This album digs deep — straight into the dark, ugly corners of what it means to be human. It’s not just music. It’s an autopsy of the mind — tearing open the layers of sanity, fear, obsession, and decay to see what’s really festering underneath.

It’s about the sick joke of progress — how we build faster, think smarter, and still destroy everything we touch. We’ve learned to control machines but not ourselves. It’s a mirror held up to everything we’ve become: fractured, addicted, lost inside the noise we created.

Underneath all the polish and the fake perfection, we’re still animals — scared, violent, hungry for meaning. This record is about that collision: the primal instincts fighting against the world we built to hide them.

It’s also about how connection has died. We scroll, we consume, we perform — but we don’t feel. We’re desperate to be seen in a world that’s gone completely blind.

Psychologically, it’s a dive into madness — into obsession, trauma, addiction, and self-destruction. The mind as both the cage and the battlefield. Salvation and ruin bleeding into each other until you can’t tell them apart.

Like Chaplin said: “We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.”
This album is that paradox — a soundtrack to the chaos of evolution without direction.

It’s not a sermon or a cry for help. It’s a confrontation.
A reminder that the rot isn’t out there — it’s inside.

Vocals: Sascha Häusler, Lisa Lex, Raphaela Hartmann, Andy Green
Guitars: Andy Green, Sascha Häusler, Lisa Lex
Synths, Programming & Drums: Raphaela Hartmann
Bass: Thomas Kaiser
Flamenco Guitar: Raffaela Espinosa
Koto, Taishōgoto & Shamisen: Noriko Mori

Concept & Lyrics: Sascha Häusler

12 ...........

PORNO SKIN

BURY ME IN MIRRORS

INSIDE THE ROT

LOVER IN A FREEZER

MONSTER

THIS IS HOW THE MOUTH BREAKS

From the album „Hempshire’s Grove“ (2000)

Music composed by Adrian Schmidtke
Lyrics by Jan Sperhake

Jan Sperhake - Vocals
Christian Erle - Guitar(s), Backing Vocals
Adrian Schmidtke - Bass
Stefan Hartmann - Drums

Hempshire’s Grove

December

Lukewarm Dozen 23

My favorite track of the band’s final release Hempshire’s Grove.
Previously released on the „Unerhört“ sampler of the German Rock Hard magazine.

Recorded at Out-O-Space Tonstudio, Göttingen
Mastered by Pauler Acoustics, Northeim

Vocals: Jan Sperhake
Guitar: Christian Erle
Bass: Adrian Schmidtke
Drums: Stefan Hartmann

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For collaborations and inquiries: neondevil@bluewin.ch

We are NeON dEVIL

Our sound is ritualistic, raw, poetic, and unsettling – a feverish hallucination of lust, madness, and damnation.

This is your first glimpse into our world:
Tracks that whisper like demons and echo like broken prayers.
Listen now – let yourself be seduced.

Yet beneath the surface of distortion and desire, much of what we create is deliberately satirical, infused with dark humor, and framed by a sharp lens of social and systemic critique.
Even in our most explicit expressions, we do not glorify violence or sexuality – rather, we expose and question the very ways they are distorted, repressed, or exploited by society.

We first came together around 2004, initially under a different project name. NeON dEVIL, as it exists today, began to take shape in 2009 with the release of our first official album. We are not bound to a fixed genre. While much of our work lives within the realm of extreme metal, we also draw heavily from other styles — trap, rap, classical music, 70’s psychedelic rock, avant-garde, and at times even pop or swing.
Our influences are vast because each of us comes from a different musical background, and it is essential to us that every member can fully express themselves and feel at home within this project.

NeON dEVIL is a nonprofit music project.
We do not create for profit — all earnings are used exclusively either to support charitable causes or to fund the creation of new music. No part of our income goes anywhere else. The art we make either helps those in need or fuels the fire for our next creation.

Featuring 

Vocals: Noriko Mori, Sascha Häusler, Lisa Lex, Raphaela Hartmann, Andy Green

Guitar: Andy Green, Sascha Häusler, Lisa Lex

Piano: Sascha Häusler

Cello: Sascha Häusler, Ella Park, Anna Weiß

Violin: Tina Park

Bass: Thomas Kaiser

Percussion, Synths & Programming: Raphaela Hartmann

Concept & Lyrics: Sascha Häusler

Dr. Adrian Schmidtke
Composer • Producer • Bass Player

Recording, Mixing & Mastering • Live & Studio Bass • Bass on Demand • Online-Lessons & Coaching • Music Production & Release

Supported by Pyramid Strings

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