Megaherz

MEGAHERZ digging deeper into their inner world! More emotional than ever before! MEGAHERZ have lit their fractious fire over and over in the last 25 years! With "Komet" these five friends dig deeper into their inner world – more emotional than ever before. Massive Neue Deutsche Härte-riffs and colorful synth-melodies tumble into a vortex of pain and loss and the intangibility of society's ignorance. Less fantasy, more questioning: "Who makes the difference?" ["Wer macht den Unterschied?"], they ask in “Heldengrab” as they hunt for responsibility in times that are often grey. For the first time MEGAHERZ showcase political songs like "Horrorclown" or "Nicht in meinem Namen". Between all these black stars we need courage; To find peace… even if there is no time to mourn the past. "Von oben" manages this with poignant lines - a song for the late father of guitarist Christian "X-ti" Bystron. "Komet" deals with honesty.

Gloomy riffs, catchy grooves and choruses that resurrect a flair of "The Walking Dead" - welcome to ZOMBIELAND! In the realm of the undead, there’s only one who rules: MEGAHERZ singer Alex "Lex" Wohnhaas, acting as a zombie hunter and specialist for melodramatic songs that scrump souls of fans. With Lex at the epicenter of a metaphysical bustle, ZOMBIELAND sounds like the epitome of Rock music that has become awake. As sensitive and intelligent as his lyrics are, they are also so magical and eerie, which is showcased on the new songs: MEGAHERZ are back - stronger than ever - and prove with ZOMBIELAND that they are still among the most exciting and leading German rock bands in recent years!

The group Megaherz was founded in 1993, the year. As planned, this would be something different from the «New German Wave» and «Bewildered Krautrock», but certainly with German lyrics. At the name of the group affected by such factors as the group Megadeth and nightmares inspired by one of the songs of German folk group Herzilein, whose name means "small heart". It was agreed that the group name should be exactly «Megaherz», especially as its motto - «Hard, But With A Heart!».

What might have been simply seen as an agreeable enough debut album has since become something of a notorious legend because Kraftwerk, or more accurately the core Hütter/Schneider duo at the heart of the band, simply refuses to acknowledge its existence any more. What's clearly missing from Kraftwerk is the predominance of clipped keyboard melodies that later versions of the band would make their own. Instead, Kraftwerk is an exploratory art rock album with psych roots first and foremost, with Conny Plank's brilliant co-production and engineering skills as important as the band performances. Still, Hütter and Schneider play organ and "electric percussion" – Hütter's work on the former can especially be appreciated with the extended opening drone moan of the all-over-the-place "Stratovarius" combined with Schneider's eerie violin work. But it's a different kind of combination and exploration, with the key pop sugar (and vocal work) of later years absent in favor of sudden jump cuts of musique concrète noise and circular jamming as prone to sprawl as it is to tight focus.