Werewolf (Austrian band)
| werewolf | |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Black metal |
| founding | 1995 |
| resolution | unknown |
| Founding members | |
| Michael Piesch ("Hagen") | |
| René Kramer ("Wolf") | |
| Harold Jehovah | |
| Trifixion of the Horned King | |
Werwolf was an Austrian black metal band that pursued a Nietzschean concept and provoked it with militant statements in the early 1990s.
Band history
The band Werwolf came from the environment of the "Austrian Black Metal Syndicate", a loose association of Austrian black metal musicians around Pervertum , Pazuzu and Golden Dawn . The group's drummer was Trifixion of the Horned King, who was previously involved with the rival band Summoning . The singer of the band was Michael Piesch, the boss of Lethal Records, who gave himself the name "Hagen" for the album. The guitar was played by René Kramer, the guitarist of Cadaverous Condition , and their singer Wolfgang Weiss contributed lyrics and background vocals. The band's first sign of life appeared on a label sampler by Nuclear Blast in 1995 , a raw mix of the song War Is King and Father of All . In 1996 the debut album Zeitenwende - Only the Strong Survive ... War / Inferno followed on the Lethal Records label . After Lethal filed for bankruptcy, the band broke up as well.
Music style and ideology
Musically, the album contained typical fast-played Black Metal, but enriched with various samples , including from Lili Marleen and Faust . According to Robert Müller from Metal Hammer " Venom- like sound meets bomb alarm and soldier songs".
The band provoked by a social Darwinist concept, which refers to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche , whose works were taken out of context and quoted in the CD booklet . In line with this, the band also developed a warlike concept, for example Hagen had himself photographed in the booklet with a shotgun and corpse paint, other members of the band pose with machete and army trousers. The album also contains samples from Nazi propaganda films Ewiger Wald und Victims of the Past , although the band denied right-wing extremist influences. In Ablaze magazine, the album was heralded as a "destruction blow"; the band wanted to "show all Northmen and other wimps where the hammer hangs". According to the magazine, song titles such as War Is King and Father of All or Under the Flag of the Sunwheel revealed “a rather uncritical attitude towards critical issues, which should lead to explosive discussions”. According to Müller, the band understood their album “as a kind of extreme satire on the prevailing black metal boom, they contrast its romanticizing flight from civilization including blood and earth overtones with 'modern' nihilism , martialize the outfit with assault rifles and equip ideologically with Nietzsche . A dismaying grotesque whose clinging to militaristic aesthetics and whose play with social Darwinist thoughts will ensure everything between shaking the head and full-bodied neo - Nazi reproach. That is not the goal of werewolf; if at all, they play in a macabre way with the paranoia that they want to generate after the world war with the mythical Nazi underground fighters of the same name . Personally, I dread the effect - after all, the confusing Black Metal scene is characterized by a sufficiently large number of lunatics and bands that are similar to dancing on the knife edge, but are of much more dubious origin. ”In an interview with Ablaze magazine , singer attacked The Austrian black metal scene around Abigor and Summoning are hot. He called Silenius von Summoning a "fairy tale fairy" (because of the band's fondness for the Lord of the Rings ) and gave him the tip not to "get in his way". The interview caused some controversy in subsequent editions.
Discography
- 1995: War Is King and Father of All on Nuclear Blast Soundcheck - Series Volume 3 ( Nuclear Blast )
- 1996: Zeitwende - Only the Strong Survive ... War / Inferno ( Lethal Records )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Cadaverous Condition. Rusmetal.ru, accessed December 8, 2012 .
- ↑ Colloborations. Cadaverous Condition Official Website, accessed January 27, 2013 .
- ↑ Nuclear Blast - Soundcheck Series Volume 03. Musik-Sammler.de, accessed on December 8, 2012 .
- ^ A b Matthias Herr: The Black Metal Bible . Self-published, Berlin 1998, p. 568-569 .
- ^ A b Robert Müller: Werewolf . A turning point - Only The Strong Survive . In: Metal Hammer , January 1996, p. 58.
- ↑ News . In: Ablaze , No. 5, May / June 1995, p. 7.
- ↑ The real horror . Interview with singer Hagen. Ablaze , No. 8, January / February 1996.