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All bands listed on this website want to make
a statement for peace. You can contribute by visiting the bands' websites
and giving
feedback to the bands - spreading the spirit of peace on the internet...
there are no downloads anymore due to German copyright laws. [by visiting a band's website you understand that [BANDS-AGAINST-WAR.ORG] is not responsible in any way for the contents of the songs or linked bands' websites] |
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CHAX - a newcomer band from Coburg, Germany - have contributed a lot to politics in songs. Ranging from harsh political statements to love-songs CHAX are offering alternative-rock at its best. |
CHAX - fine horse was written shortly after the attack on the WTC expressing the fear of many people that cowboy-politics of the US-administration could lead to desastrous decisions or even war. Recorded in January 2003, the song will be featured on their forthcoming demo-EP but is not yet released. |
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Pierogi Express - a young band originating from Germany and Poland is strongly attracting attention throughout Bavaria ;-) - mainly working in Erlangen/Nuremberg. Their music - funk-psychedelic-bluesrock - will haunt you! | Pierogi Express - soft and dirty: expressing the distance between the soft resistance on the streets and the dirty tactics of war without words... | |||
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"a professional team of singers, using their abilities for music's sake.." yvonne moore |
Littlebigmen are one of Switzerland's finest a-capella groups, releasing "mr. bush" only on their website, thus reminding him that he is not the president of this world. |
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Verspielte Zeit - German Band with German texts. Coming from Frankfurt/Main, here is how they describe their stuff: "Rock-music with spheric guitar sound, based on groovy hypnotic rhytms of drums and bass, topped with vocals in German language. Some call it New Kraut Rock." | "He Ho he" is a peace-song. somehow meditative and described by the band as a "call for smoking the peace-pipe!"... here we go! | |||
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| entity is a young band from Southern Germany playing - as they call it - "emotional punk rock or something"... Three guys - all aged 21 - with clear views about the world and their music. | their song "first victim" is taken from their 2nd d.i.y.-cd "one year's weekends". Adressed directly to G. W. Bush and his administration and written in october 2001, this song is a warning that in every war the first victim is truth. You can find the lyrics to this song [here]. | ||||
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The Midges might sound familiar to scots' ears although the association might not be too positive... - anyway: these guys are no insects but a band from Berlin, founded in 1995 playing something that they can't describe. |
"Waiting always waiting // for a
sign from him always waiting // Crying always crying // but if death comes
only dying // Praying always praying // to a sleeping god always praying..."
- "waiting" |
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handmade "public rock" is what's coming from Southern bavaria and called Storehouse. Banjo, fiddle, flutes, blues harp, e-guitar, accoustic-guitar... listen for yourself... | ||||
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homeslice is one of the most promising alternative-rock-bands of the north of Munich, Southern Germany. a powerful and very dynamic soundexperience not to be missed. | ...it`s never been difficult to find someone to blame//an outlaw who deserves no tolerance//a system that can`t exist without strict rules//that does not teach how to breath freely// but being a scapegoat is better than being nothing at all// the country of the saints and sinners//the moral majority and the fallen ones//the popes and the hypocrites //leave no place for livin` | |||
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DAMN NERO - that means powerful Hard Rock from Germany. The Band describes their sound as "AC/DC meets Accept" and you will agree to this, especially when hearing the singers' voice. | "in my head" was written shortly after the election of G. W. Bush for president of the USA and before Nov. 11. It was like a presentiment of things to come but fortunately the worst case has not happened until now. This song is released since March 2003 on the new album DAMN NERO IV. Click here for the song's lyrics. | |||
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from Leverkusen / NRW / Germany | "Mary wants to fly" | |||
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dreadline is a newcomer-band from Frankfurt-Main/Germany that plays very emotional "guerilla-metal" a variation of new metal. | "philip" is dreadline's song about violence, crime an ignorance - based on a personal experience. | |||
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skin diary is a multicultural band from Berlin/ Germany, consisiting of a german singer an italian guitar player, an austrian bass player and an iranian drummer. Four different musical and personal backgrounds which produce a mixture of melancholy and aggressiveness in their tracks, living a perfect symobiosys with the lyrics. | Xiaozi is a chinese word. The lyrics are about the relationship between capitalists and war leading people on the one side and our society on the other and what they take from us without giving back... | |||
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CBU can be
considered as veterans in the european Hardcore Crust community. Started
back in 1989 and had Tours and Releases in Europe, Asia and U.S.A. |
"soldaten" was inspired by a goup of marching soldiers and the sadness about the senselessness of these young guys going to die for a cause somewhere... | |||
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ballsdead's quote: "Check out
our site; in fact all our songs are against war..." |
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Cosmo Zaloom is Hard-Pop from Hannover/Germany. Cosmo Zaloom are playing own songs with English lyrics. Founded in 1993, winners of the "Rockwettbewerb Hannover" in the same year, 2 CDs and one Maxis-Single, produced by Klaus-Peter Matziol (Eloy), Support for Bob Dylan, Marillion, BAP and Crowded House... |
"sleepers" - The term "Sleeper" was spreading everywhere after September 11... Cosmo Zaloom try to capture the feeling of three people on their way to new lands... |
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MUGGEFUCKERS from Dresden/Germany are playing groovy guitar-based rock-music, varying with acoustic guitar parts from time to time. | "missklang" is about hate and ignorance in people's minds - causing dissonance in german society... | |||
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Paraneuja from Darmstadt/Germany are playing an interesting kind of Pop-Rock - obviously inspired by the German "hamburger schule". | "neverending story about war" is a 7-minute-song about a supressed personality... | |||
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BSUR - aka "be as you are" - a young band Neustadt/Co/Germany playing german pop-rock with mostly german lyrics. | that's what bsur say about their song: "kein engel" is a call for more tolerance and less envy to make life for all people easier... | |||
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The band OSH from Northern Germany was founded in 1992. Their progressive grind rock is an unique, open-minded style that brings together many kinds of metal and rock music and combines them with totally different influences like ethnical drumming... | that's what OSH say about their song: "The lyrics of this song have been rewritten several times. The final version was started in the evening of Sept. 11th 2001 and is about american reaction to the attack as well as with our general perception of the world..." [BANDS-AGAINST-WAR.ORG] WARNING: HARD STUFF!!! | |||
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on!ones from Bochum/Germany are playing Punk'n'Roll. A powerful and passionate live-performance and songs about love and social problems are catching the audience at the first glance. | "toys don't cry" is about kids playing war without any knowledge about history and war!! (to download song: save target as...) | |||
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disconnect. about disconnect.: "we are a punkband from Nuremberg/Germany and playing together for about 2 years. Listen to the songs and make up your own definition. Our favourite descriptions: Punkrock. Soul. Street-Emo. Plumifrons. The lyrics are about lots of political issues - not with a raised (middle)finger, more from a personal point of view, because everything humans do can be political in one way or another..." BAW.org say: whatever they say: it's punk! | disconnect. about "an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind": "originally the song was written as a reaction to the bush-administration during the bombing of afghanistan. sadly enough, we still play the song because war just never end, no matter if now in iraq or since years in algeria or virtually everywhere else." | |||
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sisko - two brothers from croatia playing goth-metal with growing success in Germany... | "trial of strength" is a direct result of the sisko-brothers' personal impressions of war in Yugoslavia, hatred, fear and terrrible pain on all sides of the conflict - thus sadly still being very much uptodate... | |||
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breakdawn - funk-grunch-independent-band Germany... |
"...There is only the wind,
blowing through those holes in the skulls and proclaiming the truth of that mortable error of human kind..." "the battle" |
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