Hope: Fury in the Slaughterhouse wollen Mut machen

by time news July 30, 2023

July 30, 2023

2023-07-30 13:45:16

Hope
Fury in the Slaughterhouse wollen Mut machen

Fury in the Slaughterhouse with Rainer Schumann (lr), Christian Decker, Gero Drnek, Thorsten Wingenfelder, Christof Stein-Schneider and Kai Wingenfelder. photo

For a long time, the group around the Wingenfelder brothers didn’t want to know anything about a comeback, but Fury in the Slaughterhouse is experiencing something like a second spring. What do the new album and the open-air tour promise?

In dark times of war and climate crisis, the band wants Encourage Fury in the Slaughterhouse. “Hope” is the name of the 14th studio album by the six musicians from Hanover. The fans can expect twelve new songs between rock, pop and indie – typically Fury guitar-heavy and with emotional songwriting.

“Hope” opens with the anthem “Don’t Give Up!”, which takes the listener back to the 1990s, when the guys from Hanover gained a nationwide fan community at rousing concerts and in 1993 with the album “Mono ” even landed a success in the USA. For many, Fury’s big hits like “Won’t Forget These Days” or “Time To Wonder” are part of the soundtrack of their own lives and are still played at parties today – from the graduation party to the 60th birthday.

Stand up for other people

But how can hope be drawn in the face of the depressing world situation? “People who are willing to use their energy for other people give us hope,” says Fury guitarist Christof Stein-Schneider (61). During their tour, which started in Aurich on July 1st, the band supports various aid organizations.

These clubs are also featured in videos on the Fury website under the motto #HoffnungVerändertAlles. Donations can be made at the concerts – in Berlin, for example, for the Union Berlin football club foundation, in Hanover for the local Christmas party for the homeless and needy, at which the Fury members have appeared as surprise guests several times.

After almost ten years the reconciliation came

The musicians can also draw hope from their own path. In the dispute, the band broke up in 2008 after selling more than four million albums, but reconciliation came in 2017. The following concerts were mostly completely sold out, the first studio album after a long time with the title “Now” entered the German charts at number 2 in spring 2021.

“If the album had flopped, then this album might not have existed,” says lead singer Kai Wingenfelder about “Hope”. As with the predecessor, they worked together with producer Vincent Sorg (Broilers, Die Toten Hosen). And in contrast to the past, there was no trouble, but “great fun” in the studio, as the 63-year-old emphasizes: “During the break, we learned to appreciate what we have in each other. It certainly has something to do with age to do. You eventually focus on the good things.”

After the tour, the musicians want to dedicate themselves to solo projects again, as they did during the interim dissolution of the band with the bizarre name. Kai and his brother Thorsten Wingenfelder then appear again as a duo.

Toured with the Pogues in the 90’s

The Rolling Stones and Irish group U2 inspired Fury in the early days. In the 1990s, the group from Hanover also toured with the Irish folk-punk band “The Pogues”. The song “Far Cry From Home” on the new album celebrates Irish pub music.

“When we opened for the Pogues in Hamburg back then, we learned how to avoid 0.3-liter beer mugs on stage,” says Kai Wingenfelder. “And that after just one chord, an audience can look like dancing basketballs.” The live band, which has been trained for more than 35 years, is hoping for such an atmosphere at their own concerts this summer – Hanover and Gelsenkirchen are already sold out.