Wehrmacht (band)
| Wehrmacht | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Thrash metal , speed metal |
| founding | 1985, 2009 |
| resolution | 1990 |
| Founding members | |
| Phillip "Tito" Matos | |
| John Duffy | |
guitar |
Marco "Sharko" Zorich |
| Shann Mortimer | |
Drums |
Brian Lehfeldt |
Wehrmacht is an American thrash and speed metal band from Portland , Oregon . The band itself calls their music "Beercore".
Band history
Wehrmacht was founded in 1985. Members were the singer Tito Matos, the guitarists John Duffy and Marco Zorich, the bassist Shann Mortimer and the drummer Brian Lehfeldt.
The band, which called their music Beer-Core (cf. Tankard ), released five demo albums of fast-paced party thrash metal. After contributing to the compilation Speed Metal Hell , she released her debut album Shark Attack in 1987 . Their debut made them known in the underground , but also attracted attention because of their extremely xenophobic and violence-glorifying lyrics, the controversial band name did the rest. This is how the Go Home text calls for violence against migrants :
"Please - I want to work
Get out - you miserable jerk
Go home - to your flea-bitten life
Or I - will use my knife!"
On the second album Biermächt the band distanced themselves with the song The Wehrmacht from any National Socialist and fascist ideology that critics accused them of after the misleading lyrics of the debut album. The song was older, however, and came from the Beermacht demo. The rest of the songs consist of drinking and party lyrics. After the album, the band renamed itself in Macht , but broke up shortly afterwards. The members went in part to Cryptic Slaughter and Spazztic Blurr .
Both albums are very rare in the vinyl version and were only released on CD towards the end of the 1990s .
Since 2009 the band has been active again in the original line-up.
In 2010 the two albums Shark Attack and Biermächt were released again on the Italian label Foad Record by Cripple Bastards singer Giulio. The albums have been expanded to include demo and live material. The song Go Home is missing. Instead, the song Concrete Meat was added to the album Shark Attack . The box set Viva Sharko was also released with the two albums, demo tracks and a live performance from 1986.
2012 singer Phillip "Tito" Matos was replaced by Eric Helzer.
In 2013 a live DVD was released in limited edition (250 copies).
Discography
- 1985: Blow You Away Demo
- 1985: Rehearsal '85 demo
- 1986: Beermacht demo
- 1986: Death Punk Demo
- 1986: Live At Pine Street Theater Live demo
- 1987: Shark Attack
- 1989: Beer might
- 2013: Wehrmacht Attack Los Angeles - live at the Key Club 23 February 2013 DVD
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herr, Matthias: Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 1, Berlin: Eigenvertrieb 1993, pp. 188f.
- ↑ Viva Sharko. Discogs , accessed January 12, 2011 .
- ↑ idioteq.com: Wehrmacht announce a new singer