– November 14th, 2024 –
New Video / Single Now Enjoying
MANTAR will launch a model new full-length, Publish Apocalyptic Melancholy, on February 14th, 2025 through Metallic Blade Information!
2022′s Ache Is Endlessly And This Is The Finish noticed the German duo carry a sonic richness to their madly heavy blackened death-punk grooves, aiding the file to its place at #2 on Germany’s Official High 10 album chart. The file added smoother, calmer, extra harmonic textures to MANTAR‘s increasing palette, however on 2024′s Publish Apocalyptic Melancholy, the band smashes the palette and punches a gap within the canvas.
Photograph by Sonja Schuringa/Chantik Images
“We needed to do every part completely different from the final album,” affirms guitarist/vocalist Hanno Klänhardt. “The final album was very produced. An enormous sounding file with clear manufacturing. Show of energy. That was what we needed and felt at the moment. Now we are attempting to destroy what we’ve constructed up with the final album. There’s a sure magnificence in disappointing folks’s expectations.”
One earful of monster-grooving punk ‘n’ roll opener “Absolute Ghost” confirms that disappointment is an implausible response to the wildly energized righteous blood-shakers assembled right here. MANTAR has already eaten up the street throughout Europe, the US, Japan, Latin America, and South Africa, in addition to all the key European festivals and American festivals over their ten-year existence, however these tunes are destined for particularly visceral reside connection.
The ethos is obvious from the primary two phrases Hanno makes use of to explain the recording course of: “Fast and soiled. We didn’t even carry our personal gear to the studio, and simply used the gear that we might discover there. There was zero planning concerned within the making of this album. We needed to maintain it as primitive as attainable. We had been bolder this time and actually reduce any shit off the songs that we didn’t suppose was essential. I believe you’ll be able to hear that and enjoying these new songs is extra enjoyable. I really feel very related with my punk roots on this album. Very punk rock manufacturing and subsequent to our first album positively essentially the most uncooked sounding one.”
Additional reconnecting MANTAR with the spirit of their 2014 debut Demise By Burning, the brand new entrance cowl is once more painted by famend artist Aron Wiesenfeld, whose haunting aesthetic lends the band such distinctive and hanging visible impression. It looks like a band coming full circle, drawing to a detailed the primary ten years of MANTAR.
As for that intensely full-on title, Hanno defines Publish Apocalyptic Melancholy as “the sensation you get after a mass hysteria. The sensation you get when you’ve invested all of your energy in a mass hypnosis and immediately notice there gained’t be no salvation. Additionally, it refers to a really one-dimensional and fundamental human feeling everyone knows. Being simply burned out after a really tedious and exhausting interval of life. Publish Apocalyptic Melancholy additionally could be taken because the perception that individuals simply refuse to study. In addition to that, it’s a rattling catchy and funky title for an album that sounds precisely the best way these phrases sound.”
As a precursor to the file’s launch, in the present day MANTAR unleashes first single, “Halsgericht.” Feedback Hanno, “The title means one thing like ‘the precise to impose further heavy punishment.’ MANTAR type.
Quaint darkness. It’s enjoyable to not solely lastly work with a German music title but in addition introduce some German strains to the music. It makes it bizarre and sinister. Simply what we like. Particularly within the US, folks appear to like these kinda vibes. Positive by us. Celebrating it with essentially the most epic hook of the entire album.”
Watch MANTAR‘s video for “Halsgericht” at THIS LOCATION.
Publish Apocalyptic Melancholy is out there on CD, and digitally in addition to vinyl within the coloration variants under and a limited-edition field set:
Rose/White Splatter (US – Ltd. 300)
180g Black (EU)
Pink (EU)
Grass Inexperienced Marbled (EU – Ltd. 500)
Neon Splatter (EU – Ltd. 300)
Rose/White Splatter (EU – Ltd. 300)
Birthday Cake Splatter (EU – Ltd. 300)
Pale Pores and skin Marbled (EU – Ltd. 300)
Field Set (EU – Ltd. 1000) – contains normal album on CD and vinyl, bonus 7″ w/ two unique cowl tracks, again patch, signed 12″ artwork print on thick cardboard, + 12″ booklet incl. lyrics
Discover pre-orders at: metalblade.com/mantar
MANTAR will be a part of Kvelertak for a brief run of reside reveals this February with extra dates to be introduced within the weeks to come back.
MANTAR Stay w/ Kvelertak, Urne:
2/15/2025 Astra Kulturhaus – Berlin, DE*
2/16/2025 Große Freiheit – Hamburg, DE *
2/18/2025 Patronaat – Haarlem, NL
2/19/2025 Bastard Membership – Osnabrück, DE #
2/25/2025 Cabaret Sauvage – Paris, FR
2/27/2025 Schlachthof – Wiesbaden, DE *
2/28/2025 Theaterfabrik – Munich, DE*
3/21/2025 Musikzentrum – Hannover, DE#
3/22/2025 Braincrusher Competition – Hirschaid, DE #
*co-headlining present
# MANTAR solely
Fashioned in 2013, MANTAR has been acknowledged as one of many hardest working among the many German excessive steel underground. MANTAR manages to sound heavier than most 5 piece bands you could know, despite the truth that no bass guitar is used on this file. Simply drums and guitar set for destruction. Neglect about rock ‘n’ roll. It will harm. Flogging beats and blackened melodies meet suggestions orgies and doom mayhem. Early Melvins, Motörhead, Darkthrone. You title it. Don’t name it sludge although…
MANTAR:
Hanno Klänhardt – guitars, vocals
Erinc Sakarya – drums
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