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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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