New Album: By a Mushroom Dish with Killerpilze English Translation
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February 27, 2013. 9:53, Anna Feist | Updated 12:20
Before the new Killerpilze album is released, the trio ventures out to a Friedrichshain restaurant kitchen.
Picture Captions:
1: The Killerpilz-Trio with B.Z. [(the name of the magazine)] employee Anna Feist at Restaurant Mutzenbacher
2: From left: Jo (23), Mäx (24), and Fabi (20) while breading mushrooms
3: The result of the frying hour at Friedrichshain
4: The band was founded as a student combo in 2002
In the kitchen of Restaurant Mutzenbacher in Friedrichshain, hecticness prevails. Between pots, pans, and mushrooms stand Killerpilze, the best known German teen band since Tokio Hotel.
“So, boys, today you’re cooking a mushroom dish with tartar sauce,” explains the Austrian restaurant chef Franz-Josef and shoos the trio into the work space. The first task: coating the mushrooms with breadcrumbs. Fabi (20), the youngest, is excited: “We’ve never done anything like this before!”
The guys have already “done” quite a lot, their 11-year band history is turbulent. The student band was founded in 2002 by Johannes “Jo” Halbig (23) and Maximilian “Mäx” Schlichter (24) in Dillingen an der Donau. Jo’s little brother, Fabian Halbig (20), was only nine at the time, “but he had a drum set”. And was pressed into service. Only three years later, Killerpilze managed to get a record deal with Universal. Then, in 2006, their big breakthrough.
Fabi: “With our first album with Universal, ‘Invasion der Killerpilze’”, it went straight up.” Certainly not with Universal. After two years, the label separated from the band. They weren’t thinking about a musical end, though. Mäx: “We simply founded our own label.”
Enough chatting, Franz-Josef admonishes them to order, the eggs need to be whipped for the tartar sauce. “I’m rather lazy in the kitchen,” Jo admits. Different from [how they are] in daily life: All three study in Munich, run their label, and tour across Europe. And on Friday they’re releasing their new album “Grell” as well.
In their song lyrics, you can hear that Killerpilze has gotten older. Instead of “Richtig Scheiße” (Really Shitty), their songs are now called “Studieren” [(Studying)] and “Sommerregen” [(Summer Rain)]. Only their more concise name needs to stay, there they are agreed: “The name is part of my identity,” Jo explains emphatically while he chops parsley for the sauce.
Mäx: “The name choices at the time were: Die Elektro-Päpste [(The Electric Popes)], Hitzli-Bitzli-Feuersturm [(Hitzli-Bitzli-Firestorm)], die Fruchtstäbchen [the Fruit Skewers], and Killerpilze. Retroactively, Killerpilze is the lesser evil.”
Two bundles of parsley later, lunch is served. And how does it taste? “Awesome, these are real killer mushrooms!”
February 27, 2013. 9:53, Anna Feist | Updated 12:20
Before the new Killerpilze album is released, the trio ventures out to a Friedrichshain restaurant kitchen.
Picture Captions:
1: The Killerpilz-Trio with B.Z. [(the name of the magazine)] employee Anna Feist at Restaurant Mutzenbacher
2: From left: Jo (23), Mäx (24), and Fabi (20) while breading mushrooms
3: The result of the frying hour at Friedrichshain
4: The band was founded as a student combo in 2002
In the kitchen of Restaurant Mutzenbacher in Friedrichshain, hecticness prevails. Between pots, pans, and mushrooms stand Killerpilze, the best known German teen band since Tokio Hotel.
“So, boys, today you’re cooking a mushroom dish with tartar sauce,” explains the Austrian restaurant chef Franz-Josef and shoos the trio into the work space. The first task: coating the mushrooms with breadcrumbs. Fabi (20), the youngest, is excited: “We’ve never done anything like this before!”
The guys have already “done” quite a lot, their 11-year band history is turbulent. The student band was founded in 2002 by Johannes “Jo” Halbig (23) and Maximilian “Mäx” Schlichter (24) in Dillingen an der Donau. Jo’s little brother, Fabian Halbig (20), was only nine at the time, “but he had a drum set”. And was pressed into service. Only three years later, Killerpilze managed to get a record deal with Universal. Then, in 2006, their big breakthrough.
Fabi: “With our first album with Universal, ‘Invasion der Killerpilze’”, it went straight up.” Certainly not with Universal. After two years, the label separated from the band. They weren’t thinking about a musical end, though. Mäx: “We simply founded our own label.”
Enough chatting, Franz-Josef admonishes them to order, the eggs need to be whipped for the tartar sauce. “I’m rather lazy in the kitchen,” Jo admits. Different from [how they are] in daily life: All three study in Munich, run their label, and tour across Europe. And on Friday they’re releasing their new album “Grell” as well.
In their song lyrics, you can hear that Killerpilze has gotten older. Instead of “Richtig Scheiße” (Really Shitty), their songs are now called “Studieren” [(Studying)] and “Sommerregen” [(Summer Rain)]. Only their more concise name needs to stay, there they are agreed: “The name is part of my identity,” Jo explains emphatically while he chops parsley for the sauce.
Mäx: “The name choices at the time were: Die Elektro-Päpste [(The Electric Popes)], Hitzli-Bitzli-Feuersturm [(Hitzli-Bitzli-Firestorm)], die Fruchtstäbchen [the Fruit Skewers], and Killerpilze. Retroactively, Killerpilze is the lesser evil.”
Two bundles of parsley later, lunch is served. And how does it taste? “Awesome, these are real killer mushrooms!”