Although they were overshadowed by their Anglo-American peers, they were one of the finest and most notable groups of the era. The title track is unforgettable.
I remember the days of sitting in my bedroom with a radio and separate tape player listening to John Peel in the very early 80's and "Xmal Deutschland" were playing In Session and Three of the Best , they were great to listen to mind you most of the music he and "Kid Jensen" played was great , it was the best era for underground sub genres of music.
Lived for too many years thinking us Brits were the originators- no surprise now that so many English artists went to Germany for inspiration. Angst is such a cool German word, done best by Germans, even if we were, perhaps, a bit better at selling out and marketing it!!
These photos were an insert of their first 12” Incubus Succubus, on the Zick Zack label in 1982. This version of the song is from the more polished re-recording from the 1983 12” on 4AD. The 2 other songs are from the former record though.
Thank you so much for posting this Maxi ... I once had it 30 years ago ... All songs are great, unique... form a perfect trilogy of darkness, forlornness and war between the sexes... I wish X mal D had stayed with these musicians ... they would be the German Rolling Stones today. This is immortal, I LOVE IT SO MUCH !!!!
Sure they do. There are so many great post punk bands I love & listen to these days. Check out Molnat Doma, Nite Fields, topographies, Savak, Sorry & I could go on & on if you need more.
You are so correct, Ace -- Death Rock fits into the entire world of the Post Punk subculture. There're so many people who enjoy, trivializing a single category by chopping everything into smaller sub-categories, then into sub-sub-categories. It's like saying; ice-blue, Caribbean-blue, and sky-blue are not "really" colors within the blue spectrum. Xmal Deutschland will always be "true icons", that helped to inspire an entire generation of dark followers.
still got this on 12" vinyl some where from 198x - rural East Anglia really didn't get a German band playing this stuff at the time - but at least we had Adicts then Cradle Of Filth and Extreme Noise Terror to frighten the tractors
The archetypes of "Anima" and "Animus" may drain the empirical ego psychic energy when ignored...They become "Incubus" or "Succubus" if the axis Ego-Self is not pavimented...
