Kunstraub

Occupation

  • Song: The Last Unicorn
  • Electric guitar, acoustic guitar: Van Lange
  • Bass: The Lutter
  • Drums, percussion: Specki T.D.
  • Harp, bagpipes, dulcimer, shawm: Dr. Pymonte
  • Bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy, Uilleann Pipe, shawm: Flex the Flexible
  • Nyckelharpa, bagpipe: Yellow Pfeiffer

Art theft is the title of the eleventh studio album by the German medieval rock band In Extremo. It was released in Germany on 27 September 2013 in Vertigo / Universal.

Background

Title both the album and the title track is art theft, this refers to the art theft in Rotterdam in 2012. This inspired band member Dr. Pymonte to write the songs, especially the wealthy for the band an important role number 7 caught his eye. Opened is the album entitled The the sun sends to sleep, a play about a celebrated by night and the next morning. Paths with no name is the title of the next song, which revolves around the career of the band. As a man about himself referred to the protagonist of the song of the same name, very self- love is the play about the life of a bon vivant. With Heaven and Hell In Extremo deal with the question of whether heaven or hell after death are preferable. "It hurts so much when I cry jugglers seh " is the refrain of the song juggler that deals with a very talented but unemployed, low paid or otherwise disadvantaged artists. The title track is about the art theft of the same offense and the genius of the robbers, the bagpipe solo after the second chorus is used further as an intro for the concerts of this tour. The previously tapped as a single baptism of fire is a love song with a promise to go to the end with the partner. You and I is the title of the next piece, it revolves around a person who is struggling with life and love of another human being. The song Goofy is a humorous but also thoughtful way of people who do completely useless things, such as " pull in the strongest sniffing through the nose cold snow ". However, at the end of the song towards the singer away " his last beer ", ie commits itself a " stupid " act. Everything is already seen a relatively quiet piece that is similar paths without names on them relates that the band had already seen all the misery. "Bella Donna" is the penultimate piece of the CD and is a love song with a very ambiguous text. Finally, the love is also addressed in the prey, but it is more about the painful longing for / the beloved and the " hunting " this person.

Publications and success

The album art theft is the eleventh studio album by the medieval rock band In Extremo. It debuted at # 2 on the Media Control Charts in Germany and number 19 in Austria and # 23 in Switzerland.

Reception

Ulf Kubanke of laut.de draws the following conclusion on the album: " Nice to see how an established veteran band embarks again on new paths without being artsy - fartsy or unfaithful to cramp In this form, the seven madmen in the fight. . ? around the throne Genre far from the scrap heap A Game of Thrones your " art theft " clarifies: game over! "

Reviewed Ulrike Meyer- Potthoff from terrorverlag.com follows: "IN EXTREMO have with " done it right art theft "The fans will love the disc and thanks to a certain mainstream potential to be certainly new trailer for the INEX - medieval rock. . inspire the popular stylistic ingredients were in favor of a slightly harder sound orientation redistributed still the defining medieval feeling is not too short - just as it guarantees at the concerts of the " art theft " tour will again be a lot of pyrotechnic effects. "

Title list

Tour

  • October 22, 2013 NL - Eindhoven, Dynamo
  • October 23, 2013 F - Paris, Trabendo
  • October 24, 2013 Lux - Esch Sur Alzette, Rockhal
  • October 25, 2013 in Cologne, E-Werk
  • October 26, 2013 Hannover, AWD Hall
  • November 1, 2013 Hamburg, sports hall
  • November 2, 2013 Leipzig, Haus Auensee
  • November 9, 2013 Stuttgart Porsche Arena
  • November 10, 2013 CH - Zurich complex
  • November 15, 2013 Weissenhaeuser beach (close to Lübeck ), Metal Hammer Festival Paradise
  • November 16, 2013 Berlin, Columbia Halle
  • November 22, 2013 A - Vienna, Gasometer
  • November 23, 2013 Munich, Zenith
  • November 28, 2013 in Mainz, Phönixhalle
  • November 29, 2013 Erfurt, Thuringia Hall
Record label Singing Bass guitar Senden, North Rhine-Westphalia
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