The More You Live, The More You Love

UNHEILIG Gipfelstürmer (UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL 0602537706129) In recent months, there was a lot to do. Less than a week after announcing Gipfelstürmer in September, Der Graf announced to stop after the upcoming tour with Unheilig. The book will be closed on September 10, 2016  with a grand farewell concert in Cologne. Besides the fact that he wants to spend more time with his family, the main drive has to be the lack of challenges. The Eurovision Song Contest earlier this year had to be the platform for a possible breakthrough in the non German speaking countries, but the German Eurovision audience threw a spanner in the works. Gipfelstürmer is the eighth and last musical work of Der Graf. The new songs partly follow a thematic approach, where the beautiful and rugged mountain world forms the framework of the tracks. Der Graf keeps improving and perfecting his style, without neglecting the emotional side of life. He used a welded writing break to wrap his images, thought...

Unheilig Lichter der Stadt / Live (Universal 0602537157259) Unheilig is my sensational discovery of this year. I know the band excist for twelve years now, but until March of this year I never had heard of this German band before. Within months I had all their albums and in June we visited the openings concert of the Lichter der Stadt Tour. And now they released Lichter der Stadt / Live, shot and recorded in the Rhein Energie Stadion in Cologne before an audience of 30,000 people. Compared to the concert in Meppen the stage looks more slicker. The luxe box is a real treasury, with the concert on double cd, on dvd and a second dvd with behind the stage scenes. The images are great and the spectator is drawn in the concert. Overviews are followed by close-ups of band and crowd, which turns this registration not only into a document for the public but the band as well. The sound is excellent and the bombast, like in Grosse Freiheit or the Rammstein alike songs Herzwerk,, Na...