From the first guitar experiments as a teenager to the final EP Assemble — the story of a project that never fit any category. And that's precisely where its historical significance lies.
"Gothic meets Rap. Two worlds that were never supposed to meet — and yet this very collision was the moment when a new form of German underground hip-hop was born."
Why
mattered
When
released his first material "Between Aggression and Love" in 2008, the genre Gothic Rap simply didn't exist in the German-speaking world. Gothic music lived off atmosphere, melancholy and synthetics — Rap off directness, rhythm and verbal power. Anyone who tried to bridge these worlds was ridiculed. From both sides.
did it anyway. And not as an experiment or marketing maneuver — but because it simply felt right. Dark electro beats, piano melodies straight from the Gothic scene, combined with an honest, diary-like vocal delivery that glossed over nothing. That was new. That was consistent. That was authentic.
The Gothic scene reacted with division — as it always does when someone challenges its boundaries. And that's exactly the point:
was the first musician to systematically and consistently fuse Gothic and Rap into an independent German subgenre identity. No other artist of that era combined aggrotech structures with German-language vocal delivery, piano melancholy with hip-hop flows so consistently — and across multiple albums.
"I am like Moses — instead of the sea, I divided the scene." — Silizium
Pioneer Achievement 01
First German Gothic Rap
As the only musician of his time,
combined Gothic electro structures with German-language rap flow — establishing a genre that didn't exist before.
Pioneer Achievement 02
First Crowdfunding in the Scene
was, by his own account, the first musician in the German Gothic scene to finance an album through crowdfunding — three times in a row, with a growing fanbase.
Pioneer Achievement 03
The "Sceneless"
actively rejected labels — and lived it. He opened the discussion about whether genre boundaries in underground music even make sense.
Pioneer Achievement 04
Authenticity as Principle
Not a single song was invented. Not a single lyric was fantasy. Music as a diary — this radical honesty attracted fans who got tattoos, because the lyrics described their own lives.
Today, years after the project ended, it's clear how far ahead of his time
was. What is now discussed in the German alternative scene as "Dark Rap" or "Gothic Hip-Hop,"
essentially invented between 2006 and 2017 as a solo artist from Neckarsulm — without a network, without a major label, without scene support. Just music drawn from real life.
That is the legacy of
. Not the charts, not the magazine covers — but the fans who still say today: "This song found me at exactly the moment I needed it."
Timeline
Before 2006
The Roots — Guitar, Stage, First Songs
Long before the electronic era: Silizium writes his first songs at age 12, publishes 4 web releases and performs live with a guitar — including appearances at the Betonbruch Festival in Heilbronn. The foundation of a musician who had been deeply rooted in the Schwarze Szene since before Cyber even existed.
GuitarBetonbruch FestivalFirst Songs
2006 — 2007
DJ Era & First Electronic Steps
becomes a resident DJ at the Live Factory in Adelsheim, running his own event "Red Black Skullfuck" (formerly "Schwarze Nacht"). Alongside this, he serves as online moderator at the internet radio show "Sonnenlichtdefect" (SLD). In 2007, the first electronic experiments appear on his DJ DasPraeparat MySpace page: "Die Blaue Welt", "Love Also Means Forgiveness" and the web release "Twisted Body Dancer". Something new is taking shape.
Resident DJLive Factory AdelsheimRed Black SkullfuckSonnenlichtdefectMySpace
2008
Between Aggression and Love — The Birth
Official founding of the SILIZIUM project. The first release "Between Aggression and Love" appears as a free download — 13 tracks, 54 minutes, no label. Raw, rooted in Aggrotech and Gothic Electro, but the idea is already there: dark electronics meets honest German vocal delivery. The first SILIZIUM concert ever takes place on July 25th at the Red Black Skullfuck event in Adelsheim. In November, the M.O.D.E. Festival follows — alongside scene heavyweights Eisbrecher, FOD, FabrikC and Suono.
First ReleaseFree DownloadFirst ConcertM.O.D.E. FestivalEisbrecher
2009
Do I Not Fit Into Your Puzzle — Debut CD & Scene Breakthrough
April 17th: Elekktroshokk Festival alongside Das Ich, Welle:Erdball and Frozen Plasma. May 31st: Betonbruch Festival Heilbronn (15th edition). July 25th: The first physical CD "Do I Not Fit Into Your Puzzle" is released via Darkmusix Records — 8 original tracks and 5 remixes. Already in September, the album reaches the German Electronic Webcharts. Reviews follow from Zillo, Amboss, Terrorverlag and Mindestverzehr. The songs appear on four compilations: Orkus Compilation 56, Extreme Sündenfall Vol. 9, Extreme Lustlieder 3 and Dark MusiX Compilation Vol. I. An interview at Mera Luna with Schatten TV rounds off the breakthrough year.
Debut CDElekktroshokkBetonbruchEWC4 CompilationsMera Luna
2010
Band Experiment, Label Change & Wikipedia
February 27th: First international show at the Fleischgeil in Lucerne, Switzerland, alongside Khaos Frequenz. In summer, SILIZIUM enters the Newcomer competition at Super Schwarzes Mannheim — and places 2nd. The project experiments as a band with shows at MS Connexion Mannheim and Schwarzes Schwimmbad Heidelberg. Since 2010, SILIZIUM is signed to label Future Fame — the connection to Ron Suono, a long-time friend, shapes the coming years. In November, SILIZIUM receives its own Wikipedia entry.
Fleischgeil Lucerne2nd Place NewcomerFuture FameBand ExperimentWikipedia
Early 2011: Silizium decides to return to solo project — but with a live crew of two supporters (synthesizer, sampler and guitar). June 12th: Betonbruch Festival — for the third and final time, this time as headliner. October 1st: "Schwarz Raum" is released — 10 tracks, recorded and mixed entirely in the own SILIZIUM studio. Release party at the legendary "Schwarze Nacht" at Diskothek WOM in Hechingen, with signing session. "Mit Euch" holds a full month in the German Electronic Webcharts. Gothic Magazine Nr. 73 dedicates a full article and interview — the song "Geh Deinen Weg" appears on the Gothic File sampler. The music video lands on the Zillo Dark Visions DVD.
Ich Bin Gothic — First Crowdfunding in the Gothic Scene
June 1st: Start of crowdfunding on Startnext — by his own account the first project in the German Gothic scene to be financed this way. Over 60 backers, over €2,000. December 21st: "Ich Bin Gothic" is released with 16 tracks. The album is provocative, ambiguous, polarizing — and significantly grows
's fanbase. First concert in his hometown Neckarsulm at the Ganzhornfest. Also released: the single "Stigmata" — a continuation of the song "Mayerling", 3 tracks.
March:
enters the BigFM Saarland playlist — the song "Wie viele Stunden" is played daily in the Music Workout program. An interview follows at BigFM headquarters. April 26th: First single "Die Szene Hasst Mich (Doch das macht nichts)" — the most direct confrontation with the Gothic scene any artist had dared. As part of the campaign, a staged mock trial is produced:
"charged" with being unfaithful to the Gothic scene by making rap. December 6th: Re-release of the debut album as D.I.N.F.I.Y.P. with 12 remastered tracks.
June 18th, 2014: "Nextlevel" — the first music video of the Andersdenker era. October 29th, 2014: Single "Fremde". February 6th, 2015: "Andersdenker" is released — 17 tracks including features with Seelennacht and Hofnarr, produced at Sandy Solo (HipHop, Heilbronn), mastered by Kolja "Koltron". The "Finalfunding" — the last crowdfunding. A short film is made. Booking via MFK Management, Neuenstadt. The Heilbronner Stimme calls him a "wanderer between Rap and Gothic". The Echo-Blatt describes him as a "Szenenloser".
May 2015: Split from Future Fame. January 31st, 2016: Founding of the own label "Andersdenker". April 1st, 2016: The EP "Assemble" is released — 5 tracks, free download, the first release on the own label. A music video is made for "Kämpferherz". The music sounds more composed, more confident, more mature.
has found himself. And yet moves on to something new.
Assemble EPAndersdenker LabelKämpferherzOwn Label
2016 — 2017
The End & New Beginning as Marrse
The Silizium project ends. What remains: 5 albums, 1 EP, 3 singles, a demo tape, over 7 compilation contributions, remixes for artists like Suono, Extize and Desastroes — and a loyal fanbase that got lyrics tattooed on their skin, because the music described their lives.
ends. A new chapter begins under the artist name Marrse. In 2022, the Silizium Legacy Project is launched — this archive, reconstructed from old websites, the Wayback Machine and personal memory, preserves everything
was.
Sources: Personal memory, archived website materials and reconstructed data from the
Wayback Machine (web.archive.org).
Some dates, details and texts are based on archived snapshots of former Silizium websites.
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