''Herzwerk II'' ("Heart-work II") is the fourth studio album by German
industrial metal
Industrial metal is the fusion of heavy metal and industrial music, typically employing repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Prominent industrial metal acts include Ministry, Nine In ...
band
Megaherz
Megaherz (English "Mega-heart", a pun on the homophone " megahertz") is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band formed in Eichenau in 1993.
Megaherz has gone through many changes in musical style since their founding. Their early works are a fair ...
. It is the last album to feature singer
Alexx Wesselsky
Alexander "Alexx" Wesselsky (born 18 November 1968) is a German singer. He is the lead vocalist of Neue Deutsche Härte band Eisbrecher and previously performed with Megaherz from 1993 to 2003.
Biography
In 1985, Dale Arden became Wesselsky's ...
before he left with
Noel Pix
Jochen "Noel Pix" Seibert (25 March 1972) is a German rock and house musician, best known as the lead guitarist and programmer
A computer programmer, sometimes referred to as a software developer, a software engineer, a programmer or a c ...
to form
Eisbrecher
Eisbrecher (; German for "icebreaker") are a German Neue Deutsche Härte band that consists primarily of Alexander Wesselsky (vocals) and Noel Pix (lead guitar/ programming), with live support from Jürgen Plangger (guitar), Rupert Keplinger ...
. The final track, "Es brennt" ("It Burns"), which talks about the differences between Eastern and Western Germany, was included on the
digipak
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Jewel case
A ...
version of the disc. The album was re-released in the United States in 2008, with "Es brennt" included.
Track listing
# "Herzblut" ("Heart-blood") - 5:18
# "Glas und Tränen" ("Glass and Tears") - 3:55
# "I.M. Rumpelstilzchen" (
Unofficial collaborator
An unofficial collaborator or IM (; both from German ''inoffizieller Mitarbeiter''), or euphemistically informal collaborator (''informeller Mitarbeiter''), was an informant in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) who delivered private i ...
Rumplestiltskin) - 4:31
# "5. März" ("March 5th") - 4:17
# "F.F.F. (Flesh for Fantasy)" - 5:25 (
Billy Idol
William Michael Albert Broad (born 30 November 1955), known professionally as Billy Idol, is a British-American singer, songwriter, and musician. He first achieved fame in the 1970s emerging from the London punk rock scene as the lead singer o ...
cover)
# "Hand auf's Herz" ("Hand on My Heart") - 3:59
# "Zu den Sternen" ("To the Stars") - 5:14
# "Licht II (Instrumental)" ("Light II") - 2:08
# "Heute schon gelebt?" ("Lived Yet Today?") - 3:51
# "An deinem Grab" ("At Your Grave") - 6:57
# "Perfekte Droge" ("Perfect Drug") - 4:27
# "Spiel' nicht…" ("Don't Play…") - 4:41
# "Gold" - 5:11
# "Es brennt" ("It Burns") - 4:03
"Herzblut" is a German
compound word
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literally meaning "heart-blood" or "blood of the heart". The official translation suggests that "a better translation would be 'your everything and all, your essence'."
Personnel
*
Alexander Wesselsky – lead vocals
* Christian "X-ti" Bystron – guitar
* Wenz – bass
* Oliver Pohl – guitar
* Jürgen Schlachter – drums
* Ralf Weigand – keyboards, percussion
* Corni Bartels – drums on "Hand auf's Herz"
* Nicki Schuster, Claudia Rossler, Voodoo Man – backing vocals
Charts
References
External links
Megaherz official site
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Megaherz albums
2002 albums