Gustav is honestly so overlooked and overhated its crazy atp, I MEAN LOOK AT HIM, SUCH A CUTE BEAN😭
Petition to show him more love, without him tokio hotel wouldnt been have successful and his drumming is honestly so important and makes their music so much better than it would be without him drumming.
blixa bargeld is kind of scary. like even nick cave (blixa was in the bad seeds for a while) thought he was a bit freaky, but also 'the most beautiful man in the world'. he has this really low rough voice and in the eighties he was really skinny with spiky blonde goth hair and he has this honestly unearthly demon ghost scream that will never not be unsettling in a cool way. a lot of their shows sort of ended in riots/property damage/theft. i think they sort of invented industrial music in west berlin. they liked stealing stuff from construction sites to use as instruments.
a lot of their early music is sort of hitting metal stuff and machine noises with feedback guitar and shouting in german, but some of the stuff on 'silence is sexy' is really touching and beautiful.
some of the best songs -
the garden
sabrina
sonnenbarke
kollaps
installation no.1
and that's the the ones i can remember the names of (regrettably I do not speak german). but trust me this stuff is super cool.
blixa does cooking tutorials on instagram as well.
Libertus is /absolutely/ prepared to pull a (strictly platonic) Tam Lin if the situation calls for it. And he most certainly is not above pulling Crowe in if needed.
You know, at first I was like Tam Lin, Tam Lin. That sounds familiar. Where have I heard it before? Not even a day later I got this in my YouTube recommendations and had an Eureka! moment:
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Soooooo, yes. Libertus would absolutely do that. He would make his own chalk with Crowe's help and then march into The Mürn's court. He'd look directly into Nyx's eyes where he stands next to The Mürn and ask "Do I need to rescue you?" while throwing Nyx a bauble as payment for the question.
(Said bauble is pretty, sparkles and is absolutely useless. But Selena liked to collect them. Nyx rumbles a pleased purr. His storm-brother knows him so well.)
The whole court is up in a tizzy. How dare. That utter lack of decorum!