– November 14th, 2024 –
New Video / Single Now Enjoying
MANTAR will launch a model new full-length, Publish Apocalyptic Despair, on February 14th, 2025 through Steel Blade Information!
2022′s Ache Is Without end And This Is The Finish noticed the German duo carry a sonic richness to their madly heavy blackened death-punk grooves, helping the report to its place at #2 on Germany’s Official High 10 album chart. The report added smoother, calmer, extra harmonic textures to MANTAR‘s increasing palette, however on 2024′s Publish Apocalyptic Despair, the band smashes the palette and punches a gap within the canvas.
Picture by Sonja Schuringa/Chantik Pictures
“We needed to do every little thing completely different from the final album,” affirms guitarist/vocalist Hanno Klänhardt. “The final album was very produced. An enormous sounding report with clear manufacturing. Show of energy. That was what we needed and felt at the moment. Now we try to destroy what we’ve constructed up with the final album. There’s a sure magnificence in disappointing individuals’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 main 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’d 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 minimize any shit off the songs that we didn’t assume was crucial. I believe you may 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 undoubtedly essentially the most uncooked sounding one.”
Additional reconnecting MANTAR with the spirit of their 2014 debut Loss of life 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 putting visible affect. It appears 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 Despair 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 instantly understand 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 Despair additionally could be taken because the perception that folks simply refuse to be taught. 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 report’s launch, right now MANTAR unleashes first single, “Halsgericht.” Feedback Hanno, “The title means one thing like ‘the precise to impose additional heavy punishment.’ MANTAR type.
Quaint darkness. It’s enjoyable to not solely lastly work with a German track title but additionally introduce some German traces to the track. It makes it bizarre and sinister. Simply what we like. Particularly within the US, individuals 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 Despair is obtainable 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) – consists of customary 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 Dwell 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
Shaped 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, regardless of the truth that no bass guitar is used on this report. Simply drums and guitar set for destruction. Overlook about rock ‘n’ roll. This can damage. 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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