''Wer bist du?'' ("Who are you?") is the first full-length album by German

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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 ...

. Following the limited edition release of their debut album, '' Herzwerk''. The album includes three songs from ''Herzwerk'': "Krone der Schöpfung" (originally a two-part song, here a single track), "Negativ", and "Hänschenklein 1995" (remade as "Hänschenklein Siebenundneunzig"). The first track, "Gott sein", is one of Megaherz's most famous, and considers the problems of being God, culminating in the refrain "Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein" ("It's not easy to be a god"). The penultimate track, "Hänschenklein Siebenundneunzig", is based on a German

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Hänschen klein, in which Hänschen klein (which translates most closely as "Little Hans") leaves home, causing his mother great grief. In the nursery rhyme, Hans returns home; in Megaherz's song, he is brutally murdered to the point that his mother cannot recognise him. The song shares the first line of the chorus "Aber Mutter weinte sehr" ("But mother wept deeply") and ends with a brief

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accompanied by squeals of

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and the whistling of the original nursery tune. The song was the first of several Megaherz songs to be based on nursery rhymes, preceding "Rapunzel" on '' Kopfschuss'', "Windkind" on ''

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'' (which echoed the story of

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) and "I. M. Rumpelstilzchen" on '' Herzwerk II''. The album was re-released in the US in 2004 as ''I'' (read as "One" or "Eins").

Track listing

# "Gott sein" (''To Be God'') – 4:15 # "Wer bist du?" (''Who Are You?'') – 3:07 # "Schlag' zurück" (''Fight Back'') – 4:01 # "Das Leben" (''The Life'') – 3:59 # "Finsternis" (''Darkness'') – 1:19 # "Licht" (''Light'') – 3:51 # "Negativ" (''Negative'') – 3:44 # "Kopf durch die Wand" (''Head Through the Wall'') – 4:31 # "Müde" (''Tired'') – 4:39 # "Krone der Schöpfung" (''Pride of Creation'') – 4:05 # "Tanzen gehen" (''To Go Dancing'') – 3:23 # "Die Gedanken sind frei" (''Thoughts Are Free'') – 3:59 # "Hänschenklein '97" (''Little Hans '97'') – 2:52 # "Wer bist du? (Remix)" – 4:31

References

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