When you love Feuerschwanz so much, come to their Metfest in Essen on the 14th of December. That will be an enormous fest with lots of Met (honeywine) since its their 20th band jubilee! And.... Melissa will be there as well!🤘🏻😎
That sounds Amazing!!! Unfortunately, my Germany trip ends on the 12th of December. If it were only a few days earlier. If you are going please let me know how it was 🤘
If you translate "Herzblut" in english you can say "blood of the heart", or "heart-blood", the meaning is like "passion" or "commitment". Wish I could meat you in germany, but when I remember right, you are in the southern part of germany(?) - and thats unfortunately not where I live, so I can't tell you in person how to pronounce "d’Artagnan". Thanks for the reaction, it's great like always. 😎👍
The Dark Side Of The Moon are going to be guests on most shows of dArtagnan's 2025 tour, so obviously Melissa will be joining them on this song. dArtagnan is less humorous than Feuerschwanz (still mostly light hearted though) and more on the folk/ folk rock side, with Feuerschwanz now being full folk metal. Founded in 2015 by vocalist & multi-instrumentalist Ben Metzner, Felix Fischer (bassist of Feuerschwanz from 2014 to end of 2017/ beginning of 2018) on electric guitar, bass guitar, different accoustic guitars & backing vocals and Tim Bernard on electric guitar, accoustic guitar & backing vocals. Fischer left by the end of 2017, Gustavo Strauss (violin & backing vocals) joined by the beginning of 2018. They have some regular live & studio musicians: guitarist Hans Platz (Feuerschwanz, TDSOTM) from 2016 to 2017, bassist Sebastian Baumann live since 2016 studio since 2017, drummer Matthias Böhm live 2016 studio 2017 (on the 2016 debut album the drums were played by Jan Mischon, member of Saltatio Mortis since 2009) and guitarist Haiko Heinz live & studio since 2017. Since 2021, Baumann, Böhm & Heinz are credited as full-fledged band members. The costumes are designed by Svenja Metzner aka Momo Indigo (Ben Metzner's wife). They have a song with Patty Gurdy (who was with Alestorm on "Voyage of the Dead Marauder"): Farewell.
@@MattsMoshPit1 I'm not musically talented so I can barely understand how gifted this people are (and of course how much practicing they'll probably have to do) but I think it's so nice that they all not only work together so well on collabs & guest appearances but also can rely on each other in a moment of need. Like Hans filled in on one or two shows for Ad Infinitum when guitarist Adrian wasn't available out of private reasons, Dominum's Felix Dreyer supported Feuerschwanz on two gigs when bassist Jarne was sick and those are only two examples. In 2021, superhero themed power metal band Grailknights released the song Turbo Boost feat. Feuerschwanz (which in that case was only Hodi aka Ben Metzner). Momo Indigo appeared in the video too, along with model/ cosplayer Santi Chan who sometimes does the merch table on Feuerschwanz or dArtagnan shows. They both appeared in the video for Feuerschwanz' "Ding" too. Later in 2021, Duncan MacLoud, the blue Grailknight (he is the bassist), was an extra in the video for Krampus by Feuerschwanz. Grailknights had Sabaton's Joakim Brodén as guest singer on the 2018 song "Pumping Iron Power" and Angus McSix (aka Thomas Winkler, formerly aka Angus McFife) on the title track of the 2022 album "Muscle Bound for Glory". The video for their song "POWAA!!!" is made of live footage from the Wacken Open Air 2022 performance and at one point it shows people had a guy in a wheelchair crowdsurfing! In my opinion, that is not only metal a.f. but also shows what kind of audience is attracted by those bands.
d’Artagnan is named after a French noble soldier from the time of Louis XIV. He became famous because he inspired Alexandre Dumas to write his novel The Three Musketeers. The name is therefore pronounced French. The band describes their music as musketeer rock, but unlike Feuerschwanz they are more influenced by folk. d’Artagnan are said to be very good live. It's funny to hear Melissa Bonny sing in German. The title "Herzblut" is made up of the words Herz (Heart) and Blut (Blood) and means something like "lifeblood", "heart and soul" in English. Personally, I like "Ruf Der Freiheit" and the video consisting of recordings of their live show. Another collaboration that might interest you is: dArtagnan, Zora Cock - My Love's in Germany (Official Video) ft. Blackbriar. They were very successful with their Avicii tribute of "Hey Brother". Also worth mentioning is the collaboration with Candice Night, the wife of Ritchie Blackmore, the former Deep Purple guitarist, who also has a cameo appearance in the video. I have a culinary tip for your upcoming trip. Strasbourg is a good place to eat "Flammkuchen".
The accusation against dArtagnan is that it is not folk but typical German Schlager with folk instruments and therefore pop music. Here is a good example: dArtagnan - Farewell ft. Patty Gurdy For comparison, the currently most successful Schlager singer. And yes, she has already broken her bones: Helene Fischer - Hand in Hand (Live von RAUSCH LIVE - DIE ARENA TOUR)
Awesome! I will definitely check out your music suggestions and your culinary suggestion as well will definitely be in Strasbourg. Even though it’s not really music related, I will most likely vlog from the trip. You might get to see me try it 🤘
@@MattsMoshPit1 You will definitely get it at the Christmas market on your route. Only in Strasbourg will it be the most authentic on your route, as it is a dish from the German-French border region of Alsace, the Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg. In Alsace there is also the chance of getting one from a large brick wood-fired oven. These are unbeatable. Have you tried "Döner" on your previous visits? If not, I recommend you do so. Even though it is only the beginning of summer, I am already looking forward to your reports, in whatever form. All the best!
Refrain: Ben Metzner & Melissa Bonny My heart wants to bleed And never rest My heart wants to beat In time with the waves and the flood My heart wants to burn As hot as embers My heart's blood flows Verse 1: Ben Metzner What am I so afraid of every hour? Life is short, the day is long And the heart is always longing I don't really know whether heavenwards Verse 2: Melissa Bonny, Ben Metzner & Melissa Bonny But it wants to go back and forth And would like to flee from itself And it flies to the breast it loves There it rests unconsciously in heaven Refrain: Ben Metzner & Melissa Bonny My heart wants to bleed And never rest My heart wants to beat In time with the waves and the tide My heart wants to burn As hot as Embers My heart's blood flows Heart's blood, heart's blood My heart's blood Heart's blood, heart's blood Bridge: Ben Metzner & Melissa Bonny The life whirlpool tears it up away And it always hangs in one place What it wanted, what it lost In the end it remains its own goal Chorus: Ben Metzner & Melissa Bonny My heart wants to bleed And never rest My heart wants to beat In time with the waves and the tide My heart wants to burn As hot as embers Flows from my heart Blood Heart's blood, heart's blood My heart's blood Heart's blood, heart's blood My heart's blood flows Chorus: Ben Metzner & Melissa Bonny My heart wants to bleed And never rest My heart wants to beat In time with the waves and the tide My heart wants to burn As hot as embers My heart wants to bleed And never rest 'n My heart wants to beat To the rhythm of the waves and the tide My heart wants to burn As hot as embers My heart's blood flows Heart's blood, heart's blood So hot as embers heart's blood my heart's blood flows
Thank you so much my friend. It really helps to know what they are singing. I typically don’t use subtitles, because sometimes it takes me away from the video itself. Thank you again for the translation
Definitely brush up on the German, even a free Duolingo account can teach you a bunch of helpful things. People will probably be speaking English to some degree, but finding places, public transport, shopping etc is going to be much easier. Melissa's German pronunciation is so very cute. You don't expect anyone with that soft accent to be a vampire, I suppose it's part of the cover.
My son is taking German this year in school. I am hoping he have some of the basics down before we get there. I might try to learn with him. Vampire’s are by far the coolest monster. Melissa takes it to the next level of cool.
Ah yes, the much beloved but irritatingly spelled dArtagnan (the band spells it without the accent following the "d"...). It's a French name and the pronunciation is (very) roughly "dartanon". That's Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan - CO of the Royal Musketeers. Technically I suppose it's "folk rock" but of course there's the "Schlager Accusation" but to be perfectly honest "Schlager" (that would be the German equivalent of crappy saccharine corrupt country music without the cultural connection to the Old West besides kitsch that you suffer from in the US) itself is a corruption of traditional Central European folk music ground through the pointless-pop-mill, so if d'Artagnan (the "Band spelling" makes Alexandre Dumas - who by the way was a black(-ish) man and son of a (black) General of the Revolution, interesting factlet - turn in his grave so I'll stop it😆) offers some redemption to the patterns of traditional music through their more rock and sometimes "metal-proximate" interpretation I'm happy for it^^. Melissa in German is interesting to be sure because I think she's from the Francophone part of Switzerland so it's her, I suppose, second language not native. Since they are mostly Germanophone I'd suggest checking out they aforementioned by others Avicii tribute in their *beautiful* rendering of "Hey Brother" as well as their collaboration with "Blackbriar" on the adaption of the rather old (1794 though misplaced in the 30-Years War [1618-1648], but then, when was there *not* a war in the German Lands that anglophone people got involved in?😆) poem by Scotsman Hector Macneill on the 7-Years War (yeah, we Europeans started to name our wars for length because they where just too many to think of creative names at some point...🤣). Or go with the only partially (and full blown "Schlager" accused but it's oh-so-beautiful...^^) "Farewell" with Patty Gurdy. As for German needed... well actually you *don't technically need any* because there *will* be someone who speaks at least rudimentary English (and if it's anyone under the age of 60 they *will* claim their English is *totally insufficient* and then go with, sometimes even lacking accent, decent too excellent English while excusing their lack of excellence... I feel my former colleagues, former English Teacher here, have done pretty decent work😆). If you want to start out a conversation (and be aware we Germans are not all that small-talk-attuned as "you US folks", people may seem cold, they are not, they are just .. well.. not hearsty folksy people^^) just open with a nice "Guten Tag!", then excuse your German with "Entschuldigung bitte, mein Deutsch ist schwach, sprechen Sie English?" ("Please excuse my weak German, do you speak English?") and then you're off to the fairly-decent-but-perceived-bad English conversation^^. Depending on where you are you might encounter a dialect so exceedingly heavy that even German Native speakers might be inclined to switch to English anyway (cough, cough, Allemanic dialect(s) in Swabia, cough, cough, Plattdeutsch in the North, though that's a language arguably pretty close to being a "modern Anglo-Saxon without the Norman French"). 🤣 Strasbourg may be an excellent excursion from Germany (it's in Alsace in the Bas-Rhin department but that's an area that has changed possession between France and Germany so many times over the last 400 years that it's profoundly culturally mixed, heck, *I* once crossed the border from German Saarland into France in Darkness and Fog and didn't realize it until a bloke told me I was in France when asked fro the way.... in the same dialect mixture of French and German they all speak there...) also for a *magnificent* Christmas Market and architectural beauty. Also, if you're arriving in Frankfurt (pretty likely) give the Old Imperial City, Crowning site of the Holy Roman Emperors, a chance - it's not just banking towers and it's pretty compact.^^ Yeah, I'm partial, I was born there... go to Old Sachsenhausen on the Far Side of the River and drink an Applewine in a local tavern... it's a pretty (understatement...) sour cider, drink with 50% sparkling water as a "Sauergespritzter" - "sour sprinkled one" - they also have warm spiced one in winter. Best regards Raoul G. Kunz
Thank you my friend for all the information as always. We are starting off in Paris, then Strasbourg, then Munich, then Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber, then Salzburg Austria and then back to Munich for a few more days. We are hitting up all of the Christmas markets in all of those areas. I can’t wait! Thank you for all of your suggestions.
When you love Feuerschwanz so much, come to their Metfest in Essen on the 14th of December. That will be an enormous fest with lots of Met (honeywine) since its their 20th band jubilee! And.... Melissa will be there as well!🤘🏻😎
That sounds Amazing!!! Unfortunately, my Germany trip ends on the 12th of December. If it were only a few days earlier. If you are going please let me know how it was 🤘
If you translate "Herzblut" in english you can say "blood of the heart", or "heart-blood", the meaning is like "passion" or "commitment". Wish I could meat you in germany, but when I remember right, you are in the southern part of germany(?) - and thats unfortunately not where I live, so I can't tell you in person how to pronounce "d’Artagnan".
Thanks for the reaction, it's great like always. 😎👍
Thank you my friend. Yes we will be in Bavaria for the German part of the trip (Munich and Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber).
The Dark Side Of The Moon are going to be guests on most shows of dArtagnan's 2025 tour, so obviously Melissa will be joining them on this song.
dArtagnan is less humorous than Feuerschwanz (still mostly light hearted though) and more on the folk/ folk rock side, with Feuerschwanz now being full folk metal.
Founded in 2015 by vocalist & multi-instrumentalist Ben Metzner, Felix Fischer (bassist of Feuerschwanz from 2014 to end of 2017/ beginning of 2018) on electric guitar, bass guitar, different accoustic guitars & backing vocals and Tim Bernard on electric guitar, accoustic guitar & backing vocals. Fischer left by the end of 2017, Gustavo Strauss (violin & backing vocals) joined by the beginning of 2018.
They have some regular live & studio musicians: guitarist Hans Platz (Feuerschwanz, TDSOTM) from 2016 to 2017, bassist Sebastian Baumann live since 2016 studio since 2017, drummer Matthias Böhm live 2016 studio 2017 (on the 2016 debut album the drums were played by Jan Mischon, member of Saltatio Mortis since 2009) and guitarist Haiko Heinz live & studio since 2017. Since 2021, Baumann, Böhm & Heinz are credited as full-fledged band members.
The costumes are designed by Svenja Metzner aka Momo Indigo (Ben Metzner's wife).
They have a song with Patty Gurdy (who was with Alestorm on "Voyage of the Dead Marauder"): Farewell.
I love how all of these people work together from all of the different bands. I definitely need to check out more from them. Thank you my friend
@@MattsMoshPit1 I'm not musically talented so I can barely understand how gifted this people are (and of course how much practicing they'll probably have to do) but I think it's so nice that they all not only work together so well on collabs & guest appearances but also can rely on each other in a moment of need. Like Hans filled in on one or two shows for Ad Infinitum when guitarist Adrian wasn't available out of private reasons, Dominum's Felix Dreyer supported Feuerschwanz on two gigs when bassist Jarne was sick and those are only two examples.
In 2021, superhero themed power metal band Grailknights released the song Turbo Boost feat. Feuerschwanz (which in that case was only Hodi aka Ben Metzner). Momo Indigo appeared in the video too, along with model/ cosplayer Santi Chan who sometimes does the merch table on Feuerschwanz or dArtagnan shows. They both appeared in the video for Feuerschwanz' "Ding" too. Later in 2021, Duncan MacLoud, the blue Grailknight (he is the bassist), was an extra in the video for Krampus by Feuerschwanz.
Grailknights had Sabaton's Joakim Brodén as guest singer on the 2018 song "Pumping Iron Power" and Angus McSix (aka Thomas Winkler, formerly aka Angus McFife) on the title track of the 2022 album "Muscle Bound for Glory".
The video for their song "POWAA!!!" is made of live footage from the Wacken Open Air 2022 performance and at one point it shows people had a guy in a wheelchair crowdsurfing! In my opinion, that is not only metal a.f. but also shows what kind of audience is attracted by those bands.
I agree, I love how they collaborate with each other so well. I now have to check out Grailknights. Thank you for the insight.
d’Artagnan is named after a French noble soldier from the time of Louis XIV. He became famous because he inspired Alexandre Dumas to write his novel The Three Musketeers. The name is therefore pronounced French.
The band describes their music as musketeer rock, but unlike Feuerschwanz they are more influenced by folk.
d’Artagnan are said to be very good live. It's funny to hear Melissa Bonny sing in German. The title "Herzblut" is made up of the words Herz (Heart) and Blut (Blood) and means something like "lifeblood", "heart and soul" in English.
Personally, I like "Ruf Der Freiheit" and the video consisting of recordings of their live show. Another collaboration that might interest you is: dArtagnan, Zora Cock - My Love's in Germany (Official Video) ft. Blackbriar. They were very successful with their Avicii tribute of "Hey Brother". Also worth mentioning is the collaboration with Candice Night, the wife of Ritchie Blackmore, the former Deep Purple guitarist, who also has a cameo appearance in the video.
I have a culinary tip for your upcoming trip. Strasbourg is a good place to eat "Flammkuchen".
The accusation against dArtagnan is that it is not folk but typical German Schlager with folk instruments and therefore pop music. Here is a good example:
dArtagnan - Farewell ft. Patty Gurdy
For comparison, the currently most successful Schlager singer. And yes, she has already broken her bones:
Helene Fischer - Hand in Hand (Live von RAUSCH LIVE - DIE ARENA TOUR)
Awesome! I will definitely check out your music suggestions and your culinary suggestion as well will definitely be in Strasbourg. Even though it’s not really music related, I will most likely vlog from the trip. You might get to see me try it 🤘
@@MattsMoshPit1 You will definitely get it at the Christmas market on your route. Only in Strasbourg will it be the most authentic on your route, as it is a dish from the German-French border region of Alsace, the Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg. In Alsace there is also the chance of getting one from a large brick wood-fired oven. These are unbeatable. Have you tried "Döner" on your previous visits? If not, I recommend you do so. Even though it is only the beginning of summer, I am already looking forward to your reports, in whatever form. All the best!
Thank you my friend! I will definitely look for Doner in 🇩🇪
Refrain: Ben Metzner & Melissa Bonny
My heart wants to bleed
And never rest
My heart wants to beat
In time with the waves and the flood
My heart wants to burn
As hot as embers
My heart's blood flows
Verse 1: Ben Metzner
What am I so afraid of every hour?
Life is short, the day is long
And the heart is always longing
I don't really know whether heavenwards
Verse 2: Melissa Bonny, Ben Metzner & Melissa Bonny
But it wants to go back and forth
And would like to flee from itself
And it flies to the breast it loves
There it rests unconsciously in heaven
Refrain: Ben Metzner & Melissa Bonny
My heart wants to bleed
And never rest
My heart wants to beat
In time with the waves and the tide
My heart wants to burn
As hot as Embers
My heart's blood flows
Heart's blood, heart's blood
My heart's blood
Heart's blood, heart's blood
Bridge: Ben Metzner & Melissa Bonny
The life whirlpool tears it up away
And it always hangs in one place
What it wanted, what it lost
In the end it remains its own goal
Chorus: Ben Metzner & Melissa Bonny
My heart wants to bleed
And never rest
My heart wants to beat
In time with the waves and the tide
My heart wants to burn
As hot as embers
Flows from my heart Blood
Heart's blood, heart's blood
My heart's blood
Heart's blood, heart's blood
My heart's blood flows
Chorus: Ben Metzner & Melissa Bonny
My heart wants to bleed
And never rest
My heart wants to beat
In time with the waves and the tide
My heart wants to burn
As hot as embers
My heart wants to bleed
And never rest 'n
My heart wants to beat
To the rhythm of the waves and the tide
My heart wants to burn
As hot as embers
My heart's blood flows
Heart's blood, heart's blood
So hot as embers
heart's blood
my heart's blood flows
Thank you so much my friend. It really helps to know what they are singing. I typically don’t use subtitles, because sometimes it takes me away from the video itself. Thank you again for the translation
Definitely brush up on the German, even a free Duolingo account can teach you a bunch of helpful things. People will probably be speaking English to some degree, but finding places, public transport, shopping etc is going to be much easier. Melissa's German pronunciation is so very cute. You don't expect anyone with that soft accent to be a vampire, I suppose it's part of the cover.
My son is taking German this year in school. I am hoping he have some of the basics down before we get there. I might try to learn with him. Vampire’s are by far the coolest monster. Melissa takes it to the next level of cool.
Ah yes, the much beloved but irritatingly spelled dArtagnan (the band spells it without the accent following the "d"...).
It's a French name and the pronunciation is (very) roughly "dartanon".
That's Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan - CO of the Royal Musketeers.
Technically I suppose it's "folk rock" but of course there's the "Schlager Accusation" but to be perfectly honest "Schlager" (that would be the German equivalent of crappy saccharine corrupt country music without the cultural connection to the Old West besides kitsch that you suffer from in the US) itself is a corruption of traditional Central European folk music ground through the pointless-pop-mill, so if d'Artagnan (the "Band spelling" makes Alexandre Dumas - who by the way was a black(-ish) man and son of a (black) General of the Revolution, interesting factlet - turn in his grave so I'll stop it😆) offers some redemption to the patterns of traditional music through their more rock and sometimes "metal-proximate" interpretation I'm happy for it^^.
Melissa in German is interesting to be sure because I think she's from the Francophone part of Switzerland so it's her, I suppose, second language not native.
Since they are mostly Germanophone I'd suggest checking out they aforementioned by others Avicii tribute in their *beautiful* rendering of "Hey Brother" as well as their collaboration with "Blackbriar" on the adaption of the rather old (1794 though misplaced in the 30-Years War [1618-1648], but then, when was there *not* a war in the German Lands that anglophone people got involved in?😆) poem by Scotsman Hector Macneill on the 7-Years War (yeah, we Europeans started to name our wars for length because they where just too many to think of creative names at some point...🤣).
Or go with the only partially (and full blown "Schlager" accused but it's oh-so-beautiful...^^) "Farewell" with Patty Gurdy.
As for German needed... well actually you *don't technically need any* because there *will* be someone who speaks at least rudimentary English (and if it's anyone under the age of 60 they *will* claim their English is *totally insufficient* and then go with, sometimes even lacking accent, decent too excellent English while excusing their lack of excellence... I feel my former colleagues, former English Teacher here, have done pretty decent work😆).
If you want to start out a conversation (and be aware we Germans are not all that small-talk-attuned as "you US folks", people may seem cold, they are not, they are just .. well.. not hearsty folksy people^^) just open with a nice "Guten Tag!", then excuse your German with "Entschuldigung bitte, mein Deutsch ist schwach, sprechen Sie English?" ("Please excuse my weak German, do you speak English?") and then you're off to the fairly-decent-but-perceived-bad English conversation^^.
Depending on where you are you might encounter a dialect so exceedingly heavy that even German Native speakers might be inclined to switch to English anyway (cough, cough, Allemanic dialect(s) in Swabia, cough, cough, Plattdeutsch in the North, though that's a language arguably pretty close to being a "modern Anglo-Saxon without the Norman French"). 🤣
Strasbourg may be an excellent excursion from Germany (it's in Alsace in the Bas-Rhin department but that's an area that has changed possession between France and Germany so many times over the last 400 years that it's profoundly culturally mixed, heck, *I* once crossed the border from German Saarland into France in Darkness and Fog and didn't realize it until a bloke told me I was in France when asked fro the way.... in the same dialect mixture of French and German they all speak there...) also for a *magnificent* Christmas Market and architectural beauty.
Also, if you're arriving in Frankfurt (pretty likely) give the Old Imperial City, Crowning site of the Holy Roman Emperors, a chance - it's not just banking towers and it's pretty compact.^^
Yeah, I'm partial, I was born there... go to Old Sachsenhausen on the Far Side of the River and drink an Applewine in a local tavern... it's a pretty (understatement...) sour cider, drink with 50% sparkling water as a "Sauergespritzter" - "sour sprinkled one" - they also have warm spiced one in winter.
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
to be fair, I spell my last name without the accent after the "d" as well as it just confuses people so I use "de" instead of "d' "
Thank you my friend for all the information as always. We are starting off in Paris, then Strasbourg, then Munich, then Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber, then Salzburg Austria and then back to Munich for a few more days. We are hitting up all of the Christmas markets in all of those areas. I can’t wait! Thank you for all of your suggestions.