Macht und Ehre
Power & Honor is a German right-wing rock band that was known in particular by their Nazi and seditious texts in the far-right scene.
Band History
Power & Honor was established in the Berlin prison Plotzensee 1991 by singer Stephan Jones. Jones was already active before in the far-right skinhead scene and brought out the open neo-Nazi fanzine power and glory. As a band name he chose the same name, only the "and " was replaced by the ampersand. The remaining members changed frequently, a uniform occupation has not been found.
After two demos released in 1996 their debut album NSDAP on the extreme right, the Danish label NS Records, which worked closely with Blood & Honour Denmark. On the cover of a swastika, two SS runes and Heinrich Himmler are shown. In the same year, a split CD with the Australian neo-Nazi band command appeared under the title Nigger Out.
In 1997, the second album was released master race. Power & Honor in 1998, placed on ice and went in the band Black Order on. This applies in the scene as a moderate. All recordings were reissued again and again through various record companies.
In 2003, the album was released Black Order, since both bands coexist. 2004 appeared after a long time some split albums: Hate brochure Direction noise ( with Division Germania ) and Tribute to Freikorps ( with Division Germania and Sleipnir ). Only a year later, in 2005, the band released their fourth album with us is the victory which further led to the musical style of hatred brochure Direction noise. Published in 2007 the hitherto split last album: Hate brochure Direction Noise II (with the barbarians and Aryan Brotherhood ). The songs on hatred brochure Direction Noise II are much harder and faster than the previous published songs. Was published in 2009, the fifth and final album by the band: Europe Awake! . Also on this album, the style of the split album was continued, because the songs are also hard and fast, as they were on hatred brochure Direction Noise II. 2013 appeared a Best of CD. On this CD you will find all unindexed pieces of music of the band as well as some unpublished recordings dating from 2009.
Reception
The first two albums of the band, as well as the demo tapes contain open Nazi, anti-Semitic and inhumane passages. Both albums were seized in Germany and are subject to a ban. The remaining albums and also the demos to 2004 are indexed. In various publications of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Federal Agency for Civic Education passages serve as " a Jew in the oven ..." and " grilled meat " as text documents to warn of extreme right-wing music. After the re- these radical disappeared from the texts, the band but continued to belong to the extreme right.