I always thought the name must refer to the Night of the Long Knives (the bloody pre-war internal purge of the Nazi party which eliminated all the real or suspected internal opposition, plus some other opponents of Hitler in the military and journalism - this was the first time Hitler betrayed his own followers, using the SS to purge the SA and NSDAP in much the same way Stalin used the NKVD to purge his party organisation and officer corps (before purging the NKVD too for good measure, being a thorough and professional mass murderer)).
This is only one theory of several though. Di6's work is poetic and tends to contain a dense network of cultural, historical, mystical, philosophical and melancholy personal/sexual allusions, rather like Eliot's The Wasteland. If you can follow at least a couple of the layers of meaning Di6 seems to be a post-apocalyptic response to WW2 analogous to the response to WW1 of authors like Eliot and Junger. The central question seems to be 'where does Europe go after the incalculable losses and the terrible stains on its soul of this period, culturally and spiritually'? Obviously Doug and the like minds of this scene are culturally conservative thinkers and wish to save and renew what of lasting value can be saved and renewed of the old Europe, rather than abandon ourselves to the soulless globalist commercial culture of the post-war American world order.
Personally I'm a severe pessimist and think the West is doomed to terminal decline and humanity doomed to expire lethargically on this mudball in due course, hence Maruta Kommand, but I would like to be proved wrong by Albin and co.
For those who still don't or won't get it, Ostara and the Di6 collaboration with Ostara's core member Richard Levi(athan) would be a good place to start. Richard is Anglo-Jewish and ponders philosophically on the devastation of the vibrant old European Jewish diaspora culture and the effects on both the Jewish and German (and more broadly, European) peoples of this loss and the enormous state-sponsored crimes that took place. The collaboration, 'Di6 Presents Kapo!', is a full-length melancholy rumination on Nazi genocide and the accompanying reversion to barbarism which follows up on earlier tracks such as 'We Drive East' and 'Til the Living Flesh is Burned'.
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Date: 2003-11-13 05:27 am (UTC)This is only one theory of several though. Di6's work is poetic and tends to contain a dense network of cultural, historical, mystical, philosophical and melancholy personal/sexual allusions, rather like Eliot's The Wasteland. If you can follow at least a couple of the layers of meaning Di6 seems to be a post-apocalyptic response to WW2 analogous to the response to WW1 of authors like Eliot and Junger. The central question seems to be 'where does Europe go after the incalculable losses and the terrible stains on its soul of this period, culturally and spiritually'? Obviously Doug and the like minds of this scene are culturally conservative thinkers and wish to save and renew what of lasting value can be saved and renewed of the old Europe, rather than abandon ourselves to the soulless globalist commercial culture of the post-war American world order.
Personally I'm a severe pessimist and think the West is doomed to terminal decline and humanity doomed to expire lethargically on this mudball in due course, hence Maruta Kommand, but I would like to be proved wrong by Albin and co.
For those who still don't or won't get it, Ostara and the Di6 collaboration with Ostara's core member Richard Levi(athan) would be a good place to start. Richard is Anglo-Jewish and ponders philosophically on the devastation of the vibrant old European Jewish diaspora culture and the effects on both the Jewish and German (and more broadly, European) peoples of this loss and the enormous state-sponsored crimes that took place. The collaboration, 'Di6 Presents Kapo!', is a full-length melancholy rumination on Nazi genocide and the accompanying reversion to barbarism which follows up on earlier tracks such as 'We Drive East' and 'Til the Living Flesh is Burned'.