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With the long-player titled "Sturm & Dreck," the group from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern managed to reach number 3 on the charts for the first time, achieving what is commonly known as the "big breakthrough." This was unusual for a band founded in 2004 by a few schoolmates in the Pomeranian province, primarily to make things happen in their immediate environment, not to lament and wait for others to do something, but to straighten things out for themselves in every way, privately, politically, and otherwise.
Every few years, there is this phenomenon of a band that everyone can agree on: their fans, of course, but also critics, media, and music lovers across all genres. Feine Sahne Fischfilet was exactly that band in 2018, music for the here and now, fresh, modern, and captivating.
And then things really took off: "In 2018, Feine Sahne Fischfilet are the most successful young rock band in the country," recognized "Die Zeit," Spiegel Online rejoiced over "A Manifesto of Resistance," while Rolling Stone stated, "You believe every word of the resistance from the band," and the scene magazine "Ox Fanzine" aptly described the group as "Big mouth and substance."
The following years saw them constantly on tour, playing at the biggest festivals, and their own concerts saw increasingly larger venues and open airs. By the end of 2019, almost 200,000 people had celebrated, danced, laughed, and cried together with the band on one of their tours. Feine Sahne Fischfilet embraced their listeners when things got tough. And it was always tough. Everything was there: disillusionment, drunkenness, fun, agitation, reason, riot, and excess. And because the band always got politically involved and clashed, trouble has been a constant and ongoing condition. Nazis, the AfD, and local and national right-wing extremists of all kinds repeatedly put obstacles in the band's way. "Alles auf Rausch" was the name of one of their concert tours during this phase, and that's exactly how Feine Sahne Fischfilet were on the road until they took an extended break at the end of 2019.
Finally, taking a breath, finding peace, and processing what had happened. Only to realize over time that they had partly lost themselves in the noise of the past years. A reorientation was needed and inevitable. The guys who founded the band in 2004 quickly realized: giving up was not an option, resistance and difficulties were part of it from the beginning, and dealing with these, including their own shortcomings and contradictions, was part of the band's DNA and motivated them to keep going. A happy coincidence brought a new band member on board. The first test followed in the summer of 2022: at the invitation of Die Toten Hosen, Feine Sahne Fischfilet joined ten concerts of the "Alles aus Liebe – 40 Jahre Die Toten Hosen" tour as support and thrilled tens of thousands night after night.
