inspired by the tv-series ‚Dexter‘ these lyrics are about a serial killer and his arrogant will to survive and maintain his cover. It is written from a first-person perspective, and in the chorus the serial killer simply talks to himself, mimicking how he would introduce himself as a friendly new neighbour in his neighbourhood, amused that his true personality will never be found out. check it out now.

based on lenin’s october revolution, this song romanticises the rise of discontent and the emergence of a rebellion. sometimes it only takes a few rebellious minds to give the government and politicians a few impulses to rethink. and sometimes big changes can only be achieved through riots and unrest, through an uprising from the centre of society, through a revolution. these thoughts led me to write the song of the rebels. check it out now.

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the song tells the story of little red riding hood in a modern context, where the dark forest is the internet and the wolf is actually a dangerous drug. an adolescent girl called red was looking for pills that she already knew from her friends. and although there were plenty of warnings everywhere and her mother was always there to help her stay on track, in the endless sea of shapes and colours, one particular chemical finally caught her eye. B.B. was printed on each of these small, pitch-black pills. the two letters emblazoned on the chemical stood for big bad and were like a final warning. check it out now.

the initial spark for the cover was the idea of showing the colour contrast of a strong red on a white background. at first, of course, the fairy tale of snow white came to mind, which is all about this colour contrast. it was precisely this idea of blood in the snow that formed the basis for telling the tale of woe of a soldier carrying a red flag in the middle of the coldest winter ever and trying to hold it up until the end despite being wounded, when the flag lies buried in the snow next to him and his blood flows into the ground, that’s when the different shades of red blur together. check it out now.

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the concept for this cover art was decided relatively quickly after i started writing the text for ‘evil grin’. as a symbol for a disease that eats you up from the inside out, i wanted to show a maggot peeking out of a ripe fruit. while the cherry still looks totally juicy and fresh in the light, you can already see the damage the maggot has done on the shadow side. check it out in the gallery.

looking for a visual analogy or metaphor for sperm on their selfish and quarrelsome way to the egg, i finally came up with the idea of cockroach-like insects. since i can imagine these insects, similar to ants, very orderly, almost in lockstep, this visual realisation also underlines the text title itself: ‘stossstrupp’. check it out now.

this is the first in a new series of cover works, and it represents the lyrics of ‘your scream’. inspired by the mythological construct of a banshee, a female spirit in irish folklore who usually announces the death of a family member by screaming, shrieking or wailing, i wanted to visually capture that very scream with this cover. check it out in the gallery.

wow! completely unplanned, but exactly to the day … after a 7-year break from writing, i’m finally back … it’s been burning under my nails for quite a while, and now i’m writing again.

and ‘steriliser “ is the first of three new texts that are part of the concept album ”steinschlag“. tt describes the pathological and delusional mental state of the first-person narrator, who wants everything around him to be clean, sterile and unpolluted, but for whom any means are acceptable as long as they help him achieve his goal. check the cover out in the gallery.