Corporal Clegg's video: Absurd - Die Freiheitsk mpfer

Absurd is one of the best-known black metal and pagan metal bands in Germany. The band was originally founded in Sondershausen by Hendrik Möbus (also known as - on the circuit and later on official Compact Cassette and later CD liner notes - as Randall Flagg / Jarl Flagg Nidhögg / JFN) and Sebastian Schauseil in 1992, with a third member, Andreas Kirchner, joining at a later stage. The band achieved infamy because its (original) members (now no longer in the band since 1999) murdered the 15-year-old Sandro Beyer in 1993. According to mainstream press and the "Lords of Chaos" book, reasons for killing local schoolmate Sandro Beyer (15 years old) were because Beyer was hanging around the boys and followed them without realising the members of Absurd were ridiculing him and wanted nothing to do with him. Beyer later left Absurd alone, but then began writing slander and speaking against the satanic acts Absurd was participating in to local school authorities and community residents. A final threat posed by Beyer was that he threatened to expose an affair one of the band members was having with a mother of a student enrolled at the school. Hendrik Mobus' girlfriend later spoke to Beyer and claimed to agree with him and that she wanted to join in league with him to stop Absurd. She told him to meet at a certain point in a nearby wood at 8:00 PM to resolve certain issues. Beyer arrived at 8:00 PM that night to discover that the whole band of Absurd was there, and that it was a setup. They led Beyer to a nearby shed, where they proceeded to strangle him with an electrical wire, and he died in a matter of moments. They were released from prison in late 1998, but JFN was incarcerated again due to various crimes, including fleeing from Germany to the United States, in order to hide from the police. While the convicted members of Absurd were in jail, they had a band called "In Ketten" (German for "In Chains") The first releases were infuenced by Oi-Punk and Hard Rock/Heavy Metal bands like Danzig, Mercyful Fate, OHL and Der Fluch, on their later Albums they have got a more metallic sound. Hendrik and Ronald Möbus were the owners of Darker Than Black Records. Ronald Möbus and his wife were the owners of Nebelfee Klangwerke. Absurd has also been featured on compilation disks: 1998 - No Colours Records Compilation Vol. 2 (track "Vampire") 1999 - The Night and the Fog (track "Asgardsrei") 1999 - Corneliu Codreanu: Prezent! (track "Sonnenritter) 2000 - Stronger than Before (track "Germanien über alles") 2000 - Common Reich 2001 - Smashing the Traitors 2002 - Freundeskreis der Heimatverbundenen Germanen 2003 - The Night and the Fog II 2008 - History of Occult Metal (American release) (track "Eternal Winter" 2007 version)