KANONENFIEBER – release new song and video Meine Lieben (My Dears) and announce Kriegstage 2027 tour
Earlier this year, Germany's KANONENFIEBER released Soldatenschicksale , a compilation featuring rerecorded songs alongside two new tracks. The band also launched a special fan initiative, inviting supporters to share their Soldatenschicksal ("soldier's fate") as inspiration and background stories for a brand-new song.
KANONENFIEBER comments:
"The year is 1916. Between exhausting marches, seemingly endless hours of waiting, and harrowing battles, the Hessian fusilier Philipp Schopp writes letters and field postcards to his mother.
In his accounts of daily life at the front—marked by exhaustion, hunger, and relentless hardship—one wish returns again and again: he wants to go home. Back to the life he once knew.
He longs to help his younger brother Josef with his schoolwork, support his mother through the challenges of everyday life, and spend time with his friends. It is a life he will never return to.
With every letter, it becomes increasingly clear that Philipp no longer believes he will make it home alive. His words grow more desperate, filled with prayers and quiet resignation. He writes his final letter on June 21, 1916. Shortly afterward, he is struck and killed by a shell fragment. He is buried nearby in a mass grave. The song "Meine Lieben" draws upon Philipp Schopp's final letters. Its lyrics are based on three original field postcards that were kindly entrusted to me by Philipp's descendants. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to them for making these invaluable historical documents available. Once again, we are reminded that war tears families apart, breaks hearts, and destroys countless lives with ruthless indifference. That is why it is so important that stories like Philipp's continue to be heard and remembered—not only as a tribute to those who were lost, but also as a warning to future generations. Because one thing has never changed: War always remains the same."
In other news, the band recently announced a massive European tour set to take place in November and December 2027:
"We Proclaim the War Days! A cloud in the shape of a clenched fist gathers above, looming ominously over Franconia. The Kanonenfieber Regiment prepares to march across Europe – not as conquerors, but as a warning voice from the horrors of battles long past. From the 18th of November until the 11th of December, for 23 days, we shall bring the face of war to the stages. Through thunder, smoke, and the sound of steel, we recount the frontlines of the Great War and the fates of those who were lost in its inferno."
KANONENFIEBER is the brainchild of Noise, who writes and records all of their music. For live shows he is accompanied by friends who allow him to focus on taking care of the vocals and the bombastic stage performance.
Noise started KANONENFIEBER in 2020 after reading through his deceased great-grandfather's diary that he wrote at the frontlines during the Second World War. Apart from memories, it was the only thing left of him. A hobby historian and friend of Noise transferred the diary from the original Sütterlin which was gifted as a book to Noise's grandmother - his great-grandfather's daughter. When Noise read through the bone chilling first-hand accounts, it became clear that he wanted to dedicate his art to commemorating the countless victims of war in general. The concept that was drafted together with his friend hinges on authenticity, with lyrics and linguistics based on reports, letters and other historical documents.
The band members including Noise and his live band are deliberately kept anonymous which works as a reference to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: monuments in various countries worldwide that commemorate soldiers killed in wars. The horrors of war are universal.
