Feindflug – Sterbehilfe EP
Label: Black Rain – BR 008, Black Rain – BLACK RAIN 008
Format: CD, EP
Country: Germany
Released: 10 Jun 2000
Style: Rhythmic Noise, EBM, Industrial
Feindflug’s music is entirely instrumental. The only vocals that can be heard are in samples, mostly taken from movies dubbed in German or excerpts of Adolf Hitler or Klaus Kinski.
The band is characterized by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Isabella van Elferen as martial industrial and neo-folk, «negotiating the role of the past in the present.» Recurring themes and topics are authoritarian regimes, the death-penalty and total war, especially World War II and the Third Reich.
Critics have associated the band with the German Neo-Nazi scene, due to the themes presented in their music and their album cover graphics. The band-members oppose this critique and have stated that their music is intended as a reflection of the issues it describes, not as support.The band’s motto is «Use your brain and think about it!» Feindflug has stated that «any form of glorification/trivialization of the Second World War contradicts the intention of this project. Rather, it aims to make it clear that this era of history represents the beginning of a new technological warfare, in which the individual became/becomes the victim millions of times over» and that their goal is to «try to crush the taboo in Germany, since the war is a great part of the German history.
