Factory, Magdeburg, Germany8th November 2008
Oomph!, All Ends
Even in Music it’s hard to please everyone. There are the ones who want to stick to the roots and the once who demand a development. Award winning band OOMPH! freed themselves from all this expectations and perhaps that’s why they managed to merge both worlds with their tenth, once again self-produced album ‘Monster’. “We deliberately retreated and indulged ourselves in the necessary muse, because we wanted our anniversary album to become a matured work and no rush job.” Explains guitarist Flux, so the band was resisting the urge to swiftly enter the studio, because of the TV performance at this year’s Bundesvision Song Contest. “Last year’s winning was a great thing for us and we would have loved to already present our new album at Stefan Raab’s show, but as we place much value on the production it would have meant a loss of quality and that wasn’t acceptable for us.” Crap points out.
Once more singer Dero proves that intelligent social criticism is hidden behind the provocative appearing lyrics. So the charismatic front man whose voice has largely developed over the years deals with the fashion mania ‘Wer schön sein will muss leiden’ and with the still real and current AIDS risk. Furthermore he deals with his favourite topic: The human psyche in imaginative metaphors on songs like ‘Labyrinth’, ‘6 Fuss tiefer’ and ‘Lass mich raus’ - just one reason why the album title ‘Monster’ is so befitting. “It’s very ambiguous, you can relate it to such monsters like the kidnapper of Natasha Kampusch or the incest father of Amstetten who imprisoned and raped his daughters for years, but it also can have a positive meaning i.e. A monster album like this one” he says.
Starting in autumn, OOMPH! will be on touring in support of the new album and in November they’ll stop at the factory in Magdeburg. Who wants to be there can get the tickets at all known booking offices.
Additional Concert Info
Doors open: 7:00 PM
Starts: 8:00 PM
Tickets are also available online at http://www.eventim.de/ or http://www.kartenhaus.de/
Source: Press Release
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