The end of the year is nigh, but not for Oomph!
The Oomph! trio has certainly had a year full of work. After releasing their fantastically successful 10th album Monster, the Wach auf! and Labyrinth singles and an incredible four music videos (Wach auf!, Beim ersten Mal tut’s immer Weh, Labyrinth and Auf Kurs, in case you can’t keep up with them anymore) and touring extensively in Germany, the boys still don’t seem to be able to take a day off even though the holidays are closing in like a freight train. The latest update on Oomph!’s German website tells us that Dero, Flux and Crap are already shooting another music video, and it’s not even for a track recorded during the Monster sessions, but a completely new one. The new piece will be released as a single in the near future, and, knowing Oomph!, we’ll get at least a remix or two and very probably also B-sides alongside the main track (there’s no word of these in the update). Stay tuned for more info, you can bet we’ll be on it as soon as we get something.
I’d say these are some damn good times for Oomph! fans. Of course, not everyone likes the band’s current style, but even if you don’t like it, you can’t help but admire how much work the guys are putting into their band. And that, my friends, is playing directly into the fans’ hands as far as I can see it. Yeah, you could say a lot about GUN Records‘ release policy (seriously, how many different editions has Monster actually been released in?), but then again, Oomph! has stated that they don’t really have that much to do with those decisions, it’s the record label’s call. At the end of the day, I personally can’t help but giggle with delight at how awesome an Oomph! year this one has been and will be.
EDIT: Also, in a new interview (thanks, Oomph-Supernova.com’s forums!) Dero tells Oomph! will release another best-of album at some point. The compilation Delikatessen came out just last year, but there’s a catch to the new one: it’ll feature only English songs, with some of Oomph!’s German tracks translated into the new language and even a couple of all-new ones recorded just for the compilation. I don’t generally dig compilations, but ones with something more than just a bunch of tracks thrown into them are always worth a look, so this album might actually end up in my collection. Dero also says they’ll make “a couple more” videos for Monster, so the just-announced new video definitely won’t be their last. Read the full German interview here, most of it is personal opinions on stuff like Christmas, but you can find the bit about Oomph!’s future at the very bottom.
EDIT2: The English update DOES explicitly talk about a new single, and I also originally translated the German update too quickly so I misunderstood something - check out the corrected post.
December 10th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Great news about Oomph! I’m really liking Monster now, after many listens.
Yes, the types of releases are mostly determined by the record label, not the band. A lot of other bands with many versions said the same thing, like Nine Inch Nails for example. Years ago, there we so many versions of their albums and singles, you couldn’t keep track!