The debutalbum of Kraschau is out now!

    "I have understood the duty of my life. I loved Christ and went happily to death for him!" - Ion Moţa, member of the Legionary Movement and marthyr of the spanish civil war's counter-revolution.

    We are happy to announce, that the debutalbum of Kraschau has been officially released! I do not have the CDs in my hands yet, it will hopefully arrive in Europe on the next week. You can read here a brief description from the website of Twilight Records. You can also read the announcement on Gradual Hate Records' site and see the wonderful video made by Avencio!

    "We are proudly to announce the debut album of a promisse in the musical scene. If you like bands as Triarii , Arditi , March of heroes etc....you are in the right way with Kraschau! The debut album of Kraschau was inspired by the great empires and kingdoms of Europe, like the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Prussia and also 20th century christian and legitimist movements, eg. the Falange or the Carlists of the spanish civil war or Romania’s Legionary Movement. The lyrics are dealing with the themes of christian mysticism and the spirit of struggle - as opposed to the coward comfort of the modern world. The album features various guest musicians from the hungarian industrial and neofolk scene.

    Kraschau was built upon the ruins of Adam Berces’ prevous martial-neofolk project, Durch Heer und Kraft. The aim of this new project is to create high quality, live sounding neoclassical/symphonic music with the strictness of martial rhythms and with the power of industrial sounds. Adam was trained as a classical musician on trumpet and trombone, that’s why brass instruments has a big role in Kraschau’s music. It also incorporates various speeches, which are not too common in the martial-neofolk genres collected from documentary films and historical archives."

    On political correctness

    According to some recent issues I decided to write a few words in english. Many musical acts of the underground are devoted to certain politcial views, which is fashionable among young people. To be accurate, I am talking about "antifa". As you can now, I am a really conservative man, but I enjoy the music of some anarcho-punk bands, straight edge hardcore or even Atari Teenage Riot, however I will never accept its "values", but their music is great, I find them interesting, so I listen to them. But once you realize our conservative, or let's say fascist ideals you are turning your backs on. Come on, you say, that you are liberal, so you accept everything - why can't you accept our views? Especially if you like the music itself....

    Another thing is that you tell, that you are underground. I know, that many "antifas" and humanist movements think, that they are underground too, lest that all goverments in Europe, the whole EU and especially UN is built up on "anti-fascistic" ideas and one of their No.1 aim is to fight right extremism. (Even if a government is led by a right-wing party, there's no way to be a fascist in a democracy.) I find nothing really underground in this. Anti-fascism is the most mainstream idea in politics ever. I don't want to change your minds and political views, I just want to say, that if you are devoted to underground culture just try to accept minority groups in politics too. It is important to see, that me, or most of our musical scene is not interested in everyday politics, what we call "politics" is far from what comes into your minds, when you hear this word. Politics for us is not voting or demonstrate against anything you can. Politics for us is one of the manifestations of metaphysics, projected into everyday's life.Of course I hope, that there are some people, who listens my music for lyrics and maybe there will be some people, who will turn towards the Light, when they hear them.

    And one more thing: the word "fascist" was originally a right-wing regime in Italy, which had nothing to do with racism or jews, etc. The usage of the word for all rightist movements was introduced by Stalin, because he don't wanted socialism to be mixed with national socialism. How can you fight dictatorship and oppression, when you are using the terminology of the worst dictator ever (who killed almost 60 million people, including his closest friends, jews and other religious people, minorities in Russia)?
    Just think... sometimes.

    I have wrote these lines especially German people: as I see it from outside I often feel, that you are constantly want to prove, that you are not nazis (that's why antifa is so popular there) and you are often feel shame about your past. But you don't have to! No one said, that you are nazis! Once german people (eg. the Habsburg family) led almost whole Europe and the highly sophisticated and precisious german manufactures grounded industry in Europe, even in Hungary. Don't you think that a certain group want to break your pride and want you to say no for your "sinful" past? The first step to take the lead over Europe is to pull Europe's natural born leaders into the mud. Being proud of your nation doesn't means, that you are/should be racist, a nazi or anything. There's no future for anyone without past!

    New year, new instrument

    For this year I have a big plan: I have started building an analogue modular synthetizer. The module is placed in a cca. 60×60 cm wooden box and it will have 5 VCOs, a PWM module, a high-pass and a low pass filter, a simple distortion effect and a primitive mixer. The synth is cannot be controlled by MIDI, the frequency can be altered with potmeters, so it will be used to produce analogue, psychedellic ambient noises and of course I will use it as a modulator signal for my vocoder. The synth was already introduced live with only two modules on a concert with Mørk Skog last december. You can hear some of its noises in my newest song, which is a tribute to the great dark ambient act Endvra.

    I'd like to share another new song, it was made with a turntable and a mixing console without any external or internal effects, but this is the most violent noise track, which I've been ever created. It was recorded 100% live. The technique and the sounds are remiscent of the first NON tracks. The story of my instrument for this song, that I had to buy an old, but as yet working turntable for non-musical pourposes, so it was sentenced to death. That's why I decided to make some experiments, before I disassamble it. Here's the result, play it loud!

    We wish you a blessed Christmas!




    I have uploaded two songs, which I have made especially for Christmas. The first one is from 2008, it is the first part of an interpretation of Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium and were released on a homemade CDR three years ago (Adam Berces - BWV.248). I have rearranged the first, the third and the sixth part of Bach's masterpiece. This is the very beginning of part I, titled "Jauchzet, frohlocket...":



    The second is from Mørk Skog's self titled EP, which was released last christmas, in 2010. It is also based on a Bach piece, however the fidelity to the original notes are lower. It is titled Heilige Macht:



    I already have plans for 2012, and I also got materials to release. The long-waited debut album of my self-titled project and of course Kraschau will be released on the beginning of the year and we will also release a special split album with Mørk Skog.

    Rivetril live show

    My electropunk/EBM band with József Ottucsák (Vespiary) will play live in Budapest on the beginning of December!

    Ottucsák Józseffel (Vespiary) alapított elektropunk/EBM zenekarunk a tavaly szeptemberi, Szegedi koncert után ismét fellép ezúttal Budapesten, a Batcave! rendezvény keretein belül!

    A zenekarunk története pár szóban: A Rivetrilt 2009-ben alapította Ottucsák József és Bérces Ádám azzal a céllal, hogy feltámassza/meghonosítsa a hazánkban már évtizedek óta nem létező (illetve a BTK kivételével soha nem is létezett) elektropunk-EBM stílust. Az első pár koncerten sok alkohollal, minimalista, egy-egy basszusmentből és dobból álló zenével és persze vokálokkal adták elő a Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft munkáira emlékeztető számaikat, amelyek között már ekkor is fellelhetőek voltak a kultikus német zenekar dalai (Der Mussolini, Kebabträume). Ez azonban hamar unalmassá vált így elkezdtek a technikásabb electro-industrial/EBM vonal felé húzni (pl. Front 242, Front Line Assembly) azonban az eredeti, hagyományos punkos mentalitás megtartásával. Ezt erősítette a külföldi EBM feldolgozások mellett magyar punk klasszikusok újraértelmezése is (CPg, ETA, SKAnzelizé), amelyek nyomán megszületett a zenekar stílusának új neve: Electro Body Punk!

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    New Mørk Skog album/Upcoming show

    I am happy to announce, that the new casette release of Mørk Skog titled 'Nachtlieder' has arrived from Japan to our mailorder and they are available for 1000 HUF/4 EUR! Tracklisting and other info are available on the Discogs page of the release!

    I will play live the music of the new album (and songs from other releases as well) on the next Saturday, on the birthday party of my friend, Gelka (who is a concert organiser in the hungarian scene). More details on the Facebook event page.

    You can order the release with this form or you can also get your copy on the concert!

    Video for "Egység és Rend (Unity and Order)" by Avenico DM



    Avenico made a wonderful video for a song from the upcoming album
    with footages of the spanish civil war.

    More information: http://www.gradualhate.info/news_kraschau.htm

    Offenbarung

    The first album of Kraschau will be released soon with the collaboration of the argenitnian label Twilight Records and the spanish label Gradual Hate! It will contain nine tracks with strict martial, but also melodic neoclassical music in the spirit of war, order, discipline and the tradition.


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