Artist description Neo-Medieval music with electronic features.

Music Style Started out as Industrial Hardcore/Noise but is now mainly Medieval

Musical Influences Nearly anyone really

Similar Artists Dead Can Dance (the Serpent's Egg/Aeon period), Tanzwut, Corvus Corax, The Soil Bleeds Black

Artist History Please note: this page is no longer updated. If you want to hear more of my music, contact me directly by e-mail or go to: www.radio-aena.de --- NB: Diese Seite wird nicht mehr updated. Wenn Sie mehr von meiner Musik hören wollen, kontakten Sie mich direkt durch E-mail oder gehen Sie zu: www.radio-aena.de --- Por nota de favor: esta página não é mais atualizado. Se quer ouvir mais de minha música, entra em contato comigo diretamente por correio eletrônico ou vai a: www.radio-aena.de The band Mauerbrecher was born in or about January 2000, although my experience with composing stretches much further back. I had got tired of composing in the more predictable and nerdy electronic genres, and wanted to do something special. At first I tried my luck with humorous (and quite enormously loud) industrial hardcore, but found out that my theoretical knowledge of song structure and harmony was too poor for me to compose something that really worked. However, ever since I had first heard the “Aion” album by Dead Can Dance – and in particular since I had made aquaintance with the music of the German bagpipe band Corvus Corax on a medieval festival in august ‘99 – I had been interested in composing simple, but pompous music in modal scales and with the early instruments.

Group Members Mauerbrecher is Rane Rørdam Knudsen. I do EVERYTHING myself, and I hate people who just nick other people's samples.

Instruments Synth, PC, throat, Finnish 5-string kantele, alto recorder, Jew's harp, kazoo, various sampled early instruments (bagpipes, shawms, drums, hurdy-gurdy, bells etc.), household tools, bodily functions otherwise considered obscene and embarrassing

Albums Istimirant Stella

Press Reviews "Interesting combination of percussive instruments!" - Percussion Picks Radio about "Fractory Intermezzo". A dark and disturbing medieval funeral march which makes me think of the movie "In The Name Of The Rose", and it is my honest opinion that this piece would fit that movie like a glove. The brooding darkness pushes you down and takes you back to the Dark Ages. Interesting and intriguing, to say the least." (Beyond The Wall Of Sleep about "Lament for Saint Catherine"). (Check out the "Stations now playing" link)

Additional Info Extra WHAT?

Location Aarhus, Jutland - Denmark

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