Rich in rust
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| Studio album by Totenmond | ||||
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Publication |
2000 |
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| Label (s) | Massacre Records | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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Chris von Rautenkranz |
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Studio (s) |
Soundgarten Studio Hamburg |
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Reich in Rost is the third album by the German metal band Totenmond and was released in 2000 via Massacre Records . In 2004 it was re-released together with the predecessors Lichtbringer and Fleischwald in a three-pack. The album was also released as a record version, which was limited to only 500 pieces.
Track list
- More often into the blue
- Rich in rust
- Inland
- The red mountain
- Flame sign
- Labor reserve
- Tank steam
- Ship ahoy
- The membranes
- Of my ugliness
content
The lyrics on Reich in Rost consist mainly of strings of catchwords and expressions, for example the song "Often times into the blue". B. only from expressions such as “fire”, “cannons”, “parade”, “caesarean section”, “forced reconciliation” or “public fooling”. Likewise, the title-giving song "Reich in Rost" is kept in a similar style and closes with the words "Vaterland Taubenschiss / soft German Reich". No meter or rhyme schemes exist in any of the songs .
The text for "Flammenzeichen" comes from the White Rose , a student resistance group against National Socialism.
Musical aspects
Musically, the album can only be assigned to metal in general, as the style of the album is too different and does not follow any common subgenre. Rather, it's a mixture of death metal , punk music and doom metal .
The music magazine Metal Observer took a similar opinion, namely that Totenmond “still [...] a damn hard to classify bastard of punk, death metal, doom and a pinch of grind / crust, which is at least as hard to digest”, but they play on solos and “sing along choruses” waits in vain.
In a review of a German mail order company it was written that “the expression 'controlled noise' […] actually [hits] the matter quite well”, since “the spectrum […] from black metal-like roaring with grunts too massive chopped off industrial Teutonic death lead [is enough] ”. On the publications from Unter bones on , the band's booklets also contain the note that “all the noise comes from TotenmonD”.
reception
The album was largely positively received by the critics, some also said that it was the best album of the band to date. In the review of the successor album Unter Bone, for example on ancientspirit.de, it was written that “the fourth real album cannot maintain the immensely high standard of the brutally monstrous predecessors Fleischwald and Reich In Rost ”.
A critic from Metal Observer rated the album positively, but pointed out that the rating was difficult to give:
“What should one think of 'Reich In Rost'? It is only clear that this album is one of the most inaccessible musical products outside of the noise genre that I have ever come across. [...] Be it the lyrics (praiseworthy all in German) that always walk the fine line between profound metaphors and pure nonsense, the singing that seems strange even if it is not electronically alienated, or the music itself, which ones Thanks to its rough production and very straightforward, direct nature, it has a kind of anti-aesthetic effect - this album is not beautiful in any way, but it has its own 'charm', and although it is not quite as nihilistic as 'Lichtbringer', for example, it is somehow unsettling and, beyond all the usual clichés, absolutely evil too. "
Presentation
The pictures in the booklet are all black and white and rust-brown, the cover shows a bombed-out German city with crosses and a huge imperial eagle in the foreground. Only rusty screws can be found on the CD itself.
All texts are printed in bold Gothic font , which, however, has been converted 1: 1 and thus does not contain any long s or ligatures .
Individual evidence
- ^ CD review metal-observer.com; Retrieved November 9, 2008
- ^ CD review. durp.com; Retrieved November 9, 2008
- ↑ Booklet on Under Bones
- ^ CD review. ancientspirit.de; Retrieved November 6, 2008
- ^ CD review. metal-observer.com; Retrieved November 9, 2008