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DORNENREICH @ FREE & EASY FESTIVAL MUNICH
June 25, 2022

It's a big joy for us to be part of this year's line up of the FREE & EASY FESTIVAL, which will take place on the area of Munich's Backstage, where we were given the opportunity to both play and experience great concerts in the past.

On this very special evening - the 24th of July - we will be joined by two further bands from our home country Tyrol we are friends with: Traitors to the Crown are a metal band formed only two years ago, however their members are equipped with loads of experience from former bands and projects, whereas Sarcasm Syndrome are nothing short of a true doom metal legend of our hometown Innsbruck.

So, needless to say, we are very much looking forward to this evening - and we are in pleasant anticipation of a fantastic summer meeting with many of you!

More infos: Tourdates

Picture: Carsten Brand

EIGENWACH...
February 10, 2022

...we also rehearse for the upcoming concerts. This opening track of HER VON WELKEN NÄCHTEN - bursting with ideas and emotions - offers many, many motives and moments and it unfolds as one unique rapture.

It will be magical to experience the lure of this very song together with you as part of our concerts.

Tourdates and ticket presale, see: Tourdates

Here is another archive picture from olden HER VON WELKEN NÄCHTEN-days...

Pic: Eviga, 1999; KHT

EKLATANZ...
April 6, 2022

...of Heretoir with full commitment during a Dornenreich concert back in 2019 - and soon again!

The concerts are getting closer and closer - and for some dates there are not that many tickets left ... so, be quick in case you don't have your ticket yet!

We count the days already, friends!

Unfortunately, the concert in Enns (14.05.2022) can't take place as planned due to an unforeseeable schedule conflict. Purchased tickets will be refunded.

Picture: Carsten Brand

DER HEXE FLAMMEND’ BLICK (THE WITCH'S BURNING GAZE)
March 27, 2022

...is to be part of every single Dornenreich metal setlist.

The times when the songs for HEXENWIND and DURCH DEN TRAUM came into existence (2001-2004) rank among the most experimental and playful times of my life. I used to be absorbed in Dornenreich's artistic universe totally as one might guess when looking at this picture...

Whenever we intone this song live it truly gives me this rare and deep feeling that no word can follow...

Soon we will share this feeling again - at one shared place, at a shared and specific moment...

Picture: Eviga, burning gaze, 2001; AD

TRAUERBRANDUNG (SURGE OF GRIEF)
March 23, 2022

...is a song that we rehearse for the upcoming tour. And after the long pandemic silence it’s even more perceptible how much dramatic power this song bursts with referring to both music and words.

We can hardly wait to live through this song together with you in the scope of the forthcoming concerts - this much is certain!

The attached picture which our archive brought to light dates back to the days when we composed HER VON WELKEN NÄCHTEN ... and one can hear TRAUERBRANDUNG almost when looking at it, right?

We look forward to the shows so much - and to you, your presence, your passion!

Picture: Eviga, summer 1999, TST

CRUELTY AND BRIDGES
March 18, 2022

In these times of obvious human cruelty we intensely remember the connective forces within and afield - and at all times we in Dornenreich consider the bridgebuilding quality of art to be one of these forces.

Since its beginnings Dornenreich has always addressed the bare, vulnerable and sensitive individual with all its recognitions, decisions and positionings. Dornenreich addresses the single human being every community relies on. This empathic individual becoming more aware by and by has always been our symbol as well as our centre of confidence.

Hence Dornenreich represents the individual’s human search for belonging, balance and understanding, a kind of understanding that is determined to also confront the dark areas, the destructive, boundless fractions of human existence. And Dornenreich is willing to really understand these fractions, is willing to integrate and even transmute them.

In these times in particular we realize Dornenreich's essence clearer than ever before and Dornenreich's expression advocates - clearer than ever before - the depth of being, the preciousness of being here and of living life within a vital, multifaceted and respectful global community.

May we be given the chance to ritually summon this community within the scope of the upcoming concerts, friends!

Here’s to brighter days and a soon reunion!

Picture: Peter Griesser

Tourdates

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DISCOGRAPHY

DU WILDE LIEBE SEI (CD)
Prophecy Productions, 2021

Audio recordings, mix and mastering:

Markus Stock, Eviga and Inve @ Wallbach-Studio, Song-Werkstatt and Klangschmiede E (2019-2020)

Line-Up:

Eviga: voices, guitars, percussion
Inve: violin, keyboards

Nadja Daniel: additional voices ("In tiefem Schweigen")

Lyrics (PDF):

german german english english

Tracklist:

CD1:

So ruf' sie wach das Sehnen
In Strömen aus Verwandlung ein flackerloses Licht
Dein knöchern' Kosen
Liebes dunkle Nacht
Der Freiheit Verlangen nach goldenen Ketten
Sie machen Mangel zum Geschenk
Das Geheimnis des Quellkosters
Das Sehnen von Mond und Sonne
Dem Kühnen in der Stille
Freiheit erlösen

CD2: (ltd. hardcover book edition)

In tiefem Schweigen (bonus track)
Audiokommentar und inszenierte Lesung (ca. 54 min)

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BIOGRAPHY

DORNENREICH - intense - mystic - timeless

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Founded in 1996, Dornenreich have proved a recipe for uniquely intense music, expressive German lyrics, and a charismatic presence on stage for more than 25 years now.

After years of extensive production phases in the studio, after years filled with concerts and tours, after chart positions and an Impala Silver Award for over 20,000 copies of their third album sold all over Europe, Dornenreich took a break in 2014 — with the release of their eight studio record "Freiheit" in the eighteenth year of their history, they deliberately withdrew in order to renew their perspectives in the light of more sophisticated constellations and to continue on their very own path.

While that didn’t mean the Austrians didn’t give a lot of celebrated concerts across Europe after 2014, it took them more than seven years to come forth with a new studio album.

The year 2021 — which also marked the 20th anniversary of "Her von welken Nächten," the record that put Dornenreich on the map as one of the most defining and unconventional acts amongst German-language metal and folk bands — saw Dornenreich return with their ninth studio album, "Du wilde Liebe sei". With this genre-defying record released in their 25th year of existence (official German charts #31), they have impressively proven that they feel obliged to the nature of life and a radical understanding of art exclusively.

With their inimitable emotional force, their momentum and unpredictability, Dornenreich embody the paragon of an exciting and independent-minded band, and with their symbolist as well as confrontative criticism of self and civilisation, they harbour within them a depth and an explosiveness that have no rivals.

INTERVIEWS

If you would like to add your interview to this archive, please feel free to send them via e-mail to webmaster@flammentriebe.com (with proper credit info).

2022

Audio-Interview gemeinsam mit Perchta (radio WÖRGL+)

2020

Interview mit Metal1.info

2016