DECADENCE EBM AND UNDERGROUND MUSIC.: RABAUKEN ( DEUTSCH OI MUSIC BAND )

Rabauken was a German Oi!Music Band, which operated until 2001. It was founded at the beginning of the 1990s by the brothers Mario and Bernd Zippel in Erkrath. The latter was also a member of the band Verlorene Jung.

Musical origins were in the English Punk and Oi! Music movement in the early 80s, with bands like Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Toy Dolls, Cockney Rejects, Stiff Little Fingers... The band was always credited with a connection to the neo-Nazi scene, although this accusation was vehemently denied by the band.

"Bernd", singer and guitarist of the band, took up the accusation again in an interview with the nonpolitical skinhead website Oi-Vision.de from 10 June 2001 and referred to the song "Revolution", in which the band in his opinion clear Position against any political radicals.

The band sees itself as apolitical, the often criticized song "Our Fatherland" is an expression of patriotic pride, but far from being right-radical. The constitutional protection NRW first learned from the band in 1993 at a celebration of a boy nationaldemocrat member. According to the constitutional protection, "some of the seven concerts that have become known between 1996 and 2001" have come to "Sieg-Heil-Rufen" and to the "Hitler-Grußes" .

At a performance with the bands Trabireiter and Chaoskrieger, the audience sang the Horst Wessel song. Albums from the rabbits were also offered in right-wing extremist distributors like Hanse Records or White Music.

In addition, the band was accused of cooperating with right-wing bands. Oliver Lange, a former band member, also played for a time at the right-wing extremist band Starkstrom.

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