Kopfschuss

Kopfschuss
Studio album by Megaherz
Released July 12, 1998
Genre Industrial Metal, rap metal, alternative metal
Length 55:30
Label ZYX Music
Producer Andi List & Yogi Lang
Megaherz chronology
Wer Bist Du?
(1997)		 Kopfschuss
(1998)		 Himmelfahrt
(2000)

Kopfschuss (eng. "Headshot") is the second full-length album by German industrial metal band Megaherz.

The first track, Liebestöter brought the album most of its popularity abroad. The album features a cover of a Falco song, Rock Me, Amadeus, and continued Megaherz's tradition of having one song per album based on a fairy tale with the track Rappunzel, which alludes to the story of the same name.

The album was re-released in the US in 2005 as II (read as "Two" or "Zwei") with the handgun removed from the album art.

Track listing

  1. Liebestöter ("Love killer[1]") - 4:51
  2. Kopfschuss ("Headshot") - 4:19
  3. Herz aus Stein ("Heart of stone") - 4:04
  4. Miststück ("Bitch[2]") - 3:30
  5. Burn - 1:37
  6. Rappunzel ("Rappunzel") - 3:58
  7. Blender ("Fraud") - 4:19
  8. Jordan[3] - 3:39
  9. Freiflug ("Free flight") - 4:58
  10. Meine Sünde ("My sin") - 3:39
  11. Teufel ("Devil") - 5:00
  12. Schizophren ("Schizophrenic") - 3:34
  13. Rock Me, Amadeus - 3:26
  14. Liebestöter (Rock-Club Mix) - 4:26

^ Liebestöter ("Love-killer") a pun on Wagner's Liebestod ("Love's death").

^ "Bitch" is a slightly inaccurate translation in that Miststück is a non-gender-specific insult, though the context of the song makes it clear that the Miststück is a female. Miststück literally means "piece of crap".

^ Jordan is named for the expression "to cross the Jordan" (a river in the Levant), meaning "to die".

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