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Columbia Hall, Berlin, Germany
30th March 2008
Unheilig, Down Below, goJA moon ROCKAH

The wait is over. At the end of February 2008, UNHEILIG will finally release their new album ‘Puppenspiel’, which is - thematically - the consequent continuation of what has begun with the last album ‘Moderne Zeiten’. Again DER GRAF (the count) dedicates himself to the human concerns and needs, often referred to autobiographic events from the past and the present and transfers it to the world of puppetry. The puppetry as a special form of acting was a very special challenge for DER GRAF on this conceptual album. He is able to play both, the part of the puppet master, who acts on the story and the part of the animated artefact, which is staged and bound to rigid mechanisms.

UNHEILIG also deals with the complete bandwidth of puppetry. Elements of the ancient are used, the archaic presentation of heaven and hell, good and evil of the medieval age, the romanticism of the 19th century and from the educational staging. In comparison to the previous album UNHEILIG took a lot more time for the details and doesn't leave anything to chance. Content-wise, production-wise as well as optical, ‘Puppenspiel’ is clearer than ever. The guitars are more present than ever before, the voice is more thrilling and more punchy and the overall picture much clearer than before. Never before, UNHEILIG presented a comparable musical bandwidth. ‘Puppenspiel’ is a sincere, honest and straight album that combines bass, beat and guitar driven songs and breathtaking, emotional ballads. Over all those things like the different lyrical and musical elements, which never get caught in a corset of practicability stands the distinctive voice of the count and adds the definite and unique note to the album. Curtains up!!!

DOWN BELOW - The 4 musicians from Dessau (Sachsen/Anhalt) are rather an insider. The mystic, the ambivalent is a mean of style, which the band likes to use and it gets clearer from their band identity: Neo Scope (Vocals), Carter (Guitar), Convex (Bass) und Mr. Mahony (Drums). For Scope those characters provide a shield function. It is a completely different being, a different life. It is an outlet for a normal life. One is much more excessive. DOWN BELOW live out this excess of musical creation. On ‘Sinfony 23’, they create a blend of Pop, Rock and Gothic explains Neo Scope, mystic and aesthetic. That somehow comes together here, the connection of beautiful melodies, catchiness and after all a bitter message that’s within. DOWN BELOW love the equivocation. The combination of two counterparts or differences to an enigmatic and intoxicating, clarifies Neo Scope with the album title as an example. ‘Sinfony 23’ is a word play as well: Sin, Symphony and 23 the number of the foundations of life, 23 chromosome pairs which define a human being. DOWN BELOW create themselves, they create a whole new world, and their world. They are DOWN BELOW.

Details for the concert
Date: 30th March 2008
Venue: Columbia Hall, Berlin, Germany
Doors open:  8:00 PM
Starts: 9:00 PM
Ticket fee: 19.50 EUR + charges (Presale)
Tickets are available at: http://www.trinityconcerts.de/

Band Homepages: http://www.unheilig.com/ / http://www.downbelow.de/ / http://www.faq-music.com/

Source: Press Release

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