Anti'christ

Occupation

• Stefan Ackermann: Voice, Text
• Bruno Kramm: Music, Background Vocals

Anti'christ is an album of the German band The Ego and released in 2002 on the label Massacre Records.

Title list

Content

The lyrics are once again more about religious topics, which are extremely provocative and often consisting of blasphemy designed. The song "Angel " is about the subjugation of humanity by the angels in "seed time " cries the protagonist, that God should finally let metamorphieren in peace and to earth it and "War in Paradise" is from the biblical dragon that the to symbolize the devil, conquered paradise and defeated the entire reign of God. " Sodom and Gomorrah " is about the person of God Himself, it is there represented as absolute ruler, who can suffer humanity.

Layout

The cover of the album is held in this time represents a yellow hue Photo Collage For the first time, the new logo was used on this album, which is no longer the original extensively decorated Fraktur lettering includes, but a simplified representation, where the "h" in an inverted cross ends. The lyrics in the booklet are printed in Fraktur, however, in comparison to the album The Prophet took this time a 1:1 transmission in the Antiqua with only the round s instead.

Reviews

The music magazine Orcus presented the album when it first appeared under the heading " Record of the Month ". Editor Arnulf Woock known as the album that " next to [ the album ] is dust the most convincing, most mature and most compact work of the band. Full of suspense, highly emotional and musically and lyrically very moving Anti'christ comes along and puts so once again a testimony to the effect, have developed what a wonderful symbiosis Stefan Ackermann and Bruno Kramm over the years. " For textual conception he meant that one the most, I now can compare with Einstürzende Neubauten.

The magazine Zillo said that on the album "aggression [ ...] [ combined ] in a subtle way with pathos " and is behind "the often rabid industrial sounds [ ... ] is excellent Lyrics [ hide ] ".

Others

The song Garden of Eden can also be found on the embers version of the album Lava back where you can see in the enclosed DVD, a live recording of it from the Mera Luna Festival 2002.