This showed up completely out of the blue and I'm somewhat at a loss of what to make of it. Gewalt is a noise-rock / post-punk band from Berlin, Germany that sound like they have some gothic leanings, in a gloomy old-school sort of way. The band consists of Patrick Wagner (guitar, vocals); Helen Henfling (guitar); Jasmin Rilke (bass); and DMI (drums), which seems to be a drum machine. Patrick seems to sing exclusively in Deutsche, although from their live performances on YouTube there is no language barrier with English. "Trans" pretty much sings the praises of being Trans, but although the cover might indicate otherwise, Patrick doesn't adopt the trans look for live performance. While "Trans" is the upside/uptempo side of being trans, "Monika in Scherben" is the downside/downtempo side of being trans - Shattered - mocked - laughed at - frowned upon - cast out - torn, as they say in their lyrics. Although Gewalt isn't my 'go-to' style of music, I have to hand it to them for doing something different. As the band says, "With this video and song, Gewalt aims to empower people of all gender identities to be who they want to be and to be true to who they are." That's not a bad thing at all and I applaud them for it. The 7" in the picture sleeve is limited to 500 copies and the digital is, of course, unlimited.