Pure Gold - Best of Vol. 2

Pure Gold - Best of Vol. 2
Compilation album by Unheilig
Publication (s)	October 6, 2017
Label (s)	Vertigo / Capitol
Format (s)	CD, digital, Blu-Ray, DVD
Genre (s)	Pop rock
Title (number)	19 (pure gold) 38 (Rare Gold)
running time	074:12 (pure gold) 150: 38 (Rare Gold)
occupation	Der Graf : Singing Licky: guitar Potti: drums Henning Verlage : Keyboard
production	The Earl Kiko Masbaum Markus Tombülle Henning publishers and much more.
chronology From person to person (2016) Pure Gold - Best of Vol. 2 -

Pure Gold -. Best of Vol 2 is the eighth compilation of German pop-rock - band Unholy . Furthermore, the compilation is known in its limited edition as Rares Gold - Best of Vol. 2 .

Creation and artwork

Almost all of the pieces on the album were written by the Unheilig frontman, the Count , in collaboration with changing co-authors. Most of the titles were created in collaboration with the German music producer Markus Tombäne (14 titles) and the keyboardist of the band Henning Verlage (22 titles). The music producer Kiko Masbaum appears as the author of two titles, and individual composers and songwriters such as Annette Humpe or Hans Hammerschmid also appear. Most of the titles in the compilation were produced by publishers (22 titles), some in collaboration with Tombülle (13 titles). Other producers are Der Graf (6 titles), Masbaum (4 titles), Roland Spremberg (3 titles), Thorsten Brötzmann and Philip Niessen (2 titles) as well as other isolated producers. The album was mostly mixed by publishers (13 titles), Moritz Enders and Olsen Involtini (7 titles each). Several productions were mixed by, among others, the Grafen (5 titles), Masbaum (3 titles) and Spremberg (2 titles). The mastering was done by Truebusyness in Berlin, under the direction of Sascha "Busy" Bühren. Pure Gold - Best of Vol. 2 was published under the Vertigo / Capitol music label and distributed by Universal Music Publishing .

On the cover of the album - next to the artist name and album title - a windmill can be seen. The picture of the windmill is in black and white , around the picture there is a gold and black frame that contains the artist name and the title of the compilation. The silhouette of the Count can be seen on the stairs of the windmill. As with various Unheilig publications before, the cover image comes from the Dirk Rudolph office and photos from the booklet by German photographer Erik Weiss.

Publication and promotion

The first publication of Pures Gold - Best of Vol. 2 took place on October 6, 2017 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The album consists of 17 studio recordings and two acoustic recordings that were made as part of an MTV Unplugged . The album is available as CD and download. At the same time, a deluxe version was released, which includes a second CD with 19 additional studio recordings. A limited fan box was also released on October 6, 2017. This was published under the title Rares Gold - Best of Vol. 2 and contains, in addition to the double album, a DVD with the Unheilig farewell concert from Cologne's Rheinenergiestadion , a key ring, an Unheilig flag and six postcards.

content

All the lyrics on the album are written in German and are mainly written by the Unheilig frontman the Count, who wrote the pieces together with changing co-authors. Pures Gold - Best of Vol. 2 is the successor of Alles hat seine Zeit - Best of Unheilig 1999-2014 and contains a compilation of works that appeared after Alles hat seine Zeit as well as rarities from the early Unheilig times. The compilations consist of 36 studio recordings of which one instrumental is included as well as two live recordings from MTV Unplugged from 2015. With The First Snow , Let's Dance and Stars Up there are three new songs on the album. The collaboration with Licky Wo bist du appeared for the first time on an Unheilig sound carrier, previously the song appeared as a guest contribution by the Count on Licky's solo album Gravity Castle . The piece contains lines of text in both German and English. On Licky's album the song was released under the English title "Where are You", on Unheilig Album under the German title Wo bist du . The songs The sky above me , lifeless and sunny have been revised and re-recorded. With Die Lebenden und die Toten ( Ich + Ich ), For me it should rain red roses ( Hildegard Knef ) and Lebensweg ( Saltatio Mortis ) are three cover songs on the compilation. There are also three duets on the album. With the German crossover project The Dark Tenor , Unheilig recorded the songs Sterne hoch and Zeitreise , as well as the piece Wo bist du auf with the guitarist Licky . The play time travel was taken within four years with three guest musicians. In addition to the version with The Dark Tenor on this album, Unheilig recorded an unplugged version with Helene Fischer and the original with Xavier Naidoo . Naidoo is also involved as a copywriter on the piece. The titles Forever , Born to Live , City Lights, and Under Your Flag were already on All Has A Time .

Track list

#	title	Author (s)	Producer (s)	Originally published on:	length
	CD 1: The hits
1	time to go	The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage	Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing	Summiteer	4:11
2	Lot of freedom	The Count, Henning Verlage	Henning publishers	Lot of freedom	3:47
3	lights of the city	The Count, Henning Verlage	Roland Spremberg	lights of the city	4:14
4th	Born to live	The Count, Henning Verlage	Kiko Masbaum	Lot of freedom	3:49
5	My life is freedom	The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage	Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing	From human to human	4:34
6th	Zeitreise (feat. The Dark Tenor )	The Count, Kiko Masbaum, Xavier Naidoo	Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing	Pure Gold - Best of Vol. 2	3:59
7th	My Star (MTV Unplugged)	The count, Ollie Reimann	Michael Endersby, Philip Niessen, Lillo Scrimali	MTV Unplugged: Under steam - without electricity	5:06
8th	let's Dance	The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage	Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing	Pure Gold - Best of Vol. 2	2:47
9	One in a million	The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage	Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing	From human to human	3:11
10	From human to human	The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage	Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing	From human to human	4:17
11	Forever	The Count, Henning Verlage	Kiko Masbaum	Lot of freedom	3:22
12	Like the good old days	The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage	Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing	Summiteer	3:55
13	Under your flag	The Count, Henning Verlage	Kiko Masbaum	Lot of freedom	3:58
14th	Happiness on life	The Count, Kiko Masbaum, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage	Kiko Masbaum	Summiteer	3:08
15th	Iron man	The count, Oliver Pinelli	Thorsten Brötzmann	lights of the city	4:19
16	My mountain	The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage	Roland Spremberg	Summiteer	4:19
17th	For me it should rain red roses (MTV Unplugged)	Hans Hammerschmid, Hildegard Knef	Michael Endersby, Philip Niessen, Lillo Scrimali	MTV Unplugged: Under steam - without electricity	2:31
18th	The sky above me (2017 version)	The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage	Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing	Pure Gold - Best of Vol. 2	4:17
19th	Stars high (feat. The Dark Tenor)	The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage	Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing	Pure Gold - Best of Vol. 2	4:28
	CD 2: The rarities
20th	Sunny day (version 2017)	The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage	Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing	Rares Gold - Best of Vol. 2	3:27
21st	The first snow	The Count, Roland Spremberg, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage	Roland Spremberg	Rares Gold - Best of Vol. 2	3:56
22nd	The living and the dead	Annette Humpe	Henning publishers	Contemporary history - the best by and for Annette Humpe	3:42
23	Witch hunt	The Earl	Henning publishers	Mirror image EP	4:19
24	Sleepless	The Earl	Henning publishers	Mirror image EP	4:15
25th	Life path	Timo Gleichmann, Gunter Kopf, Jan Mischon, Jörg Roth	Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing	Circus Zeitgeist ( Saltatio Mortis album )	4:30
26th	Life is my religion	The count, Thorsten Brötzmann	Thorsten Brötzmann	Time to go (single)	3:31
27	The old lyre	The Earl	Henning publishers	Mirror image EP	4:16
28	Letter to you	The Earl	The Earl	Shadow play	4:39
29	Night shift	The Count, Henning Verlage	The Count, Henning Verlage	The way you were (single)	3:38
30th	Give me a miracle	The Count, Henning Verlage	Henning publishers	Great Freedom (Limited Edition)	4:35
31	Where are you (feat. Licky)	Der Graf, Licky, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage	Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing	Rares Gold - Best of Vol. 2	3:42
32	Crawl	The Earl	The Earl	Machine (single)	4:06
33	Faster Higher Further	The count, Ollie Reimann	The Earl	Astronaut EP	3:34
34	tin soldier	The Earl	The Earl	Guardian Angel EP	4:36
35	Cold	The Earl	The Earl	Shadow play	5:30
36	Lifeless	The Earl	Henning publishers	Rares Gold - Best of Vol. 2	3:20
37	One last time	The Count, Henning Verlage	Henning publishers	Born to Live (Single)	4:03
38	Let's dance (instrumental)	The count, Markus Tombülle, Henning Verlage	Markus Tombülle, Henning Publishing	Rares Gold - Best of Vol. 2	2:47

DVD: The farewell concert from Cologne

Unheilig: The farewell concert from Cologne
Label:	Vertigo / Capitol
Format:	DVD
Genre:	Music film / documentary
Year:	October 6, 2017
Running time:	approx. 108 min.
Occupation:	Der Graf: Singing Martin “Potti” Potthoff: drums Christoph “Licky” Termühlen: guitar Henning Verlage: Keyboard
FSK :	from 0 years

At the farewell concert in Cologne is the ninth video album of Unholy. The DVD was only released as a supplement to the limited fan box of Pures Gold - Best of Vol. 2 . In terms of content, the DVD contains Unheilig's farewell concert from September 10, 2016 in Cologne's Rheinenergiestadion. On the occasion of the anniversary, Unheilig broadcast the concert via livestream on their Facebook page on September 10, 2017.

Setlist

1. For one last time (intro)
2. Down to one
3. Like it's the first time
4. Happiness on life
5. Iron man
6. Under your flag
7. Fire sails
8. By your side
9. My life is freedom
10. lights of the city
11. We are all like one
12. As you were
13. The wisdom of life
14. Like the good old days
15. Lot of freedom
16. time to go

Encore

1. It should rain red roses for me
2. Born to live
3. Forever
4. machine
5. The curtain falls

Single releases

The sky above me (2017 version)

An official single from this compilation did not take place. With Der Himmel über mir (Version 2017) only a first promo single was released . This is a new edition of the original from the Astronaut EP from 2006. In terms of content, the count describes in the song, among other things, with the text passage: “All these words and every thought is mine. I'm just a little light among the big lights here. I just want to live and give myself over to my dreams, even if that makes me unholy for them ”the origin of the band name. The single was released as a single download on September 8th, 2017. Two weeks after the initial release, a music video was released on September 22nd, 2017. You can see people of different ages, genders and origins speaking the song lip-synchronously against the backdrop of a sky. Sometimes scenes of the protagonists from their everyday lives can also be seen. The main focus is on the role of a priest with whom the video begins and ends. In between, old scenes of the count can be seen again and again. As with many Unheilig music videos before, it was again directed by Markus Gerwinat.

Sunny day (version 2017)

On September 29, 2017, Sonnentag (2017) was the second and so far last promo single from the compilation. The piece is a reinterpretation of the original of the fourth studio album, Moderne Zeiten . The official music video for the single was released on October 20, 2017. It shows a woman leaving a church with an urn in her hand. She runs over the associated cemetery, meadows, fields and a beach, to a jetty on the Baltic Sea coast in Heiligendamm . On this the woman dumps the ashes over the sea. The total length of the video is 3:28 minutes. Markus Gerwinat again directed.

Time travel 2018

Time travel 2018

by Unheilig & The Dark Tenor

Presentation album	Best of concert series
Beginning of the tour	April 19, 2018
End of the tour	2nd June 2018
Total concerts (by country)	* Germany (15)    Austria (1)  Switzerland (1)
Concerts in total	17th

Unheilig & The Dark Tenor Tour Chronology

One last time - The Open Air Concerts 2016 (2016)	Time travel 2018	-

The following list is an overview of the concerts that Unheilig played together with the German crossover music project The Dark Tenor during their 2018 tour together. The tour lasted a month and a half, from April 19 to June 2, 2018, and took you through 15 German cities as well as once to Austria and Switzerland. The German singer and songwriter Körner could be heard in the opening act. Unheilig consisted of Licky (guitar), Potti (drums) and Verlage (keyboard), the vocals were taken over by The Dark Tenor.

Tour dates

date	city	Venue	country
April 19, 2018	Osnabrück	Rosenhof	Germany
April 20, 2018	Bremen	Aladin Music Hall
April 21, 2018	Cologne	E-Werk
April 22, 2018	Saarbrücken	garage
April 26, 2018	Dresden	Old slaughterhouse
April 27, 2018	Leipzig	House Auensee
April 28, 2018	Berlin	Columbiahalle
17th May 2018	Hanover	Capitol
18th May 2018	Hamburg	Great freedom 36
19th May 2018	Bochum	RuhrCongress
23 May 2018	Freiburg in Breisgau	Music club in the Sick Arena
May 24, 2018	Stuttgart	In the Wizemann
May 25, 2018	Nuremberg	Lion hall
May 26, 2018	Munich	Technical center
May 27, 2018	Frankfurt am Main	Batschkapp
June 1, 2018	Vienna	arena	Austria
2nd June 2018	Zurich	Complex 457	Switzerland

Contributors

Album production

• Thorsten Brötzmann - composer (song 26) , songwriter (song 26) , music producer (songs: 15, 26)
• Sascha "Busy" Bühren: Mastering
• The Dark Tenor - vocals (songs: 6, 19)
• Moritz Enders - Mixing (songs: 1, 12, 14, 16, 25–26, 31)
• Timo Gleichmann - songwriter (song 25)
• Der Graf - mix (songs: 28, 32–35) , singing (songs: 1–38) , composer (songs: 1–16, 18–22, 23–24, 26–38) , songwriter (songs: 1– 6, 8–16, 18–21, 23–24, 26–38) , music producer (songs: 28–29, 32–35)
• Hans Hammerschmid - composer (song 17)
• Annette Humpe - composer (song 22) , songwriter (song 22)
• Olsen Involtini - Mixing (songs: 5, 7-10, 17-18)
• Hildegard Knef - songwriter (song 17)
• Gunter Kopf - composer (song 25)
• Licky - vocals (song 31) , guitar (songs: 1–38) , composer (song 31)
• Kiko Masbaum - Mixing (songs: 4, 11, 13) , composer (songs: 6, 14) , music producer (songs: 4, 11, 13-14)
• Jeo Mezei - Mixing (Song 15)
• Jan Mischon - composer (song 25)
• Xavier Naidoo - songwriter (song 6)
• Philip Niessen - music producer (songs: 7, 17)
• Oliver Pinelli - composer (song 15)
• Potti - drums (songs: 1–31, 35–38)
• Ollie Reimann - composer (song 33) , songwriter (song 7)
• Vincent Sorg - Mixing (Song 29)
• Roland Spremberg - Mixing (songs: 13, 21) , composer (song 21) , music producer (songs: 3, 16, 21)
• Markus Tombülle - composer (songs: 1, 5, 8–10, 12, 16, 18–20, 31, 38) , songwriter (songs: 1, 5, 8–10, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 31) , music producer (songs: 1, 5–6, 8–10, 12, 18–20, 25, 31, 38)
• Jörg Roth - composer (song 25)
• Henning Verlage - Mixing (songs: 2, 6, 19–20, 22–24, 27, 29–30, 36–38) , keyboard (songs: 1–38) , composer (songs: 1, 2–5, 8 –13, 16, 18–20, 29–30, 37–38) , songwriter (songs: 1, 5, 8–10, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 31) , music producer (songs: 1–2 , 5–6, 8–10, 12, 18–20, 22–25, 27, 29–31, 36–38)

Artwork (cover + booklet)

• Dirk Rudolph office : graphic designer
• Erik Weiss: photographer

Companies

• Capitol Records : music label
• Truebusyness in Berlin: Mastering
• Universal Music Publishing : Distribution
• Vertigo Records : music label

Charts and chart placements

Pure Gold - Best of Vol. 2 reached position two in the album charts in Germany . It is after all has its time - Best of Unheilig 1999-2014 and MTV Unplugged: Unter Dampf - Ohne Strom the third album within three years, which only just missed the top position in the German album charts. In Austria and Switzerland, the compilation reached position 15 in the charts. It is the seventh album from Unheilig that was able to place in the album charts in all three countries at the same time . For Unheilig this is already the 13th chart success in Germany, as well as the eighth in Austria and the seventh in Switzerland. In Germany it is Unheilig's seventh top 10 success . In 2017, the album placed 73 in the annual album charts in Germany.

Chart placements Charts Top ranking Weeks Chart placements  Germany (GfK) 2 (13 weeks) 13  Austria (Ö3) 15th (9 weeks) 9  Switzerland (IFPI) 15th (4 weeks) 4th

Annual charts Charts (2017) placement Annual charts (2017)  Germany (GfK) 73

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} CD booklet: Rares Gold - Best of Vol. 2 , Unheilig, October 6, 2017.
2. ↑ Best of Vol. 2 available from today. (No longer available online.) Unheilig.com, archived from the original on October 8, 2017 ; accessed on October 7, 2017 . 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.  
3. ↑ Live stream for the anniversary. (No longer available online.) Unheilig.com, archived from the original on October 11, 2017 ; accessed on October 7, 2017 . 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.  
4. ↑ The sky above me (Version 2017). amazon.de, accessed on October 7, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Unholy - Heaven Over Me (2017). vevo.com, accessed October 7, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Sunny day (version 2017). amazon.de, accessed on October 8, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Unheilig - Sunny Day (2017). vevo.com, accessed October 22, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Live on tour in spring 2018: Unheilig and The Dark Tenor on a journey through time. universal-music.de, accessed on October 7, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Unheilig & The Dark Tenor - Auf Zeitreise 2018. metal.de, accessed on July 16, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Unheilig - Pures Gold - Best of Vol. 2.officialcharts.de, accessed on October 14, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Unheilig - Pures Gold - Best of Vol. 2. austriancharts.at, accessed on October 21, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Unheilig - Pures Gold - Best of Vol. 2. hitparade.ch, accessed on October 21, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Single year charts 2017. officialcharts.de, accessed on January 3, 2018 .