* In 1989, the band released the demo CD "Satanische Verse" and after another year their debut album "Die Propheten" on Bruno Kramm's own label, Danse Macabre.
Das Ich skillfully mixed electronic, symphonic and early industrial elements into an explosive cocktail unprecedented in the often cliche ridden German music culture. Das Ich established itself with a fixed position in the scene and became the very epitome of experimental and electronic music.
They are celebrated as the starting spark of a new genre of post wave, post Kraftwerk, post Neubauten era, and successfully led the way in the charts of the independent scene. Tours all over Europe strengthened the position of Das Ich, who quickly got a reputation for being "apocalyptic eccentrics", since their concerts appear to be evil and bone-jarring spectacles.
* After the release of their maxi CD "Stigma" in 1993, Das Ich went off on an extended tour through all of Europe and the U.S., and in addition played at various festivals, for example the Peter Gabriel WOMAD in Hamburg, as well as at the Documenta in Kassel.
* After that followed what up to now is their most compressed work as well as their least accessible, "Staub". Its success underpined their precedence. Released right at Christmas time, "Staub" was on the waiting list of the German Media Control Charts for 11 weeks.
It took about 2 years to create this work, in which both the innovation that characterized their debut, and modern industrial-elements (comp. "Das Ich im Ich") were amalgamated. Harsh noise-loops bedded into symphonic arrangements and combined thematically with the Holocaust of self-contempt in modern human society rendered "Staub" a milestone for electronic music of the nineties. 8 tracks, which catapulted Das Ich to international significance and which carried on the importance of the German industrial-electro-scene. With "Staub" Das Ich played a tour containing more than 60 shows whole over the world. "Staub" was also released domestically in the USA on the Californian label Tess Records, ran by William Faith of Faith and the Muse, while "Die Propheten" was re-released on Black Orchid Records from Miami.
* After the band recruited the drummer Chad Blinman on the U.S. tour, Das Ich grew into a genuine live band. In 1995 they put the live album "Feuer" out on the market to question the term "canned music", which all electronic bands have to deal with sooner or later.
* Immediately after that, a project done together with the famous metal band "Atrocity" was released. The album "Die Liebe" was a successful attention-getter for both bands and is still numbered among the first representatives of the successful metal/gothic crossover movement of the time.
Until today, many of these crossover bands refer to this album as initial innovation and influence.
* At the end of 1996 Das Ich began the early work on their new album "Egodram".
* However, the work had to be interrupted for half a year in order to compose the soundtrack album "Das Innere Ich" for the underground movie "Das Ewige Licht". After a further successful tour in the U.S. in May of 1997 with the new drummer Jakob Lang, the work on "Egodram" could finally begin again and be completed at the end of 1997. While all the previous releases appeared on the Danse Macabre label, Das Ich decided in the summer of 1997 to sign a worldwide recording contract with Edel Records for "Egodram".
* The first single "Kindgott" which was out taken from the new album was released in December 1997.
* In February 1998 the successful "Egodram" album and the second single "Destillat" with a stunning videoclip, directed by the wellknown Qfilm company, were released.
* From March to April 1998 Das Ich toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In May they played the International Wave Gothik Treffen in Leipzig.
* After touring for the first time Spain and Mexico they finished the work on their literal work in June, "Morgue" which features songs to the poems of the famous German expressionist writer "Gottfried Benn" in an extreme diversity which brought them also a fantastic feedback from cultural institutions whole over Europe. In November 98 Das Ich toured France and Germany again to present some of their new songs.
* In 1999 it was time to celebrate ten years of Das Ich with "Re_Laborat" and the big USA Totentanz Tour 99. This album was a successful hit on the dance floor. It offers various remixes from well-known bands like Deine Lakaien, Atrocity, VNV Nation, And One and many others. The smashing dance floor hit "Destillat", remixed by VNV Nation became a club hymn for the summer of 2000 worldwide. The dark romantic track "Reanimat", only available on a limited double CD was transferred to a videoclip, directed by Hans Helmut HдЯler, with whom the band worked on "Das Ewige Licht" before. "Re_Laborat" was also brought to France on XIII Bis Records domestically, while their online archives www.dasich.de found birth on the internet.
* *In 2003 "Das Ich" released a double CD box, a Best Of called "Relikt" with a 48 page booklet. They also toured again the USA and Russia for the first time with a tremendous effort and success.
*In the middle of the burning summer 2004, Das Ich released their breathtaking new album, called Lava which focuses on emotional issues. For the first time in the bands outspanning history, love, hate, greed and other human feelings struggle against the ratio, the understanding of the human being. It is the fight of the Freudian "Es" (it) against the moral "Ich" (Ego)
* In 2006 Das Ich released Cabaret, a gothic album based on theatrics.
* In 2008 Das Ich released the EP Kannibale, which they call their harshest and most brutal endeavour yet.
Kain und Abel
Das Ich Lyrics
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kain - in vaters hand
kain - zu blind zum steh'n
kain - aus schwarzem blut
die totgeweihten grüssen dich
nimm dein schwert
und tanze tanze tanze tanze
kain - und wahn zum wahn
kain - do süsses licht
kain - das gift I'm wort
kain - wie stahl I'm wind
kain und abel
abel - kain tanze tanze tanze...
The lyrics of Das Ich's "Kain und Abel" explore the biblical story of Cain and Abel, delving into the emotions and thoughts of Cain as he confronts his jealousy and murderous rage towards his brother Abel. The repetition of the name "Kain" throughout the song serves as a reminder of his identity and his inherent anger, which is fueled by his sense of being ignored by his father and his blindness to the value of his own life. The line "aus schwarzem blut" suggests a darkness within Cain's soul, a primal urge to destroy that consumes him.
The chorus of the song, with its call to "nimm dein schwert und tanze tanze tanze tanze," is a chilling invitation to violence, as Cain embraces his rage and chooses to act on it. The inclusion of "die totgeweihten grüßen dich," or "the doomed greet you," adds to the feeling of inevitability and tragedy surrounding this story.
As the song continues, Cain's madness and delusions are further explored, as he becomes obsessed with a "sweet light" that he believes will lead him to absolution. However, this path only leads him deeper into darkness, as the poison in his words and the cutting power of the wind become instruments of his destruction.
Overall, "Kain und Abel" is a powerful and unsettling exploration of the human tendency towards violence and destruction, and the dark impulses that can take hold of us when we allow our jealousy and anger to consume us.
Line by Line Meaning
kain - I'm durst der wut
Kain is thirsty for anger and vengeance
kain - in vaters hand
Kain is under his father's control
kain - zu blind zum steh'n
Kain is too blinded by rage to stand still
kain - aus schwarzem blut
Kain comes from a lineage of darkness and despair
die totgeweihten grüssen dich
The damned salute you
nimm dein schwert
Take up your sword
und tanze tanze tanze tanze
And dance, dance, dance, dance
tanz den tanz zum tod
Dance the dance of death
kain - und wahn zum wahn
Kain is consumed by madness
kain - do süsses licht
Kain is entranced by a sweet light
kain - das gift I'm wort
Kain speaks poison in his words
kain - wie stahl I'm wind
Kain is as sharp as steel in the wind
kain und abel
Kain and Abel
abel - kain tanze tanze tanze...
Abel tells Kain to keep dancing
Lyrics © KLETTER ENTERTAINMENT INC
Written by: B KRAMM, S ACKERMAN
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@pIatinger
Turn it loud. And then turn it louder. And then imagine standing in a club with hundreds of people celebrating this song. This was my first experience with this song. And two days later Die Propheten was the first CD album I bought :).
@DivaDestructionOfficial
That must have been amazing! I have loved this song for so long and always ran to the dance floor for it! Where was this?
@expliziteinsam
schönes Bild! Die ersten Das Ich Songs hatten eine unglaubliche Dunkelheit. Das hat mich immer fasziniert!
@tanjabatz3335
Ich liebe dat Ich ❤
@Elfe425
GENIAL!!!!!!!!
@Schnurzpips
beste EP ever
@thatbitchnoemie
Nobody :
Absolutely nobody :
Me alone in my room at 3 in the morning : DIE TODGEWEIHTEN GRÜßEN DICH DIE TODGEWEIHTEN GRÜßEN DICH, NIMM DEIN SCHWERT, NIMM DEIN SCHWERT-
@expliziteinsam
schöne Bilder
@uilium
The singer sounds like the lead singer of The Clash.... I have never, ever heard music like this. It sounds like a mighty and eerie electrOpera. This music is so interesting...
@lastcall2011
This might fit to certain events / moods / characters of Demon's Souls / Dark Souls.. "Die Propheten" is still my favourite album of Das Ich..