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Description
Red vinyl with gatefold sleeve!
Since their formation in 2016, Gewalt has held the world in suspense. A relentless band that doesn't mince words and loves to peer into the abyss. On their second album, there's no gray, no white, just "Schwarz Schwarz." A dark sparkle spreads with relentless riffs and bass lines. Helen Henfling, Patrick Wagner, and Jasmin Rilke (who sadly left the band after the recording) draw on industrial, post-punk, new wave, noise rock, and electronic music for their thunderous blast against the perversions of this world, for example, in the monotonously sung account of killing according to protocol in "Monolog einer Drone." The fundamentals of society are given space in Wagner's lyrics, for example, in the question, posed with a catchy chorus, about what "Felicita" means, or in "Das kann ich nicht" (I can't do that). Missed opportunities in biography ("Egal wohin der Wind dich weht") are also addressed. Musically, Gewalt takes a more electronic approach than ever before, repeatedly approaching D.A.F. in expression, but also showing its teeth with awesome-sounding post-punk guitar on the 6-string, as well as with the bratty synthesizer lines of the Roland TB-303. The album title refers to the hypocritical fantasy in George Orwell's dystopian classic "1984," in which the ruling caste suspends the laws of logic. They spread their lies with such zeal that they genuinely begin to believe their own deception. Facts that have become inconvenient are covered up and, if necessary, reclaimed from oblivion. The existence of an objective reality is denied and, at the same time, accepted. Today, Orwell's dystopia has become reality in some places. This record is a cry for distress and a dance on the ruins.
