#maria zerfall

the song in the video is called

Nightmare Angel.

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I DESERVE TO BE HURT.

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Maria Zerfall – Tote Zone

Maria Zerfall is as kult as fuck.

She died in 2023 and the Noise Extra podcast did a nice retrospective/tribute to her based around this tape you can hear it HERE.

Maria Zerfall – Kopfkrieg 1985-1995 Electronic, Industrial

Maria Zerfall real name (1965-2023) Christine Weyhreter dead february 16, 2023

The German one-woman-solo-project MARIA ZERFALL started 1982 in Crailsheim named as ZERFALL. The year 1983 was beginning of MARIA ZERFALL and her private cassette distribution MUSIC TO TURN TO, based in Düsseldorf, Germany. The music was recorded and duplicated privately on a 4-track-tape-recorder, and given away to friends and people, who were interested in it. In 1986-1991 MZ often appeared in different projects, like AKTIVE STAGNATION, MARIA ZERFALL IN PHASE PERVERS, ZEROSE, and collaborated with other musicians like KONRAD KRAFT, ROMAN RÜTTEN, etc. From the years 1987 to 1989 MZ gave only three concerts, two in Düsseldorf and one in Nürnberg.

MZ has released a lot of recordings, mostly cassettes but also some on Vinyl and CD.

The industrial music sometimes sounding like Throbbing Gristle, German texts and dadaism - Maria Zerfall, a real German legend, the mighty Mistress of the old school of noise. It was the alter-ego solo project of 34 years old Christine Weyrether from Dusseldorf. LOKI FOUNDATION, Germany: "The tapes by her were some of the first noise stuff we have heard after the borders had been opened. We were very impressed! It's quite unique that such hard and morbid electronics were produced from the one-woman project". She started in 80th on the wings of punk invasion and personal non-compromising nihilism. She had played in a few bands before she finally released her own strange project. She was not interested in producing larger things like vinyl or concerts during this time. The result was in the six years of strong impulsive activity and in the 10 tape albums (1985-91), mostly of extremely limited edition and of great rarity nowadays. She just wished to make the music, nothing more: LOKI FOUNDATION: "Long time ago we've got the idea to ask her for an LP and Silvio from the German label Membrum Debile Propaganda had the same. Also he had the important contact with her - that is why this release is a mutual product of these two labels. And we were very surprised when she had agreed to do such thing. The recordings are taken from the several tapes. The best tracks between 1985 and 1991 were selected and we made the final mastering. She was happy and we too. I think the most part of the materials to be much more intense then the material from the most of newcomer noise projects: I don't think that she would like to make the new material now. But maybe there will be some other re-releases by he MDP label or the others. "Als ware nichts gewessen" presented the collection of 13 deadly shining relic experiments in the veil of urban-raw-electro-industrial sound and noise released in a home studio bunker of MZ.

Filled with the strained urban aesthetics mechanic-industrial destruction of cult THROBBING GRISTLE early years with absolutely sounding in her works: "Kopfmord", "Knochen-brecher", "Totenstille", "Als ware nichts gewesen", "Nazi jazz". Like a ghost of Fasbinder spirit of post-war Germany Maria Zerfall have arose - mechanic Maria from Fritz Lang "Metropolis", the archaic Goddess of her personal cults, the ruthless destructive messenger of the sonic Armageddon - ashes to ashes, sound to sound, devastation to devastation: claustrophobia to claustrophobia. The industrial mantras, rough springs of low bass, perforate static ultra-noises and amplitude vibrations, monotonous droning eclipses, chaotic naked distressing echoes, sting poison groans of mysterious signal, larynx wheezing from reflections of the steel death, decadence of depressed machines. Combined with the lonely monotonous monologues in German it seems it looks like a dying whale cry, like a German military disco in the Gas Camera of Europe, like a war - no taboo, no limit, no mercy!..