E - Nomine

E Nomine is a german project (all the lyrics is also in German) which started in 1999. That is a very unusual project: all songs are written by E Nomine, but there is no vocalist in the "group". All lyrics is sang/spoken by German synchronization voices of different well known actors (as Robert De Niro, Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino, Samuel L. Jackson, Oliver Reed, Michael Caine, John Malkovich, Gary Oldman, Anthony Perkins, Bruce Willis, Jack Nicholson and Nicolas Cage) as they are heard in german versions of foreign movies.
The choruses are sang by "Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin" (Berlin Opera Choir).
So the person you always see in the videos as a vocalist is not a vocalist, he is just a "face" of the group and presents it in videos and in different TV-Shows on stage.

E Nomine's kind of music got the name "monumental dance" for it's great music, choruses and lyrics. E nomine uses also techno-beat, but it doesn't dominate in the songs.

First E Nomine's album was dedicated to Bible. It's name was "Das Testament" and all the texts of songs were taken from Old and New Testament without any changes. That caused many discussions in newspapers and magazines, the content of all these discussions was: "Bible in the charts". That album was very successful.

2 years later E Nomine released their second album "Finsternis" (means "Darkness"). It's title indicates the main theme of album's lyrics. That time E Nomine was inspired by different horror movies. That album was one of most successful albums in Germany of that year (2002).

Their third album will be released soon and there are some rumors that it's title will be "Die Prophezeiung" ("Prophesy"). That time E Nomine seems to be inspired by Nostradamus & co.

 

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