Weltenfeind (album)

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Enemy of the world
Music album Template: Infobox music album / maintenance / type undetectedby Absurd , Grand Belial's Key and Sigrblot

Publication
(s)

August 10, 2008

Label (s) WTC Productions

Format (s)

CD, vinyl

Genre (s)

NSBM

Title (number)

12

occupation Absurd :
  • Sven "Unhold" Zimper: Music

Grand Belial's Key :

  • Richard "Grimnir Wotansvolk" Mills: vocals

Weltenfeind is a split release by the right-wing extremist metal bands Absurd (Germany), Grand Belial's Key (USA) and Sigrblot (Sweden). The European version of the album was distributed by Sven “Unhold” Zimper by WTC Productions, for the limited US version. The Shitagogue Records was responsible.

History of origin

A possible split release of Absurd and Grand Belial's Key was already under discussion two years before the album was released after the two bands performed together at a concert in New York .

The band Grand Belial's Key recorded their contributions to Weltenfeind when they were in the studio for their album Kosherat , and were already planning a release as a split back then. However, only two of the four recorded songs are new. Absurd and Sigrblot also recorded their songs exclusively for the split release.

However, since the singer of Grand Belial's Key, Richard "Grimnir Wotansvolk" Mills, died on August 27, 2006 and the band was then disbanded, thoughts on this matter were discontinued until the band's last, as yet unreleased recordings from 2006 on in 2008 the split album were released posthumously. Since the band was considered broken up, these recordings were viewed as their swan song ; Grand Belial's Key is now active again. The official release date was August 10th, which coincides with Tisha beAv , which the band describes as the saddest day on the Jewish calendar , the Jewish day of mourning commemorating the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple .

The album was indexed on December 31, 2010 by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People (BPjM) and placed on list B of the list of media harmful to young people . It is therefore subject to a distribution ban .

Track list

  1. Absurd - World Enemy - 4:40
  2. Absurd - Black Hand of Death - 2:51
  3. Absurd - Ulfhednir - Death Squad - 7:06
  4. Absurd - The Messengers of Horror - 4:37 ( The Curse Cover)
  5. Grand Belial's Key - It Bribes the Heavens - 8:25
  6. Grand Belial's Key - Mourners Flock to Gethsemane - 4:14
  7. Grand Belial's Key - Yahweh's Charlatans - 8:10
  8. Grand Belial's Key - Can't Tell No One - 1:18 ( Negative Approach Cover)
  9. Sigrblot - Braadödha Vindh (Diävuls Andadräth) - 7:01
  10. Sigrblot - Exiles of the Golden Age - 6:22
  11. Sigrblot - Varg I Veium - 5:51
  12. Sigrblot - Kali Yuga Intifada - 8:07

Music and lyrics

All three bands play a style similar to that of their previous recordings.

The lyrics to the absurd songs were again written by Hendrik Möbus , who was not an official member of the band at the time. The speaker in Weltenfeind describes himself as part and at the same time the worst enemy of creation. Black Hand of Death is about the murder of an old man.

The people going out to kill in Ulfhednir - death squad are compared in the title as well as in the lyrics with the Ulfheðnar and the death squads . The refrain contains, among other things, the slogan: "Kill for Wotan, we are the werewolf" ; This refers both to the Germanic god Wotan as well as the frequently used in the right scene abbreviation of Will of the Aryan Nations ( "Will of the Aryan Nation"). Killing for Wotan was also the title of an article by Thilo Thielke in Spiegel about Möbus' arrest in the USA. The statement also refers to the werewolf associations of the SS .

The song The Ambassadors of Horror is a cover version of the band Der Fluch , which was on the 1982 single of the same name. The song is their second cover version of this band, whose song Pray for Us was covered on the previous album The Fifteen Years War .

Achromaticus from webzine Heathen Harvest described Absurd's music as talented, brutal, and well-produced, and its lyrics as poor and full of internal contradictions, citing the murdered victim in Black Hand of Death who is still trying to stay alive as an example . According to Berkay Erkan from diabolicalconquest.com , Absurd has the most typical Black Metal sound of the three bands on the phonogram; he characterizes her style as brutal and melodic at the same time. Erkan and chrisALPINO from TheLeftHandPath.com emphasize the uniqueness of the musical style of each band on Weltenfeind . Erkan writes that no other black metal band, neither in US black metal nor in NSBM, sounds like Grand Belial's Key. He compares her style with that of her album Kosherat , which was made at the same time as these recordings, whereby the material is as constantly aggressive and musically profane as Judeobeast Assassination . Achromaticus, on the other hand, writes that the style of Grand Belial's Key is a bit slower and more atmospheric compared to the Absurd titles, but one could easily assume that they are the same band.

It Bribes the Heavens describes the Jewish kapparot custom referred to by Grand Belial's Key as the bribe of heaven. Mourner's Flock to Gethsemane is a re-recording of a title from her first EP A Witness to the Regicide , Jahweh's Charlatans describes the Jews as charlatans who come together at criminal conspiratorial meetings. Can't Tell No One is a cover of the hardcore band Negative Approach .

Sigrblot's music is inspired by the typical folk / black metal sound and has progressive elements and numerous acoustic intervals. Musically, the band is influenced by Burzum , Darkthrone , Bathory and Isengard , among others . Lyrically, the band is "more influenced by books and writings than by bands", as the "main sources of inspiration" they cited the writings of Alfred Rosenberg , Jack London , Savitri Devi and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu . Exiles of the Golden Age , for example, is about the end of the historical circle. why it is not worth fighting. The band is referring to the Hindu idea of Kali-Yuga , which is to be followed by a new golden age . Her last song, Kali Yuga Intifada, shows only weak black metal influences and approaches experimental or progressive metal . For Achromaticus, Sigrblot's songs are the best part of the split release; He characterizes these as traditional, brutal, cold, but talented Black Metal with individual interesting, but not too unorthodox ideas, and their text writer has thought a second time about his lyrics.

layout

The eighteen-page booklet, which chrisALPINO described as being of extremely high quality, contains photos of the various bands as well as a large number of drawings by the Russian artist Njard, which were specially made for the album and, according to chrisALPINO, are not very detailed, but effective and very successful refer to the texts and the manifest in the booklet. This is based on the premise of a war against modern civilization. Motifs include a werewolf depiction, a Jesus kneeling in prayer in the garden of Gethsemane , who is surrounded by rats , depictions of a dance of death and an Ark of the Covenant , where, however, two winged rats can be seen as figures instead of the two cherubim .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j chrisALPINO: TheLeftHandPath.com - V / A - Weltenfeind. February 9, 2009, archived from the original on February 12, 2009 ; accessed on March 1, 2010 (English).
  2. ↑ Information for Nebelklang
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Berkay Erkan: Absurd / Grand Belial's Key / Sigrblot - Weltenfeind split. Diabolical Conquest, September 23, 2009, archived from the original on November 22, 2010 ; accessed on March 1, 2010 (English).
  4. ↑ a b c d Ol 'Skool Gangsta Style, Bitch! Archived from the original on April 7, 2014 ; accessed on March 1, 2010 (English).
  5. ↑ BAnz. No. 200 of December 31, 2010
  6. ↑ "JFN" information in the booklet.
  7. ↑ Thilo Thielke: Killing for Wotan . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 2000 ( online ).
  8. ↑ a b c Achromaticus: Absurd + Grand Belials Key + Sigrblot - World Enemy. Heathen Harvest, March 1, 2009, accessed March 1, 2010 .
  9. ↑ a b 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. 260 .