⊙关于AK-47乐队
AK-47乐队，一支成立于2000年10月的北京地下乐队，经过多年屡次变更队员及调整风格，队员名单确定为目前的五人阵容——老猫：(张智勇/主唱/贝司)、李四伟 (吉他)、张扬 (吉他)、卢炜 (鼓手)、孟庆旺(采样).
“如此任性的工业之音，如此率性的青春之歌”——这是写在AK-47乐队论坛上的一句话，简单十八个字，精辟概括了乐队特点。
自2001年开始，AK-47的身影已经连续四次出现在迷笛音乐节上。从2001年由于乐队名气不大且没有成员是迷笛学校的学生而险些在报名参演时被淘汰，到2004年在国际互联网上被誉为“本届迷笛音乐节现场最火爆的乐队之一” ，每届音乐节闭幕，AK-47得到的评价都比往年要好，这也是乐队在不断成熟的最好证明。每次登台，AK-47都穿着统一的队服，军绿色制服与鲜红的袖章相互辉映，给人留下极深的印象。
舞台上AK-47素来冷峻、霸气，就如他们的音乐，毫不矫揉造作，一切都是那么率直、果断。几乎所有看过AK-47乐队现场的人，都一致被他们音乐中钢劲的质感、迷离的电声及直白的呐喊所震撼。AK-47的音乐激情且人性，不仅具备一般重型金属的张力和强度，更融入最流行的电子元素，使得音乐内涵及表现力更加丰富多元，也更具有灵性。只要有他们登台的地方，就不用担心没有热烈的pogo场面。
这便是AK-47独到的魅力所在，音乐不仅限于发泄，更多的是在表达一种人生态度。乐队贝司兼主唱老猫在接受采访时曾说过：不存在什么坚持与不坚持，不存在，喜欢就去做呗。这便是AK-47。
2004年11月，被誉为“最具国际水准的新工业金属”的 AK-47乐队，与王国集团 (香港) 有限公司签约，标志着这支在北京地下奋斗四年有余的乐队浮出水面，光芒尽显！
⊙关于专辑《出发》
专辑点题之作《出发》中写到：“梦、伤害，迎着风，被吹散/ 路、未来，沿着心，到彼岸……出发！出发！出发！路被确定新的方向。出发！出发！出发！梦被赋予新的色彩”。跳跃空灵的采样音色飘在天空，如希冀，似幻境，厚实粗犷的吉他失真在面前，如现实，须面对。专辑的诞生，不是里程，而是起点，从这刻起，AK-47再次登上音乐之路的旅途。出发！不为沿途美景驻足，不为任何喜怒悲欢回首，一直在路上，永不停歇！
《残酷青春》，AK-47又一代表作。每个人都曾有过梦想，在逐梦的路上被残酷现实打击得遍体鳞伤，或黯然退去，或徘徊寻思，或奋力一搏，选择，全然在自我心底那个用来衡量的尺子。然而当我们看到这些执意选择编织梦想的年青人在事业上有所飞跃之时，不禁会从心底由衷的为他们高兴一把。AK-47，正是用这种率直坦荡、乾脆利落、真实有力的声音深深吸引着人们。
乐队其他代表作品还有《川流不息》、《47号公路》、《超度》等，均蕴含了创作者“老猫”的心路历程及人生感悟。
承载梦想，放飞心绪，缔造奇迹的代名词——AK-47！

The "Volkerball" Package Includes Almost Three Hours of Live Video Recordings Filmed in France, Japan, England and Russia. It also Includes an Audio CD featuring 75 Minutes Concert Footage. In a Special Edition the Band Will Release a Second Dvd with Two Documentaries Running a Total of Over 90 Minutes. That Makes Three Discs in a Special Edition; Two Dvd’s and One Audio CD. On Top of that We Are Working on Another Surprise...now It is Most Important to Release the Finished Work Soon. I Don’t Want to Keep Anybody Waiting Longer Than to the End of October. It was Hard Work and We Are Absolutely Proud of It! We Are Now Looking Forward to the Verdict of the Rammstein – Fans."

This tour edition is packaged in the same way as the first limited edition Mutter - a double fold out digipak with bonus CD of live tracks including, 'Ich Will', 'Links 2 3 4', 'Sonne' & 'Spieluhr'. 2001.

The lyrics tell the story of a child not born from a womb but in an experiment, thus having no true father or mother. The song was confirmed by Till Lindemann and Richard Kruspe to be a reference to their unhappy childhood relationships with their own mothers. The decidedly depressing lyrics describe a character's plan to kill both the mother "who never gave birth to him" and himself, which he carries out. But ends instead with him still being alive and no better off than before; begging, possibly praying, for strength. The song is similar to Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, in that the character takes revenge for his misfortunes on his 'parent', and then ends up no different than he was before the 'parent' died.
The video for Mutter follows the storyline of the song, whereby the character kills his mother and then dumps her body in a river, ending with the character in a cage or dungeon that is set into the ground.
The single includes an instrumental song, 5/4, that was played as intro for live shows since 2000, but wasn't released until 2002.

The second single off the German industrial metal act's 2001 album, 'Mutter'. Tracks, 'Links 2 3 4' & four non-LP tracks, 'Hallelujah', 'Links 2 3 4' (Clawfinger Geradeaus Mix, Westbam Technolectro Mix & Westbam Hard Rock Cafe Bonus Mix).