Slime (band)

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Slime
Slime live at Hafen Rock 2016
Slime live at Hafen Rock 2016
General information
Genre (s) German punk , political punk , hardcore
founding 1979, 1990, 2009
resolution 1984, 1994, 2020
Website slime.de
Founding members
Thorsten "Scout" Kolle (1979)
Michael "Elf" Mayer
guitar
 Ollie (1979)
Sven "Eddie" Räther (until 1984, 1992–1994)
Peter "Ball" Wodok (until 1981; † 1994)
Last occupation
Dirk "Dicken" Jora (since 1979)
guitar
 Michael "Elf" Mayer
guitar
 Christian Mevs (since 1980)
bass
 Nici (since 2010)
Drums
 Alex Schwers (since 2010)
former members
Drums
 Stephan Mahler (1981–1983, 1992–1994)
Drums
 Stephan Larsson (1983-1984)

Slime was a German punk band from Hamburg . Founded in 1979, it became one of the style-defining bands of the 1980s. Musically and lyrically, it changed from a band with simple, catchy songs in the style of British punk rock of the late 1970s to a group with more sophisticated song structures and complex, encrypted lyrics. She influenced the history of the German punk movement through her anti-fascist texts . Individual slogans, especially from their early phase, found widespread use in the autonomous scene .

At times, Slime was controversial. The group was accused of "selling out" in the course of its growing success. Her anti-American texts also caused criticism in the left scene. Several songs, notably the one published in 1980 We don't want bull pigs (also known as bull pigs ), have been the subject of criminal investigation.

After the dissolution in 1984, there was a reunification in the early 1990s under the impression of xenophobic riots, but this only lasted for two albums. It was only then that the band had commercial success. After a hiatus of fifteen years, the group reunited in 2009, 30 years after the date it was first formed, and released a new album in 2012. Since then the band has been active again. In 2020 the renewed dissolution was announced.

Band history

First phase: 1979–1984

Michael "Elf" Mayer and Sven "Eddie" Räther visited the Heidberg high school in the Hamburg district of Langenhorn . Together they discovered their love of punk music on the first album of Ramones and decided to form a band. Mayer took over the guitar and Räther the bass, plus the dock worker Peter “Ball” Wodok on drums. The first singer was Thorsten “Scout” Kolle, a classmate of Mayer and Räther. First the name “Slime 79 and the Sewer Army” was derived from the well-known toy of the same name . Shortly afterwards it was shortened to Slime, based on other short and concise punk band names from Hamburg. The first text the young band wrote was Police SA / SS , a reaction to police actions against opponents of nuclear power . In 1979 the first appearance in the youth center Kiwittsmoor followed with a second guitarist named Oliver Laudahm. The band performed together with The Circulatory Collapse . Their singer Dirk Jora impressed the band, and so they parted with Kolle, who had never been satisfied with the singer role. Today Kolle is a screenwriter for Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten and Rote Rosen , and he still maintains contact with Räther.

In Eimsbüttel the band rehearsed in a former bunker. The first song she wrote with this line-up was We Don't Want Bull Pigs . Tom Meyer from Moderne Musik offered them to record a single . In the fall of 1979, Slime recorded a total of four pieces with Bullenschweine , Iran , Hey Punk and Ich hasse , so that instead of a single there was enough material for an extended play . This was published in February 1980 with a print run of 2,000, which quickly sold out. Together with The Buttocks , a concert followed on February 24th in the gym of the Neuengamme youth prison , which was built on the site of the former Neuengamme concentration camp . Jora alluded to this several times during the performance. There they also played Police SA / SS and We don't want bull pigs as well as a cover of Drafi Deutschers Marmor, Stein und Eisen breaks . The audience reacted violently to the band's music. After the performance, no rock concerts were allowed in the prison for years. Shortly after the performance, Christian Mevs joined as the second guitarist.

Cover of the first album

Spurred on by the success, the members of Slime borrowed money from acquaintances and friends in order to record the first LP in the Raubbau-Studios in Hamburg on their own. The first pressing of Slime I reached a circulation of 5,000 pieces and was re- pressed a total of five times at own expense. Most of the pieces were written in English. The first album aroused the interest of the Hamburg public prosecutor's office and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution because of the song We don't want bull pigs . The former raided Klaus Maeck's record store Rip Off and confiscated some copies of the debut album. In addition, Maeck, who was mistakenly believed to be the producer of the record, was charged with sedition ; the proceedings were later dropped.

After the debut album had had great success in the punk scene, Karl-Ulrich Walterbach from Aggressive Rockproduktionen (AGR) became aware of the band. The first contract was signed with a handshake. Walterbach had 50,000 LPs pressed. At the same time, he published the two pieces Police SA / SS and No Leader on the sampler Soundtracks zum Untergang in 1980 . The former had to be censored on later releases. The sampler was indexed in 1982 for this song and hero of Middle Class Fantasies , as law enforcement officials saw "a denigration of the state and its symbols ". In 1989, Slime I was released again uncensored on CD by AGR, in 2003 it was re-released by Weird System with a newly recorded, censored version of We don't want bull pigs .

After the release, drummer Peter Wodok was excluded from the band. Even then he had severe alcohol problems and died in 1994 as a result of many years of drinking. Stephan Mahler, a former bandmate from Mevs, came for him. Mahler contributed Karlsquell's lyrics to Slime I and sang along with I Wish I Was . In 1982 the second LP Yankees was released . After the success of the German lyrics on the EP and the debut album, they only focused on these. Mahler also began to be active as a songwriter and contributed two lyrics with Democracy and Pseudo . The album cemented Slime's reputation as the most radical punk band on the German scene, even if the lyrics on the second album were much more personal. Slime toured Germany together with Beton Combo , Aheads and Middle Class Fantasies.

Mahler quickly took on a leading role at Slime and wrote much of the third album Alle gegen Alle , which was released on April 15, 1983. For the first time, it had a professional production thanks to Harris Johns . Musically, the band turned away from '77 punk rock and began to integrate influences of the much denser and darker hardcore punk , in the style of the Dead Kennedys and Black Flag . The work is textually differentiated, consists of fewer slogans and is darker than the previous albums. This was mainly due to the desolate situation of the punk scene, which became more politically differentiated, among other things into various neo-Nazi excesses, but also into the politically dogmatic left. Slime dedicated several songs to both of them on this album, including Linke Spießer and Nazis out , a cover version of Beton Combo . During this time there were further concerts, some with role models from the band. For example in 1982 in Hamburg-Harburg together with the Dead Kennedys and MDC , accompanied by a hundred riot police under the stage. Appearances with Bad Brains in Osnabrück and Ton Steine ​​Scherben in Neumünster followed. But shortly afterwards Mahler left the band again. The decisive factors were commercial allegations and hostility from the left, which Mahler found difficult to bear. He was convinced that Slime couldn't get any further and suggested Mayer to found another band. When he heard on vacation that the band had planned a live album without his consent , he left them. Michael Mayer was still trying to keep Slime together. He brought Stephen Larsson from The Buttocks into the band. Together they played the album Live (Pankehallen January 21, 1984) . Further appearances followed, but ultimately the new line-up of the band could not establish itself. It finally officially broke up.

Between 1984–1990: Other projects

Despite their breakup, Slime played several times in the period up to the reunification of the band in 1992, for example in the "Störtebeker" in the occupied Hafenstrasse or on the "Störtebeker- Barkassen -Trip" in the Hamburg harbor , where there was free beer and the barge almost in the harbor basin would have been sunk. The members also made charity appearances for the occupied Hafenstrasse and for alternative projects such as the Volxküche .

During this time, the band members pursued various projects. Eddi Räther and Michael “Elf” Mayer founded the short-lived punk band Targets together with Stephane Larsson from The Buttocks .

Stephan Mahler played drums in the gothic rock band "Mask For" and in the group Torpedo Moscow . Both were also active in the George & Martha group. Mahler and Mevs also got to know Jens Rachut . While Mahler was already working with him on Das Moor , Rachut, Mahler and Mevs formed the band Angeschissen together . Mevs and Mahler also founded the “Soundgarden Studio” in Hamburg. Mevs in particular did the studio work there and produced numerous bands. The studio soon became the first address for the Hamburg independent label L'age d'or . He did productions for Tocotronic , Blumfeld and Die Sterne and thus became one of the most important producers for the Hamburg school .

From 1988 Michael Mayer dedicated himself to the band Destination Zero , in which Peter Siegler from Razzia was also involved. From 1989 both became members of the punk legend Abwärts , which was continued after a short breakup by Frank Z. and FM Einheit and which lasted until 1995. Mayer ran the band Downward in parallel after the reunification of Slime.

Second phase (1990-1994)

Compilation The last

In 1990, the compilation Die Lappen appeared with old, previously unpublished material and various contributions to the sampler. On September 7, 1991 Slime performed at the “Viva St. Pauli” festival. It was the first appearance after German reunification . 15,000 people watched the performance. In the course of the following political mood in the country, with the riots in Hoyerswerda as the climax of a racist wave of violence, the band members decided to reunite Slime. In 1992 the album Viva la Muerte was released . The album was produced by Rodrigo González , who later became the bassist for Die Ärzte . The production of the album was a bit diffuse: several studios were used, the final mixing was done in a studio specializing in metal . Musically, too, the album was a little different from the previous ones. It was a conglomerate of different genres, including sea ​​shanties , football songs and folk songs, as well as political songs such as human and more personal songs. This made the album the least typical in Slime's catalog. It didn't go over very well in the punk scene or in music criticism. New sell-off allegations quickly made the rounds.

After a few appearances, Slime recorded the album Schweinherbst in 1993 . The album is lyrically more differentiated and more demanding than previous releases and also musically more mature. In its clear, politically left-wing design, it is an answer to the racist pogroms in Germany. The song Der Tod ist ein Meister from Germany was released as a single and is a musical adaptation of the poem Death Fugue by Paul Celan . It is a direct response to the riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen and the Mölln assassination attempt . The piece drew parallels to the concentration camp system in the Third Reich , the starting point of the original poem. Marcus Wiebusch , at the time with But Alive , wrote the text Aufrecht geht , which was set to music by Mayer. Most of the album was written by Mahler. Eddie Räther stayed away from the album for private reasons, so Mayer recorded its bass parts. Schweinherbst was dedicated to the recently deceased drummer Peter Wodok. It was the band's most successful album to date and sold 40,000 units in the first few weeks. The album thus reached number 66 in the German album charts .

At the end of 1994, the band separated again after a farewell tour. Stephan Mahler and Christian Mevs were overwhelmed with the band's success. From their point of view, Slime were not a regular rock band that was supposed to live off their music, and none of them were rock stars. Mevs later explained this as follows:

“We suddenly reeled down a big rock show, at the concerts people wanted to touch me, they tugged at my pants. After a gig, kids who were driven to the concert by their parents came and asked us while we were signing autographs how many cops we had beaten up today. I became a driving force behind the breakup of the band. [...] I found the role I felt pushed into puked. Stephan and I became an alliance: We wanted to dismantle Slime, the success, the myth. "

- Christian Mevs : Slime - Germany must die

Mayer, on the other hand, assessed the band's great success positively and absolutely wanted to continue. On the tour together, there were often arguments that ultimately led to renewed dissolution. During the tour the band produced their second live album Live Punk Club , recorded in the Große Freiheit in Hamburg.

Between 1995 and 2009: re-releases and rubberslime

Singer Dirk Jora at Rock in Caputh 2013

The individual members devoted themselves to other projects. Mayer founded his solo band Elf , named after his pseudonym, which released two albums. Together with Jora and musicians from Falling Brieftauben and Heiter bis wolkig he founded the band CIA (Church of Independent Assholes), which was discontinued after the release of an album.

Mahler started his own business with his father's fabric wholesaler and ended his music career. Mevs, too, withdrew from an active music career after a sudden hearing loss until the reunion. Today he works as a composer for radio play music for Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur .

In 2000, the judges of the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) declared Germany must die to be an “ art in the sense of the fundamental right ”. An organizer of a demonstration who had played the song was initially fined, but appealed against it until he reached the highest level.

In 2002 and 2003, Weird System released reprints of the first three albums, the censored pieces were partially re-sung to avoid criminal prosecution. In 2004 the double DVD When Heaven Burns was released , which had already been announced for 2003, but had to be postponed due to investigations by the public prosecutor's office. The DVD offers a documentary overview of the entire history of the band in camcorder quality and contains a 56-page booklet with an interview that covers the entire history of the band, as well as a complete catalog of works.

In 2003, Jora, Mayer and the band Rubbermaids founded the Rubberslime project after a failed attempt to reunite Slime , which continued with this line-up until 2005. Then Jora got out. Jora, financially ruined by tax debts since 1996, stayed afloat as a taxi driver until 2007 and then lived on unemployment benefit II . Mayer joined the punk band Die Mimmi’s , with which he is still active today.

In 2007 Mayer managed to secure the rights to the master tapes of the first three albums for himself and the band after Universal , who owned the rights to the AGR productions, missed a payment deadline. The albums were immediately digitally remastered and, enriched with bonus tracks, reissued on the Slime Tonträger label . Weird System also released new LP versions.

From 2009: "Submitting means lying"

To add a promo single is to lie

At the end of October 2008 Michael Mayer, Christian Mevs and Dirk Jora planned a new start without Mahler. Alex Schwers, who previously played with Hass , Bone Factory and Eisenpimmel , but had started his music career with the pop singer Ibo , took over the drums. Eddie Räther was supposed to take over the bass again, but asked for a delay due to tendinitis . In the summer of 2009, however, he finally canceled. Today he works as an entrepreneur in the construction and waste disposal business. Mayer asked his partner Nici, with whom he had already played on Die Mimmi’s .

On Pentecost Saturday 2010 the band appeared as one of the two headliners at the punk festival Ruhrpott Rodeo near Hünxe . It was the first appearance in 15 years. A week later the band played a second gig at the Millerntor at the centenary of FC St. Pauli . The band was announced by Rocko Schamoni . This was followed by a tour of Germany.

In a program broadcast on January 17 and 21, 2011, guitarist Michael Mayer was a candidate for Günther Jauch's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? on. His goal was to use the money to finance a concert tour of his band in the USA as much as possible. He won 16,000 euros. In 2011, the band participated in the soundtrack to the movie backstretch of Tarek Ehlail . The two songs St. Pauli and Mittendrin are the band's first new songs since the reunion. An appearance by the band at Jolly Roger , the FC St. Pauli fan bar, can be seen in the film.

In 2011 the track We don't want bull pigs , released 30 years earlier, was indexed - the decision affected both the EP of the same name and the first album. The Brandenburg State Criminal Police Office had applied for the decision. The background was a performance by the band on December 15, 2010 at SO36 in Berlin . This was followed by a small street battle in which the police were thrown with bottles and stones. Later that year the band had one of their biggest appearances at Wacken Open Air . Of course, it came under fire because that same year Frei.Wild , who are perceived by the punk scene as a gray area band with, in their opinion, questionable conservative texts, played at the festival.

On June 15, 2012, the new album " sich sich haben ist liegen" on People Like You Records . It was the band's first studio album in 18 years. The band had made a virtue out of the necessity of no longer having a veritable songwriter without Mahler: only texts by the anarchist poet Erich Mühsam were set to music on this album . In the summer of 2012, Slime played at some open-air festivals such as Area4 and the Nonstock Festival near Darmstadt . A club tour followed in autumn and winter.

On March 4, 2013, the official band biography Slime: Germany must die , written by Daniel Ryser , was released . The subsequent reading tour was accompanied acoustically by Mevs, Mayer and Jora . In 2013 police SA / SS were indexed . The indexing also had consequences for various bands who covered the slime song, including for Totenmond and Japanese combat radio plays , whose recordings were then also indexed.

The studio album Hier und Jetzt followed on September 29, 2017 and contains new songs for the first time since the company was re-established. The songwriters Max Richard Leßmann , Frank Nowatzki (ex- Beton Combo ) and Andreas Hüging took part in the album. The singles You want to (may) shoot again and Our songs as 7 '' had already appeared before . In addition to the album in digipak, a patch and a poster flag, a limited box contained a previously unreleased live album. The album reached number 20 in the German album charts.

On March 13th, 2020, the album Whom belongs to fear , which was produced by Christian Mevs himself, was released. The album was released through Arising Empire and reached the top 10 of the German charts as the first slime release with number 9.

On July 30, 2020, singer Dirk Jora announced via email to various fanzines that he had left the band with immediate effect. Jora referred to "insurmountable internal problems" and spoke, among other things, of differences in the practical implementation of texts from the last Slime album and in the question of how the band should deal with crew and band members. When he left, the band also broke up, Jora explained. On the same day, the remaining band members announced via the band's Facebook fan page that Dirk Jora had left Slime "due to his health situation" and canceled the concerts planned for 2020. There was no explicit mention of the band breaking up in this statement. Instead, the remaining band members announced: "How, if and when it may go on must remain open for now".

Music style and lyrics

Textblatt von Deutschland must die

Slime saw themselves as a political punk band from the start. At that time, this was not a matter of course, as the beginnings of the punk movement were initially politically diffuse. Although people rebelled against authorities, a left and radically libertarian worldview was not anchored in the punk scene of that time. Texts based more on the no-future ideal of the British punk scene, as found in other early punk bands such as Razzia or Chaos Z , were also missing from Slime. Instead, at the beginning it was the desire to “riot” and the “will to change” that spoke from the texts. Even the title of the EP We don't want bull pigs and the title song of the same name were an affront to the German public. Coming from the anti-nuclear power movement and decisively shaped by the riots at the demonstrations by the opponents of the nuclear power plant, the anger stiffened at the repressive actions of the state, which ultimately led to the highly controversial We don't want bull pigs , but also the other texts of the first shaped both albums. Other topics in the first phase were the demarcation from other youth cultures (DISCO) and philistines as well as alcohol consumption (this is how Slime sang about the Aldi brand Karlsquell ). Football was also a big topic from the start, ironically initially for HSV , but then for FC St. Pauli .

Musically, the first recordings suffered from the lack of money that was only available when the contract was signed for Aggressive Rock productions . The first albums were produced in-house and therefore had a rather raw sound quality. Initially influenced by the British punk movement around bands like The Clash , The Damned and the Sex Pistols , the sound of the American hardcore punk was later adapted, especially Black Flag and Dead Kennedys . The first recordings were kept rather simple according to the models, but with a more rock- heavy sound, which is mainly due to the admiration of Ton Steine ​​Scherben . By the end of the first band phase, the musical talent increased - especially the last album Alle gegen Alle was produced much more elaborately. The addition of Stephan Mahler as the main writer also changed the texts, which were initially very slogan-like and provocative. In all against all, more personal topics were discussed. In addition, the texts were more reflective and dealt with the relationship to one's own scene.

After the reunification of the band in 1990, the lyrics became much more demanding. Both Viva la Muerte , provided by Rodrigo González with a metal production, and Schweinherbst work with a metaphorical symbolism that abandoned the clear statements of earlier productions. Both albums are shaped by xenophobic arson attacks after German reunification . Musically, Viva la Muerte was more strongly influenced by metal, while Schweinherbst again had significantly more punk elements. Various riffs were reminiscent of both Slayer and Social Distortion . Schweinherbst is seen by critics as a magnum opus in Slime's oeuvre, as the “best German punk album of all time”, which has “intelligent lyrics, powerful mid-tempo hardcore and an unbelievable density of sound”.

meaning

Punk scene and protest culture

Slime acoustic 2015 in the Saarbrücken Juz Försterstraße

Slime was one of the most influential German punk bands of the early movement and thus shaped the basic political attitude of a large part of the German scene. She was a member of the second wave of punk bands along with Toxoplasma , Canal Terror , Daily Terror and Razzia . All of these bands had effective and provocative slogans in common, which set them apart from previous bands. The band stood out from the majority of similar bands mainly through their extremely provocative lyrics. The anti-police texts in the first recordings influenced the protest culture of that time. Slime coined various slogans of the then and partly also today left-autonomous demonstration culture. Slogans such as “Police SA - SS”, “Democracy - it will probably never work”, “I believe more in the innocence of a whore than in the justice of the German judiciary”, “Mollis and stones against bull pigs” and “Legal - Illegal - Don't give a shit “back on Slime. To this day it is not clear whether the slogan ACAB ("All Cops Are Bastards") spread through Slime in Germany or whether the song of the same name by the British band The 4-Skins was inspiring here. The harsh texts of the first publications impressed the punk scene of that time. Even today, Slime is “[the] band that everyone can agree on, that shaped generations of politically interested punks musically and lyrically from 1979 to 1985 and from 1990 to 1994”.

Slime directed himself in songs like sand in the gears against the state and sang out in Nazis (original by Beton Combo ) as well as Schweinherbst against Nazis . Hey Punk is considered a punk anthem. The song Germany with its line “Germany must die so we can live” is a reversal of the slogan “Germany must live and when we must die” on the Hamburg war memorial at the Dammtorbahnhof, which was erected in 1936 , and caused heated controversy. According to a decision by the Federal Constitutional Court in 2000, however, the song can be played or quoted in public. In his judgment, it referred to the metaphorical similarity in artistic claim with Heinrich Heine's poem The Silesian Weavers .

The Hessian Greens posted an ironic "Legal, Illegal, Scheißegal" in the state election campaign that coincided with the Flick affair in 1984.

However, the way the punk and left-wing scenes deal with Slime is not free of conflict. Because of the song Gerechtigkeit , which says “I believe more in the innocence of a whore than in the justice of the German judiciary”, the band was attacked by autonomous women's groups. Commercial allegations made the rounds both in front of all against all and at the two reunions. Another point of criticism is the anti-Americanism of the band, including Yankees out . When the song was first released, the band was heavily criticized - among other things, they were accused of racism . The band responded to Alle gegen Alle and issued a statement in which they denied the allegations. The song remained controversial and once again caused nasty reactions when Rubberslime reissued it in 2003. Attac wanted to publish the song on a support sampler. However, some members of the organization did not like the comparisons with National Socialism. A lengthy discussion ensued, in which Mahler also intervened, who saw the rights to his song violated. Ultimately, Attac decided to release the sampler as Peace Attack Vol. 2 through Impact Records and not to be named on the title. The anti-German left scene in particular also kept its distance. In the trendy shop Conne Island in Leipzig , Rubberslime was banned from appearing, which continued after the reunion as Slime.

Interpretations by other bands and musicians

Alec Empire is a slime fan and used song material for a soundtrack

Slime was one of the most important left wing bands in the early 1980s, and references to them keep popping up years later. The doctors use material from bull pigs in their number 1 hit Men Are Pigs (but at the end of the piece and hardly noticeable) and at some live concerts they play the chorus of Police SA / SS at the end of the song Richtig schön evil . Also in the censored song Kein Gerede by WIZO there is a direct reference to a line of the song “Bullenschweine” (another call for revolt, another call for violence) . The Broilers also covered a song by Slime on their 2008 Ruby Light and Dark EP, namely together .

Bands from the radical right-wing scene such as Endstufe and Kampfzone covered slime songs ( we will always win on the 10 ″ 2003 from Kampfzone; Linke Spießer on the 2006 album Feuer frei von Endstufe).

Alec Empire released the song Germany (Has Gotta Die) with his project Atari Teenage Riot in 1997 as an homage to Germany must die . Later, having him covered for the compiled by him Chaostage - Soundtrack the piece Bullenschweine , which was the soundtrack along with the original basis of indexing.

Pieces by Slime are also received in the German-speaking hip-hop scene . Thus, the use Absolute Beginner in the 1990s Bullenschweine as a model for their contribution NO . The Hamburg hip-hop group Fischmob used the lyrics for their song " Police Easter Egg" , a piece in the style of the Smurfs' dance recordings . In 2014 Casper quoted the piece on his single Im Ascheregen : one third of heating oil, two thirds of gasoline . He also posted a video on Germany must die on his Facebook page , which sparked a lively discussion among his fans about political directions .

In April 2009 the tribute album Alle gegen Alle - A Tribute to Slime appeared , on which bands from the German punk - and Oi! -Scene songs from Slime cover . Contributions to this sampler included Die Toten Hosen (Viva la Muerte) , Die Mimmi’s (Death is a Master from Germany) , Third Choice (Yankees out) , Rasta Knast (Störtebecker) , Stage Bottles (Robot Age) , Broilers ( Together) , Volxsturm (We will always win) , Mob & Gesocks (No leaders) , Unfavor (Golden Towers) and the Jesus Skins (When the sky burns) .

A less popular tribute sampler was released in 2004 on the Kink Records label . Among others Popperklopper , Hausvabot , Kumpelbasis and the Brazilian band Agrotóxico on the tape represented compilation. Some of the published songs were later found on the Alle gegen Alle - A Tribute to Slime sampler.

The band was also received in the metal scene . Pieces by Slime have been covered by Kreator , Totenmond and Japanese combat radio plays, among others .

In addition to cover versions and song quotes, the band is also the subject of various song texts. Jens Rachut, soured about the reunion of Slime in 1990, dedicated the flowers-on-the-ass-of-hell piece of slime to the band , in which it says:

"You know it so well / You bands that are regressing and reforming / You all know it / And all of them / Revival stinks / It stinks / And stinks"

- Flowers on the ass of hell : slime

This was primarily directed against Mahler, who had worked with him on the previous band Angeschissen . However, the two later reconciled: in 2006 they worked together again at Kommando Sonne-nmilch . In Egotronics Kotzen , a response to the reactions to her controversial piece Raven gegen Deutschland , a slime shirt is the starting point for the following observation:

"You know the last record / You went to it / But if Germany is playing now you are immediately completely uninhibited / You wear a slime shirt / And I'm very upset / 'Germany must die' you probably didn't hear back then"

- Egotronic : throw up

In their song Outlaws , the hip-hop formation Antilopen Gang refers to the song Germany with the sentence “German rap must die so we can live” .

The logo of the band Emils pays homage to the band logo of Slime

Slime's band logo with its high recognition value can be found in a slight modification in the logo of Michael Mayer's band Elf and in the logo of the crossover band Emils .

Occupations

Current line-up (2016)

  • Dirk Jora

  • Michael "Elf" Mayer

  • Christian Mevs

  • Nici

  • Alex Schwers

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Pork autumn
  DE 66 05/30/1994 (9 weeks)
To submit is to lie
  DE 17th 06/29/2012 (3 weeks)
Here and now
  DE 20th 06.10.2017 (1 week)
Who does the fear belong to?
  DE 9 March 20, 2020 (1 week)

Studio albums

Live albums and compilations

  • 1984: Live (Pankehallen January 21, 1984) (Aggressive rock productions)
  • 1990: Compilation '81 -'87 (Bitzcore)
  • 1990: The Last (Aggressive Rock Productions)
  • 1995: Live Punk Club (Slime record)
  • 2012: Rebels 1979–2012 (Supplement to Visions June 2012)
  • 2017: Live (supplement to the box set from Hier und Jetzt )

Singles and EPs

Autograph by slime guitarist Michael "Elf" Mayer (October 2017)

Tribute sampler

Video albums

  • 1994: Pork Autumn (VHS, Indigo)
  • 2004: When Heaven Burns (2 DVDs, Weird System )

Exclusive sampler contributions

  • 1981: No leaders and police SA-SS on soundtracks to the downfall (indexed)
  • 1990: Death is a master from Germany (Ostinato RMX) on censorship !?
  • 1991: Career Opportunities on Slam Brigade Haifischbar - Punk in Hamburg 1984–90
  • 1992: Hey Punker (together with Abwärts ) on Prollhead! demands tributes
  • 1993: War in the cities on ... Is it really so late? (Tribute album for crashing carrier pigeons )
  • 1994: We Must Bleed on Strange Notes! A Germs Cover Compilation
  • 2011: Mittendrin , St. Pauli and from now on we always win on the back straight ( soundtrack )
  • 2012: Here today, gone tomorrow on Today, there tomorrow - salute to Hannes Wader
  • 2013: Have a go at giraffe monkeys 2

See also

literature

  • Daniel Ryser: Slime - Germany must die . 2nd Edition. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-67653-4 .

Web links

Commons : Slime  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When the Sky Burns - The Book . In: DVD booklet . Weird System , p. 9 .
  2. ↑ Daniel Ryser: Slime - Germany must die . 2nd Edition. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-67653-4 , p. 12-20 .
  3. ↑ When the Sky Burns - The Book . In: DVD booklet . Weird System , p. 16 .
  4. ↑ Daniel Ryser: Slime - Germany must die . 2013, p. 36-43 .
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