Brutal Verschimmelt
German band
Brutal Verschimmelt (BV, literally "very moldy", German pronunciation: [bʁuˈtaːl fɐˈʃɪml̩t]) was a German punk band from Kempten (Allgäu). In 1983 they released an album by Rock-O-Rama.
History
In 1980 Carlo Kallen, with some high school friends, founded his first band Adolf Streit & die NS-Verbrecher, which first became Psychorotz and then Brutal Verschimmelt.
First concerts took place in Allgäu in the vicinity of the band B.Trug which, being the older punks, brought the younger ones along.
B.Trug had at that time a record contract with the punk label Rock-O-Rama from Brühl and referred also Brutal Verschimmelt to that label.
A demo recording was sent to Herbert Egoldt who signed the band.
Egoldt invited the band in May 1983 to Cologne where they recorded their debut album in 16 hours.
Egoldt himself produced the vinyl record.
A cover draft showing an anti-war collage was discarded by Egoldt and replaced by a skeleton warrior with a mohawk fighting against some kind of monster.
The politically left lyrics of the band were not printed on the lyrics sheet, presumably because at that time Egoldt already fancied with the Rock Against Communism market.
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