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347:, but was captured there. During his stay in America he also got in a conflict about money with some of his contacts who he stayed with for some time, one of them being the then neo-Nazi pagan occultist Nathan Pett, who later left the far-right scene, and was apparently beaten with a hammer and threatened with a pistol by two persons. At first this was just a rumour, but Möbus later admitted in an interview for a neo-Nazi site that the incident had taken place. He was arrested by 32: 300:

activities of the band. On 29 April in Sondershausen, the then-17-year-old band members Möbus, Schauseil, and Kirchner enticed Beyer to a meeting, and strangled him there with an electrical cord. Kirchner, in a now infamous quotation, was reported as saying: "Oh shit—now I've completely ruined my life." Schauseil claimed to have heard a voice in his head saying the nonsensical phrase "

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magazine, the same demo was praised as "unholy, hard guitar rock, wild and boisterous; for all the dark souls out there" ("unheiliger, harter Gitarrenrock, wild und ungestüm; für all die schwarzen Seelen dort draußen"). The Mansion of Metal site classified it as "essentially crappy punk rock/RAC" and

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The band achieved infamy because its original members (not in the band since 1999) murdered Sandro Beyer, a 15-year-old boy, in 1993. The canonical motive is that Beyer was privy to an illicit relationship of Schauseil's with a married woman, and had been spreading rumours about this and other

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The band Absurd has continued in existence since 1999, going through many changes of personnel, and losing all of its original members. The main line-up features Wolf, Hendrik's brother, handling vocals and Sven "Unhold" Zimper handling the instruments, with Sebastian Schauseil performing the

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EP the band's first holistic piece of work, with adjusted concept and layout, representing the band's step away from its former musical dilettantism; however, he still described some of it as dilettante, and Ronald Möbus criticised the final mixing.

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and Didrik Søderlind classified the band's early recordings "more akin to '60s garage punk than some of the Black Metal of their contemporaries", and according to Christian Dornbusch and Hans-Peter Killguss, the second demo

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by Hendrik Möbus (also known as Randall Flagg, Jarl Flagg Nidhögg and JFN) and Sebastian Schauseil (Dark Mark Doom) in 1992, with a third member, Andreas Kirchner, joining at a later stage.

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The band members were released on parole in 1998, because they had been under eighteen when they had committed their crime. Shortly after release, Möbus violated the terms of his

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which the Antifascist Action Germany claimed responsibility for, during a campaign in Berlin where there were also posters with Möbus' face and personal information put up, and

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death camp, holding up Nazi banners inside a gas chamber and outside barracks. His parole was consequently revoked. He managed to flee to the United States, where he met

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with messages against him and the label. When released from the last prison sentence, Möbus appeared on stage during a neo-Nazi event, although did not play anything.

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In 2017 Hendrik Möbus assembled a lineup to perform live as Absurd at Asgardsrei, neither Wolf nor Unhold authorized the performances. In 2019, Gelal Necrosodomy of

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shows on its cover the grave of the murdered Sandro Beyer, and inside says: "The cover shows the grave of Sandro B. murdered by horde ABSURD on 29.04.93 AB".

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has organized at least one demonstration in late 2014 to protest against the racist music shop Möbus owns together with one other person. Two

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Schauseil is still involved with the underground metal scene; he performed between 1999 and 2004 with the folk-influenced nationalist band

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elements. Due to its musical dilettantism, the band was not taken seriously by black metallers for a long time. In an ad in

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had no similarities to black metal, neither of the first nor the second wave, but was rather a mixture of primitive

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In prison, Möbus (born 20 January 1976) was able to carry on with the band under the temporary name "

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This article is about the German black metal band from the 1990s. For the philosophical concept, see

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In 2019, Hendrik Möbus was confronted by parts of the audience during a concert in

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Dark Mark Doom (Sebastian Schauseil) – bass, guitar, vocals (1992–1994, 1998–1999)

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Their lyrics concern nationalistic, pagan (Hendrik Möbus is the founder of the

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Unhold (Sven Zimper) – bass, drums, guitar, vocals (1999–2012, 2019–)

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and Grand Belial's Key joined the band and was featured in the EP's

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split with Dark Fury, Barad Dûr and Goatmoon (self-released, 2020)

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In 2002, Pantheon (USA) released a tribute album to Möbus, called

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Satanskinder. Der Mordfall von Sondershausen und die rechte Szene

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JFN (Hendrik Möbus) – drums (1992–1994, 1998–1999) vocals (2017–)

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