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"Spring of the Traitors" is the new album by the Berlin punk band IT WAS MURDER.
The band has been performing on stages across the country for several years and consists of seasoned musicians, such as Tom Schwoll (former member of Die Skeptiker). So it's no surprise that the songwriting and the music sound experienced. Here are five musicians together who know what they're doing.
On their third album, IT WAS MURDER presents a dystopian, dark, and hard sound. One could mention Razzia or Blut und Eisen as similar bands. Listening to it, I also think of Toxoplasma and sometimes of Hass.
Here, anger and despair are presented with energy. It is fitting music for the current political and social situation. Autumn is coming.
It is getting cold and dark, and not just meteorologically.
It feels even colder than it already is, noted Dritte Wahl in their latest song. IT WAS MURDER builds on that.
It is a sound that echoes 80s punk rock and yet is so much more. The pressure, the cold, the despair are very well expressed in songs like "Küsse die Töten", "Messer im Kopf", or "Die Hölle". However, it is by no means a sound that quickly becomes exhausting due to the desperate screaming of the singer. The vocals of Stunk, it is truly singing, fit very well with the slightly noisy, always dark sound.
Here, a band that has created its own unique sound in my eyes releases its third and best album.
On September 19, 2026, the band will play their record release concert at the scene-famous venue across from the Willy-Brandt-Haus (SPD headquarters) in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
