CASPAR BRÖTZMANN MASSAKER

"Caspar Brötzmann is one of the most unique and innovative guitarists of the last 40 years. With his Berlin-based trio Massaker, he evolved a whole new autonomous approach to writing rock songs, starting from sounds that were widely considered ornamental if not detrimental ‘sonic waste’, such as shrieking feedback and droning overtones. This plethora of sounds were arranged into tracks to sound like breaking concrete, grinding metal, or bursting glass, at once monumental and threatening, impenetrable and hermetic, yet also archaically tender and loving." [Boomkat, 2019]

Album	Format	Label & Cat. Number	Description	Year	Price (incl. 19% VAT)
Black Axis	do-LP	Southern Lord LORD260	first ever vinyl re-issue of the second album (1989, LP + 7"), remastered => "a hellscape of militaristic bass, brutalist drums, strangled guitar, and distant werewolf calls...But for all the ghoulish yells, suicide-cult references, and malevolent tones, Brötzmann’s music with Massaker is the stuff of transcendence, too, the sound of three musicians fighting through darkness in search of any light." [Pitchfork]	2019	€24.00
Der Abend der schwarzen Folklore	LP	Southern Lord LORD262	re-issue of the awesome third album (1992), the first with GORE drummer DANNY LOMMEN, also recorded in CONNY PLANK's studio near Cologne... "...to sound like breaking concrete, grinding metal, or bursting glass, at once monumental and threatening, impenetrable and hermetic, yet also archaically tender and loving.... -....evolving into a free-form noise, strangely motionless like an earthquake rumble, that sounded like nothing else at the time.." [Boomkat]	2019	€18.00
Koksofen	do-LP	Southern Lord LORD263	the fourth album from 1993, 1st time vinyl re-issue, their most dark & intense masterpiece! - "Mountainous noises tower up and crash down, and tormented sounds rise from ominously seething grounds, haunting the entire song-scape. The feel of doom and dread hangs heavily over the five songs, and the title song rumbles, shrieks and wails, plagued by Caspar’s guttural growls of war, suffering and death..."	2019	€24.00
The Tribe	LP	Southern Lord LORD259	re-issue of the debut LP (1988) by CASPAR BRÖTZMANNs band project, still a milestone of ultra heavy & mind crushing industrial noise rock... "This plethora of sounds were arranged into tracks to sound like breaking concrete, grinding metal, or bursting glass, at once monumental and threatening, impenetrable and hermetic, yet also archaically tender and loving........Channeling Hendrixian vibrations mixed with hard German industrial atmosphere"	2019	€18.00
Home	do-LP	Southern Lord LORD266	with "Home" (1994), a collection of live recordings, the circle of vinyl re-issues of C.B.M albums by Southern Lord ends = simply one of the most raw and violent, ecstatic and experimental rock industrial bands that has ever existed... and there are rumours they are recording again! "Schwere Gitarren, Feedback-Wogen, ausufernde Strukturen, wuchtig bollerndes Schlagzeug, ein Noise-Sperrfeuer, aber in Blues grundiert - eine Musik, die kaum eindeutiger in den 1980er Jahren zu verorten wäre."[Andreas Schnell]	2020	€24.00