Wer bist du?


Wer bist du? is the first full-length album by German industrial metal band Megaherz. Following the limited edition release of their debut album, Herzwerk. The album includes three songs from Herzwerk: "Krone der Schöpfung", "Negativ", and "Hänschenklein 1995".
The first track, "Gott sein", is one of Megaherz's most famous, and considers the problems of being God, culminating in the refrain "Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein".
The penultimate track, "Hänschenklein Siebenundneunzig", is based on a German nursery rhyme Hänschen klein, in which Hänschen klein leaves home, causing his mother great grief. In the nursery rhyme, Hans returns home; in Megaherz's song, he is brutally murdered to the point that his mother cannot recognise him. The song shares the first line of the chorus "Aber Mutter weinte sehr" and ends with a brief drum solo accompanied by squeals of feedback and the whistling of the original nursery tune. The song was the first of several Megaherz songs to be based on nursery rhymes, preceding "Rapunzel" on Kopfschuss, "Windkind" on Himmelfahrt and "I. M. Rumpelstilzchen" on Herzwerk II.
The album was re-released in the US in 2004 as I.

Track listing

  1. "Gott sein" – 4:15
  2. "Wer bist du?" – 3:07
  3. "Schlag' zurück" – 4:01
  4. "Das Leben" – 3:59
  5. "Finsternis" – 1:19
  6. "Licht" – 3:51
  7. "Negativ" – 3:44
  8. "Kopf durch die Wand" – 4:31
  9. "Müde" – 4:39
  10. "Krone der Schöpfung" – 4:05
  11. "Tanzen gehen" – 3:23
  12. "Die Gedanken sind frei" – 3:59
  13. "Hänschenklein '97" – 2:52
  14. "Wer bist du? " – 4:31