Wer Bist Du?

Wer Bist Du? ("Who Are You?") is the first full album by German industrial metal group Megaherz, following the limited edition release of their first album, Herzwerk. The album included three songs from Herzwerk: Krone der Schöpfung (originally a two-part song, here a single track), Negativ and Hänschenklein 1995 (remade as Hänschenklein Siebenundneunzig).

Wer Bist Du?
Studio album by
Megaherz
ReleasedJuly 12, 1997
GenreNeue Deutsche Härte
Length52:16
LabelZYX Music, Benz Street
ProducerAndy Knote
Megaherz chronology
Herzwerk
(1995)		 Wer Bist Du?
(1997)		 Kopfschuss
(1998)

The first track, Gott sein, is one of Megaherz's most famous, and considers the problems of being God, culminating in the refrain "Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein" ("It is not easy being a god").

The penultimate track, Hänschenklein Siebenundneunzig, is based on a German nursery rhyme Hänschen klein, in which Hänschenklein (which translates most closely as "Little Hans") leaves home, causing his mother great grief. In the nursery rhyme, Hans returns home; in Megaherz's song, he is brutally murdered to the point that his mother cannot recognise him. The song shares the first line of the chorus Aber Mutter weinte sehr ("But Mother wept deeply") and ends with a brief drum solo accompanied by squeals of feedback and the whistling of the original nursery tune.

This song was the first of several Megaherz songs to be based on nursery rhymes, preceding Rapunzel on Kopfschuss, Windkind on Himmelfahrt (which echoed the story of Goldilocks) and I. M. Rumpelstilzchen on Herzwerk II.

The album was re-released in the US in 2004 as I (read as "One" or "Eins").

Track listing
  1. Gott Sein (To Be God) - 4:15
  2. Wer Bist Du? (Who Are You?) - 3:07
  3. Schlag' Zurück (Fight Back) - 4:01
  4. Das Leben (The Life) - 3:59
  5. Finsternis (Darkness) - 1:19
  6. Licht (Light) - 3:51
  7. Negativ (Negative) - 3:44
  8. Kopf Durch Die Wand (Head Through The Wall) - 4:31
  9. Müde (Tired) - 4:39
  10. Krone Der Schöpfung (Pride of Creation) - 4:05
  11. Tanzen Gehen (To Go Dancing) - 3:23
  12. Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Thoughts Are Free) - 3:59
  13. Hänschenklein '97 (Little Hans '97) - 2:52
  14. Wer Bist Du? (Remix) - 4:31
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