Interview with: Cruor from ENDSTILLE

I'm fine.

Thank you. We're also absolutely satisfied with the new CD. I really like the artwork of the new album, too. Kaiser Wilhelm II in the shape of a butcher fits perfectly to the music on VerfÏŒhrer.

Yes. Everyone I talked to about the new CD told me the same. The sound is very good but not overproduced, so it still doesn't sound like pop-music. It sounds like ugly Black Metal, like it should be.

Of course, when you compare our first demo and our newest CD there're many differences and of course we made some progresses. But the style of our music is still the same. You can still figure out on VerfÏŒhrer that this is an ENDSTILLE release and not one of another band.

Most of the lyrics on VerfÏŒhrer are written by Iblis. His songs are mostly about hate, misanthropy and sometimes religion. On VerfÏŒhrer our drummer Mayhemic Destructor also wrote lyrics for three songs. His lyrics are more about war and one of the lyrics is about the history of the area we're from, about the North of Germany. I think Iblis's inspiration comes from himself. He's writing about what he's thinking. But we're writing lyrics about war, manly about WWI and WWII, because we're really interested in this subject. It's some kind of a hobby. Also it's a part of the history we're living in.

Of course, I think every band would say the same. The new one is always the best. The new CD is always the result of very long and hard work and on the new CD are all your new ideas for your own music. Also as I said before, we made some progresses in the last years. So you can hear on every new CD our progresses.

Maybe...I think here in Germany people are talking a lot about our lyrics and the pictures we're using in our CDs. In Germany there is always the discussion if it's allowed for a German band to make songs which are about the world wars. So I think there is an effect on the people who are listening to our music.

We're now satisfied with our record company. Before we moved to Regain Records we had the problem that it was nearby impossible to get our CDs outside of Germany or Austria. Now we've got a worldwide distribution, so everything is fine. I don't know how it is with other record companies, which problems they have and which not. You know we're not changing our labels like our underwear, so I don't know so much about the work of other labels.

Yes. I listen to everything that sounds good and what I like.

Beer drinking and hell raising 😉

Hmmmm... I don't know. I hope everything will go well for us and we'll reach every goal we want. I would be satisfied when we continue to make good music (and I know that we will), have many good concerts etc.

'Fuck Hell' is just a phrase. It has no spiritual meaning and we don't mean any other band with it. At the beginning, when we started to use this phrase in our band, we just said it for 'I don't care'. Then we started to say it also in interviews or we used it on photos. It was funny when we realized that other people started to say 'Fuck Hell' too. So it became something like a tradition and we continued to use it.

At first we'll play some open airs here in Germany and Austria in summer. After that we'll go on a European tour in October and November. But I can't say which countries we'll visit on that tour now.

It was really hot there!!! But the festival was fantastic, nice bands and nice audience. The audience was similar to the audience we had when we played in Mexico. Very enthusiastic people, who are really into extreme music.

Fuck Hell und gute Nacht!!!