Devil (musician)

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Teufel at a performance by Tanzwut (2007)

Teufel (born Mike Paulenz on July 9, 1965 ) is a German musician. He became known through the bands Tanzwut and Corvus Corax .

Life

Teufel grew up in the GDR , where he joined the medieval scene and lived as a traveling musician. In the early 1990s he was a member of the band Corvus Corax. After leaving in 1992, he played with Michael Robert Rhein in the band Pullarius Furcillo before returning to Corvus Corax as a bagpipe and shawm player from 1996 to 2010 . In 1997 he founded the band Tanzwut with his colleagues from Corvus Corax.

In 2010 Teufel released his first solo album under the title Absinth . It was released on his own label, Teufel Records , distributed by Soulfood . Stylistically, the album moves in the area of ​​the genres new German hardness and industrial rock . In contrast to Corvus Corax and Tanzwut, bagpipes are rarely used. Absinthe contains a total of 13 songs and two spoken lyrical texts.

A volume of poetry was also announced.

In addition, Teufel was used as a guest in the song "The Hammer Falls" by Heldmaschine in 2015.

Occur

The musician was nicknamed the devil after the song "Nikol Reifenteufel" (text: Kurt Arnold Findeisen , music by Dieter Kalka ), which is about a minstrel who is believed to be the devil by a superstitious grave digger . He later adapted his appearance as a musician to his pseudonym. His trademark is his hairstyle, two tufts of hair formed into horns protruding at an angle, with an otherwise shaved head.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christoph Kutzer: Devil. To the Middle Ages and back . Zillo 10/2010, pp. 26-28
  2. ↑ In Extremo with Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: The story of an abnormal band . riva-Verlag, Munich 2012
  3. ↑ Peter Heymann: Teufel: Absinth ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sonic-seducer.de 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. Review from the Sonic Seducer 10/2010
  4. ↑ Christoph Kutzer: Devil: Absinthe . Review in Zillo 10/2010, p. 78
  5. ↑ Press release (PDF; 73 kB) on the release of the Absinth album

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personal data
SURNAME devil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paulenz, Mike (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1965