Knorkator

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1. Ick Wer Zun Schwein
2. Zeig Mir Den Weg Nach Unten (live)
3. Ich Lass Mich Klonen
4. Zeig Mir Den Weg Nach Unten
5. Alter Mann
6. Böse
7. Buchstabe
8. Wir Werden

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Knorkator is a German band from Berlin that combines heavy metal with non-serious and comical elements. They proclaim themselves to be "Germany's most band in the world" (German: "Deutschlands meiste Band der Welt"), as the title "The best band in the world" was already taken by Die Ärzte. The band was founded in 1994, but only played live gigs in the Berlin / Brandenburg area until 1998.

Knorkator gained further fame (and some notoriety) in 2000 with their performance of "Ick wer zun Schwein" (sic; literally - berlin dialect "I'm turning into a pig") in the German national qualification for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Knorkator's music can be largely classified as industrial metal, somewhat akin to White Zombie and Ministry; Knorkator, however, strongly emphasizes on a comedic element - most songs escalate into falsetto vocals and bombastic, over-the-top anthemic choruses, with crushing guitars and subtle samplers. Due to the amusing message, however, the band's considerable technical and artistic merit is sometimes overlooked.

The lyrical matter of Knorkator is somewhat explicit, but always very humourus:

• "Ich lass mich klonen" deals with the advantages of cloning itself, hence sparing the effort of masturbation
• "VIVA Buzz Dee" is a worship-anthem towards guitarist Buzz Dee
• "Wie Weit Ist es zum Horizont" wonders about the metaphor of the horizon's width, but continues to calculate it with equations
• "Komm Wieder Her" compares the life's grayness without the former lover to "the grayness of the liver sausage under the bed"
  

Most of Knorkator's lyrics are in German; however, some songs also feature English ("Beating around the bush", "Ma Baker", etc.), Thai ("Mai khao djai", "Khid tyng baan"), Latin ("Aeger sum") or French ("Ma belle fêmme") lyrics - these songs are often extreme covers on various previously well-known hit songs.

Knorkator's wild stage shows and the band's appearance are analogously chaotic: Stumpen's half body is tattooed black and he usually performs in his goofy underpants; Buzz Dee's appearance is often cited as being a clone of "Big" Jim Martin. (Knorkator - Wikipedia)

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