Suicide Commando concert in Berlin

Not always do we have the luck to find, for Christmas, a place where they have interesting cultural events and parties of a certain level. Also, sometimes, going home for Christmas means leaving the big cities where we live in to go back to those small towns that we left a long time ago precisely because there was nothing to do there. If this year you’re lucky enough to find yourself on holiday in Berlin for Christmas, we recommend that you don’t miss a great concert which will take place on the 26th of December.

The band is called Suicide Commando, but don’t be fooled by the name: it’s not death metal or verbal contents with references to death and the such, but a band made up by a single self-ironic member, the great Johan Van Roy, who founded it in 1986. That year, when Johan was very young, he began to experiment with electronic music, putting a lot of passion and dedications into his creations. The result of his artistic investigations was one of the best known industrial electro projects of today.

The first recording that Johan made under the name Suicide Commando was in 1989, when he also appeared on the ‘Electronic’ compilation. Back then, Johan was producing his records himself, relying on his capacities and in the possibility of achieving future results. Time, evidently, proved him right. And so, years later, he began to release his music under the Belgian label Kugelblitz Records. However, it was only in 1994 that, finally, the first true CD appeared, called ‘Critical Stage’, and released under another label (the German Off-Beat). ‘Stored Images’ followed in 1995 (which contains ‘See You in Hell’, one of his most popular tracks), ‘Contamination’ (made for the 10th anniversary of the project of the American label Electronic Death Trip, which has disappeared since), and ‘Construct-Destruct’ (1998). From that moment, Suicide Commando had imposed himself on the international music scene as one of the most successful electronica projects.

For that reason, in 2002, a compilation of his greatest hits was published, ‘Anthology’, on the ‘dependent’ label, created by Johan himself who, also, is a tireless worker and artist, always searching for new stimulations and ideas.

His last work is called ‘Implements of Hell’ (2011), and it’s worth a listen, especially if you love this musical style and if you wish to get to know the sound development of a band which has over 25 years artistic experience.

Suicide Commando will be playing at the Postbahnhof in Berlin on the 26th of December 2011 at 8pm. For more information: http://www.suicidecommando.be.

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If you’re not in the city and you want to give yourself a Christmas trip, we recommend that you rent apartments in Berlin and come to enjoy this concert and the many other attractions that the German capital offers.

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Translated by: aleixgwilliam
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