Landser (band)
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The band recorded its music in Germany, but had the CDs manufactured abroad, mainly in the U.S. and Canada. The music is distributed by underground dealers or purchased from music labels inside the United States and in some countries in Europe where this music is legal.
In Germany, the group has been deemed a criminal organization. Three members of Landser were convicted of forming a criminal gang organization in December of 2003 under laws that make the publication of neo-Nazi materials a crime in Germany. Two members received nearly two years probation, while the band's leader, Michael "Luni(koff) Regener, was sentenced to more than three years in prison. On March 10, 2005, Germany's highest court (the German Constitutional Court) rejected Regener's appeal of his sentence.
Michael "Luni(koff)" Regener is still producing CDs. In 2004 he founded a band called "The Lunikoff Verschwörung" (the Lunikoff conspiracy). He made 2 CDs: 2004: Die Rückkehr des Unbegreiflichen 2005: Lunikoff Verschwörung - Niemals auf Knien
In March 2005, Lunikoff was sentenced again to 3 years and 4 months in prison. It was the first time in German music history that a band was outlawed.
They have performed only 1 public live concert, wearing masks. They performed some non-public concerts in restaurants in Berlin, Germany.
Their first CD was called Das Reich kommt wieder (engl. The Reich Will Rise Again). Other Landser albums include Ran an den Feind, (engl. Get the Enemy), where the title song -- a punk-rock remake of the 1940 German military march "Bomben auf England" -- calls for the bombing of Israel. Other tunes glorify one of Adolf Hitler’s top aides, Rudolf Hess, and, in Opa war Sturmführer (engl. Grandpa was a Sturmführer ), pay tribute to a grandfather who was a Nazi SS officer.
Landser is an old German word for a low-ranking foot soldier or private.
In August 1999 seven neo-nazis struck two Vietnamese, singing "Fidschi, Fidschi, Gute Reise" (engl. "Vietnamese, Vietnamese, good journey"). Their music is against Blacks ("Afrika-Lied" "Africa-song"), Polish ("Polackentango"), Turkish ("Wiedermal kein Tor für Türkiyemspor" "no Goal for Türkiyemspor"(a Berlin soccer club with Turkish players) and communists ("10 kleine Kommi Schweine" "10 little commie pigs"). In these songs they call for killing, arresting and striking foreigners, especially Blacks, Russians(Mainly Neo-Bolsheviks or Communist sympathizers), Polish, Vietnamese, Turkish and Jews.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landser_(Band)
Discography
- Landser: Lunikoff Demo '92, ~1992, MC/later CD.
- Landser: Das Reich kommt wieder, 1992, MC/later CD, forbidden.
- Landser: Republik der Strolche, 1995, MC/CD, forbidden.
- Landser: Berlin bleibt deutsch, 1996, CD (identical with "Das Reich kommt wieder", Bootleg) indiziert
- Landser: Deutsche Wut, 1998, CD (called "Rock gegen oben"), forbidden.
- Landser: Best of..., 2001, CD. forbidden since October 2005.
- Landser, Stahlgewitter, Hauptkampflinie (HKL): Amalek -forbidden
- Landser: Ran an den Feind, 2001 CD
- Sampler, 2001, CD, forbidden.
- Landser: Endlösung - Final Solution: The Early Years, 2002, CD. - forbidden
- Tanzorchester Immervoll, 2002, CD.
- Rock gegen ZOG - hepp, hepp..., 2003, CD.
- Tribute to Landser, 2003, CD.
See also
See also Die Lunikoff Verschwörung - Regener's nickname is Lunikoff and he has made several records under this name.
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