Helden von Nordvietnam
2012 · Righteous Fuck RFR 02 · Germany: Unified
- Artist
- Yacøpsæ
- Title
- Helden von Nordvietnam
- Release
- Apokalypse / Helden von Nordvietnam
- Year
- 2012
- Label
- Righteous Fuck # RFR 02
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany: Unified
- Songwriter
- Razzia (cover)
- Genre
- Metal · Metal · Grindcore
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — European Songs
Grindcore group Yacøpsæ, formed in August 1990, in Hamburg, Germany, with the following membership: Stoffel (guitar, vocals), Pattex (drums, 1990-92), Emu (drums, 1992-2018), Frank (bass, 1996-?), Manuel (bass, 2016-present), and Thore (drums, 2018-present). They released the song "Helden von Nordvietnam" (Righteousfuck Records # RFR 02), a cover of Razzia, a Deutschpunk group from Hamburg, formed in 1979, which released the song "Helden von Nordvietnam" (Weird System Recordings # 001) on the various artist compilation Waterkant-Hits. Note the front cover of this single featured the famous picture of the "Execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém".14 The song was a tribute to the "heroes of North Vietnam and the partisans from the Viet Cong" - the Vietcong (or "VC") - the National Liberation Front (NFL), the political and military resistance to the US and South Vietnamese government from within South Vietnam. The song noted the US military's use of napalm: "on the run from napalm and gas" - chemical weapon Napalm B - a jellied gasoline mixture, with polystyrene, benzene, and gasoline. Declared a war-crime since 1980, the US government extensively used this weapon during the Vietnam conflict, dropping 388,000 tons on Indochina between 1963 and 1973.123 Sources14Wikipedia: Execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém↩1Napalm: An American Biography (Robert M. Neer, 2013)↩2Times Higher Education: Napalm an american biography by robert m neer↩3Napalm, An American Biography (book website)↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Yacopsae are a German grindcore band formed in Hamburg in 1990. Their "Helden Von Nordvietnam" - recorded February 2010, released 2012 on a split 7" with Amen 81 (Righteousfuck RFR 02, 600 copies; Frank Venet bass, Emu drums, Stoffel guitar/vocals) - carries a written-by credit for RAZZIA: it is a cover of the Hamburg punk band's song, an original/cover pair between two Hamburg acts. [Source: Discogs; deathfests.com]
Themes
VC · North Vietnam Patriotic · Napalm · Execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém · Jungle · Vietnamese Perspective