There are multiple artists named Scanner:

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1. Scanner is a Power Metal Band from Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
2. Scanner is multimedia artist and sound designer Robin Rimbaud from London, United Kingdom.
3) A German EBM and Synthpop label founded in 1999 by Francesco D'Angelo Spine Of God.

1. Scanner

Was previously known as:
- Reinforce (1977 - 1982)
- then as Lions Breed, a German Metal act that released the 1985 album on the Earthshaker label entitled "Damn The Night") the group changed vocalists and drummers and became Scanner in 1986, adopting an on stage sci-fi image.

SCANNER appeared in 1987 with the opener track "GALACTOS" on the "DOOMSDAY NEWS" compilation by NOISE RECORDS, Berlin. The group’s debut album, "Hypertrace", was produced by Eloy vocalist Frank Bornemann and was released in 1988. Backing vocals for this outing were contributed by Ralph Scheepers (see Primal Fear[[/artist]). The Japanese Release of this album added the exclusive track "Galactos" from the DOOMSDAY NEWS compilation.

In 1991 the second album, "TERMINAL EARTH", had been released the group had parted company with vocalist Michael Knoblich and replaced him with the Yugoslavian born ex-Angel Dust front man S.L. Coe. When personality clashes erupted between Coe and his band mates the vocalist was forced out in 1993.

Guitarist and bandleader Axel Julius (also producer aka Nigel Boston) recruited a new line up for SCANNER to release the "MENTAL RESERVATION" album in 1995 for the MASSACRE RECORDS label and JVC Victor Entertainment, Japan. The band comprised Polish vocalist Haridon Lee, bassist John A.B.C. Smith and drummer D.D. Bucco for this album, although Smith was succeeded by Marc Simon shortly after the record was released.

1997’s "BALL OF THE DAMNED" would prove an ambitious affair as the band took on cover version of QUEEN’s epic "Innuendo". Ralph Scheepers, by now in PRIMAL FEAR, also appeared once more lending vocals to "Puppet On A String". Touring to promote the album saw headline European dates with support act UNREST before a further round of shows on a package billing with FATES WARNING and OMEN. In summer ‘97 SCANNER appeared first time at W.O.A., Wacken Open Air, Germany.

SCANNER ‘s 2002 release was brandishing the new studio album "SCANTROPOLIS".
At this stage the new look band comprised female vocalist Lisa Croft, guitarists Axel Julius and Thilo Zaun, bass player Marc Simon, keyboard player Johannes Brunn and drummer Jan Zimmer. The album closes with an unaccredited version of "Till The Ferryman Dies" recorded live in Stockholm.

In 2003 Greek vocalist Efthimios Ioannidis joined the band and is SCANNER’s most constant singer until today’s line-up. SCANNER played a lot of shows whole of Europe in the past years and will come up with their 6th album, "THE JUDGEMENT", in January 2015 (Release Date: January the 23rd, 2015, MASSACRE RECORDS).

2. Robin Rimbaud (born in 1964) is an electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of cell phone and police scanners in live performance. He is also a member of the band Githead with Wire's Colin Newman and Malka Spigel and Max Franken from Minimal Compact.

Rimbaud is also a writer and media critic[citation needed], multi-media artist and record producer. He borrowed his stage name from the device he used in his early recordings, picking up indeterminate radio and mobile phone signals in the airwaves and using them as an instrument in his compositions.

Born in in Southfields, London, Scanner was interested in avant garde literature, cinema and music while growing up. When he was a teenager his family was bereaved when his father was killed in a motorcycle accident.[1] He attended Kingston University in Surrey, earning a degree in Modern Arts (BA). There, he formed a musical project The Rimbaud Brothers with fellow student Tony Rimbaud, releasing cassette editions in the early 1980s, later becoming Dau Al Set with the addition of Chris Staley.
He released Peyrere compilation cassette album in 1986, featuring the work of Nurse with Wound, Derek Jarman, Current 93, Coil and Test Dept. That same year, he composed the soundtrack to a short film A Horse with No Name, directed by Phil Viner, shown at the London Film Festival.[2]
In 1989, he was commissioned to contribute to the Cultural Icons publication (Bloomsbury) edited by James Park, writing many articles on contemporary art, literature, music and dance.
His debut Scanner CD was released in 1992 on Ash International, a subsidiary label of London's Touch Music label. He continued to produce the first dozen releases with Mike Harding of Touch, including Scanner², Mass Observation, Blind, and Runaway Train, a real-time recording of the captivating radio contact between Alfie, controller of the line and Wesley, the driver of a runaway train. Location: New Brunswick, Canada, recorded 9 March 1948.
In 1994, he pioneered one of the first webzines, in the very early days of the internet, I/O/D, in collaboration with Matthew Fuller and Graham Harwood. In 1998, he presented Surface Noise on a London bus, commissioned by Artangel, and won the Imaginaria 99 Award for Digital Arts, ICA London the following year. He re-soundtracked Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville movie in a series of performances around the world, whilst playfully presenting 16 concerts in one evening using a series of Scanner look-alikes to perform in his absence. For 2003, he installed a permanent installation in Raymond Poincaré hospital in Garches, France as part of the bereavement suite Channel of Flight.[3] In 2004, Tate Modern commissioned Sound Surface in collaboration with Stephen Vitiello as their first sonic arts work. In the same year, he composed Europa 25, an alternative National Anthem for Europe that was freely distributed via 10,000 CDs and a website.
He has continued to collaborate with classical musicians – Michael Nyman for Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, Musique Nouvelles in Belgium for their 'Play Along' collaborative string quartet, and opera singer Patricia Rozario for a new untitled work in 2007.
From 1994–2000, he set up and "curated" The Electronic Lounge music club at London's ICA, where these monthly sessions presented nights of music in a social environment. Nights included presentations with the record companies Warp Records, Irdial, Ninja Tune, Touch, Mego, Leaf Records and many others.
Since 2000 he has featured on BBC Radio 4, as a commentator on issues relating to popular music on a number of occasions.
Working with choreographer Wayne McGregor, he created Nemesis for Random Dance in 2002, Detritus for Ballet Rambert in 2003, and Qualia for the Royal Ballet in 2004. He continues to work with dance, with new works for Shobana Jeyasingh and Siobhan Davies in 2007. In 2006 he created the sound for Merce Cunningham's E:vent at London's Barbican theatre.
In 2006, he created Night Haunts, a monthly online artwork, working with writer Sukhdev Sandhu and designers Mind Unit. He sound-designed Aitan Errusi's new British horror film Reverb. In 2007 he soundtracked British filmmaker Steve McQueen's film installation Gravesend, at the 52nd Venice Biennial.
In 2008 he was President of Honour at the Qwartz Music Awards in Paris, and scored the musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba in Paris, which was later released on DVD (EMI). He premiered his six-hour performance show, Of Air and Eye at the Royal Opera House London in late 2008, and sound-designed the new Philips Wake-Up Light with Philips Electronics in NL, a lamp to wake you up with natural light and sound.
In 2009 He showed Atlantida, an HD film installation at the Canary Islands Biennial, created in collaboration with filmmaker Olga Mink. In the summer of 2009 he composed the soundtrack to the opening ceremony of the World Swimming Championships in Rome, broadcast in 164 countries, and soundtracked the new Samburg Corby telephone campaign in Italy.
In 2005, he was a contributing curator 'J’en rêve' at Fondation Cartier Paris, and in 2006, jointly curated the video art exhibition 'Mobile' at Espace Landowski Paris.
His BBC radio production of Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice won the Prix Marulic Award and recently, he won First Prize Neptun Water Prize for his installation Wishing Well in Austria, in collaboration with Austrian artist Katarina Matiasek. In 1998, he became 'Professor Scanner' at John Moores University in Liverpool. In 2009 he became Visiting Professor at University College Falmouth UK, and Visiting Professor at Le Fresnoy National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing France.
He recently contributed a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky. In 2010 Rimbaud working with The Post Modern Jazz Quartet on Blink of an Eye with a very subtle touch, embedding his sounds into those of the New York jazz ensemble seamlessly as critics observed.[5]
In 2013 Rimbaud dueted with Alexandra Strunin on the song "Robot" from her EP called Stranger released on 29 October 2013.

Killing Fields
Scanner Lyrics

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They are soldiers too blind too see
Fighting for their own damnation
See the honour and pride in their chests
Targets feeding guns
There's too much hate to hear the warning
On killing fields where nobody wins

No denying they are the strongest

Blowing out their mother country
Independence - What is the value?
What has made them pay the price?
It's much too late to hear the warning
On killing fields where nobody wins

All men of steel and hearts of ivory
See the comrades side by side
Under fire seems like eternity
A game, sinister
The souls are sold where is the ecstasy?
Where are the bold? Times change
Is there a need for all the wasted youth?
They call it war!

The souls are bold, a newfound ecstasy
The guns are sold, values change
The sirens howl a short infinity
The airforce whispers
The war was cold, now it has turned to flames
Nobody knows the reason why
Is there a need for all this wasted life
There must be more!

They never wait to hear the warning
On killing fields where nobody wins

There's a fight on the hill
Even time is standing still
But they never will know the score

(War is just a game of tools
Still it's the same, still it's the same

War is made by leading fools
Nothing remains, nothing remains)

Overall Meaning

Scanner's song Killing Fields is a critique of the futility of war, highlighting the destruction and loss of life that it inevitably brings. The opening lines "They are soldiers too blind too see / Fighting for their own damnation" criticize the soldiers fighting in the war for being unable to see how they are only contributing to their own demise. The lyrics highlight the paradox of soldiers fighting for honor and pride while being trapped in a cycle of violence and hate.

The second verse questions the value of independence and what it has truly achieved, as the battle on the killing fields brings nothing but more death and destruction. The lyrics suggest that there is always a high price to be paid for independence and that it may not be worth it in the end. The chorus repeats the notion that nobody wins on the killing fields, emphasizing the senselessness of war.

The later parts of the song bring a sense of resignation to the situation - "They never wait to hear the warning / On killing fields where nobody wins". The lines "The souls are bold, a newfound ecstasy / The guns are sold, values change" also suggest that some may find euphoria in the excitement of war, while others may see it purely as a business, trading in guns for profit. Ultimately, the song ends with the idea that no matter how long the fighting continues, nobody will ever truly know who triumphed or who lost in the end.

Line by Line Meaning

They are soldiers too blind too see
The soldiers are fighting without realizing the consequences of their actions.

Fighting for their own damnation
The soldiers are actually fighting against their own interests and values.

See the honour and pride in their chests
The soldiers are proud of their country, but cannot see the damage they are causing.

Targets feeding guns
The enemy is being used as ammunition to fuel the war machine.

There's too much hate to hear the warning
The soldiers are too consumed by hatred and rage to heed any warnings of the consequences of war.

On killing fields where nobody wins
War is a no-win situation where both sides suffer greatly.

No denying they are the strongest
The soldiers have immense strength and power, but lack wisdom and compassion.

Blowing out their mother country
The soldiers are attacking and destroying their own country.

Independence - What is the value?
The concept of independence is being questioned, as the destruction caused by war undermines the very freedom it purports to defend.

What has made them pay the price?
The soldiers are paying a steep price for a cause that they do not fully understand or believe in.

It's much too late to hear the warning
The damage and destruction of war has already taken place, and it is too late to prevent further harm.

All men of steel and hearts of ivory
The soldiers may seem tough and invincible, but their hearts are pure and vulnerable.

See the comrades side by side
The soldiers have a strong bond with their fellow fighters, but fail to see the humanity in their enemies.

Under fire seems like eternity
The constant danger of being in combat makes time feel slow and endless.

A game, sinister
War is like a sinister game that both sides lose, an endless cycle of violence and destruction.

The souls are sold where is the ecstasy?
The soldiers are sacrificing their souls for a cause that brings them no joy or happiness.

Where are the bold? Times change
The soldiers who may have once been brave and idealistic are now disillusioned and unsure of the worth of their sacrifice.

Is there a need for all the wasted youth?
The soldiers are questioning whether it is worth sacrificing the lives of the young and innocent for the sake of war.

They call it war!
Although war is seen as a noble cause, it is really just senseless violence that destroys lives and communities.

The souls are bold, a newfound ecstasy
The soldiers, who were once fearful, have found a strange sense of joy and purpose in war.

The guns are sold, values change
War has caused a shift in values, where weapons and brute force are seen as more important than compassion and understanding.

The sirens howl a short infinity
The sounds of war are deafening and seem to go on forever, but in reality, they are brief and fleeting compared to the damage they cause.

The airforce whispers
The airforce is a powerful but silent force in war, wreaking destruction from above without any personal interaction.

The war was cold, now it has turned to flames
What was once a distant and abstract concept has become a fiery reality that cannot be ignored.

Nobody knows the reason why
Despite the destruction and loss of life, no one really knows why the war started in the first place.

There must be more!
Despite the carnage and loss, there must be another way to resolve differences and conflicts without resorting to war.

They never wait to hear the warning
The soldiers always act impulsively and without fully understanding the consequences of their actions.

On killing fields where nobody wins
War is a futile and pointless endeavor that causes immense pain and suffering for both sides.

There's a fight on the hill
The battle is intense, with soldiers fighting for their lives and the lives of their comrades.

Even time is standing still
The chaos and terror of war make time seem to slow down or stop altogether.

But they never will know the score
Despite the intense fighting and destruction, neither side will truly win or come out on top after the war is over.

(War is just a game of tools
War is simply a game where people are used as tools to fight for the ambitions and power struggles of the leaders and elites in charge.

Still it's the same, still it's the same
Despite the ongoing destruction and loss of human life, war continues to be seen as a legitimate tool for resolving conflicts.

War is made by leading fools
The leaders and elites who start wars are foolish and shortsighted, causing immense harm to those under their control.

Nothing remains, nothing remains)
In the end, war destroys everything, leaving nothing but devastation and despair in its wake.

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