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MÖRSER|HISTORY |
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The history of MÖRSER 25/June/2001 |
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In 1996 german business-man Percy Dollarbill, a fat and indecent man with a predilection for american stage-names and himself, came up with the idea of recruiting eight young men for a "good-looking, yet disturbing, modern, mind-destroying, sort of evil though quite sympathetic and funny band", for a friend told him that where there is music, there is money. Looking through the book collection of his dead father he found what he called "an interesting word to be the name of my project" and this word was (who would have guessed): MÖRSER. He felt it sounded "quite evil, though not too scary, quite international, though not too american and really, really progressive". A few days went by until eight young, hot and attractive men walked straight into Dollarbill`s office appartement, talking something about themselves being evil and experienced, since they played in bands like CAROL, SYSTRAL, MINION and METÖKE, bands that Percy Dollarbill has never heard a fucking word of. Anyway, to him they seemed to be exactly the right tool to finally slaughter the cash-cow. With the help of famous producer Don Kusche, P.D. sent his horse on the track in 1997 with an outstanding debut album stuffed with numerous brutal noise attacks and killer cliche artwork. In Dollarbill`s eyes the "leading piece of vinyl for a new wave of modern trash-metal" and he named it TWO HOURS TO DOOM. Unfortunately the international press and lovers of good, hard-rocking music all over the world didn`t freak out immediately, as P.D. expected and the record sales were far away from going platinum. Promotion failed, the whole concept didn`t sell and TWO HOURS TO DOOM became just another record, though personally, I love it a lot and consider it to be groundbreaking. Early 1998 a collaboration with canadian mosh-rockers THE SWARM brought forth a split seven-inch with two new and more distinguished songs from MÖRSER, but again the record sales didn`t come up to expectations. In my opinion it is still the best piece of split-vinyl the world has ever seen, though, but MÖRSER was far away from breakthrough. Their contribution to the CD-compilation THE SEED OF THE NEXT SEASON in `99 with a song called WORLDWIDEWAR could be described as a promotional breakdown. The sound quality was judged by international critics as "bad", "boring" and "a joke". The lyrics were "a superficial treatise about war", they said. I would say it is the best song on the whole compilation, together with the SYSTRAL song, and I mean it. At this point Percy Dollarbill remembered that the key to international stardom lies in the United States of America and if MÖRSER can make it there, he thought, they can make it everywhere. Therefore he sent them over for a two-weeks tour in summer `99, to meet up with the big ones like KID ROCK, JAMES BROWN, KISS or THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS PRINCE to learn how to sell records and become living legends. Again it all failed. Of course they never met any of the people mentioned above and the tour was everything but a major success (though the boys in the band said it was "...really nice and great fun".): a little not too serious booze, no drugs, no girls and only a little is known about something like a small wanna-be riot at the MoreThan Music-Festival in Columbus, Ohio. Not enough to get the band any closer to becoming one of the greatest and most scandalous Rock`n`Roll bands ever, as P.D. intended. When realising that his plan won`t get any far, Percy Dollarbill decided to jump off board and sell all the contracts and the soul of what was once his key to eternal wealth to a yet unknown newcomer record label called CHROME SAINT MAGNUS and let other people worry about turning "a bunch of boring, dumb nobodies" into a well-functioning money-machine. He shouldn`t have, because it seems that MÖRSER`s new album 10 000 BAD GUYS DEAD released in January 2001 on CHROME SAINT MAGNUS will take the world by storm. The artwork, songwriting and the lyrics are about to set new standards for modern, extreme music and extended European- and US-Tours in 2001 will do the rest to make MÖRSER one of the finest german exports and one of the most successful bands ever. Slick Rogers, Rollin Stone Magazine |