ASP Maskenhaft, Boxset

2013, ASP are an unfathomable phenomenon in the German music scene. For years now they have been unresting, with blazing passion, constantly winning themselves an ever-larger audience far beyond any scene boundaries. At the same time they remain true to themselves and their music and regularly manage to achieve high positions in the official German music charts - completely without following mainstream trends. Fans of challenging lyrics and profound rock music have long since been aware that compositions of great strength and soothing melancholy are hidden away behind the gruesome makeup and the often alarming content. Up until now, hardly any band has managed to deliver entertaining and at the same time socio-critical content in the way that they have so skillfully managed in the atmospheric cosmos of this project. On MASKENFAHT, ASP have once again united all manner of gloomy, shimmering styles in such a way that best serves the narration, as if to form their very own ´gothic novel rock`.