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The Hirsch Effekt live at Das Fest 2017 in Karlsruhe
The Hirsch Effekt live at Das Fest 2017 in Karlsruhe
General information
origin Hanover , Germany
Genre (s) Indie rock , metal , post punk , math rock
founding 2008
Website thehirscheffekt.de
Current occupation
Nils Wittrock
Electric bass , vocals
 Ilya Lappin
Moritz "Mr. Moe "Schmidt (since 2013)
former members
Philipp Wende (until 2013)

The Hirsch Effekt is a band from Hanover founded in 2008 . Their music is often referred to as artcore because of its mix of styles .

history

The musicians Nils Wittrock and Ilja Lappin met at the Hanover University of Music, Theater and Media and founded the band with Philipp Wende in 2008. The band name refers to the permeability of the mucous membranes of the small intestine discovered by the German-Jewish doctor Rahel Hirsch , which was named after her as the Hirsch effect .

In 2009 The Hirsch Effekt produced and released a self-titled demo recording with five songs. The band sent them to fanzines , blogs, indie labels and promoters in Germany together with handwritten letters. Not least because of her collaboration with the Chamber Choir Hannover and her orchestral references that broke with the conventions of Emocore and Mathcore .

“ Holon: Hiberno ” was released on March 19, 2010 on Midsummer Records, the debut album produced with Jens Siefert and the first part of the “Holon” trilogy . After an appearance in the opening act of the emopunk band Adolar , I got in touch with the operator of the label Kapitän Platte, through which the vinyl edition of "Holon: Hiberno" was released in early February 2011.

In cooperation with Ampire Records from Frankfurt the split EP Perigæum / Apogæum was released with the hardcore band Caleya . Kapitän Platte brought out a split single with the band Adolar, on which the bands cover each other. The contact to the production team Tim Tautorat and Max Trieder (including Turbostaat , David Hasselhoff , In Flames ), with whom the second album “ Holon: Anamnesis ” was recorded, was also established through Adolar . It was released in 2012 by Kapitän Platte and Midsummer Records.

This was followed by an appearance in the opening act of The Dillinger Escape Plan as part of the concert series “Visions in Concert”. The American band then took The Hirsch Effekt on their tour the following year. In addition, the trio played numerous concerts of their own and brought out another split together with the band Zinnschauer . On the LP, the band released orchestral arrangements of two album songs as well as previously unreleased pieces. The band recorded the piece Fixum with their new drummer Moritz Schmidt after founding member Philipp Wende left the band in 2013. The band toured seamlessly with Schmidt and recorded the third part of the Holon trilogy. Holon: Agnosie was released on Long Branch Records in 2015 .

The Hirsch Effekt performed at the Wacken Open Air at the beginning of August 2017 . In the middle of the same month, the fourth album Eskapist was released , which brought the band a cover story with FUZE Magazine . The album entered the German album charts at number 21.

Style and reception

The lyrics of the early songs are often only a few lines long and mostly limited to personal and emotional problems. After completing the Holon trilogy, the album Eskapist fell out politically, since the end of 2015 Wittrock had increasingly dealt with socially critical issues, fascism , right-wing populism and terrorism . The decisive factor for this was a key experience of Wittrock at the end of 2015 after a false alarm on suspicion of terrorism in Hanover.

At the beginning of the Holon trilogy, The Hirsch Effekt referred to themselves as an “indielectro post punk metal DIY band”. In their music, however, the band uses influences from many more musical styles. unterm-average founder Andreas Wildner described the musical breadth in the promotional letter for "Holon: Agnosie":

“Genres such as hardcore, chamber music, death metal, jazz, electronica and German pop are deconstructed and absorbed into one's own artistic work. The Hanoverian Trio is the musical resonance space of the black hole. "

- Andreas Wildner

A clear stylistic classification of the band is difficult due to their extensive genre mix, the term Artcore is often used . Comparisons with metal bands like Coheed and Cambria and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum as well as The Mars Volta are not uncommon. The album Eskapist , which was released in 2017, also features similar style-free music, but “the stylistic center is more clearly defined” with metal , according to plattentests.de author Christopher Padraig ó Murchadha.

The releases of The Hirsch Effekt sometimes met with enthusiastic criticism, for example the debut EP and the following album on Ox-Fanzine , Babyblauen Seiten and eclipsed . The magazine Visions spoke of the debut as an “album of the moment”, it was a “frighteningly great game without limits” by a “monstrous band”. Holon: Anamnesis was voted in 2013 by Visions readers as the only German-language album among the “20 best albums of all time”. With their Holon trilogy, The Hirsch Effekt “pushed the boundaries of what is possible in Metal by a huge amount. The relationship between noise and art will never be the same again. "

Band members

  • The Hirsch Effekt, live at With Full Force 2018

  • Singer and guitarist Nils Wittrock

  • Bass player Ilja Lappin

  • Drummer Moritz Schmidt

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Holon: agnosia
  DE 63 05/05/2015 (1 week)
Escapist
  DE 21st 08/25/2017 (1 week)
collapse
  DE 81 05/15/2020 (1 week)

Studio albums

EPs and split releases

  • 2009: The Hirsch Effect ( EP )
  • 2010: Apogæum / Perigæum ( split with Caleya on Midsummer / Cargo Records)
  • 2012: Vituperator / Weltsehen ( split single with Adolar on captain record)
  • 2013: Fixed salary ( split- EP with tin shower on captain's plate, financed with the help of crowdfunding )

Web links

Commons : The Hirsch Effect  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuel Behrens: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung: "In the beginning there was noise. With the art rockers from The Hirsch Effect through Hanover". Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Peter: The Hirsch Effect Review in the Sound limit blog. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Oliver H .: Review The Hirsch Effekt EP from May 6, 2009. Retrieved on August 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Jens Siefert: "Business card of the producer Jens Siefert at Backstage Pro". Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Pretty in noise editors: "Pretty in noise: Raffle of the Hirsch Effect / Adolar Split 7inch". Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Sebastian Ströwer: News on Visions.de about the concert Dillinger Escape Plan / The Hirsch Effect. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Wacken Open Air: Wacken Open Air - Band information Hirsch Effect. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  8. ^ HAZ: After the terror warning in Hanover. The day after: That was the situation in Hanover ". Retrieved on 23 August 2017 .
  9. ↑ The Hirsch Effect: Recording of live chat "Coffee wreaths with The Hirsch Effect on August 18, 2017 (29:14 min.)". Retrieved August 22, 2017 .
  10. ↑ MySpace profile of The Hirsch Effect. Retrieved May 12, 2010 .
  11. ^ Andreas Wildner: Promo letter "Holon: Agnosie" from Long Branch Records / October Promotion. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  12. ↑ a b Hoffmann, Andreas: The Hirsch Effect on the Baby Blue Pages. Retrieved May 12, 2010 .
  13. ↑ Hirnfick 2.0: Musical madness: The Hirsch Effect. March 18, 2010, accessed May 12, 2010 .
  14. ↑ Baby blue pages: The Hirsch Effect: Holon: Hiberno. Retrieved May 12, 2010 .
  15. ↑ a b eclipsed No. 119, April 2010, p. 61
  16. ↑ a b plattentests.de: The Hirsch Effekt - Eskapist , accessed on October 15, 2017.
  17. ↑ Ox-Fanzine No. 89.
  18. ↑ Visions No. 205; see also in the Visions internet portal: www.visions.de .
  19. ^ Armin, Plattentests-Redaktion: Press release from Long Branch Records on Plattentests.de. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Charts DE