2002: Whispers to the Soul (EP)
- 2002: Kingdom Gone (album)
- 2003: Ultima Thule (album)
- 2005: Immaculate Destruction (album)
- 2009: The Only Solace (album)
- 2013: Paradise Down South (album)
- 2017: Napoleonic Blues
- 2020: Eclipse of the West
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Strength Through Joy at Discogs (English)
- Ostara at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Malahki Thorn: Immortally Wounded .
- ^ A b Andreas Diesel, Dieter Gerten: Looking for Europe . Neofolk and backgrounds . 2nd Edition. Index Verlag 2007, p. 133 f.
- ^ Andreas Diesel, Dieter Gerten: Looking for Europe . Neofolk and backgrounds . 2nd Edition. Index Verlag 2007, p. 136.