MONDAY, 12.05.2008
I guess everybody stood up with some kind of melancholic vein this morning. Some of us left Leipzig in the early hours and tried heavily to surpress their exhaustion. This year for me everything was different, cause I stayed to watch some bands. That was bands I could have looked at at the last Wave Gotik Treffen, but didn’t. Now was the time.
The BLOODSUCKING ZOMBIES FROM OUTER SPACE opened and the Werk II suddenly was full. One glance at the stage showed why: into one row all musicians of this band were positioned. Including drums, of course, cause drummer Dead “Richy” Gein is not only founder, drummer and biggest fan of the BLOODSUCKING ZOMBIES FROM OUTER SPACE but also responsible for the vocals. With scary accessoires like severed arms at his instrument or open wounds in his face he and his band gave a rocking hell to the audience. Horrorpunk at it’s finest! It was fascinating to see how Dead Gein used his instrument – singing, drumming, posing. Only if you would have seen that, you can believe that this unusual line up works perfectly. 
Precise and grooving fills proved in any case that this guy is not overcharged. Ok, he didn’t play very complex rolls from a drummers theory book, but hey, this is horror punk! Rock’n Roll guys, and this band rocked! His colleagues Rev. Bloodbath, Mr. Evilize and Dr. Schreck did the rest to make everybody clear that this band is a cool one. Even when the big drum used a lot of the space on stage, the guys had something like show. Not so much movements like you are used to get from rock band, but there was a show and that rocked. However, BLOODSUCKING ZOMBIES FROM OUTER SPACE are a very funny band and prove that good horror punk can even come from such a beautyful city like Wien. Who likes fun, horror-trash and an entertaining evening should check out this facetious zombie-guys immediatly.
THE SPOOK was a bit dissapointing to me. In the twinkling of an eye the hall was a bit more empty. The aura of the band was a bit strange. It seems to say, that this day wasn’t a good day to play live. Maybe THE SPOOK doesn’t want to play such early. It was contrary to what happened before. However, the outfit of the selftitled grave-rocker was vrey nice. One of these guys looked like undead elvis presley with one metre high black hair. All the musicians where very sly. Some of the songs you would have remembered, they can been heared at several samplers. They are pushing forward, and the mix is straight and good too, but they couldn’t catch me. After a while I was bored. It was a strange feeling to me, cause I can’t find anything which could be called bad, but they simply didn’t rock to my ears. THE SPOOK was one of these bands i really wanted to see, but after expieriencing this left the hall and ate some sausages. Well, I am undead of course, but I was human before years and so I am driven by my likings. Mr. Freud knew that before years.
Nobody knows STELLAR CORPSES in germany. But in the US they are always on tour and I guess they are wellknown by everybody. This may be enough for an tour through germany thsi april. Of course they played at the Wave Gotik Treffen. STELLAR CORPSES are the long awaited new discovery of the Wave Gotik Treffen 2008. They have a contrabass, whos player looks like James Dean, a hurrican on the guitars (who seem to think that it isn’t necessary to keep the guitar constantly nearer to his body than 30cm), a damn good voice and a heavy and tight drummer. The rock’n roll of that people rocks like hell. 
Call it Psychobilly, Horrorbilly or whatever, STELLAR CORPSES are an unbelievable cool rock band. At the moment they unfortuneatly have released only one 6 track ep. I bought that, and what you hear there, you can see on stage. They dominate the scene like no others. This band is really excellent, have a very great and imposing show and at the Wave Gotik Treffen an incredible and excellent sound. Nobody who likes this genre should miss that band.
DER FLUCH ended this evening. Another scary rock band which had a gangster outfit from the 20ies and funny songs. They call them B-Movie songs, and they are right. Lyrics are as simple and straight forward as Night of the Living dead or other movies in that genre, and you simply have to smile about it. Even when the lyrics are so funny, the musicians presented everything in a serious manner and I really think they have done a very good job. 
If I would play in that band, I can imagine that I laugh to death when performing this songs. It’s a very special kind of humour, and I am think that more people should have it. Classic songs like “Halb Mensch Halb Tier” (translated: half human half animal) tell you something like:”I am a young werewolf, half human half animal, nobody understands it, killing is fun”. This is gothic humour, really. If you don’t like DER FLUCH and that sense of humour, you probably a super-gothic who NEVER laughs. It was a funny, weird and well performed set. With the less instruments it was mixed very good and cause of the lack of complexity in the songs perfectly played. Atmosphere was great, music is fine and lyrics funny – my dark heart, what else would you want? I bought the CD even if I am not a fan of… humour! 
The end
It was the last tram drive this evening, and the tram was allready empty. It was great, as usual. When the more than 20.000 gothics are gone, you recognize the native psychos. “Are you thinking i am an autonomic!!!” the guy without shird cried loudly, drunken like hell, “If a woman want to fuck me, it will be different!!” he told us then. Well, sure. He doesn’t care about his jeans, which didn’t completly cover his ass anymore. No problem, nobody didn’t care about him. Nobody really like autonomics, do we? Confused about the sudden arrival of reality I left the tram and tried to find some friends of mine, who awaited me with some dark beer people named Köstritzer. At the Wave Gotik Treffen 2008 were no looser; but some winners. The very best act was STELLAR CORPSES. They surprised me and I will follow the path of that band. LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT won the price as “Best Big Act”. BLOODSUCKING ZOMBIES FROM OUTER SPACE got the price as “most strangest act ever” for the insane line up and the funny show. NEW DAYS DELAY make me proud, cause they are simply great and they live in germany. It’s a bit more easy to attend concerts of NEW DAYS DELAY, so you will see me there, if they play in the south.
The Wave Gotik Treffen remains big, will be bigger and damn, even when other people think it was bullshit, for me it was great and will stay great! 2009 are only 260 days left… 359… 358…