At the begining of year 2007 Barbarossa Umtrunk was : Baron S and G.C. The themes and atmospheres were taking inspiration in Gibelism, Aristocratic Gnostiscism and Eschatologic mysticism of Indo-European Tradition. In November 2007, Barbarossa Umtrunk appears on the Post-Industrial Tribute to Marinetti " Parole In Liberta" for Creative Fields records with the track Futurus Ferrum and 6 months later they participates on "Free Tibet Free" Sampler with the song "The Path to Shambhala". The composition "Le Sang et le Sol" refearing to Walther Darre's doctrine was made for V.A "Heiliges Licht presents: Landwirdtschaft" in August 2008.
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Then, the first full length album called "Regnum Sanctum" has been released on SkullLine in October 2008. This limited CD of 50 copies contains ten tracks between bombastic military industrial & antediluvians neo-classical soundscapes. In the same time, the band appears with the song "Les 7 tours du Diable" on the Compilation "Free Your Mind" ( a tribute to Zeitgeist movie) released also on SkullLine, and one month later was released on the SkullLine Sampler "In the Sign of the Runes" a previous track called Eldritch Germania based on a poem by Karl Maria Weisthor and taken from the second album ...
The seconp opus was released in January 2009 on SkullLine. This album called Glazialkosmogonie reveals a more ambient, frozen and meta-cosmic ritualistic touch on his compositions based upon Ahnenerbe theorys and NS Esoterism & Gnose. The two last works of Barbarossa Umtrunk in the year 2009 were Splits: The first one with Seuschensturm called "Thule Gesellschaft" was released on March 2009 and the second one with Kazeria called "72 Candles in Cairo (1904)" and based on Aleister Crowley Magick was released three months later in June 2009 with the collaboration of french esoterist writer Marc-Louis Questin. At the end of 2009 G.C have leaves the band... Actually Barbarossa Umtrunk is a one man's project working on his third full length called "Wehrwolf Dharma" and previous to be released on UFA Muzak at the End of 2009. A split with Front Sonore "Le Siècle des Grands Abattoirs" is also previous on SkullLine for the end of the year. So, Take Care!
In the year 2007, was also born the side project El-Iksîr Al-Âlam Al-Ghayb involving more on an Industrial Ambient Dub vibe whith concepts refearing to Sufism or Islamic Jihad and since 2008 G.C is working on his solo project called' Effets Secondaires.
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