Wer Bist Du?

Infobox Album |
Name = Wer Bist Du?
Type = Album
Artist = Megaherz |


Released = July 12, 1997
Recorded =
Genre = Industrial Metal
Length = 52:16
Label = ZYX Music
Producer = Andy Knote
Reviews = Allmusic [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ck9ks39wa3rg link]
Last album = "Herzwerk"
(1995)
This album = "Wer Bist Du"
(1997)
Next album = "Kopfschuss"
(1998)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternative cover
Type = album


Lower caption = U.S. Re-release

Wer Bist Du? (eng. "Who Are You?") is the first full album by German industrial metal group Megaherz, following the limited edition release of their first album, Herzwerk. The album included three songs from Herzwerk: "Krone der Schöpfung" (originally a two-part song, here a single track), "Negativ" and "Hänschenklein 1995" (remade as "Hänschenklein Siebenundneunzig").

The first track, "Gott sein", is one of Megaherz's most famous, and considers the problems of being God, culminating in the refrain "Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein" ("It is not easy being a god").

The penultimate track, "Hänschenklein Siebenundneunzig", is based on a German nursery rhyme, in which Hänschenklein (which translates most closely as "Little Hans", though this loses the double emphasis of "-chen" and "-klein", which both mean "little") leaves home, causing his mother great grief. In the nursery rhyme, Hans returns home; in Megaherz's song, he is brutally murdered to the point that his mother cannot recognise him. The song shares the first line of the chorus "Aber Mutter weinte sehr" ("But Mother wept deeply") and ends with a brief drum solo accompanied by squeals of feedback and the whistling of the original nursery tune.

This song was the first of several Megaherz songs to be based on nursery rhymes, preceding "Rapunzel" on Kopfschuss, "Windkind" on Himmelfahrt (which echoed the story of Goldilocks) and "I. M. Rumpelstilzchen" on Herzwerk II. The more famous German heavy metallists Rammstein would begin a similar theme four years later with the track "Spieluhr" on the album Mutter, "Dalai Lama" on Reise, Reise, continuing with "Hilf Mir" and the title track Rosenrot.

The album was re-released in the US in 2004 as "I" (read as "One" or "Eins").