what’s behind ’staatsfeind‘ the upcoming new concept album

when democracy becomes its own enemy. with staatsfeind, the eighth chapter in an ongoing series of conceptual albums, the project turns its gaze from myth, morality, and emotion toward the cold machinery of politics itself. after dissecting personal, social, and spiritual corruption in previous works, this record exposes a system that has begun to decay from within, not through open conflict, but through cowardice, mimicry, and moral erosion.

the album confronts how fear has become political currency. it questions the normalization of extremist language, the paralysis of leadership, and the quiet betrayal of democratic ideals in the name of pragmatism. each track functions like a document in a larger indictment: tracing how rhetoric seeps from parliament to pavement, how populism replaces principle, and how society learns to live with the intolerable.

staatsfeind is not a protest album in the traditional sense. it is a mirror held to a democracy that mistakes hesitation for virtue and adaptation for strength. The intention is neither partisan nor moralistic, but deeply civic and to remind that silence and compromise can be as destructive as hate itself.

forged in the rhythmic discipline of industrial and EBM, staatsfeind transforms outrage into structure, accusation into sound. it stands as both warning and witness: that the true enemy of the state are the state authorities who forget why they exist.