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Philipp "Freki" S: On the sidelines slippers?

is slowly but surely in the mainstream of the German metal scene, the distancing of Philip "Freki S. and his band VARG. Often we notice it only when looking closely, because with few exceptions, is not spoken publicly about it.

The Legacy magazine has distanced himself eloquently by S.. From the Ragnarök festival you have unloaded him. His interview with the hard rock was not printed. The Twilight Mail Order sales leads VARG no longer in range. And the big label Nuclear Blast Records, which announced yet less than half a year's contract with VARG, all publications and Shop Shop VARG has taken from the range.

respect of the said contract with Nuclear Blast, which was shortly thereafter canceled without notice for any reason (from the label) is there in recent months some open questions. Meanwhile, a member of VARG, bassist Timo "Managarm", has expressed in an interview with the Austrian webzine Stormbringer to all this: " History with Nuclear Blast was indeed a bit confusing - even for us Initially, both sides were extremely. euphoric and the preliminary agreement has already been signed on 26.10.2009. The right treaty then comprised 15 pages, some additions and signed by any party. About a month later we were then the pre-contract "canceled" by the words sent. With the safety something to do with the cry with which we struggle right now and have been talked about at the first meeting in Donzdorf too. Why so suddenly became a problem, we ourselves do not know "

The" reputation. "- That is nothing but the involvement of Philip S. on" right side "of Black Metal and Pagan - by VARG was thus already "at the first meeting in Donzdorf" an issue. Certainly p. will then expressed, and denied the accusations, have. as safe as can be said that the research of Nuclear Blast have led to results that the statements of S . represented as untrue. Because nobody likes to be lied to, and especially not in a budding relationship, was the termination a logical consequence of the Treaty.

with his reaction to this step by Nuclear Blast, Philip S. has also clearly shown that you can not believe him and he tends to the truth (he'd intended as a "white lie" mean) to say . For the end of 2009 Philip S. writes about the canceled contract between VARG and Nuclear Blast: "Actually, everything seemed to be wrapped up, the band VARG was amazed at the openness of Nuclear Blast and they love the new album" Blutaar "but in the final analysis, there were a few points in which band and label do not agree. VARG and Nuclear Blast were therefore go their separate ways because both parties to their Basic ideas of music, marketing and content could not unite in full. VARG flip-flops, there will not. "

Why did Philip S. not taken the opportunity to on its own" clean sweep "to make? He would have on his contacts and activities at the" right edge "can confess to having a honest opinion, a further damage to turn away from his band.

has Instead, he lied to the fans of VARG and hoped to be able to conceal his horizons successfully. At the same time he has an action" VARG against Nazis started to allow it to the outside world as "anti-fascist" stands.

No one buys it now even that he was recruited from an honest belief "against the right". Since it does not help if he makes from the stage any comments "against the right", as it should have happened on the Winter Fire Festival: "Through their prior highly controversial appearance at the Winter Fire Festival is likely the band Varg all have made skeptics by their clear statements on the stage clear what attitude within the band prevails on the subject right-wing radicalism. nazis fuck off! The never-ending line at the autograph session, the band would then probably once every doubters convinced. "

is not a course organizer, VARG is still a stage, say otherwise to the "setting" the band / by Philip S. (can). However, any reasonable metal fan is now become aware of what to make of such announcements.

Whether with or without flip-flops by Nuclear Blast, Philip S. moves determined by the wayside.

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Philipp "Freki" S: Is the wolf open season?

first it looked as can whether to rely Philipp "Freki S. of VARG on the support of the influential" Metal brothers "from the editors of the German metal magazines after his contacts and Activities at the "right side" of the metal scene have been made public in January.

the accusations to his address, expressed for example in the forums of rock hard and Metal Hammer, were dismissed as "propaganda" and "slander." To stop the further debate on S., the topics were summarily closed or deleted. The organizers of Wacken Open Air and the PartySan have the allegations were not taken seriously.

Am 25.01. or at 27.01. was both the Wacken as well as from PartySan an opinion / decision on the planned site of VARG, with the participation of Philip S., announced at both festivals. In a statement to wait for you still!

But S. has announced in the forum of his wolf-time festivals

" To prevent speculation, etc discussions.

It is a great Hard Rock will leave no questions open interview Please wait for the now and then asks me if you still want to know something.

Thanks! "

In the meantime, distanced both the Ragnarok Festival (VARG, only without the" Freki occur ") and the Legacy of Philip S., the latter published a comprehensive article and declared:..

" Now he is the ass on ground-He can catch the cheating, he has disappointed his fans and compromised his band This soup will not spoon up from the editorial team for him by his name to a "critical interview with VARG sets. With this view we are not alone, and want to strengthen all your back, do not dare at the moment to handle the matter as it is reasonably heard and responsible manner. "

eagerly announced the interview with Philip S. was expected in hard rock. This interview exists indeed, for in the above mentioned article was referred to the legacy: "It has long not matter that there really anything is true, what they are accused Freki, for all that he in an interview with the colleagues grants from the Rock Hard moves with the rest of the room standing reproach to the more or less the same level. "

The current edition of the hard rock has now been published. Without interview with Philip S. / VARG. Instead, his opinion was , published in the forum of the rock hard, as printed letter. Another mention of the "causa VARG" does not exist.

should not surprise. Editorial Intern you will probably have come to believe that there is no absolute assurance that this interview can really draw a line under the affair by Philip S.. Who can guarantee that no more details are known from the machinations of S., which contradict his statements in the interview end?

So we have reprinted his comments as a letter to the editor. Without comment. A letter to the editor do not necessarily represent the views of the editors to be identical. In this way, one moves from Philip S., but without the calculated Knallfeffekt Legacy of the above article. For the next steps in the "causa VARG" you will certainly want to benefit from the reactions of readers to this letter, depending. Only when a trend emerges, either through ignorance or lack of interest and by condemnations and calls for boycotts, the editors of the hard rock probably decide how you will behave in the future against Philip S..

may have much to be said, that seem to be the days of "Freki" counted. Apart from the VARG label Noise Art / Rock The Nation there is as yet no one from among the "Metal brothers" who will commit themselves unconditionally to all Philip S. and VARG. Although at the beginning it seemed as if the S. include support its business partners and patrons can be, this does not fulfill his hope in the end.

's all (he) clarifying interview with the rock hard, which has not yet published, suggests the suspicion: The wolf is fair game.

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Philipp "Freki" S: "First comes the food, then morals?"

Philipp "Freki S. of VARG can not complain. Although he is actually in the center of a violent verbal dispute over opportunism, hypocrisy, and hypocrisy in dealing with "right-wing tendencies" in Black and Pagan Metal. From the Ragnarök festival he has been even unloaded. But the commercial success of "Blutaar," the new album of VARG doing any harm. In the Webcharts of the EMP-mail order the album is number 4 of the best-selling recordings, and on "Death & Black Metal bestsellers" from Amazon, he has at least managed to 11th place.

S. may well entitled to assume that the recent cyclone has worried about his band VARG attention for a significant bonus for "Blutaar. Contemporaries with a strong penchant for conspiracy theories are even speculate that S. has planned this whole virtual hype and presents. That will be indeed been the case, but he seems in the end actually to benefit. been

we call us back once more to mind, which accused him of everything, and Philip S. is widely acknowledged:

• private & business contacts at the "right side" of the Black Metal
• own activities in the form of concert performances and events, at the "right side" of Black Metal

one has to be a "Nazi" to be in this country made a pariah. Connections to the "right side" rich as a snare for my Career, be it for business, in politics, or in show business. Imagine, just once, S. would have been as a young, ambitious politician with the Youth Union and he had maintained at the same time connections to the NPD - would you let him continue to be a candidate for the Bavarian state parliament?

Or, to stay closer to the reality of the Philip S., his long-standing contacts and activities at the "right side" of black metal would be 2010 not only in 2008 but had been made public. Really believed that an idol Kühnemund and Wolf-Rüdiger Sears would have given away at this time for to save the band VARG from falling into the "brown marsh"?

What is 2010 different than 2008? The allegations against Philip S. are as relevant today as then. But the deal is now so very different. And to understand this, one is a look at the sales figures of "Blutaar" have to throw. VARG 2008 was just one of many bands from the German Black Metal underground, while not even one of the best. But in 2010, this band from a standing start selling several thousand copies of their new CD, and has tickets for the biggest metal festivals in Germany in the pocket. With VARG and money can be earned. That's the whole point!

You have to be pretty naive, in order, for example, the editors of the rock hard for immaculate metal idealists who believe it just to the music and it supposedly embodied life (the "Metal-Spirit") is. Of course, these men and women are also very pragmatic businessmen. For example, Wolf-Rüdiger Sears works for the advertising agency Sure Shot Worx in Hamburg: " What do magazines such as Terrorizer (UK), Aardschock (Holland), Close Up (Sweden), spin (Norway), Metal Hammer Greece or Metal Hammer Italy together please all stand with us in close contact. As a further 400 media, too. SURE SHOT WORX works here as an organizational Link between the label, artists and journalists. "As luck would have it so, Wolf-Rüdiger Sears writes for the rock hard. Certainly it is very neutral and objective when it comes to such bands, which he will give his company the best publicity is ...

If you consider the rock hard editorial: "What we have of it if VARG than Nazi-Band branded?", then the answer is quite simple: nothing had "Blutaar" everywhere at once! been boycotted, then this would have huge financial consequences for the label Noise Art / Rock the Nation revealed. Because the investment in this publication , Including, for example, the considerable financial expenditure on advertising is one, could not be recouped. But it may well be suspected that their advertising does not pay Noise Art in advance, but this has bought the account with a payment of at least 30 days. No sales = no revenue = no paid bills. So easy!

The interest in preserving Philip S. and his band VARG before the boycott, has absolutely nothing to do with whether one believes him or not, or how to think privately about him and judge. It is primarily to business interests, and secondarily also to avoiding a loss of face. Since it has now been fixed once the view that Philip S. and VARG despite above reproach "resozialisierbar" are, one must also follow this line fairly consistently.

The morality of the talk in the metal scene like or even preached is completed, whenever their own, as perceived vital interests are concerned. And as it should in a capitalist society, be different, these interests are defined very well in sales figures and advertising revenue. When a metal band has accumulated enough substance to bond with their gravitational many fans and the purchaser, then the question of a boycott, which they themselves from enjoying the economic cycle, which is developing the more a band around exclude, but no longer.

The best example is still BURZUM. A band or a project whose main character a convicted murderer, arsonist, and an avowed racist, anti-Semite and a Nazi is. BURZUM but is also a band that has sales of which itself can only dream of Philip S.. The new album "Belus" will be released on the prestigious British label Plastic Head, and markets, and really any metal on this planet, it will sound at least, if not now even want. Once in the rock hard again and again over BURZUM reported, it should still go with the devil, if "Belus" there not at least a review (which you, as is usual in such circles, is also can pay) is replaced.

Philip S. can breathe easier. The purpose of this sales success of "Blutaar" he has delivered the best and most convincing argument, why can the further career of VARG no demolition to be done. The metal brothers are not idealists. You will not be on a piece, so tiny it may be, without the big cake. For only is the food, then morals.