Castle of the Dead (band)
| Castle of the Dead | |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Black metal |
| founding | 1998 |
| Founding members | |
| Emperor | |
| Denis "Rabensang" schooner | |
| Ragnar | |
| Current occupation | |
| Jens “Asemit” Merry | |
| Hagal | |
| Deimos | |
| Denis "Mr. Rabensang" schooner | |
Totenburg is a German NSBM band from Gera . The band itself describes their music as "Thuringian Aryan Black Metal". According to the Thuringian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution , which classifies the band as right-wing extremists, the band claims to have good contacts with the NPD and to describe their musical style as " Aryan shaped [and] produced for the white race".
Band history
The band was founded in 1998 under the name Peststurm by drummer Denis "Rabensang" Schoner, bassist Ragnar and singer and guitarist Emperor, who left after a short time (only the two songs Schwarzer Geist and Swastika were created with his participation) . Rabensang and Ragnar previously gained experience in the black metal band Mendes. The line-up of the band has changed frequently since then. René "Kanwulf" Wagner from Nargaroth was in the band for a concert and some rehearsals .
After the release of a first demo tape in 1999, the band renamed itself to Totenburg. In the same year she released her debut album World power or decline , next to their own songs also on the Burzum - cover darkness is. The cover of the first edition of the CD and the audio cassette shows a burning synagogue . The recordings were made as a cooperation between Fog of the Apocalypse and Pesten Productions.
In 2002, the second album, Winterschlacht, was released as a co-production by Donnerschlag Records and Eighty-Eight Records (now Ewiges Eis Records), which is operated by eugenics singer Jens Fröhlich .
In 2003 a split CD with Antiphrasis was released under the title Mit uns das Blut - Schlachten der Ehre by Christhunt Productions , the label also released record versions of the three Totenburg albums. Also in 2001 a 7 "split EP was released with the German band Ewiges Reich . In addition, the albums Winterschlacht and Weltmacht or Niedergang were re-released this year, all pressed onto one CD.
In 2004 the album Pestpogrom was released , with Fröhlich (under the pseudonym "Asemit") on vocals. It is the band's first album for the Nebelklang label founded by Ronald Wolf Möbus von Absurd . The name refers to the pogroms against Jews that occurred in the Middle Ages in Europe at the time of the plague . The cover of the CD is a woodcut from Nuremberg from Schedel's World Chronicle of 1493 , which shows the burning of Jews. A similar scene is also printed on the sound carrier itself. In addition to genre-typical bands such as Absurd or Magog , right-wing rock bands such as Kraftschlag or Kreuzfeuer are also mentioned on the album's thank-you list .
The album contains the song Walvater Wotan , a cover piece by the right-wing rock band Landser , as a hidden track . The text has been changed slightly. So from “We do n't want your Jesus , the old Jewish pig / Because crawling to the cross can't be for Aryans ” in the cover version “[…] the old Christian pig / […] not for Germanic people”. The main features of the melody have also been adopted. However, the song was adapted to the typical Black Metal style in terms of vocals and dynamics.
The EP Art und Kampf contains, among other things, the absurd cover piece Stahl blitzt Kalt .
Furthermore, Totenburg is represented on several samplers, such as the 2003 released sound carrier Despite Ban not dead for the 2000 banned division Germany of the neo-Nazi music network Blood and Honor .
Totenburg's importance for the NSBM and right-wing rock scene extends far beyond Thuringia and Germany, the band has already performed several appearances in other European countries such as Greece and Belgium and is often greeted by international NSBM bands in booklets and interviews.
In response to a major request from the PDS parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament , the publications Pestpogrom and Art und Kampf are referred to as "right-wing extremist" products.
Discography
Albums
- 2000: world power or decline (indexed)
- 2002: winter battle
- 2004: plague pogrom (indexed)
- 2009: end times
- 2020: Beyond the grave
Others
- 1998: plague storm (demo)
- 2003: Battles of Honor / With Us The Blood (Split with Antiphrasis, the Totenburg contribution was republished in 2005 on MC)
- 2003: Split (Split with Eternal Empire )
- 2005: Art and Combat (EP)
- 2005: With us the blood (MC, Donnerschlag Records) (indexed)
- 2006: Brothers in Arms (split with Menneskerhat)
- 2007: Si vis pacem, para bellum (split with Der Stürmer )
- 2009: Majesty of Wampyric Blood / Leichenfeuer (Split with Satanic Warmaster )
- 2012: Live in Jaucha (DVD)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Photography of Weltmacht-oder-Niedergang -Gatefold-LP ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ^ Right-wing extremism. Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Thuringia, archived from the original on October 26, 2010 ; accessed on October 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Panorama No. 669 from June 8, 2006
- ^ Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances. Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 169.
- ↑ a b c Christian Dornbusch / Jan Raabe: RechtsRock - Made in Thuringia. State Center for Political Education Thuringia, 2006, ISBN 3-937967-08-7 , pp. 76–77
- ↑ Press kit 34 and 35 of the Thuringian Parliament (PDF)
- ↑ Announcement No. 9/2014 on carrier media dated September 22, 2014 ( BAnz AT 09/30/2014 B6 )
- ↑ Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People: Decision No. 11374 (V) of February 10, 2014
- ↑ BAnz AT 28.09.2018 B8
