Graveland albums banned in Germany

Dictator Number of posts : 721 Points : 6292 Registration date : 2007-01-22

Four GRAVELAND-releases can not be sold in Germany anymore:

Graveland - Following the Voices of Blood
Graveland - Immortal Pride
Graveland - In the Glare of burning Churches
Graveland - The Celtic Winter

The BPjM (Federal Authority for Publications unsafe for the Youth) has banned these four releases in September 2008.

Weird!!! And the others albums?!!

Are still perfectly fine

I guess it takes another 10 years to ban them as well

Germania trods so deep in shit these days that it took surprisingly long for them to get this done if you ask me.

If those albums are banned, lots of BM cd's will be in same case soon!!!

Good news. I hope all Black-Metal to will be banned everywhere so only dedicated people will remain.

slave Number of posts : 19 Points : 5762 Registration date : 2008-07-21

Reminds me of the good old CANNIBAL CORPSE ban... Ridiculous.

I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.

Dictator Number of posts : 721 Points : 6292 Registration date : 2007-01-22

Ancien Culte wrote:: Reminds me of the good old CANNIBAL CORPSE ban... Ridiculous.

You're out ot topic, only the gore cover was banned.

Dictator Number of posts : 721 Points : 6292 Registration date : 2007-01-22

Mr Nuke wrote:: Good news. I hope all Black-Metal to will be banned everywhere so only dedicated people will remain.

That's true, but when the police confiscate a stock of "illegal" CDs to a label, the money invested is lost...

slave Number of posts : 40 Points : 6921 Registration date : 2005-05-17

Szatan wrote:

Ancien Culte wrote:: Reminds me of the good old CANNIBAL CORPSE ban... Ridiculous.

You're out ot topic, only the gore cover was banned.

I guess having read somewhere that CC wasn't allowed to play songs of their first four albums live when they play Germany...

I'm not the huge fan of Graveland so no biggie for me

You'll get them anyway if you want , as ever . myspace kids can get the easily available mp3s and can still brag about what evil stuff they listen to / know .

Doesnt help much , will bother some of the registered labels I think. NC and such

Dictator Number of posts : 640 Points : 7108 Registration date : 2005-04-27

i guess they've just listened to the albums to motive the banishment

Sad but true.

slave Number of posts : 19 Points : 5762 Registration date : 2008-07-21

Szatan wrote:

Ancien Culte wrote:: Reminds me of the good old CANNIBAL CORPSE ban... Ridiculous.

You're out ot topic, only the gore cover was banned.

I thought they were forbidden to play any songs from the two first albums as well, but I might be wrong.

Ancient Culte you are right! "Fucked with a knife" was forbidden to be performed in Germany.
Anyway, here in austria we have no index or something. You can buy here every Cannibal Corpse Release with original Cover and lyrics, aswell as all Graveland albums.
Even the gay Eisregen stuff....

Soldier Number of posts : 66 Points : 6665 Registration date : 2006-04-16

I'm expecting No Colours wil re-re-re-re-re-re-release these albums with other artwork and without lyrics, so they can be sold again....

sub-human Number of posts : 8 Points : 5660 Registration date : 2008-11-13

Ornaments of Sin is banned in Germany nowadays as well. But I don't see the just in doing that, the CD has been sold out for some four years now. But I guess many similiar cases soon will be known of.

Inhale is banned officially now? Because you probably know that OOS already had troubles with the vinyl version (on Christhunt Prod.)

Dictator Number of posts : 721 Points : 6292 Registration date : 2007-01-22

Which trouble?

sub-human Number of posts : 8 Points : 5660 Registration date : 2008-11-13

VwH wrote:: Inhale is banned officially now? Because you probably know that OOS already had troubles with the vinyl version (on Christhunt Prod.)

Yes it is banned in Germany at least.

Szatan wrote:: Which trouble?

Trial...

Out of curiosity, what exactly are the consequences of having a Graveland or other banned album in Germany?

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