Absurd "Facta Loquuntur (Limited Edition, Germany, No Colours Records, NC 007)"

Absurd is a German black metal band that has been classified as a "right-wing extremist" group by the Thuringian Landesbehörde für Verfassungsschutz.

The band was founded in Sondershausen by Hendrik Möbus (also known as Randall Flagg, Jarl Flagg Nidhögg and JFN) and Sebastian Schauseil (Dark Mark Doom) in 1992, with a third member, Andreas Kirchner, joining at a later stage.

Their lyrics concern nationalistic, pagan (Hendrik Möbus is the founder of the Deutsche Heidnische Front), pro-heathen revivalist Germanic, and anti-Judeo-Christian themes.

The band achieved infamy because its original members (not in the band since 1999) murdered Sandro Beyer, a 15-year-old boy, in 1993. The canonical motive is that Beyer was privy to an illicit relationship of Schauseil's with a married woman, and had been spreading rumours about this and other activities of the band. On 29 April in Sondershausen, the then-17-year-old band members Möbus, Schauseil, and Kirchner enticed Beyer to a meeting, and strangled him there with an electrical cord. Kirchner, in a now infamous quotation, was reported as saying: "Oh shit—now I've completely ruined my life." Schauseil claimed to have heard a voice in his head saying the nonsensical phrase "Kuster Maier", which he interpreted as "Töte Beyer" ("Kill Beyer").

The band Absurd has continued in existence since 1999, going through many changes of personnel, and losing all of its original members. The main line-up features Wolf, Hendrik's brother, handling vocals and Sven "Unhold" Zimper handling the instruments, with Sebastian Schauseil performing the occasional clean vocal part on releases such as Asgardsrei (1999), Werwolfthron (2001), and Totenlieder (2002).

Facta Loquuntur is their first full length, released in 1996.

Tracklist:

1. Werwolf 02:36   
2. The Gates of Heaven 03:15  
3. Pesttanz 02:46   
4. Eternal Winter 04:15  
5. Deep Dark Forest 04:54
6. First Winter of Bloodred Snow 02:58   
7. Mourning Soul 02:12  
8. Dreaming of Love 04:44   
9. Wartend in Einsamkeit 07:07
10. Der Sieg ist unser 01:44   

Time:  36:31  

Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies.

Pressing plant identified by SID codes.

Hand-numbered.

Album was banned by German authorities in February 2009.

Wolf Möbus contributed the track 'First Winter of Blood Red Snow', originally a Wolfsburg song.

Recording information:

1-4: Recorded in May 1995. Tracks were originally featured on the "Thuringian Pagan Madness" cassette EP released by Capricornus Productions in 1995.

5: Rehearsal track recorded in JVA Erfurt prison in December of 1994 (under the moniker Wolfsmod). This was a solo recording featuring only D.M.D. and a drum machine.

6: Recorded by Wolf Möbus outside of jail in February of 1994. Originally intended to be used on the "Thuringian Pagan Madness" 7 inch EP.

7-8: Both songs were the result of a recording session of In Ketten sometime in the Spring of 1995.

9-10: Tracks recorded by D.M.D. solely with the assistance of a drum machine in 1995.