Last year you released the album “Hell”, today you add “Dunkel”.

Are the new songs from the Resterampe?

Kai Spanke

Editor in the features section.

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Farin Urlaub: When we did “Hell”, there was already a “Dunkel” with eighteen songs.

They weren't completely recorded yet, but we already had an idea for their order, for example.

Then “Hell” came out, we split up for four months and wrote fourteen more pieces in that time.

So of the eighteen songs that were intended for "Dunkel" we dropped seven and added eight.

Was it planned from the start to release the albums so quickly one after the other?

Bela B .: The first thought was to bring out both records at the same time.

One only digital, one only analog.

Then Corona came, we changed the studio and worked very concentrated.

During this process the decision was made to leave album number two behind for now.

By the way, we're still in the charts with “Hell”.

FU: Which just means that someone bought the album yesterday.

Rodrigo González: Four people clicked on a song from the record on YouTube.

The last song on the album is very political and is called "Our Bass Player Hates This Song".

Is that correct?

RG: I don't think the text is so cool because it puts us on an explanatory level where we don't belong: We'll tell you now what democracy is about and how important it is. It is not for nothing that there is a “Sendung mit der Maus” quote in the piece. The song disenchants the band a bit. In the end I unfortunately got the short straw in a democratic vote on whether it should be included on the album.

BB: Raised index finger.

Explanatory gesture.

It is well known that we are politically left-wing and advocate equal rights.

But that we are now lecturing on democracy like a senior teacher - that is exactly what we have always stood against.

And that's exactly why I wanted the piece to be on the record.

We offended people on “Hell” because we politically incorrectly said that becoming gay was the only option in the fight against the right ...

FU: And now we emphasize very seriously: Democracy is really a good thing.

BB: All the bands like KIZ, which attract attention through blatant provocations, can lay hacked.

We provoke a lot more by simply rebelling against our own principles.

That basically answers the next question.

In the “core business” it says: “worse, unfortunately also more boring”.

How is provocation still possible at all?

BB: I'm currently experimenting with passages from pure texts.

Seriously: We are already watching exactly what is happening.

The good thing about the scandalous song by Kollegah and Farid Bang was that it got rid of the echo.

However, the provocation didn't really reach me.

There are completely different songs to talk about.

Kollegah has anti-Semitic songs over and over again.

FU: When we appeared in the “Tagesthemen” in 2020 and played the intro of the show, for many people it was primarily a topic that we were wearing suits.

And of course the suits immediately became made-to-measure suits, which just reads more hateful.

In fact, mine was off the shelf.