We invite everyone who, like us, thirsts for life.” We are looking forward to experiencing, enjoying and capturing all the great concert moments again together with our fans on Memento Mori… as if the ferryman was already standing by. For us as a band, it was a formative experience that united us even more and allowed us to look forward creatively.
To us this means: Even if you have something to celebrate – everything could be over at any moment! That’s kind of what happened to us when we played by far our biggest headlining shows shortly before the pandemic began and our most successful album, Das Elfte Gebot, was released. He held a gold or laurel wreath over the head of the victorious and continuously admonished them with the waits “Memento Mori”. In ancient Rome there was a ritual where a slave stood or walked behind the victorious commander during the triumphal procession. Nerdfact: If you listen closely, you will also find the central motif of world-famous film scores, including the soundtrack of “The Lord of the Rings”! What does all this have to do with FEUERSCHWANZ? Since the band was founded, it has always been about living in the here and now and celebrating existence. In the song, the Gregorian chant “Dies Irae” (Latin for “Day of Wrath”) is quoted with bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy and Hans’ heavy guitars. It is still a frequently quoted motif in the visual arts world today. The saying “Memento Mori” (Latin for “Be aware of mortality”) originates from ancient Rome and was one of the main ideas in the poetry of the High Middle Ages as well as the Vanitas movement of German Romanticism. “The title track of the new album is the logical continuation of our previous album Das Elfte Gebot. Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Prinz Hodenherz on the new song: Now the band offers a true ode to life with the title track ‘Memento Mori’, with it getting a visual representation of the song from the band’s upcoming new album. Recently, German medieval folk rock act Feuerschwanz announced their upcoming new studio album, ‘Memento Mori’.
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