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Absurd | |
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| Origin | Sondershausen, Germany |
| Genres | Black metal,[1] pagan metal,[2] RAC |
| Years active | 1992-1994, 1994-1995, 1998-2012, 2017–present |
| Labels | Weltenfeind Darker Than Black |
| Members | JFN Widar Leichenaar KPS Unhold Gelal |
| Past members | C. H. Surt Damien Thorn Dark Mark Doom Wolf Tormentor Thorns Ansuz Vinzent Deimos[3] |
| Website | https://weltenfeind.com/absurd |
Absurd is a German black metal band[4] that has been classified as a "right-wing extremist" group by the Thuringian Landesbehörde für Verfassungsschutz.[5]
The band was founded in Sondershausen by Hendrik Möbus (also known as Randall Flagg / Jarl Flagg Nidhögg / JFN) and Sebastian Schauseil (Dark Mark Doom) in 1992, with a third member, Andreas Kirchner, joining at a later stage.
Their lyrics concern nationalistic, pagan (Hendrik Möbus is the founder of the Deutsche Heidnische Front), pro-heathen revivalist Germanic, and anti-Judeo-Christian themes.
The band achieved infamy because its original members (not in the band since 1999) murdered Sandro Beyer, a 15-year-old boy,[6] in 1993. The canonical motive is that Beyer was privy to an illicit relationship of Schauseil's with a married woman, and had been spreading rumours about this and other activities of the band.[7] On 29 April in Sondershausen, the then-17-year-old band members Möbus, Schauseil, and Kirchner enticed Beyer to a meeting, and strangled him there with an electrical cord. Kirchner, in a now infamous quotation, was reported as saying: "Oh shit—now I've completely ruined my life."[8] Schauseil claimed to have heard a voice in his head saying the nonsensical phrase "Kuster Maier", which he interpreted as "Töte Beyer" ("Kill Beyer").[9]
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- ^ Eski Üyeler, Encyclopaedia Metallum, Absurd, Past Members.
- ^ Thilo Thielke: Töten für Wotan. In: Der Spiegel, no. 38, 2000, 18 September 2000, p 134.
- ^ Verfassungsschutzbericht des Freistaats Thüringen – 1999 (PDF Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine) Punkt 4.6
- ^ "Der Satansmord - Der Satansmord – Tod eines Schülers - Sendungs A bis Z - ARD | Das Erste" (in German). 31 May 2001. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
- ^ Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground. Feral House 1998, p. 256ff.
- ^ Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground. Feral House 1998, p. 246.
- ^ Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground. Feral House 1998, p. 247ff.