Berlin Psycho Nurses: The Dark Horse of Chinese Post-Punk
Berlin Psycho Nurses was born in the late night of September 2017 during a drinking party. The first drummer, Bin Ze Cheng, was particularly fond of the German post-punk band NEU!, whose founding members came from a mental health institution in Düsseldorf. One day, Bin Ze Cheng, on a whim, gave the guitarist Lao Ding two choices: ‘Berlin Mental Nurses’ or ‘Düsseldorf Mental Nurses’. Lao Ding listened and decisively chose the former, thus Berlin Psycho Nurses was named, with the Chinese name settling on Berlin Nurses.
Their music style is dark and arid, mechanical and cold, with a strong rhythm hitting the eardrum like a heavy hammer. The lyrics are straightforward and rough, yet subtly containing a hint of gentle satire. Berlin Nurses play with abandon, like a group of prisoners struggling desperately for survival.
Their first self-titled album, ‘Berlin Psycho Nurses’, includes eleven songs, each like a crystallization of a music laboratory. Stylistically, the album blends noise, Indie Rock, and other elements, with both cold rhythms and surprising creativity. Songs like ‘Here Comes The Gangster’, ‘Fraud’, ‘Bullitt’, ‘Winter’, and others are like dark fairy tales.
Berlin Nurses’ wanderers rush out from the end of a decaying world, taking you into a chaotic time between a star’s journey to thermodynamic equilibrium. Violence, rebellion, absurdity, and uncertain fantasies—Berlin Nurses dissect the absurdity and cruelty of society in this life. They provide modern people with a world of existing storms, ice cream, self-doubt, robots, and beer under the finite existence of the flesh.”Ward Six” is a short story from Anton Chekhov’s collection. It tells a simple yet poignant tale, focusing on the lives of incurable mental patients confined within a desolate, stuffy room. There are no professional doctors, no medication, and no treatment methods in this place—only a tough guard who watches over the patients, ensuring they cannot escape. This is Ward Six.
Chekhov once said, “Life is an annoying cage. A thoughtful person, when they reach adulthood and their consciousness matures, will involuntarily feel that they are trapped in an inescapable cage.” We all face the helplessness and passivity of reality, and debates and disputes may not offer theoretical or physical solutions. The only thing that remains is the harsh reality of every blow on the scene. The Berlin Nurses, however, spare no effort in their dedication.
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