''Herzwerk II'' ("Heart-work II") is the fourth studio album by German
industrial metal
Industrial metal is the fusion of Heavy metal music, heavy metal and industrial music, typically employing repeating Heavy metal guitar, metal guitar riffs, sampling (music), sampling, synthesizer or music sequencer, sequencer lines, and Distor ...
band
Megaherz
Megaherz (German name meaning "Mega-heart", a pun on the homophone "Hertz, megahertz") is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band formed in Eichenau in 1993.
Megaherz has gone through many changes in musical style since their founding. Their early ...
. It is the last album to feature singer
Alexx Wesselsky before he left the band together with
Noel Pix
Jochen "Noel Pix" Seibert (born 25 March 1972) is a German rock and house musician, best known as a founder, former lead guitarist, and programmer of the Neue Deutsche Härte band Eisbrecher, which he left in the beginning of 2024.
He previous ...
to form
Eisbrecher
; ) is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band founded by Alexander Wesselsky and Noel Pix after their departure from Megaherz, with the founders describing their music style as "modern, electronic trip-rock". The band consists primarily of Alexand ...
.
The final track, "Es brennt" ("It Burns"), which talks about the differences between Eastern and Western Germany, was included on the
digipak
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Jewel case
A ...
version of the disc. The album was re-released in the United States in 2008, with "Es brennt" included.
Track listing
# "Herzblut" ("Heart-blood") - 5:18
# "Glas und Tränen" ("Glass and Tears") – 3:55
# "I.M. Rumpelstilzchen" (
Unofficial collaborator
An unofficial collaborator or IM (; both from German ''inoffizieller Mitarbeiter''), or euphemistically informal collaborator (''informeller Mitarbeiter''), was an informant in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) who delivered privat ...
Rumplestiltskin) – 4:31
# "5. März" ("March 5th") – 4:17
# "F.F.F. (
Flesh for Fantasy)" – 5:25 (
Billy Idol
William Michael Albert Broad (born 30 November 1955), known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Idol achieved fame in the 1970s on the London punk rock scene as the lead singer of Generation X ...
cover)
# "Hand auf's Herz" ("Hand on My Heart") – 3:59
# "Zu den Sternen" ("To the Stars") – 5:14
# "Licht II (Instrumental)" ("Light II") – 2:08
# "Heute schon gelebt?" ("Lived Yet Today?") – 3:51
# "An deinem Grab" ("At Your Grave") – 6:57
# "Perfekte Droge" ("Perfect Drug") – 4:27
# "Spiel' nicht…" ("Don't Play…") – 4:41
# "Gold" – 5:11
# "Es brennt" ("It Burns") – 4:03
"Herzblut" is a German
compound word
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literally meaning "heart-blood" or "blood of the heart". The official translation suggests that "a better translation would be 'your everything and all, your essence'."
Personnel
*
Alexander Wesselsky
Alexander "Alexx" Wesselsky (born 18 November 1968) is a German singer. He is a founder and the lead vocalist of Neue Deutsche Härte band Eisbrecher. He was also a founding member and lead singer of Megaherz, having performed with them for 10 ...
– lead vocals
* Christian "X-ti" Bystron – guitar
* Wenz – bass
* Oliver Pohl – guitar
* Jürgen Schlachter – drums
* Ralf Weigand – keyboards, percussion
* Corni Bartels – drums on "Hand auf's Herz"
* Nicki Schuster, Claudia Rossler, Voodoo Man – backing vocals
Charts
References
External links
Megaherz official site
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Megaherz albums
2002 albums