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Feuerschweif

from Die schwarze Spinne by Totenheer

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    Totenheer writes history.... More precisely: Totenheer set the novella "The Black Spider" by Jeremias Gotthelf from 1842 to music with 14 songs. The story tells of farmers in slavery in the 13th century in the Emmental. Under the threat of death, the tyrannical bailiff forces them to plant a hundred full-grown beech trees on the castle hill in no time at all. In their distress, they gave the order to the devil. As a reward, the devil desires nothing much, nothing more and nothing less than an unbaptized child. In a wild and stormy night, the devil fulfills the order. The peasants, however, try to trick him and cheat him out of his wages. But his revenge is terrible: the devil sends them the black spider, a symbol of the plague. The 74-minute concept album begins with dulcimer sounds that underline the scene as unison. This finally changes the mood ominously. The album offers powerful, brute and dark sounds to a primal human fear. Old legends of the past are transformed into a parable-like narrative about Christian-humanistic ideas of good and evil.

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    Totenheer writes history.... More precisely: Totenheer set the novella "The Black Spider" by Jeremias Gotthelf from 1842 to music with 14 songs. The story tells of farmers in slavery in the 13th century in the Emmental. Under the threat of death, the tyrannical bailiff forces them to plant a hundred full-grown beech trees on the castle hill in no time at all. In their distress, they gave the order to the devil. As a reward, the devil desires nothing much, nothing more and nothing less than an unbaptized child. In a wild and stormy night, the devil fulfills the order. The peasants, however, try to trick him and cheat him out of his wages. But his revenge is terrible: the devil sends them the black spider, a symbol of the plague. The 74-minute concept album begins with dulcimer sounds that underline the scene as unison. This finally changes the mood ominously. The album offers powerful, brute and dark sounds to a primal human fear. Old legends of the past are transformed into a parable-like narrative about Christian-humanistic ideas of good and evil.

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lyrics

Heulender Wind – Donner rollt übers Tal
Christine`s Haare trieften – ihre Augen brannten
Dunkler als sonst – in unheimlichem Feuer
Rätig wurde man bald – die Sache zu versuchen

Sechs Buchen luden sie ab bei Kilchstalden
Sechs Buchen waren am folgenden morgen
Zu Bärhegen gepflanzet

Um Mitternacht fährt auf – Feuerschweif
Der Grüne reitend auf schwarzem Bock
Das Fuhrwerk des Teufels – Geisselknall
Zauberei und Hexenwerk – Schwefelqualm

Um zu wissen welche Pacht – die Bauern geschlossen
Sandte er Ritter zur wache – fand sie des Morgens
Halb tot in Gräben – niedergebrannt und weggeschleudert
Um Mitternacht ein giftiger Wind – schwoll auf ihr Gesicht

Am Urbanus Tage brachten sie ihm die letzten Buchen
Liessen dem von Stoffeln sagen, er möchte kommen
Und die Buchen zählen

Um Mitternacht fährt auf – Feuerschweif
Der Grüne reitend auf schwarzem Bock
Das Fuhrwerk des Teufels – Geisselknall
Zauberei und Hexenwerk – Schwefelqualm

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from Die schwarze Spinne, track released January 1, 2020

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