photo by Eva Nahon
The legendary CASPAR BRÖTZMANN MASSAKER returns to the stage today on a week-long tour across Europe.
Additionally, a new UK/EU tour has been announced for this May, when the band will release its first album in over twenty-six years, following 1999’s Mute Massaker, a cooperative release between Exile On Mainstream Records in Europe and Neurot Recordings in North America.
CASPAR BRÖTZMANN MASSAKER’s music is resoundingly singular. Through ultra heavy riffs and beats, ominous tribal chants, a raw physical force is conjured up by these three sinister and proud minds of their era. Their unhinged, unified stream of energy is captured through their recordings, but is even more explosive and immersive on stage.
CASPAR BRÖTZMANN MASSAKER Tour Dates:
1/24/2025 Voodoo – Warsaw, PL w/ Conny Ochs [tickets]
1/25/2025 Beatpol – Dresden, DE w/ Conny Ochs [tickets]
1/27/2025 A4 – Bratislava, SK
1/28/2025 Elektropionir – Belgrade, RS
1/29/2025 Viper Room – Vienna, AT [tickets]
1/30/2025 Amperen – Munich, DE w/ Conny Ochs [tickets]
1/31/2025 A38 Hajó – Budapest, HU [tickets]
2/01/2025 Prague – Palac Akropolis, CZ [tickets]
5/28/2025 Café OTO – London, UK
5/29/2025 Café OTO – London, UK
5/30/2025 dunk! Festival – Ghent, BE
5/31/2025 Point Ephemere – Paris, FR
6/01/2025 Cave 12 – Geneve, CH
6/03/2025 iBoat – Bordeaux, FR
6/04/2025 L’antrouille – Montpellier, FR
6/05/2025 Le Sonic – Lyon, FR
6/06/2025 MPS Studio – Villingen, DE
6/07/2025 Z-Bau – Nürnberg, DE w/ Karla Kvlt
6/11/2025 Bi Nuu – Berlin, DE
9/25/2025 Club Pave – Sofia, BL
Watch for updates on the incoming album to be issued in the weeks ahead.
Founded in 1986, CASPAR BRÖTZMANN MASSAKER became a significant force in the alternative rock scene of the 1990s. The band’s albums The Tribe (1987), Black Axis (1989), Der Abend Der Schwarzen Folklore (1991) Koksofen (1993), Home (1995) and Mute Massaker (1999) are rightly so, heralded underground classics, having a profound influence on bands and artists like Sonic Youth, SUNN O))), Faith No More, Neurosis, Sumac, and Helmet, to name a few.
The project’s music is textural, visceral, arresting and urgent, marked by repetitive, hypnotic intensity, and Brötzmann’s signature guitar sound. Caspar Brötzmann’s legacy lies in his fearless experimentation, dissolving boundaries between classical music structures and amplified instrumentation in rock music.
Caspar Brötzmann was born in Germany and is a self-taught electric guitarist, bassist, singer/songwriter, and composer based in Berlin. He has played and toured since the age of fourteen with musicians and groups from Europe, the United States, Japan, and Africa. He created a wide range of music but is especially considered an influential figure in the alternative rock and improv music scenes. Brötzmann has composed music for theatre and radio.
Often pigeonholed as stalwart in blending rock, noise, and avant-garde aesthetics, he himself claims to draw major inspirations from his love for classical composers such as Charles Ives, Hans Eisler, and Jean Prodromidés. His approach uses the guitar as a brush and the sounds as a canvas to “paint with music.”
His albums have been released by Rough Trade, Zomba, Blast First, Southern Lord Recordings, Trost Records, Karl Records, Shitkatapult, Zensor, and FMP. The list of collaborators Caspar worked with is long and ranges from classical to jazz to rock musicians, including FM Einheit, Blixa Bargeld, Diamanda Galas, Page Hamilton, Stephen O’Malley, Keiji Haino, Thurston Moore, Martin Atkins, Danny Carey, Massimo Pupillo, and others.
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