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February 2015 |
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12 |
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43:16 minutes |
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Principal Studios, Sending |
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Traum von Freiheit is the eighth studio album by the German punk rock band Betontod . It was released in February 2015 as the band's first album on Columbia Records after they separated from their previous record company Better Than Hell .
Recording and publication
The album Traum von Freiheit was released as the band's first album on the major label Columbia Records . It was recorded in the Principal Studios in Senden in North Rhine-Westphalia and produced by their operator Vincent Sorg . According to Frank “Eule” Vohwinkel, the album was already finished when they “knocked” on Columbia.
According to the company, the band wanted to dream of freedom musically more towards punk work and thus the image of a German rock counteract band. On their homepage, the band also emphasizes “a clear edge against the law”, which, according to their statements, “gave birth to the songs for“ Traum von Freiheit ””.
Track list
The album consists of 12 tracks with a total length of 39:28 minutes. The individual titles are:
- Dream of freedom
- My last day
- I regret nothing
- Forever
- Steel wings
- history
- Just for one night
- You can me
- Fighter heart
- All I wanted
- Legion of the damned
- After all this years
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The album reached number 11 in the German charts on March 13, 2015 and stayed in the charts for three weeks. On March 27, 2015, the album was at number 92, after which it left the Top 100. The album was represented in the Austrian and Swiss charts for one week each.
Press reviews
The reviews for Traum von Freiheit are mixed and not always positive. Enrico Ahlig emphasizes in Metal Hammer that Betontod is trying "with all their might" to " free itself from the predicate" German rock ", although they don't need it at all," because catchy pop-punk has little to do with the relevant bands common. ”In his opinion,“ hymns like the great title track ”“ would be more likely to roar at an Antifa demo than an Onkelz party ”and with“ 'My last day' and 'Wings made of steel', there are two other great candidates for a future best-of publication. "
On the occasion of the band's announcement that they would “return to the origin of their work” in the new album, Kai Buttenbeck asks himself at laut.de : “What is different than three years ago?” He attests to the band and the album “a constantly turning around itself Melange of smooth-ironed street dog punk and mass-compatible metal "as well as" a solid, but not particularly impressive snot-potpourri for all Wacken season ticket holders with Campino tattoos. "In conclusion, he sums up an album" somewhere between punk, rock and metal, half upright, half staggering, turning in circles. So, don't panic and no reason to raise your eyebrows: everything as usual. It's a shame, actually. "
If you follow Tobias Kreutzer on metal.de , “BETONTOD drive a mixture on“ Traum von Freiheit ”, which is in no way inferior to a band like DIE TOTEN HOSEN in terms of catchiness and love for melodies, but on the other hand, both in terms of riffing and production, time and again drifting into Metal. "He praises especially in his eyes close to the metalcore bands like Rise against active only for a night and the double bass in wings of Gold and history as well as the opener and title track dream of freedom , in which" the undistorted Guitar with a lot of delay ”“ at first a “days like this 2.0” may be feared, but in the chorus it turns into a punk catchy tune of the very highest order. ”On the other hand, he also attests the band“ a few set to music Downsides ”, whereby he especially“ the pathetic bar melancholy hymn 'Forever' ”. In his conclusion, Traum von Freiheit “ is a decent album by a band that gives the German Pooh nk Rock adds a few interesting facets ”and with Betontod“ continues unstoppable in the free niche between “real” punk and HOSEN, BROILERS and the like and (…) doing well [hold] ".
supporting documents
- ↑ a b Columbia gets Betontod. In: Musikwoche, December 8, 2014; accessed on June 30, 2018.
- ↑ Betontod - Dream of Freedom (release: February 27, 2015) at sonymusic.de, December 8, 2014; accessed on June 30, 2018.
- ↑ Betontod: Dream of Freedom. Interview with Frank Vohwinkel on smash-mag.com, February 27, 2015; accessed on June 30, 2018.
- ↑ Betontod - band history ; accessed on June 30, 2018.
- ↑ a b c Kai Buttenbeck: Betontod: Dream of freedom. on laut.de; accessed on June 30, 2018.
- ↑ a b c Chart positions for dream of freedom - Austria - Switzerland
- ↑ Enrico Ahlig: Betontod: dream of freedom. on metal-hammer.de, March 12, 2015; accessed on June 30, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d Tobias Kreutzer: Betontod - Dream of Freedom on metal.de, February 21, 2015; accessed on June 30, 2018.