undead
| undead | |
|---|---|
 The band's logo from 1999 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Berlin , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Chanson , new German hardness , metal , pop , dark wave , gothic rock , grindcore |
| founding | 1994 |
| Website | www.vongrafenwald.de/untoten/ |
| Founding members | |
Music, singing
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David A. Line |
singing |
Greta Csatlós |
| Current occupation | |
Music, singing |
David A. Line |
Untoten is a German band from Berlin , which was founded by the singer and artist Greta Csatlós and the musician David A. Line .
Band history
The band consists of the composer, lyricist and musician David A. Line and the German-Hungarian singer and painter Greta Ida Csatlos. Changing musicians and dancers support the band live. From 2004 to 2008 z. B. the musician and fashion designer Anke Gründel on bass, from 2009 the musician Heidi Lindenberg on the keyboard and singer Claudia Bauer-Korzin in the background.
From the school band "ZiZa" (Hungarian for cat ) the later band Undead was founded in Berlin. They were the house band of various youth and squatter clubs (e.g. railroad workers and drugstore in Berlin). Her first album Don't fear Veluzifer deals with Berlin and the problem of street children. The band played around 20 live concerts a year.
At the same time, David A.Line and Greta Ida Csatlos published the satirical city magazine “Maul” through the art agency Sonic Malade. Csatlos also published two volumes of comics, David A. Line worked on the side projects "Engelwerk" and "Festival of the Mentally Ill".
From 2003 the interest of the band changed. Away from the mostly visually bizarre concept towards compositionally strong concept albums. In 2003 the album Grabsteinland was released , which in turn relocated his idea to the street child milieu. From the pure “I describe what I see and feel” concept of their first album, the street kid in the Tombstone Country story develops into a fighter. Grabsteinland became a tetralogy with three other albums ( Grabsteinland II "Rule of the Vampires" , Grabsteinland III "Heart of Darkness" , Grabsteinland IV "The Black Feather" ).
In the following years the undead developed concept albums about Elisabeth Bathory ( The Blood Countess ), the Loudun case ( The Nuns of Loudun ) and the witch , a work about childhood and primal fears.
In 2008 the band moved from Berlin to Leipzig . Greta Ida Csatlos released her solo album Lunatic as "Greta Ida" in 2009 .
In 2015, Gravestone Land 5: The Return was another sequel to the Gravestone Land story.
In 2017 Greta Csatlós left the group because she wanted to concentrate more on painting. She has also been living in Spain for six years. Since then, Undead has been continued as a solo project by David A. Line.
style
Until Don't be afraid Veluzifer , the undead played Thrash Metal and Grindcore . On this album they mixed grindcore with electronic music and elements from dark wave and gothic rock. From Kiss of Death , the undead renounced the Grindcore elements and oriented themselves to dark wave compositions with rock and metal influences. The 1998 album Nekropolis , which can be regarded as the climax of the undead's dark wave / gothic phase, was free of metal elements for the first time. These emerged more clearly at the 1999 work Black Fair . Over the years, influences from other directions, such as trip-hop with Seraphine (Black Mass), techno with Darkroom (Vampire Book) or ambient / electronica with Spread Your Wings (The Look of Blasphemy), have been processed.
With the Grabsteinland album series, the band turned away from their earlier dark wave / gothic orientation and since then has increasingly been working with elements from chansons , hits and new German hardness . At the same time, acoustic instruments are increasingly appearing, largely replacing the electronics on earlier albums. Since Die Blutgräfin , David A. Line has taken on individual vocal parts alongside Greta Csatlós.
The lyrics of the band were in German up to and including Hab keine Angst Veluzifer . On the following five albums, lyrics were almost exclusively sung in English, with the exception of the songs Tanz der Hexen and Desdemona from the 1999 album Schwarze Messe . It was only with Grabsteinland that the undead returned to German texts. David A. Line wrote all of the lyrics on the concept albums The Blood Countess and The Nuns of Loudun .
Discography
Albums
- 1996: Do not be afraid Velucifer
- 1997: Kiss of Death
- 1998: Necropolis
- 1999: Black Mass
- 2000: Vampire Book
- 2001: Look of Blasphemy
- 2003: Gravestone Land 1: Through the Crystal Forest (1st part of the tetralogy)
- 2004: Tombstone Land 2: Rule of the Vampires (2nd part of the tetralogy)
- 2005: Gravestone Land 3: Heart of Darkness (3rd part of the tetralogy)
- 2006: The Blood Countess (double album)
- 2007: The Nuns of Loudun - Hysteria, the full story
- 2007: The Nuns of Loudun - A nun's secret diary
- 2008: the witch
- 2008: die witch - Uncut
- 2009: Gravestone Land 4: The Black Feather (4th part of the tetralogy)
- 2009: The Raven's Flight
- 2010: love or death
- 2010: House of Lies
- 2011: Zombie 1: The World After
- 2011: Zombie 2: The Revenge
- 2012: Iron Heart
- 2013: time machine
- 2014: Like A Lost Child
- 2015: Gravestone Land 5: The Return
- 2018: Blackshadow
- 2019: Bird of the Dead
Others
- 1994: "Poser" put in the mouth (published under the name ZiZa)
- 1995: Maultot (demo release )
- 1998: Dresscode Black I (with other bands such as Festival of the Mentally Ill and many more)
- 1999: A Tribute to Sexmania - Bleeding Maria (with other projects by David A. Line and Undead raritet track "Shake")
- 2002: undead vs. SOKO Friedhof - Dresscode Black II : Get into the Goth Club ( split release with SOKO Friedhof )
- 2004: Ravens (CDS)
- 2006: Don't be afraid Veluzifer (re-release incl. 4 bonus tracks & poster booklet)
- 2007: Best Of
- 2012: How to Become Undead (Rarities 1990–2000)
- 2017: undead vs. SOKO cemetery - vicious circle (split release with SOKO cemetery)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Undead - Singer Greta Csatlos gets out! In: Dark Music World. February 8, 2017, accessed on March 10, 2019 (German).