TROOPS OF THE SUN - Rehearsal For Magdeburg 18.09.2021

OK folks, now rare stuff by Troops Of The Sun which you can't buy or stream or anything like that... The band was formed after the fatal end of Serene Fall and basically picks up where it left off. No wonder, first as Carrows which made a demo and shortly thereafter renamed Troops. Parallels to the early days of Serene Fall are undeniable. The current line-up consists of Maul (vocals/guitars), Lumpi (guitars), Eddie (bass), Uli (drums) and they made one album (2019) and one 12Inch (2021). Stylistically, the four move in a dark, melancholic, almost epic sound and tell stories that are mostly unfunny and develop a real affection with hymn-like choral passages. Because all the shit around us that we face on a daily basis, makes us angry and tired, and the band manages to pound it in your face with terrifying clarity. Life doesn't mean pretending and always swallowing shit, NO! ... Life means standing by yourself and representing your ideals, regardless of the losses. And sometimes it takes bands like this to remind us not to be or become an Asshole.

Troops Of The Sun/Prophets/Youth Of Today/All Down/Circles/Vigilante/To Feed The Heart/Nova/Raining/Silenced Teenager

- Big Thx to iNgo -

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VERBRANNTE ERDE - Chrrr!!! 1998

Out of the ruins of the D-Punk combo Deutschlands Erben formed Ingo (vocals), Mischa (guitars), Eddi (bass), Jens (drums) in 1995 Verbrannte Erde and the four move in the dark, melancholic punkrock area which became typical of the band. Their style can best be compared with that of L.S.K., Serene Fall and EA80, with whom the band has played numerous gigs. In 1996 the first tape, Traurig Aber Wahr, was released, followed by their first EP a year later and up to date, they released four Longplayers, two EPs plus a live split album. As already mentioned, the four prefer largely dark minor sounds with personal & thoughtful words that I like very much and partly reflect my inner being, but why I only have this one album is quickly explained. The singing bothers me a little and doesn't captivate me as much as with the other bands. And for me, the voice has to fit just as well as the music, I'm demanding in all things. For the first album, very good and enjoyable!

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SERENE FALL - Silent Word 10'' 2015

I've already told a lot about Serene Fall, a gifted band from M'gladbach, founded as four piece, disbanded as three about four years. Silent World is the last record, released via Major Label in an edition of 500 copies. Four songs, all great and I remember, when I first heard the title track, Maul gave me a demo many years ago with damn good songs and Silent World was one of them, back as four recorded at the end of the 90s, I guess, I was immediately impressed and urged him to put the song on vinyl (as well as Just Friends but Udo didn't want that) and five years ago the masterpiece was finally immortalized as flip on this fantastic 10". I think, it wasn't easy to record this twelve minute piece with just one guitar but Maul (vocals/guitars), Udo (bass), Uli (drums) made the best of it and is one of the best songs by the band in my opinion. After their breakup, Maul and Uli continued as Carrows who released their demo as an EP this year, also on Major Label, 50 copies, and now active as Troops Of The Sun, their debut To Feed The Heart was released last year.

I re-upped all Serene Fall stuff before you ask because I know they would come. Enjoy!

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SERENE FALL - Audrey Rose 7'' 2001

By request; one more Serene Fall stuff and this is their last 7Inch as four piece (Maul (vocals/guitars), Rainer (guitars), Udo (bass) & Nico (drums). On this record they show passion for old science fiction/horror movies and contrary to what we are used to, they play refreshingly snotty punk here. Audrey Rose is a 1977 psychological horror drama and one of the most boring films I've ever seen, absolutely unspectacular and really stupid. Eve Of War starts with an intro from the 1953 movie The War Of The Worlds, written by H.G. Wells, one of my favorite authors, and this film is an absolute classic (the time machine as well) and I've seen these impressive pictures over ten times, and receives my high acclaim and if you don't seen it, you know what to do! And before any further questions about re-upps arise, all is done... Cheers! 

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V/A - Geschichten Aus Der Zwischenzeit 1999

Gude Morsche liebe Gemeinde and welcome on this wonderful sunny day off. I start postin' today with musical delicacy from the land of poets and thinkers. Romantic, melancholic masterpieces of literature, painting, art and of course music were here created. And that we can still do such nuggets is demonstrated by this splendid compilation, the first release from the Sturmhöhe label, and there are seventeen of them. The Créme De La Créme of gloomy bands has gathered to set real feelings to music, to reflect on yourself, to allow dark times and still enjoy life. Most of them are exclusive tracks to my knowledge and unfortunately not released as vinyl. Nun denn, enjoy the music, also suitable for non-German speakers and search for more slabs from the bands in the blog.

1.Für Mich - VERBRANNTE ERDE

2.Sternenleichen - FLIEHENDE STÜRME

3.Re-Missing - SERENE FALL

4.Time... - HUMAN TIMEBOMB

5.Ausgangsziel - TRISTESSE

6.Zerstörung - PETER FIELD

7.Wait - WANK

8.Stella - DIE BLUMEN DES BÖSEN

9.Schwarz - L.S.K.

10.Höllengott - SUBSTANCE OF DREAM

11.Dosentod - KRANKHEIT DER JUGEND

12.Trust - SERENE FALL

13.Asche & Stein - L.S.K.

14.R.+J. - VERBRANNTE ERDE

15.Techno Plastik Love Affair - WANK

16.Toter Winkel - DIE BLUMEN DES BÖSEN

17.Down - HUMAN TIMEBOMB

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SERENE FALL - The Long March 1999

Open up November, the month I hate most, with this excellent example of melancholy gloomy punk nugget, Serene Fall are for me at the top of all and after their great '92er debut Oh My Prophet Oh My Liar I asked Maul on every gig when finally comes the second sun and he always told me the shots are in the box but the search for a label was difficult, and since I already knew some songs from the '95 demo I could hardly believe it because there are some of their best songs on it which made it to part on the second album. So the young Major Label realized the potential of the band and seized the opportunity and brought the masterpiece at last to the people. You can imagine how happy my heart was when the CD was in my hands, promptly inserted and the long wait was worth it. Thirteen amazing, sometimes very personal, stars flashing down on you and wrap yourself in a thoughtful coat and take you to the darker side of life. The last album with a four line-up: Nico (drums), Udo (bass), Rainer (guitars), Maul (voice & guitars). Further pieces which didn't make it on vinyl I put together on this little compilation called Rares & Demos 1994-2008. Get in and travel for a while!

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TUNNELANGST - 180 BPM [Tape] 1997

Here's a fine tape from Herborn's Tunnelangst (which means "Fear Of Tunnels") and I remember them very well because the manager is a good friend of mine and singer Heini is a real charmin' man, this also applies to the whole band. I organized a gig together with Serene Fall in September 1998 and this evening's still remembered to this day. Sorry for delete the live recordings, always annoys me when I think back. Tunnelangst play punk in the classic british style of the early 80's, leather jackets, lots of alcohol, iros, and songs against all the wrongs of the world. Oh yeah, their scary looking singer (Heini had a iro as big as the fair tower) is also the model for the "Knuddelpunk 2" picture record. They were present on both "Sieger Sehen Anders Aus" compilations and in 1997 they released their full length CD on United Kids Records called "Gepflegte Szene" with fifteen heart attacks. Shortly after the band broke up due to musical differences, a few members founded the Rotten Bastards (Hardcore pur!) to put their musical outpourings into your bloody ears. This tape here contains both demos which they recorded 1996 or 1997 and has eight offensive punk trashers in German/English. Haut Rein!

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SERENE FALL - Demoband 1995

Starting to rip a few tapes last week and the beginning makes Serene Fall from Mönchengladbach with their demo tape from 1995. Seven melancholy punk songs we have here, partly unpublished and with "Just Friends" is one of their greatest songs on it. I remember, I get the tape after a gig in Gladbach and while driving home to Frankfurt it ran constantly (a miracle that it even still runs today). The band started as a four piece band as Mine, Ether Command in the late 80's, changed their name into My Eden Dies and it ends up as Serene Fall. To date, they have three albums and two singles out and after a long pause they shrunk to three. On the tape you can hear how important a second guitar is and for me is their sound much better as today. They had not found any useful musician, and so they go to third. Serene Fall is at home in punk with a strong dark touch and funny songs are different you know, very personally lyrics and Maul's remarkable voice is the best for this kind of music. - Enough babble, enjoy grandiose music from a small band and have a nice weekend!!!!

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V/A - Where The Wild Things Are II 1998

Hallo everybody, I'm fresh again and now 2017 will be opened with an international tape compilation which was a supplement by the Sabbel Fanzine, a German Heftschä and I have the chance to get in touch with the maker personally at the end of the 90s at a gig in Mönchengladbach, when Serene Fall played there and he did an interview with the band and I was also mentioned in the zine because he ask me too and it was a great session, thanks for this! At the beginning there was always a selfmade tape with punk from all over the world within and I have two from that, later was a CD enclosed because it's easier. Here now 90 minutes of cool rare punk compiled in loving artwork and much of what I did not know at that time and maybe even today hardly anyone knows.

1.??? - CEKTOR GAZA

2.Bazil - ATHENA

3.En(feliz)a-te - ALCOORE

4.Spase Tä Grammä - PANX ROMANA

5.Útok Na Spieu Hitparady - ZÓNA A

6.Gore Doctore - GORE DOCTORE

7.Blame It - BLITZ BABIEZ

8.Don't Be A Slag - DIRTY PICTURES

9.Ecologia Humana - BRIGADA SUBTERRANEA

10.Vita Lögner - CHARLES HARFAGER

11.Faut Pas S'y Fier (Live) - PKRK

12.Lentäjän Poika - NE LUUMÄET

13.Leena On Liimanhaistaga - NE LUUMÄET

14.I Told You So - JON COUGAR CONCENTRATION CAMP

15.Ja Sam Te Ludo Volio - KUD IDIJOTI

16.Züri Brännt - TNT

17.Evolucao Atrasada - FOGO CRUZADO

18.Nerozjizdet - E!E

19.Som Ett Löv - ASBEST

20.Maniaque - LEGITIME DEFONCE

21.Nema Vise... - HLADNO PIVA

22.Terrorize - GANG GREEN

23.First Strike - HATES

24.Nie Znosze Was - POST REGIMENT

25.Mopolla Suohon - KLAMYDIA

26.Hekpo§n&nr - GRAZHDANSKAYA OBORONA

27.Parasit - COSA NOSTRA

28.Radeci Alarm - RACIJA

29.Clutter From The Gutter - ANHREFN & MARGI CLARKE

30.Scheiss Kibarei - THE WAY

31.Le Mutant - LES IMBIBES

32.Dnesní Den - KRITIKÁ SITUACE

33.Bloqueo - LA POLLA RECODS

34.The Bitch - THE BOLLOCKS

35.Ein Tag An Meinem Fenster (Live) - EA80

36.Fader Sol - SVART SNÖ

37.Radiation Masturbation - AUTHORITIES

38.Idegenek Az Ejszakában - AURORA

39.Külmale Maale - J.M.K.E.

40.Krig & Fred - STREBERS

41.Fri - ASTA KASK

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V/A - Cannabis Weekend 1995

Let's start June with a nice German compilation with a heavy funny title and almost all twenty-one songs of course deal with pot smoking or goes with it. Except Serene Fall and they were the reason I must bought this CD. 'Faces' is one of the best songs from the Gladbach band and only here released in their original four piece line-up. It's about bad feelings which eat yourself and go into the mark, stay there because it can't goes worse, know what I mean?... let's see for yourself - The record is a very good mix of alternative/punk goodies, my favorites are the unforgotten Bates, Three O'Clock Heroes, Tote Hosen, Rausch and Fitt Band Experience. Ca 80% exclusive tunes on Dope Records.
A perfect opener for sunny days or.... ?

1.The Deal - AG HANF 
2.All Shut Up - THREE O'CLOCK HEROES 
3.Gute Reise - DIE TOTEN HOSEN 
4.Warten - TIEFLADER 
5.Lazy - FITT BAND EXPERIENCE 
6.Witness - AG HANF 
7.Begreife Deine Wirklichkeit - KALTE ZEITEN 
8.Zuviel - LEMON 8 
9.Heo - THE BATES 
10.Rollerskates On Ice - THROW THAT BEAT 
11.Marc's Kochstudio - PHASE IV 
12.Stoned Faces Don't Lie - ANDREAS DORAU 
13.Looser - M.WALKING ON WATER 
14.Holiday From Myself - RAUSCH 
15.The Cops - AG HANF 
16.Faces - SERENE FALL 
17.Paint - 2 BAD 
18.Envy - GUNJAH 
19.Reggae Music - OUTASPACE 
20.Homecoming - AG HANF 
21.Mit Einem Bein - HIGHZUNG

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L.S.K. - Momente 12'' 2000

This 12'' is the last release and I think their best one. LSK means bombshelter and they sound once again rough and strong with somber thoughtful lyrics, each slab a unique masterpiece in my opinion. Too bad this band no longer exists but they carry on as Die Angst. Influences by EA80 from Mönchengladbach is inaudible and they do it very fine, No cheap copy!!! They celebrate heavy driving gloomy punk nuggets and do that superb. Founded in the mid 90's near Berlin L.S.K. released their first Longplayer in 1997 which is a pretty gloomy sort album with excellent songs and its a mandatory album for everyone who likes EA80, Serene Fall, Fliehende Stürme, etc.. - Buy their debut if you doubt. Also live the band was mercilessly blown me away and a subsequent table football game was crazy fun, sympathetic guys. As a small bonus I added a live cut from that evening in Mannheim which was in 2000. Brilliant stuff.

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SERENE FALL - Demos 2003

Considering that their last record is already four years ago and this autumn their new 10'' Silent World comes out on Major Label I thought it's time to post some partially unreleased demos of my favorite dark punk band from Mönchengladbach (would a pity if they were going to die in nothingness). Serene Fall create once again the balancing act of aggressive melancholy songs, which always held personally, and fascinate. The sound is quite good and here yet as four piece combo: Maul (vox + guitars), Udo (bass), Nico (drums) and Rainer (guitar) and the 2nd guitar is clearly noticeable what the songs even more power gives, meanwhile they have shrunk to three members. Serene Fall is music I can always put in. Don't know who this send in but you have my frank thanks. Who wants/needs more stuff I recommend to use the search option top left.

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ALTERNATIVE - In Nomine Patri EP 1982

Last one for today because I'm in a hurry for Serene Fall/Klotzs tonight in Exzess so I stolen the info from PunkyGibbon (forgive me): "These Scottish anarcho punks first surfaced with the poppiest (and by far best) cut on 1981's execrable Bullshit Detector. “Change It’, lifted from their demo, was a pretty crap song, but it had a tune and the whole LP was so miserable that even this innocuous ditty sounded good. So, having released their first recording via Crass, they spent the rest of their career being compared to them. By the time of the In Nomine Patri EP, they had a second guitarist - Dougie McHale (Actives) - and Wilf had been replaced by Gordon 'Gogs' Smith. With the addition of another vocalist (Linda 'Linger' Rotherham) they then shared a split cassette with Dirt and Reality Control (Live 23.10.82 The Bunker), and underwent more lineup changes. The new band released If They Treat You Like Shit - Act Like Manure, an LP which is considered an anarcho punk classic. They split in 1986 after recording more demos with yet more personnel revisions."

- Special Thx to Fredrik -

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SERENE FALL - Rares & Demos 1994-2008

Since I find no sleep again so I gladden you now with a special cream pie for all my true followers (or not), dark punkrockers and all the other revelers in Europe. All the pieces here are 90% unpublished (in these versions) because there are rehearsal recordings, outtakes, demos or songs that can't be found on their website. Lovingly compiled by me and my special thanks go to Maul, singer (EA80 guitar) who sent me these rare cuts and make this compilation possible. After more than ten years ago their third CD is out and we can be grateful that Serene Fall go ahead because several reshuffles forced the band almost to the final resolution. But now they're back and the new album is quite brilliant and brings us with their melancholy mood through the winter and Maul's expressive voice gives every song a special touch, download is a must! And if you don't know the music here's my invitation.

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SERENE FALL - Oh My Prophet, Oh My Liar 1992

This record we both listen often to, the debut album from Serene Fall. A brilliant mix of melancholic and fast songs, accompanied by Maul's distinctive voice. Many concerts seen and unforgotten as a four-band combo. Their last album was released in 2010 and is still good but the harmonic guitars plus the drumming here are just mature and give the songs more charm. For this plate I came more by chance. I rummaged in this record store and out of the speakers came that sound, I immediately asked the record-man, and after short look at the cover I grabbed the disc immediately. At home, then the disc ran up and down and so I became an avid fan of this combo. It's tedious to get to one of their concerts because they play not much in a year and I'm not longer mobile and I hate to use the train. Well, a few times I've seen them and it was beautiful every time. Be laid to everybody's heart and perfect for sad moments, here you will get the necessary thrust to continue. Great album!!!

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