Anda Morts

Twice is once.

After two completely sold-out tours in 2024, Linz-based parade punk Anda Morts have already confirmed an extensive tour for Germany and Austria this fall, only to follow it up with the announcement of their debut album and new dates for the coming year. There will be nine concerts in April and November 2026, and the album "ANS" will be released this year - on September 19. It's about fascists, incels, highways and nicotine.

The way Anda catapults old punk formulas into the here and now on the album with a pounding heart and an angry attitude, the way he outlines reality with maximum urgency, is so furiously captivating that you immediately want more of it. Anda Morts is an excellent observer, dissecting subcultural and other scenes, relationships, the street, politics and society in just a few lines. He has mastered the art of moving from the supposedly small to the large and has a deeply felt, undisguised tenderness and love for his characters.

Kitsch and euphemism are not at home in this music; Anda Morts has an extraordinarily well-functioning bullshit detector. Or, as the Berliners who recently experienced him in front of Element of Crime in the Berlin Philharmonie call it, in love: The bully with the unusually long punk songs.

Anda Morts is not in his passport, his real name is Andreas, his cousin on the mountain pasture in East Tyrol called him Anda. And then he once saw a beer van that was well-known to the people of Linz with an advertisement for a café called Strom, which he saw mirrored through a shop window. Strom became Morts, and the artist name was born - DIY.

Of course, there is also a song about his new existence as a music artist on "ANS": "I sit in the park in the morning / If I don't sleep until noon / Occasionally I feel bad / Everyone at work I'm in bed" sings Anda in "Freitag". "I wanted to annoy my friends with the song, who of course still have to go to work," he says with a grin. "It worked, 'Boah, you asshole', I heard it more than once."

But he does work, and how. Just on his own terms. This fall, as well as in April and November 2026, Anda Morts, this wonderfully straightforward songwriter and brilliant storyteller of fabulous everyday stories, will be presenting his debut album "ANS" live with his band on a major tour of Germany and Austria.

Current album: "ANS" (2025), Phat Penguin Records