![News Added Jun 16, 2015 It seems like the biography of the band MACBETH, founded back in 1985 in Erfurt, was written by the English poet and playwright William Shakespeare himself. Like in the drama, where the band was named after, also glory and tragedy both can be found. In the early Eighties MACBETH were […]](https://hasitleaked.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/11406915_1079850358710502_4808070064180772936_n-320x317.jpg "Macbeth : Imperium")
It seems like the biography of the band MACBETH, founded back in 1985 in Erfurt, was written by the English poet and playwright William Shakespeare himself. Like in the drama, where the band was named after, also glory and tragedy both can be found. In the early Eighties MACBETH were one of the first metal bands in the former GDR and toured like crazy. The hundreds of fans who followed them were soon a problem for the GDR-authorities and led to massive problems. In the fall of 1986 a show of the band in the overcrowded “Stadtgarten” in Erfurt was monitored by the police and Stasi and the band was finally banned in the whole GDR. The ban of any further live shows was decided directly by the highest government officials. The campaign against MACBETH only ended when the GDR stopped existing and Germany was reunited. But that wasn’t the end of the band’s tragedy.
In December 1989 singer Detlef Wittenburg hung himself in the forest near Erfurt, broken by the traumatic experiences during his time in jail in the GDR. The band spilt afterwards. After the comeback in 1993, drummer Rico Sauermann committed suicide. The end of MACBETH seemed to have come and the band split again.
More than a decade passed until MACBETH was back on stage, but MACBETH finally delivered their first album "Macbeth” in 2006 which gained a very positive feedback. After some changes in the line-up they released "Gotteskrieger" in 2009 and "Wiedergänger" in 2012.
The new album will be called "Imperium" and released in September. In total, it will consist of 10 songs.
