Erben des Zorns is a death metal band from Kiel. I’m in the mood for something hard and fast right now, so I thought I’d make them our featured band this week. As you will see in the bio (from DeutschMusikLand.com, of course) below, the band has spent a lot of time over the past year writing and recording new songs. Their second album is pretty much done now so it shouldn’t be too long before it’s released. I’ll keep you updated about that, but for now you can head on over to EDZ’s MySpace page and listen to some of the tracks from their first album. I think if this second album has some better production, it could turn out to be really good.

EDZ was founded in 2003 by Sven (vocals) and Marco (guitar), was quickly joined by Jonas (guitar) and, after some initial line-up changes, was also joined by Schulzi (drums) and Henrik (bass).

Their first production, self produced with Lefti, appeared in 2005. Their sound people are z.Zt Matze and Jan. Most noteworthy about EDZ are their German lyrics and deep sound. They try to knock down the bridges between death metal and other hard music styles. They are a non-political band but scream out about things that are necessary and need to be said because they don’t want to tell about trivial storiesbut rather about life within society, within every boundary and about the fear and anger that people feel. In 2006, they were writing songs for their next release while touring with great bands such as Sufferage, Sworn Enemy, 100 Demons, Aeba, Disbelief, One Man Army and some very good local acts.

P.S.: check out DML’s metal genre page to discover all kinds of other German metal bands.