- Josef Maria Klumb
Josef Maria Klumb (born 1962) is a German musician who has been a member of a number of
punk rock , industrial, anddarkwave bands in the "dark culture". He is best known for his work withForthcoming Fire andVon Thronstahl . He frequently causes controversy, mainly due to his interest infascist aesthetics and symbolism, and sometimes also due to his Europeannationalism and Catholicconservatism .Klumb founded the punk-rock band Aus-98 in the early 1980s, which fairly quickly morphed into
Circle of Sig-Tiu . Here he metRaymond P. , with whom he would later collaborate in Von Thronstahl. By the mid 1980s, Circle of Sig-Tiu began incorporatinggothic rock and darkwave aspects; the band broke up in 1988. During its career, the band gained some notoriety for its symbolism, not least for its use of the sig and tiu runes when spelling its name.In 1990, Klumb formed
Forthcoming Fire , a more outrightdarkwave band with danceable elements. The band enjoyed some popularity in the early 1990s German darkwave scene. The band's symbolism was, like that of Circle of Sig-Tiu, often apparently inspired byfascist aethestics; in addition, the lyrics espoused conservative and vaguelynationalist themes, both extremely unusual in mainstream German music. Since Forthcoming Fire was for a period quite popular, the controversy made newspaper headlines in Germany; however, the band's music was not deemed illegal or worthy of adding to the Index of media harmful to minors. The band later began moving away from darkwave, and became somewhat less popular.In 1995, Klumb, along with his brother Burn (also from Forthcoming Fire) formed
Von Thronstahl , amartial industrial group. Later Burn would leave the group and instead former Circle of Sig-Tiu bandmateRaymond P. ,Marcel P. , and Rene joined. The aesthetics of this group were again controversial, combining fascist aesthetics with those ofhigh fashion , along with a militaristic sound.Klumb has also been a member of the bands
Weissglut andPreussak .
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