new lyrics: standrecht

iron weight. shallow breath. the night becomes a tribunal.
‘standrecht’ is a dark electronic anthem built around the alp, the nightmare figure of german folklore who sits on your chest at night, crushing you with alpdruck until you wake in terror. in this song, the alp is no longer just a creature of dreams, but the very embodiment of martial law: judge, jury, and executioner of your subconscious. every beat is a gavel strike, every chorus a merciless verdict.
the creative driver behind this track was the fascination with how folklore punishes transgression without warning or appeal. just as ’standrecht‘ replaces due process with instant justice, the alp replaces peaceful sleep with suffocating dread, a fitting metaphor for power that comes without mercy. the lyrics draw from idioms like „dich hat der teufel geritten“ and the merciless phrase „kurzen prozess machen“, turning them into the language of a nightmare tribunal.
‘standrecht’ thrives on this tension between myth and authority, between the helplessness of sleep and the brutality of summary judgment. this one’s for the restless, the guilty, and everyone who knows: when the alp arrives, the trial has already ended. check it out now.