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FRANZ FUEXE
Over ten years in, four albums under their belt, and Franz Fuexe still aren't tired of raising hell. Other bands their age have grown up and are heading toward a well-deserved musical midlife crisis. Fuexe could age gracefully—they've made it to the cultural olympus by now—but they won't! Austrian bestselling author Elias Hirschl has this to say about Franz Fuexe: "Franz Fuexe combine the best of punk and rap: violence against Nazis and police. Since their debut album Nihilismus 0.0 (2014), the four Mostviertel natives have been actively working to get on the watchlist of the constitutional protection agency. In this turquoise-tainted Alpine state, anyone earning under 2000 euros is considered left-wing extremist anyway, but when you buy a Fuexe record, you can practically feel the breath of counterterrorism down your neck. Critics say they always resort to the Nazi card right away, but yeah, those critics are Nazis themselves and need clubbing too. That's Franz Fuexe: bashing Nazis with class—with such shameless musical perfection it almost damages their image. The live audience is premium too: half punks, half musicologists, and a third half undercover cops. But in the mosh pit, all Fuexe fans are equally bruised. What other albums have they released? 'Die Neue Unordnung' (2017) and '>Musik' (2019), but you can look that up on Wikipedia yourself, you idiot! Now stop reading and go to a concert! Franz Fuexe are Austria's best and only punk band, and tomorrow the world's! And I'm not just saying that because they threatened me and my family with physical violence." (
