savage master whips chains download archive With Whips and Chains. Kicking out the jams with palpable vicissitude and blazing flair is Kentucky's Savage Master who, with their latest heavy-hitting harangue, With Whips And Chains (released in April of last year under the highly reputable High Roller Records), provides the home of the Slugger - Louisville - and its bashing rivet heads an additional notch on the belt. That said, if you're fond of caustic and jagged, yet "rollicking", metal bands such as Motorhead, Demon Bitch and Night Viper you owe to it yourself to give this release a predatory lunge. Although ignominious and oily as sin, front woman Stacey Peak a.k.a. Savage's vocals are actually quite refreshing, albeit grimly; that is, tempered with evil ferment and compounded by cranked up, hopping instrumentation which indiscriminately won me over. Dig the bone jarring rattle punctuating "Path of the Necromancer" or captivating chorus to "Dark Light of the Moon". Don't be thrown off by the somewhat pedestrian song titles as the album's congenial and overall bad-ass vibe rabidly do 'em justice. In other words, expect this brand of no frills, in-for-the-kill mid- tempo metal to deliver while guaranteeing more than its fair share of gleeful, even giddy, returns. Expunged as they are, the dark, tempestuous lyrics initially gripped me with the fury of a hellion! Let's just say they wickedly "behoove" Stacy's kick-ass, currish caws. As for the guitar riffs, they're very compact and gruff, sort of like Bullet's but instead of evoking beers, hot rods and babes, SM's are simply dripping with venomous black wizardry and bile, at times madly grooving back and forth like a haunted rocking chair. Such is the case with the Apollyonic (and oh-so-liberating!) anthem "Ready To Sin". Lead wise, the sharp, poignant solos cobwebbed throughout give the impression of being crowned with a demonic halo whilst fervently and rapaciously hemmed in with no where to run or hide. Furthermore, fans of Satan's Hallow, Pentagram and Witchtfinder General are in for a treat - no trick! - as the solos often evoke a festive and infernal amalgam of all three. Although the bass typically skulks in the shadows, "With Whips and Chains" proper owes much of its sordid brawn i.e, "muscle" to the rhythm section's low end dominance which evocatively grips the bull by the horns, hence ensuring balance as well as ideal counterpoint to both guitars' treble charge coasting beneath Stacy's viperous admonitions. The drums, on their end, are tailor-made (to order) for this rabid class of meat & potatoes, "plate licked clean" metal mayhem. For instance, dig the ominously tumbling fills dominating "Satan's Crown", yet another Luciferian pseudo-anthem sure to get the blood boilin'! Not content with simply establishing itself as my newfound fetish band - "S(&)M", right? - Savage Master has memorably tagged the Bluegrass state as an additional haven/repertoire for killer occult-themed traditional heavy metal. "Every room is like a living tomb Enter once and you seal your doom You'll hear the master calling you. " Portly Old Man Metal With Booberies - 64% This review first appeared on the Deaf Sparrow Facebook page 2 August 2016. Written by Stanley Stepanic. Here we go with this retro thing again, onward heathens to the pyre, with boobs in flames, even though that's not historically accurate really. I mean, yeah, they burned everything, but it wasn't so early-80s underground comic. But still, Savage Master got me with the art, as you can assume, which features lots of classic witchhunter references like fires and axes and gauntlets and wait a minute. Whatever, at any rate it looked like it was going to offer the purest of metal entertainment, though likely without any ounce of creativity. For that I am the Inquisition to the witch. "With Whips and Chains" presents old school metal as old school metal. The riffs are old, gray, yet you kind of get a thrill off of the cigarette smoke on the bedsheets. There are whips, and yes, there are chains, and yes, believe it or not, there is metal. So it's primarily classic in form, to the point that it ages itself prematurely. Classic can be good, but here I found myself quite disappointed, for a very simple reason. The metal here, the riffing, the bass, wherever it is (as expected for this old kind of sound you'll have trouble finding it), and the drums, are antiquated, but not in a way that leads to veneration. This isn't a legendary reliquary on an altar, it's a tired, smelly old fart figuratively and literally. I can take the old, and I'm willing to admit I'm a curmudgeon, at times. We all get there eventually. But this feels more like something you should be hearing in a rest home elevator in about a decade, when the next generation rots away. Imagine your great-grandchildren visiting your festering, sore-covered bed body, or your cats because you probably don't think you want kids, and this is seriously the kind of music they'll be playing at black metal logo bingo. This is geriatric metal is what I'm saying, old to the core; in fact Savage Master play it so well it's time travel incarnate. But what they lack is the true energy that can make it work, like a band such as Demona easily proves. The riffs drag you back to the 80s, where some of us just don't want to be, and really the only thing about this release that might catch your attention is the vocalist, Stacey Peak, who has enough charisma to stabilize the rest from collapse. She has her limits, but she knows them, and her boldness is what keeps it alive. If it wasn't for her, this would easily sound like some bargain bin offal discovered in an abandoned mom-and-pop trinket store covered in mold. You feel so elite for finding it, since no one else remembers it, but after listening to it you realize there's a reason the era ended. If you want to be old, well you'll be satisfied "With Whips and Chains," but it's easy to forget, because it's more theatrical than purposeful. I'd rather pretend I'm younger than I am, and this isn't helping. Slow, Fat, and Perfect - 95% Savage Master are a newer heavy metal band that have just released their second full-length album since starting a few years ago. And if that level of output weren't already noteworthy enough, they also managed to do something even more remarkable and that is to produce a sophomore album that is better than their first one. And seeing as how the first one was already a stellar example of old school heavy metal, if you enjoyed that one, you're in for a real treat with this one. For those of you unfamiliar with Savage Master, it's pretty easy to describe their sound. Just try to imagine Leather Leone singing for Cirith Ungol. And I think that comparison is particularly apt not just because their sounds are similar, but also because the quality of the music is equally comparable. Like Cirith Ungol, their greatest strength lies with their uncommon ability to craft riffs that are – for lack of a better word – fat . And it's not just because they are on the slower and heavier side, but also because they are accompanied by a thundering rhythm section whose steady yet bombastic execution fills them with power and drive. Songs like “Path of the Necromancer”, “Looking for a Sacrifice”, and the title track are masterful examples of riffs potent enough to send the likes of Mary Whitehouse into a headbanging rage. For some reason, slow heavy metal has always been more impressive to me when it's executed well compared to power and speed metal. Besides the obvious bias I have based on my personal tastes though, one reason that I think I like it more is simply that if you're not playing fast, you've got to at least be interesting. And that's what you have going on here in pretty much every song. Heavy metal bands, especially bands who are specifically going through the effort to keep the old school sound alive, can easily fall victim to recycling a lot of classic material. Though you wouldn't have a hard time pinpointing a lot of the obvious influences here, there is still a plethora of fresh stuff to chew on. Adam Neal, the band's founding guitarist, cites the Belgian band Acid as one of his main inspirations, and whilst I can certainly hear some of that in this album, I would hesitate to use that band's material as a point of comparison. The main riff to “Path of the Necromancer” sounds far closer to Chastain's iconic “Mystery of Illusion” than it does to anything on Acid's first three albums. The lead playing on “Satan's Crown” is something straight out of some seventies-era Priest songs, and the vocals are of course a completely different animal. So to be fair, it's possible there is a lot of Acid influence in the music, but those influences can get much harder spot when there are so many other differences in speed and overall sound. I had the opportunity to catch a recent show just around the time I got the album and I was especially curious how well they would be able pull off their sound in a live setting. Specifically, I was curious if they would be able to get the mix balanced well enough so that the bass and percussion don't drown out the rhythm and lead guitars. There was also the other question of how well the vocalist would perform with such a heavy band behind her. But I was not disappointed; not in the least. Stacey Peak, the petite but powerful singer, has a larger-than-life stage presence and has a set of pipes that matches the band's aggressive low-tempo riffs flawlessly. Watching them do the title track was especially awesome since the entire audience seemed to be joining the band in on the screamed chorus, which was something that you won't experience just listening to the album at home. It's only half-way through the year, and I realise that a lot could change, but this album is a serious contender for my top ten and so far is probably the strongest full-length album I've heard so far. Lovers of heavy metal who lament over the dearth of that classic sound in recent years should give Savage Master a listen, starting with the debut. Side 1 – Track 8 – Savage Master. On this episode of Stillborn Goat 666 Heavy Metal Podcast, the occult meets the metal as we welcome lead vocalist of SAVAGE MASTER, Stacey Savage. Their new album “With Whips and Chains” drops in the UK April 22nd and stateside on May 13th. Get a sample of the new album, find out about the theatrics you can expect at a live SAVAGE MASTER show and how the band is handling bursting from the underground into one of the biggest touring metal bands on the scene today. Savage master whips chains download archive. Louise Brown once again bestrides the world of metal like a damn colossus. This month she points her laser eyes at Grand Magus, Katatonia and Ghold among others. You lot had better not be going out dressed like that - Savage Master on casual Friday. May: the month when the sun just peaks at over 13 degrees celsius and the metal community cut the sleeves off their t-shirts and swap all their Thin Lizzy and Scorpions pins from their leathers to their denim vests. Buying albums isn't so much a priority in May but we've found a few you can make an exception for. We know it's the month that the festivals start and precious pennies have to be saved for essentials like Muskelrock tickets, beer tokens and decisions like, “Should I go to Download because what if this is the last time we'll ever get to see Sabbath and Maiden?” Seriously, those are some scary questions. Motörhead were supposed to play a ton of festivals this year! Our favourite bands are creaking on towards retirement age, even Brian 'Thunder' Johnson has been put to pasture. Ritchie Blackmore is giving us one last trip down the Streets Of Dreams next month and I'll be front and centre during Whitesnake at Ramblin' Man Fair, y'know, just in case. The sun is shining, so there's no need for this pessimism; long live rock & roll, so dictates Sir Blackmore. If The Rolling Stones are still touring, there's hope for our heroes and when all's said and done, the new crop of bands reviewed in this column ain't so shoddy, that there's a future in this heavy metal lark yet. Electric Citizen – Higher Times (Riding Easy) This Sin-cinnati foursome are leading us down the path of temptation toward Higher Times this summer, and don't mind if we do. Fronted by the bewitching Laura Dolan, this is the right kind of spooky pop that will have us dancing under the influence in some field, somewhere, at 5am. Opener Evil (why sugarcoat things?) starts with all the Sabbathian might you'd expect from a band in flares and tassled waistcoats (and that's just the blokes), but the thunder clouds part for some Summer In The City style Lovin' Spoonful boogie, ramping up the tempo and making us shake what our mammas gave us. You gotta lose it and groove it when this album's on. Yeah, we could list all the Captain Beyond, Moby Grape cliches at this point, but Electric Citizen are a modern band. Sure, those bands are on their turntables but they're coming at it from a contemporary perspective, remembering that Sonic Youth and Earth were just as influenced by Pentagram as the modern crop of retro hip-swingers. Laura's voice ain't pretty, it's got soul but it ain't soulful, there's a punky, grungey croon over her band's psychedelic wall of sound and hard rock power. In fact, there's nothing to say that fans of Velocity Girl or Throwing Muses won't get down to this along with the vintage doom cult. Katatonia – The Fall Of Hearts (Peaceville) There's always got to be that one party pooper. As soon as the sun comes out and you're dancing in the garden, they're the ones in the big black jumper muttering about skin cancer and reminding you that it will be winter before you know it. Katatonia are that band. Don't release your new album in May, you bastards. Wait until October like all good gothic doomsters. Man, this is such a bummer but damn it's gorgeous. Give me that big black jumper, I feel the need to be cocooned and melt away with The Fall Of Hearts on repeat. The Swedish death metal depressives really drunk the Kool Aid in 2006 with The Great Cold Distance , distancing themselves from their extreme metal past and going all Perfect Circle on us. Along with Anathema and Opeth, they've fully embraced the prog and with this, their tenth album, they're going for the heart with twelve songs (not counting a slew of bonus tracks, one of which has metal miser Gregor Mackintosh of Paradise Lost on guest guitars) of introspective gloom and doom. New string-slinger Roger Öjersson from Tiamat adds some hope with some nimble-fingered solos that would impress fellow country man Yngwie J. Katatonia are the Leaders of pessimistic prog and when the English summer shits the bed this album will lend all the comfort we need. Ghold – Pyr (Ritual Productions) Staying out of the sun, on their third album, South London sludge duo Ghold have drafted guitarist Oliver Martin to add an extra layer to their already multi-textured sonic tower. Crafting a monolith of sound, Ghold are the band that make you miss Fudge Tunnel, or dig out that Corrupted record from the depths of your collection. Armed with just bass, amp, pedals and drums, they weave a tale of crushing doom, teasing the listener with an uneasy minute or two of silence before first song, 'Collusion With Traitors' kicks in proper. There's a neanderthal fury on Pyr and they ramp up the unease by the end of the first track only to jolt the listener to life with a blood-curding, black metal shriek at the start of Blud . The album's piece-de-resistance is the 20-minute Despert Thang , the bass adding the creepy soundtrack to a cavernous crawl through some subterranean temple with chanting monks and horrors untold. Ghold's primordial sludge is not gratuitous, it's a masterclass of doom-laden sturm und drang with an eerie, dread-filled undercurrent that sets the heart pacing and the mind wandering. Virus – Memento Collider (Karisma) Do you like Voivod? Virus like Voivod. And Talking Heads. That's the crossroads where Virus meets and it's as incredible as that pairing could ever be. Let's back up a bit. Virus were the continuation of avant black metal weirdos Ved Buens Ende and released their first album, Carheart , in 2003. Singer/guitarist Czral is also in black-thrashers Aura Noir as well as being linked with Ulver, Dimmu Borgir and DHG. Virus isn't black metal in the slightest. It's undefinable, weaving a path between pop, prog, post-punk, thrash and rock. Their fourth album is Virus' continuing evolution, playfully distorting rhythm, vocal sounds, and atmosphere to create a post-thrash, post-apocalyptic, otherworldly universe. Bass player Plenum took a bit of a sabbatical from Virus but is back, infecting these six tracks with a pulsing backbone that takes the listener on a journey while Einar Sjursø's jazz-inflections behind the kit drive the album forward, leaving the frontman's minimalist noise of guitar and voice to pepper Memento Collider with daring dissonance. The three contrasting styles come together to form a cohesive collision that once again proves their genius. Spell – For None And All (Bad Omen) Canada's Spell would go down a storm on tour with Virus. They come at their spacey prog from a more traditional heavy metal direction but, like the Norsemen, worship at the altar of Voivod, and for that matter, Rush. It must be a Canadian thing. The band started in Vancouver in 2007, just in time for the old school heavy metal resurgence. Back then they were called Stryker and joined fellow countrymen Cauldron and Skull Fist in borrowing from NWOBHM obscurities and records with the Banzai swirl. Cannily in time with the turning tide, in 2013 they changed their name to something more occult and swapped the spandex for kaftans. This is no wagon-jumping career move, this is the sound of a band coming into their own and finding their own groove. This is timeless rock with a foot in the proto-metal past, but sounding thoroughly futuristic with horror- soundtrack synths and Geddy Lee vocals. This is their second album as Spell, moving from local DIY label Hard And Heavy, to UK trad metal stable Bad Omen and it's a progression that will see Spell cast their magic further and deservedly so. It's going to be exciting to see what journey they take next, this is promising band and one to watch. Bat – Wings Of Chains (Hells Headbangers) Imagine having wings of chains, you wouldn't be able to fly, unless you were some mecha-buzzard of death. Bat aren't trying to be clever. They're trying to play thrash metal that pays homage to Venom and with their power trio formation summons the spirit of Lemmy and co. That's not entirely surprising since it's the result of a drunken decision by Municipal Waste's Ryan Waste and DRI's Felix Griffin to play fast and dirty heavy metal- punk. Their anthem 'Code Rude' calls for listeners to be filthy and crude, just like the twelve songs on this debut slice of horrible. Following a sought after demo and followed up by a EP, this isn't an album that Ryan, Felix and guitarist Nick Poulos churned out one midnight though, no matter how it sounds. This is a considered, thought-out tribute to the records that have been spinning in basements of metal maniacs the world over since the early '80s. While touring in the Waste, and to be fair Bat (who are rarely off the road), Wings Of Chains has been Ryan's obsession, unable to let it go until perfect. It's not perfect, it's not meant to be, it's raw and in-your-face. It's out on Hell's Headbangers, who are nailing every single release they put out at the moment – and the only label where you can buy a Nunslaughter swimming costume alongside your Vomitor LPs, which is frankly essential fashion this summer – and when something is this vital, the perfect pairing of thrash metal and hardcore punk, it's gonna be tough for the day job, Municipal Waste, to get it beat. Lucifer's Hammer – Beyond The Omens (Shadow Kingdom) Let's hop over to South America, where traditional heavy metal is regarded as a religious experience. There are no holds barred when these Chileans pick up their instruments. This is power, this is glory, this is metal. The cover has wolves and a castle on the cover. The basslines are unashamed Steve Harrisisms. They have a song called Shinning Blade , yep “shinning”. This is their debut album, following a demo in 2013, and Shadow Kingdom (Manilla Road, Pagan Altar) have picked it up for an international release on, wait for it, cassette! Lucifer's Hammer are the band you need on the tip of your tongue when your shit friend says Iron Maiden sold out when they started writing 18 minute prog songs about hot air balloons. Tell them they're wankers and to listen to Lucifer's Hammer instead. Beyond The Omens has all that early Maiden charm but singer Hades sounds more like Angel Witch's Kevin Heybourne, that slightly off-key magic that made most of the b-list NWOBHM so spellbinding. Now, where's my Panasonic Shockwave? Savage Master – With Whips And Chains (High Roller) Staying naïve but staying truly heavy metal, Savage Master are a fairly new five-piece from Louisville, Kentucky consisting of four faceless executioners in full grim garb and a bewitching lady singer who wears leather corsets, thigh high boots and bedecked with chains she'll probably beat you to death with. Betsey Bitch, eat ya heart out. Savage Master are schlocky as hell. Their debut album was based around cult b-movie Black Sunday and while With Whips And Chains ain't no concept album, their themes are limited to Satan, witches, Satan and generally being all the things your Sunday school teacher said was bad. Like Lucifer's Hammer, Savage Master savage the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal vaults and they do it with all the fervour and wonderment of kids raised on Maiden and Saxon without the same level of musicianship, but who cares about that when you're playing from the heart. and your singer is likely to kill you dead with her stiletto heels. Stacey Savage herself is straight from the Beki Bondage school of “who cares if you can't sing”. She has attitude, she has a snarl from hell and she's scary. Savage Master have Satan on their side, they're not Mercyful Fate but they're fun. Lots of fun. The nuns can do one. Denner/Sherman - Masters Of Evil (Metal Blade) Do you know who also isn't Mercyful Fate? Denner/Sherman. But they almost are. We have two choices here, we can listen to Masters Of Evil as the eighth Fate album, or we can approach it as Denner/Sherman's first. The former is going to lead to disappointment, the latter offers up an exciting new band in the realm of old school heavy metal. Okay, history lesson: Brats' singer and guitarist King Diamond and Hank De Wank started Mercyful Fate in 1981. The other Brats axeman Michael Denner soon joined. They made some albums that were really good, changed the face of heavy metal as we know it and pretty much laid the groundwork for black metal. Also Metallica liked them. A lot. Diamond and Denner did go on to form the eponymous King Diamond but the Fate still released five albums in the '90s, which is good going in the decade that killed heavy metal. Now they're back but under a new name, with Fate drummer Snowy Shaw and two new members; Sean Peck from Death Dealer, who has some mighty pipes on him, and bassist Marc Grabowski. Exciting right? Well technically, except Masters Of Evil is a bit pub rock to be honest. Everything about the band is right, right down to the Don't Break The Oath -aping cover. It's not Sean's fault he's not King Diamond. If you can get over that then the album is Fate-tastic, supernatural tales are still told, the Denner/Sherman duel guitars are unbeatable, Satan still looms over their lyrics. In a column that celebrates all that traditional heavy metal gave us, and still gives us, surely a Denner/Sherman comeback is a cause for massive celebration, and if you really crave the full Mercyful Fate experience why don't you go see King Diamond in London on June 21 but listen to this album on your iPod on the way to the gig, during the interval and on your way home? That's as close as we'll get to a proper Fate reunion at the present, I'm afraid, folks. Grand Magus – Sword Songs (Nuclear Blast) The question at hand is 'Is there such thing as too much heavy metal?'. The commandments handed by Dio to Joey DeMaio, which hath been adhered to by legions of zealots since, are carved in denim and leather. Thou shall defend the steel. Thou shalt have a rallying 'yeah' in the middle of thou song. Thou shall sing about peril and storms and battles. Thou shalt reach for those high notes. Thou shall have a chorus that whips your crowd into a frenzy with the two simple words Viking and Metal . Heavy metal, as in true, iron-forged metal, is easy prey for those that want to turn their nose up at its earnest devotion to cliches of glory, power and dragons, but these people do not want to die for metal and therefore they are false. Grand Magus are back with their eighth album and it's a tickbox of orthodoxy. If Sabaton released Sword Songs it would be painfully naff but Magus are just too damn cool. They're Born For Battle , as they sing on yet another of their rousing anthems. Hold your head up high. Raise your fist up in the air. Play Sword Songs louder than hell. This is lowest common denominator, traditional power metal and should be on the national curriculum. Into glory ride . Vandallus – On The High Side (High Roller) In this heavy metal era of looking back to look forward, it's surprising that so few bands have tried, and succeeded, to capture that 1980s, MTV, big budget, big hair rock and Vandallus, from Ohio, are giving it their all. What's even more surprising is that a third of Vandallus are in underground black-speed metal iconoclasts, Midnight. The brainchild of one Jason Vanek, Vandallus aim to capture, in his words “heavy rock, with a little dose of AOR” and while the snobs amongst us might snub his attempts, On The High Side is fun from the intro right through to the Crüe-esque finale. Vanek sounds like Joey Tempest unless he's forcing those Klaus Meine nasal high notes but give this a Roger Glover production and a Helmut Newton cover and we'd be in the red. I'll be singing these choruses all summer, but now I'm off to listen to Vain and work on my tan. Savage master whips chains download archive. SAVAGE MASTER features female vocals soaring on Lucifer's wings, over sick rockin' guitar riffs straight from the depths of hell, to honor and pass along the great traditions of our True Occult Heavy Metal foremothers and forefathers. From the very depths of hell and darkness, the wicked warriors of SAVAGE MASTER return with their new album "With Whips And Chains". Two years after releasing their debut titled "Mask Of The Devil", which has been promoted on two full US tours and on several festival stages, Stacey Savage and her hooded henchmen are back with a new Occult Heavy Metal opus, that takes you far beyond the promise of their first album, into a world of hellfire and horses, burning witches and spirits of the damned. Listen as Kentucky's True Metal cultists Savage Master rip through their second offering, 10 new songs of satanic fury and bloodstains. Not for the faint of heart! On "With Whips And Chains", the Metal tyrant Stacey Savage returns with the crack of the Devil's whip, claiming her rightful throne with her signature sensual devils screech, and backed by blistering Classic Heavy Metal riffs played by masked brutes spawned from the loins of Lucifer himself! Country of origin:United States Location:Louisville, Kentucky Status:Active Formed in:2013 Genre:Heavy Metal Lyrical themes:Lust, Death, Evil Current label:High Roller Records Years active:2013-present. Brandon Brown-Bass See also: Murrowind Larry Myers-Guitars See also: Artwork For the Blind Adam Neal-Guitars (2013-present) See also: Dragon's Kiss, ex-Blade of the Ripper, ex-Brothers of Conquest, Nine Pound Hammer, The Hookers, ex-Nashville Pussy Stacey Peak-Vocals (2013-present) Zach Harris-Drums (2015-present) Complete Discography: Mask of the Devil-Full-length-2014. 1.Blood on the Rose 02:44 2.The Mystifying Oracle 02:59 3.Mask of the Devil 03:50 4.The Ripper in Black 04:08 5.Kill Without Warning 03:47 6.Marry the Wolf 04:17 7.Altar of Lust 05:13 8.Death Rides the Highway 02:23. 1.Black Hooves 02:57 2.Swords and Tequila (Riot cover) 03:10. With Whips and Chains-Full-length-2016. 1.Call of the Master 01:40 2.Dark Light of the Moon 03:44 3.With Whips and Chains 04:04 4.Path of the Necromancer 03:45 5.Vengeance Is Steel 03:29 6.Looking for a Sacrifice 03:19 7.Satan's Crown 03:56 8.Burned at the Stake 03:30 9.Black Hooves 03:03 10.Ready to Sin 04:29. The torture of the Gestapo (25 photos) It is a small neat house in Kristiansade next to the road in the port of Stavanger, and during the war was the most horrible place throughout the south of Norway. «Skrekkens hus» — «House of terror" — so named it in the city. Since January 1942, the city archives building was the headquarters of the Gestapo in southern Norway. These prisoners were brought here were equipped torture chambers, hence the people sent to concentration camps and shot. now in the basement of the building where the punishment cells were located and where prisoners were tortured, a museum, telling about what happened during the war in the building of State Archives. Disposition of the basement corridors left unchanged. There were only new lights and doors. In the main corridor of the main exhibition is arranged with archival materials, photographs, posters. So suspended beaten arrested chain. So tortured with electric stoves. With particular zeal of the executioners could ignite a human hair on the head. About water torture I wrote earlier. It is applied in the Archives. In this device, finger crimp pulled out nails. The machine authentic — after the city's liberation from the Germans all the equipment torture chambers remained in place and was saved. Next — other devices for interrogation with the "addiction». Several basements are arranged reconstruction — as it looked then, in this very spot. This camera, which contained extremely dangerous detainees — trapped in the clutches of the Gestapo member of the Norwegian Resistance. In the next room was located a torture chamber. It reproduced the actual scene of torture couples underground, taken by the Gestapo in 1943, during the session with the intelligence center in London. Two Gestapo tortured his wife in front of her husband, chained to the wall. In a corner, on an iron girder, suspended one member of an underground group failed. They say that before the interrogation the Gestapo pumped alcohol and drugs. In all cell left, as if a 43-m. If you turn the pink stool, standing at the feet of the women, you can see the mark of the Gestapo Kristiansand. This reconstruction of the interrogation — Gestapo agent provocateur (left) presents arrested clandestine radio operator group (it sits right in handcuffs) his radio in a suitcase. In the center sits kristiansandskogo chief of the Gestapo, SS-Hauptsturmführer Rudolf Kerner — about it I had to tell. In this showcase items and documents of the Norwegian patriots, which is sent to a concentration camp near Oslo Greene — Chief forwarding station in Norway, where the prisoners were sent to other concentration camps in Europe. Notation of different groups of prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz-Birkenau). The Jew, the political, the Roma, the Spanish Republican, a dangerous criminal, a criminal, a war criminal, a Jehovah's Witness, homosexual. The icon of Norwegian political prisoner wrote the letter N. The museum lead school tours. I came across one such — a few local teenagers walked the corridors together with the Tour Robstadom, volunteers from local residents who survived the war. They say that in the year in the Archives of the museum is visited by about 10,000 students. Toure told the guys about Auschwitz. Two boys from the group had been there recently on a tour. Soviet prisoners of war in a concentration camp. In his hand — a home-made wooden bird. In a separate showcase things made by hands of Russian prisoners of war in the Norwegian camps. These crafts Russian bartered for food from the locals. Our neighbor in Kristiansand was a whole collection of wooden birds — on the way to school, she often met our group of prisoners going to work under guard, and gave them their breakfast in exchange for the carved wooden toys. Reconstruction of guerrilla radio. Guerrillas in southern Norway to London passed information about German troop movements, deployment of military equipment and vehicles. In the north of the Norwegian intelligence supplied the Soviet Northern Navy. "Germany — a nation of creators." Norwegian patriots had to work under extreme pressure on the local population Goebbels's propaganda. The Germans have set ourselves the task of early nazification country. Quisling government is taking to this effort in the field of education, culture and sport. Quisling Nazi Party (Nasjonal Samling) before the start of the war inspired the Norwegians that the main threat to their security is the military power of the Soviet Union. It should be noted that intimidation of Norwegians about Soviet aggression in the north contributed to many Finnish campaign in 1940. With the advent of Quisling has only strengthened their propaganda with the help of agencies Goebbels. The Nazis in Norway to convince the population that only a strong Germany could protect the Norwegians from the Bolsheviks. Several posters distributed by the Nazis in Norway. «Norges nye nabo» — «New Norwegian neighbor", 1940 Note the fashionable and now welcome "inversion" of Latin letters to simulate the Cyrillic alphabet. "You want it to be so?» The promotion of a "new Norwegian" strongly emphasizes the relationship of the two "Nordic" peoples, their solidarity in the struggle against British imperialism and "wild Bolshevik hordes". Norwegian patriots in response to use in their fight against the character of King Haakon and his image. The motto of the King «Alt for Norge» strongly ridiculed the Nazis who inspired the Norwegians that the military difficulties — a temporary phenomenon, and Vidkun Quisling — the new leader of the nation. Two walls in the dark corridors of the museum given to the criminal case, which was tried on seven main Gestapo in Kristiansand. The Norwegian jurisprudence of such cases has never been — the Norwegians tried Germans and citizens of another state, accused of crimes in the territory of Norway. The process involved three hundred witnesses, about a dozen lawyers, the Norwegian and foreign press. Gestapo officers were tried for the torture and abuse of detainees, was alone episode of the execution without trial of 30 Russian and Polish prisoners of war 1. June 16, 1947 were all sentenced to death for the first time and was temporarily included in the Criminal Code of Norway after the war. Rudolf Kerner — kristiansandskogo Gestapo chief. A former teacher of shoemaking. Notorious sadist in Germany had a criminal past. Went to camp a few hundred members of the Norwegian resistance, is guilty of the death of the organization disclosed Gestapo Soviet prisoners of war in a concentration camp in the south of Norway. It was, like the rest of his accomplices, was sentenced to death, which was later commuted to life imprisonment. He was released in 1953 under an amnesty announced by the Norwegian government. He went to Germany, where his traces were lost. Next to the archive building is a modest monument to those killed at the hands of the Gestapo Norwegian patriots. At the local cemetery, napodaleku from this place, lie the remains of Soviet prisoners of war, and British pilots shot down by the Germans in the skies over Kristiansand. Every year on May 8 at the flagpoles near the graves are raised flags of the USSR, the United Kingdom and Norway. In 1997, the archive building, from which the State Archives moved to another location, it was decided to sell to private hands. Local veterans, public organizations were strongly opposed, to organize a special committee, and have achieved that in 1998 the owner of the building State Concern Statsbygg passed a historic building veterans committee. Now, here at the same museum, about which I have told you, the offices of the Norwegian and international humanitarian organizations — the Red Cross, Amnesty International, the United Nations.