In return, the NPD organised a demonstration at Tegel prison in October 2006, demanding his release. He also joined the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD, currently the largest extreme-right party), and played a farewell concert at their party congress. While awaiting appeal after his first conviction, Regener started a new band in 2004 called Die Lunikoff Verschwörung, The Lunikoff Conspiracy. The band broke up during the trial anyway: the other two had testified against Regener. Two other band members, Andreas Moericke and Christian Wenndorf, got suspended sentences. The final judgement against Landser is online at this legal site. The court also confirmed a Berlin Criminal Court sentence on Regener - 2 years and 10 months in jail, for forming a criminal organisation, leadership of a criminal organisation, dissemination of propaganda for anti-constitutional organisations, incitement to hatred, incitement to criminal acts, approval of criminal acts, insulting the State and its symbols, and defamation of a religion. In the end, in March 2005, after three years of proceedings, the Federal Criminal Court declared the band to be a criminal organisation - the first band to be outlawed in this way. Recording and distribution were organised from outside Germany, and the band appeared only once at a public concert. The uncompromising racist lyrics, and glorification of Nazi Germany and its military, were illegal under German law, and the band operated underground. Landser reached cult status, among the large neonazi skinhead scene in post-reunification East Germany, in the 1990's. Regener came from a loose neonazi group, Die Vandalen, dating from the mid-1980's, when East Germany was still Communist. The band was associated with two neonazi groups, the Nationalistischer Front (Nationalist Front), and the Sozialrevolutionaerer Arbeiterfront (Social-Revolutionary Workers Front), which split from the NF in mid-1992. Singer Michael "Lunikoff" Regener joined it later in 1992 (at first on guitar), and the name was changed to Landser - an old word for a soldier (a common foot-soldier). The band was founded in 1992 in East Berlin, by Soeren Brauner, Horst Schott and Andreas Lenhard, originally as "Endloesung" (Final Solution, the Nazi expression for the extermination of all Jews in Europe). Landser was the most prominent neonazi ("rac") band in Germany for a decade.
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