Absurd (band)
Absurd is a German National Socialist black metal band that has been classified as a "right-wing extremist" group by the Thuringian Landesbehörde für Verfassungsschutz.
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| Origin | Sondershausen, Germany |
| Genres | Black metal, pagan metal, RAC, NSBM |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Labels | Weltenfeind |
| Members | Hendrik "JFN" Möbus Sven "Unhold" Zimper Alexander "Gelal Necrosodomy" Halac |
| Past members | Andreas "C. H. Surt" Kirchner Udo "Damien Thorn" H. Sebastian "Dark Mark Doom" Schauseil Ronald "Wolf" Möbus Tormentor Thorns Ansuz Vinzent Deimos |
| Website | weltenfeind.com |
The band was founded in Sondershausen by Hendrik Möbus (also known as Randall Flagg / Jarl Flagg Nidhögg / JFN) and Sebastian Schauseil (Dark Mark Doom) in 1992, with a third member, Andreas Kirchner, joining at a later stage.
Their lyrics concern nationalistic, pagan (Hendrik Möbus is the founder of the Deutsche Heidnische Front), pro-heathen revivalist Germanic, and anti-Judeo-Christian themes.
The band achieved infamy because its original members (not in the band since 1999) murdered Sandro Beyer, a 15-year-old person, in 1993. The canonical motive is that Beyer was privy to an illicit relationship of Schauseil's with a married woman, and had been spreading rumours about this and other activities of the band. On 29 April in Sondershausen, the then-17-year-old band members Möbus, Schauseil, and Kirchner enticed Beyer to a meeting, and strangled him there with an electrical cord. Kirchner, in a now infamous quotation, was reported as saying: "Oh shit—now I've completely ruined my life." Schauseil claimed to have heard a voice in his head saying the nonsensical phrase "Kuster Maier", which he interpreted as "Töte Beyer" ("Kill Beyer").