The three German musicians – Ernst Ulrich Freitag on guitar, bassist Norbert Schulz and drummer Rainer Bartl – formed the obscure band Friedhof in the early 1970s. The power trio from Nienburg an der Weser (Lower Saxony) were given the opportunity to record an album by the record label and music production company Sound-Star-Tonproduction, based in nearby Steyerberg. The recordings were made during a brief live session lasting just a few hours inside a bunker, which effectively enhanced the band’s raw, underground hard-rock sound. Their only, self-titled album was released in 1973 in a small print run of just a few hundred copies as a private pressing by the small label Sound-Star-Ton.

It features five tracks in the form of extremely heavy, instrumental, blues-influenced jam sessions with psychedelic elements. While the compositions are fairly simple, the performance by all three musicians is spirited and energetic. Particularly noteworthy is the excellent lead guitar work by Ernst Ulrich Freitag. Sadly, the debut album was a complete commercial failure, after which the band split up. Today, however, it ranks among the ten hardest-to-find German LPs and ranks alongside rare, high-priced German underground releases such as Tyburn Tall, Nosferatu, Gäa, Mammut, Da Capo, Kaputter Hamster and a few others.