Under bones
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2004 |
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| Label (s) | Massacre Records | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
12 |
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Chris von Rautenkranz |
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Studio (s) |
Soundgarten Studio (Hamburg) |
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The fifth music album by the German metal band Totenmond is under bones . It was released in 2004 on the Massacre Records label .
Emergence
The recordings were preceded by a three-year break, which, according to the guitarist and singer Pazzer, "has nothing [...] to do with the band", since "Totenmond [...] is just a hobby of ours and always is stay [will]. ”. According to Pazzer, the way the album was created was to rehearse with the band out of boredom and to compose songs until enough material was available for an album:
“We have to deal with more important things than the Dead Moon; B. Earning money […]. When there is time or we are bored, things arise like the voluntary will to rehearse, songs are created during rehearsals, when enough songs are created an album is created - nothing more. "
After Pazzer himself had played the bass on the previous cover album Auf dem Mond ein Feuer , a musician named "Senf" joined the band for Unter bones . The recordings took place in the "Soundgarden" studio in Hamburg , the producer was Chris von Rautenkranz with the assistance of Sarah E. Andresen.
Like all of its predecessors, the album was released via Massacre Records and was released on February 23, 2004. In addition to a normal jewelcase version, the album was also the band's first work in two versions with a bonus DVD that the band released when recording four of the songs on the album can be seen in the studio. This limited edition was released in both a jewel case and a digipack . Because of the DVD it contained, the album was checked by the FSK and approved with the note "no age limit".
The cover consists of the band lettering and the album title in the usual Fraktur font as well as a drawing by Sonja Hölzle. The drawing shows an oversized horned creature roasting an impaled person over a fire and sprinkling something over this person with his left hand. The CD and the accompanying DVD are decorated with an iron cross , the bottom of which is longer, so that the cross looks more like a Christian cross.
For the first time there are also two "anti-Nazis" logos in the booklet, as well as a dedication by Pazzers to the "brown crybugs who have wasted their hard-earned money on this album [...] for the benefit of left-wing anarchist propaganda". The final greeting "Heil Hinkel!" Is an allusion to the film The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin . According to the information on the cover, the album is dedicated to a certain Helmut Z.
Track list
- Intro - 1:54
- Under bones - 4:45
- Permafrost - 3:09
- Guest with the dead - 7:39
- Hirdraussaischeimad - 1:50
- Man -Eater - 3:10
- Light source - 5:03
- Dark Mammoth - 3:46
- Weeds - 4:16
- Ice Waltz - 5:43
- The ego parasite - 4:24
- Cross or Head - 15:10
Music style and text content
The musical path taken by the band is consistently developed on “Unter bone”, “The songs are [now] more mature than on the first releases, which quickly became boring”. Nothing can be heard of the previously clearly recognizable punk influences, "only rough roaring vocals , extremely brutal droning guitar work as well as powerful and powerful drumming". However, “great sound games or samples” are not included. In his review of the album, Kalle Stille from Ox magazine called the band's music style “completely solo-free hardcore punk in the best discharge style with lots of Doom and decaying, basement-tuned guitars, which is sold to the metal crowd due to the lack of a label. [...] This is punk, as pure as a 70% clear person can be. "
The last song Kreuz oder Kopf ends in a “witch-like monologue”, with comparisons to “a [r] confused poem recitation by a completely crazy Klaus Kinski in front of a gloomy rumbling background noise”. This is followed by a hidden bonus track following several minutes of silence , which was described as "a rehearsal room recording with a rumble sound".
As on the two previous albums Reich in Rost and Auf dem Mond ein Feuer , the musical instrument used by Pazzer is referred to as a "three-string" on the album. As can be seen from an interview with Senf, it is an electric guitar, the top three strings of which have been removed, which is enough because Pazzer “isn't Steve Vai , who needs one more, but so dull that 3 is enough. "
In terms of lyrics, the album is back on the level of the first three albums. The texts written by Pazzer are "difficult to interpret, intellectually probably most closely related to the artistic climate of the 20s, where everything from Expressionism to blood-and-soil poetry suddenly became possible, but there was always a slightly morbid atmosphere". In the interview, Pazzer said that everyone should interpret the texts for himself, he never explains his texts.
Web links
- Review on metal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Interview with Pazzer. Powermetal.de ; Retrieved November 3, 2008.
- ↑ Greetings in the booklet
- ↑ a b CD Review Unter Bones . metalglory.de; Retrieved October 26, 2008.
- ↑ EMP Merchandising: Totenmond - Unter bones ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. emp.de; Retrieved October 26, 2008.
- ↑ a b CD Review Unter Bones . terrorverlag.de; Retrieved October 26, 2008.
- ↑ Review of the album. Ox , Issue 56; Retrieved November 23, 2008.
- ↑ a b Review of Unter bones . In: Rock Hard , No. 202; Retrieved November 3, 2008.
- ↑ Interview with Dead Moon. metalnews.de; Retrieved November 3, 2008.
