Allerseelen

Allerseelen is an Austrian experimental music project since 1987, named for the Catholic festival of All Souls' Day and also for the song by Richard Strauss and a chapter in Blue of Noon by George Bataille.

It became a solo project in 1989 that is ultimately continued by the Austrian musician Gerhard Petak, also known as Gerhard "Kadmon" or Gerhard "Hallstatt.". Since then he has been responsible for all lyrics while collaborating with different groups for performances. His music is experimental, sometimes post-industrial and military pop and has often fallen into the neo-folk and pagan rock categories. Many recordings explicitly take up themes of Nazi history.