Fliehende Stürme // Support: Peppone

In the organizer's words:

Fleeing storms
If your own band name keeps popping up as a reference in other band biographies to provide clues, but you don't "sound like" yourself, then you have created your own sound that others would like to achieve.
Fliehende Stürme only appear in connection with other band names, because no other band currently sounds like them, and even a cover band would find it difficult to recreate this sound from its individual components in an even remotely identical way after the transformation that took place from CHAOS Z to FLIEHENDE STÜRME sometime in the early 80s.

The ingredients are no secret: German lyrics, although it would certainly sound weightier in English, an idiosyncratic and unmistakable guitar playing, unmistakable vocals, drums that are more than just a rhythm generator, purposefully used synthesizer sounds and a bass that also has a life of its own. Everything bears a clear signature, is superficially unagitated, but despite all the melancholy it is always raw, aggressive and never stands still musically, even after such a long time with constantly small steps.
Melancholy and hopelessness, on a small and large scale, why hang your head when there is no escape anyway? Shadows, darkness, chaos, which is met with a raised head instead of hanging one's shoulders and sinking into self-pity, that was, that is and that remains punk, because where others have long since given up, we dance on. Yes, hopelessness and failure can be so beautiful.

Today, the term post-punk is often used because everything is "post" at some point, but if that applies to Fliehende Stürme, then in the spirit of the very early 80s, when post-punk was allowed to be anything but one-dimensional.
With their unmistakable sound cosmos and clear lyrics, which always remain tangible and never seem trite, Fliehende Stürme have gained a devoted fan base over the years that works across scenes and, on closer inspection, appeals to a "colorful" audience - after all, there are many shades of black.

Peppone
Here comes something cooler from Magdeburg than Tokio Hotel or the eternal chatter about the sense and nonsense of planned chip factories - THE NEW PEPPONE! With "Genug Gesehen" the band presents their new LP. And what many labels have to write stereotypically about their bands' new output hits the nail on the head here for once - no, not Muff Potter's, although...

PEPPONE are one of the very few bands who get better with every album. Four years after "Beste Aussichten", PEPPONE are releasing "Genug Gesehen" - at the same time and on the same major label as their colleagues from BEN RACKEN. Saxony-Anhalt's state capital thus proves to be a true epicenter of dark and interesting German-language post-punk. Overall, Peppone seem a little more stormy, edgy and fast-paced on "Genug Gesehen", their dark punk is at the same time highly melodic and has often been placed in a corner with well-known bands from Mönchengladbach and Giessen in the past, and not without good reason. "Genug Gesehen" is a real highlight of German-language post-punk.