Absurd
Country of origin:Germany
Location:Sondershausen, Thuringia
Status:Active
Formed in:1992

Genre:Black Metal/RAC, Pagan Black Metal
Lyrical themes:National Socialism, Anti-Christianity, Paganism, Germanic mythology, Warfare
Current label:Weltenfeind
Years active: 1992-1994, 1994-1995 (as In Ketten), 1998-2012, 2017-2019, 2019-present

The band formed while the members were in high school, and the group's early members are more or less known for all taking part in murdering a 15-year old boy named Sandro Beyer in 1993.

According to press and the book "Lords of Chaos", the reasons for killing schoolmate Beyer were because the boy would frequently hang around the young Absurd members despite that the members did not like him, eventually Beyer left them alone but then began writing slander and condemning the group for their Satanic views. A final threat posed by Beyer was that he threatened to expose an affair one of the band members were having with a mother of a student enrolled at the school. Hendrik Möbus's girlfriend spoke to Beyer with the intent to trick him into thinking she was on his side. She claimed to agree with his criticisms that he had about Absurd and that she wanted to help him "put a stop to them."
She told him to meet at a certain point in a nearby forest at 8:00 PM to "resolve certain issues." Beyer arrived to the location at 8:00 PM that night as planned only to find the whole band of Absurd there, and that it was actually a setup. They led Beyer to a nearby shed, where they proceeded to strangle him with an electrical wire, and he died in a matter of moments. The members were collectively charged with murder, but were released from prison in late 1998. JFN was incarcerated again shortly after due to various crimes, including fleeing from Germany to the United States, in order to hide from the police. He was eventually apprehended by American police.

MEMBERS

Current
Wolf	Vocals (1992-1994, 2000-2012, 2019-present)
See also: Der Tod und die Landsknechte, ex-Heldentum, ex-Sacrifice Slaughtered Jesus, ex-Vargavinter, ex-Wolfsburg, ex-Ilmari
Unhold	Guitars, Drums, Vocals (2000-2012, 2019-present)
See also: Grand Belial's Key, Luror, Wolfsmond, Hellfucked, ex-Cryogenic, ex-Heldentum
Gelal Necrosodomy	Guitars (2019-present)
See also: Arghoslent, Grand Belial's Key, ex-Asfyxia, ex-Genocide, ex-Pogrom
Past
C. H. Surt	Bass (1992-1994)
See also: ex-In Ketten
JFN	Drums (1992-1994, 1998-1999), Vocals (2017-2019)
See also: ex-In Ketten, ex-Herska (live)
Damien Thorn	Guitars, Bass (1992)
Dark Mark Doom	Vocals, Guitars, Bass (1992-1994, 1998-1999)
See also: Wolfsmond, ex-In Ketten, In Acht und Bann, Wicked Toad, ex-Halgadom
Tormentor	Guitars, Bass (2004)
See also: ex-Antiphrasis, ex-Die Saat, ex-Epithalium
Thorns	Drums (2017-2019)
See also: ex-Barad Dûr, ex-Epithalium
Ansuz	Guitars (2017-2018)
See also: Harm Wulf, Noxia
Vinzent	Guitars (2017-2018)
See also: Barad Dûr
Deimos	Guitars (lead) (2018-2019)
See also: ex-Tyskland, ex-Totenburg
Past (Live)
Herr Rabensang	Drums
See also: Epithalium, Totenburg, ex-Menneskerhat, ex-Armatus (live), ex-Permafrost (live), ex-Stahlfront (live), ex-Antiphrasis
Bile	Drums
See also: Camulos, Der Tod und die Landsknechte, Eviscerated, Leichenzug, ex-Aeveron, ex-Endless Vision, ex-Frozen Abyss, ex-Halgadom, ex-Dusken (live), ex-Dunkelgrafen, ex-Baltak
Asemit	Vocals
See also: Epithalium, Eugenik, Totenburg
Ragnare	Vocals
See also: ex-Totenburg
Pesten	Drums (2003-2004)
Deimos	Guitars (2004-2012)
See also: ex-Tyskland, ex-Totenburg
Sigskald	Bass (2008-2012)
See also: Ahnenerbe, Blutstraße, Sigskald
Commando Wolf	Bass (2017)
See also: Dreadful Relic, ex-Der Stürmer, ex-Wintergods

 

DISCOGRAPHY

Name	Type	Year
God's Death	Demo	1992
Death from the Forest	Demo	1993
Eternal Winter	Video	1993
Sadness	Demo	1993
God's Death / Sadness	Compilation	1993
Deep Dark Forest (Live)	Demo	1994
Out of the Dungeon	Demo	1994
Thuringian Pagan Madness	EP	1995
Facta Loquuntur	Full-length	1996
Totenburg / Die Eiche	Split	1997
Sonnenritter	Demo	1999
Asgardsrei	EP	1999
Werwolfthron	Full-length	2002
Wolfskrieger / Galdur Vikodlaks	Split	2002
Totenlieder	Full-length	2003
Raubritter	EP	2004
Ein kleiner Vorgeschmack	Single	2005
Blutgericht	Full-length	2005
Grimmige Volksmusik	EP	2005
Raubritter / Grimmige Volksmusik	Compilation	2007
Der fünfzehnjährige Krieg	Full-length	2008
Weltenfeind	Split	2008
Life Beyond the Grave: 1992-1994	Compilation	2010
Größer als der Tod	EP	2014
Live & Raw in the North	Live album	2015
Live in Suomi Finland Perkele 2008	Live album	2019
Promo 11/2019 A.Y.P.S.	Demo	2019
Grimmige Volksmusik die Folterkammer-Sitzung	Demo	2019
Thuringian Pagan Madmen	Split	2020
Weltenfeind	EP	2020
Pure Darkness	EP	2020