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 Weissglut:How often does a band succeed from a grandiose performance on a successful follow-up album that is always different? There are only a few artists who show this thrust of the outstretched middle finger, about conventions, drawers and prejudices, jumps over themselves and carries out something really large, something that always has stability.WEISSGLUT were for many fans and medium representatives a Newcomer with their debut "Etwas kommt in deine Welt" in 1998. Never before had a group so fated with emotions and juggling hardness create for themsleves a complete niche of their own. The expectated attitudes, which rest on the second album "Zeichen", were accordingly high. In addition, in 2000, WEISSGLUT presented themselves in a new robe. When the Band separated from their singer Josef Maria Klumb at the end of of 1998, it hung for a short moment in a state of suspense. It had been the necessary step, to replace Frontman, to that the climate within the group by partly conscious, sometimes however only pure provocation serving expressions that left. On a human level WEISSGLUT and J.K. had lived apart. But J.K. was on the other hand; "Etwas kommt in deine Welt" with his strong singing had strongly taken shape. He lived in the texts and radiated an emotional depth, about which almost all other singers can only dream. Almost all. . . Because his successor Tom v. K. easily clears all doubts. He controls it in just an impressing way to lend to his Lyrics a dimension which lets each word become alive, a depth, which one, touched by the internal one which is above all: authentic. But Tom still has more to offer: more Rock'n'Roll in the voice, more dirt, more road. And that is exactly it, which WEISSGLUT needed from "Zeichen". The music is directed toward the point, and a Song like the rapid 'Siehst du die Zeichen', Toms predecessor would have never functioned. The same applies also to the halfacoustic 'Du hast die Wahl' with its dark beauty and the binding single uncoupling 'In mir'. These are Songs, with which itself the Band over all the clichés, with which they were endowed in the past, jump over and revealed a new page. WEISSGLUT are not afraid, the influences, which come on "Etwas kommt in deine Welt" in the background remained to get forward and mix with their trademarks, which remain further dominant on "Zeichen" also. The dark, unseizablly mystic, the gap between hope, despair and rage is still from physical operational readiness level. Songs like 'Tanz der Sinne' and 'Meine Liebe ist rot' kindle a vortex, which pulls you into another world. From this develops a completely new balance, which shows WEISSGLUT multidimensionally and even still more fascinatingly, so that "Zeichen" becomes an album, which will never release you again. -Joe 11/01 More at: No site available at this time. |
