{"id":9942,"date":"2023-09-29T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/in-extremo-7-20-year-classic\/"},"modified":"2023-09-29T10:45:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T08:45:39","slug":"in-extremo-7-20-year-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/in-extremo-7-20-year-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"IN EXTREMO &#8211; &#8220;7&#8221; (20-year classic)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/InExtremo-7-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8919\" style=\"width:550px;height:550px\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/InExtremo-7-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/InExtremo-7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/InExtremo-7-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/InExtremo-7-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/InExtremo-7.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>IN EXTREMO<br\/>&#8220;7&#8221;<br\/>CD (Motor\/Universal)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Whoever spread the rumor beforehand that In Extremo would say goodbye to their previous style with &#8220;7&#8221;, let the Middle Ages be Middle Ages and dedicate themselves exclusively to contemporary music genres &#8211; this person could hardly have been more wrong. This is already made clear by the opener, &#8220;Erdbeermund,&#8221; based on a text by Francois Villon. A classic lyric, the bagpipes that have become dear over many years, the usual rocking guitars &#8211; an In-Extremo song par excellence. Like the introduction, so are the following pieces of the album: The crashing &#8220;K\u00f6nig Nimrod&#8221;, in which the band pushes the tempo in a hardly known way, the powerful &#8220;Ave Maria&#8221;, recorded with the support of Fanta Vierer Thomas D, the wonderfully melodic &#8220;Mein Kind&#8221; or the &#8220;K\u00fcss Mich&#8221;, which has rightly become a hit, show In Extremo in top form, even better than on the predecessor &#8220;S\u00fcnder ohne Z\u00fcgel&#8221;, because tighter, more compact, more self-contained and songwriterically stronger than ever, which is not least due to the work of guitarist Der Lange, who has contributed a myriad of great riffs that make In Extremo sound hard as rarely. But &#8220;7&#8221; can also come up with one or the other surprise, for example the two acoustic pieces &#8220;Davert-Tanz&#8221; and &#8220;Melancholie&#8221; (which should prove even the last doubters wrong) as well as the secret hit of the record, the bitterly nasty &#8220;Albtraum&#8221; (&#8220;Ich hab&#8217; meine Tante geschlachtet, meine Tante, die war alt und schwach&#8221;), which of course is not to be taken completely seriously. With &#8220;Segel&#8221; (&#8220;Set Sail&#8221;), In Extremo are then even good for the big dream again at the end: &#8220;Come with me on the journey.&#8221; Nothing better than that. (10)<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\">Arnulf Woock<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color\">(The review was first published in the Orkus! issue September 2003)<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"839\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/InExtremo-7-band.jpg\" alt=\"In Extremo 2003\" class=\"wp-image-9530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/InExtremo-7-band.jpg 839w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/InExtremo-7-band-550x358.jpg 550w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/InExtremo-7-band-768x500.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN EXTREMO&#8220;7&#8221;CD (Motor\/Universal) Whoever spread the rumor beforehand that In Extremo would say goodbye to their previous style with &#8220;7&#8221;, let the Middle Ages be Middle Ages and dedicate themselves exclusively to contemporary music genres &#8211; this person could hardly have been more wrong. 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