Apoptygma Berzerk can look back on a career reaching back to the early nineties of the past century. Six studio albums, as well as now three live albums and four collections of singles, remixes and cover versions are documents of the musical development of the band fronted by singer Stephan Groth. Besides the obligatory uber hit "Shine On" the DVD/CD also contains "Eclipse" and "Starsign", both classics in the electronic music scene, as well as the most important tracks from the recent album "Rocket Science"
It's not only about strobe lights and dry ice, and, in the end, certainly not about girls and drugs; for these 4 erstwhile schoolmates from the small town of Fredrikstad in Norway, it's about nothing less than changing the world with 4 minutes of magic in every song they pull from their hearts.
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