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short, fast & loud #24 Lightening fast hyper thrash with lunatic high-pitched snotty vocals from these German freaks. Twenty-five tracks that blow by in no time at all. This demands repeated flips for sure! Loads of catchy hooks and a few heavy-ish breaks but mainly you're looking at barrage after barrage of high quality blitzkrieg fastcore. Well-written lyrics that rail against conformity, racism, stereotypes, gender roles, grandpa's death camp oven and those ever-pesky rednecks playing guitar solos. Hand assembled cover and a really nice booklet with all the lyrics all printed in English and German. This album is definitely a DIY as fuck production and it's a fucking keeper! |
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profane existence #24 Punk, not rock. That’s how KELLERASSELN describes themselves and I would say it is very fitting. I welcome that description of them as this is a very hard album to pin down and make comparisons of. KELLERASSELN play hardcore punk, no metal, no thrash, no crust, no rock. Punk. They are hyper fast, guitars have fairly thin distortion and the vocals are kind of a nasally, screechy, shout. Sometimes they remind me of WASTED YOUTH but that is really a stretch and perhaps not very fair. Any info I can find about them online is relatively empty and not much help. However, I did learn that have been at it for 15 years! There are pictures of them playing European squats, they do, after all, call Germany home. They deliver their brand of punk in their native tongue but I was happy to see they had English translations in the accompanying booklet as well as explanations of each song. KELLERASSELN tackle such topics as gender roles, capitalism, patriotism, judgments within the punk scene and Nazism (more on that in a minute). Booze Song questions the importance of alcohol abuse in the punk scene while not promoting a straight-edge stance. This is a topic I feel close to as I struggle to go drink free (8 months!). My Oven addresses the manufacturing and efficiency of the gas ovens used to exterminate Jews in WWII. This is an interesting and fresh angle to address the atrocities the Nazi’s committed and the "just following orders" mindset. Coped w/ History addresses the attempts of their fellow Germans to forget about the past of their country and the deaths of six million Jews, sinti, Romans and others by trying to equalize the holocaust by emphasizing the air raids of the allies on Dresden and the displacement of Germans post WWII. Pretty heavy duty stuff here kids. In summary, the music is good, not great, but their message is very cutting while tackling standard punk topics but also asks the punk community to look in the mirror. Overall very fresh, empowering and inspiring! |
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profane existence This is the first record I've ever seen that came with flash cards! Kellerasseln are a three piece outfit from the land of Wagner and bier and play ultra-fast, trashy hardcore that sort of reminds me of Yanke Wuss. Kellerasseln even throw in some face-melting grind and slow melodic breakdowns for good measure. Fuck, it's a lot to take in at once. The lyrics are printed on the above mentioned flash cards with English translations/explanations and are a sort of regional social commentary, but I think their message can apply to everyone. Being that Kellerasseln are from Germany, they write about the German people and how some try to deny the past. They elaborate on how racism and anti-Semitism are woven through the fabric of German politics and how active people are working to combat those attitudes. The packaging is as eclectic as the music, I've never seen a sleeve done this way before. It's cardstock wrapped in a strip of pressed tissue paper and over that is a full-color photo of a flower. This is a brutally sensitive record, if one could say that. Get it. |
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heartattack Hell yeah, this is some thrashy three chord punk. This is rod cuz they put a lot of effort in, the cover has the name printed on a paper towel and there's an actual photo of a cactus flower surrounded by thorns. The songs are really tight and well played, and the lyrics are in German and English on 5x7" cards with a bunch of weird images. The things they sing about are relevant questions and statements about the world we inhabit, like redneck sexist returning under guise of punk, nationalism in Germany, futility of hating a figure head like bush while the death march carries on no matter whose in control, among others. Good stuff. Eleven songs and a good use space for expression. An awesome self release from these thoughtful Germans. |
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darken before storm zine No, this is not another bad streetpunk band as the bandname suggests. No, here we have eleven songs of fast and furious punk with political lyrics from Germany. I really like the lyrics who are short and simple, here's an example: punk not rock "the hero is back with the guitar in his hand / flame shirt and guitar solo / blond haired women in front of red cars / music for hard men / soundtrack for the rebellion after work / music which doesn't affect anyone / so that everything will stay as it is." They're in german but there's a english translation for every song and also a short explanation. The piece of plastic comes in a cool and well done sleeve while the songtitles are printed on green toilet paper. Cool! |
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maximum rock'n roll zine Eleven tracks of one-dimensional German trash featuring fast beats, power chord riffs, and barked vocals. The packaging is genius though, incorporating an actual photographic print, luxury toilet paper, and an individual postcard lyric sheet for each song, with English translations and brief explanations. |
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short, fast & loud zine this is a walloping dose of face mauling fastcore and thrash from germany. its great to see more kellerasseln come to light after their blazing debut ep. tight with raging speed, their 7 tracks race by in maybe 4 mins. killer new stuff!! todschicker look like some beer guzzling GBH fans but their 3 songs are probably even faster than their german co conspirators. fucking ultra-light speed german hardcore punk, this shit mutilates! |
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heartattack zine Both bands manage to play boring, uninspired German punk/hardcore/grind. I didn't enjoy listening to this due to the fact that it was just not good at all. |
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slug & lettuce zine Sometimes split records can be so confusing. Both bands are German - and both bands sing all their lyrics in German (no translations provided). The confusion comes from the sleeve there's fotos and lyrics for one band (Todschicker - though it doesn't actually say that) and then there is a small fold out insert with more lyrics and that band's listed as Kellerasseln. It just seems a bit uneven. This is straight-forward lo-fi punkrock with a clean guitar sound and raging energy and speed. Both bands have a similar sound. Todschicker have 3 songs and Kellerasseln have a bunch of shorter songs. But both bands trade between melody and catchiness and faster, trashy parts. And both have an overall similar sound and style. And both bands are good. But I'm not feeling anything overwhelming, though this is solid punk rock. |
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reason to believe zine Both German bands. Kellerasseln mix mid paced punk rythms with real fast grinding beats, I'd prefer them if they'd stay doing the more melodic side longer. 7 Songs in German with translations and explanations dealing with sexism, conformity, monotony and such other evils of our society. Their side even if it's fast still have a lot of punk feeling. I like it though. Todschicker from Dresden do 3 songs. I knew them from a split they released a while ago with a Peruvian band whose one member ripped me off and I wasn't too impressed by them. They sound way more punk, not as fast and agressive as their record partners, even sloppy sometimes but I like them when they don't play those weird breakouts, that's the way I am... Sing in German and even if there are no translations but I can tell you that they are not singing about love and flowers. |