– February nineteenth, 2025 –
Put up Apocalyptic Melancholy Full-Size Out Now On Steel Blade Information!
Watch / Stream MANTAR’s “Cosmic Abortion” HERE
German metallic duo MANTAR are happy to current their video for “Cosmic Abortion.” The observe comes off their newest full-length, Put up Apocalyptic Melancholy, launched February 14th on Steel Blade Information.
Picture by Sonja Schuringa/Chantik Pictures
The place 2022′s Ache Is Perpetually And This Is The Finish noticed the pair deliver a sonic richness to their madly heavy blackened death-punk grooves, helping the file to its place at #2 on Germany’s Official High 10 album chart, this yr’s Put up Apocalyptic Melancholy smashes the palette and punches a gap within the canvas. “We needed to do every thing 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 try to destroy what we’ve constructed up with the final album. There’s a sure magnificence in disappointing individuals’s expectations.”
Describes Rock Exhausting Germany in a 9/10 overview of the file, “[MANTAR] paints footage of soiled basement golf equipment, of sweat, chaos, aggression and smashed beer bottles so far as the attention can see.” Writes Decibel Journal, “… Put up Apocalyptic Melancholy now carries ahead the large thrust and swagger of its predecessor, even because it strips again all of the runtimes, tightens the compositional core and snaps it collectively like a fist.” Steel Injection notes, “In the event you want a correct kick within the ass to get issues going at the moment – otherwise you simply wanna punish your audio system a bit – right here’s your probability.” Provides Fuze, “Darkish, soiled and relentless, Put up Apocalyptic Melancholy exhibits what MANTAR are all about: uncompromising authenticity that disturbs and fascinates. A should for anybody who appreciates unadorned musical brutality.”
Of “Cosmic Abortion” Hanno feedback, “The intro riffing is already a traditional. One phrase: epic. Bolt Thrower vibes meet Chaos A.D.-era Sepultura groove. White Zombie? Okay. Brutal ’90s swagger. A beat that breaks necks. The hook is already a dwell present traditional. Slogans make the world go spherical.”
Watch MANTAR‘s “Cosmic Abortion” video HERE.
Watch MANTAR‘s beforehand launched video for “Halsgericht” HERE and “Rex Perverso” HERE.
Put up Apocalyptic Melancholy is offered now on CD and digitally in addition to vinyl in a number of coloration variants (some already offered out) and a limited-edition field set. Discover at your native retailer or at: metalblade.com/mantar
“They paint footage of soiled basement golf equipment, of sweat, chaos, aggression and smashed beer bottles so far as the attention can see. In the event you ask, ‘Who’re MANTAR?,’ it’s best to placed on “Put up Apocalyptic Melancholy” – and loud. It completely embodies the essence of this band and might be their finest album up to now, which you merely wish to take heed to many times.” – Rock Exhausting
“… Put up Apocalyptic Melancholy now carries ahead the large thrust and swagger of its predecessor, even because it strips again all of the runtimes, tightens the compositional core and snaps collectively like a fist.” – Decibel
“…rock music at its most uncooked and unfiltered, and all the higher for it. In the event you haven’t cleaned your leather-based jacket in years, say good day to the primary unmissable album of 2025.” – Distorted Sound
“MANTAR is again to hit us with a brand new slab of unhealthy instances with Put up Apocalyptic Melancholy. The track’s punky as hell with a darkish overtone that colours the entire rattling factor. It’s brooding with out having to gradual shit down, but it retains the entire fury imbued into every be aware.” – MetalSucks on “Halsgericht“
“In the event you wanted a correct kick within the ass to get issues going at the moment – otherwise you simply wanna punish your audio system a bit – right here’s your probability.” – Steel Injection
“MANTAR are a raucous social gathering at their finest. Put up Apocalyptic Melancholy is a jolt of vitality that crushes your issues with lightning-fast riffs, and the chaos that their rock n roll ethos brings.” – Heavy Music HQ
“Eventually, MANTAR are exhibiting off their expertise over the size of a full album. Put up-Apocalyptic Melancholy is filled with ridiculously delinquent anthems that might take the duo the place their work ethos has lengthy taken them.” – Visions
“… a uncooked, splendidly unpolished album that’s dripping with the enjoyment of enjoying every thing you’d count on from MANTAR and emphasizes the grunge roots a bit greater than the pure metallic influences.” – Deaf Perpetually
“… maybe the spotlight of their work up to now and, with an all-killer hit charge, undoubtedly one of many must-hear occasions within the 2025 metallic calendar!” – Powermetal.de
“Darkish, soiled and relentless, Put up Apocalyptic Melancholy exhibits what MANTAR are all about: uncompromising authenticity that disturbs and fascinates. A should for anybody who appreciates unadorned musical brutality.” – Fuze
“Put up Apocalyptic Melancholy has the uncompromising nature of the debut Demise By Burning and the vitality of Ode To The Flame, the fury of Fashionable Artwork Of … and the punk angle of Grungetown Hooligans II…” – OX
“The entire aesthetic of this album is one in every of distillation… It’s as if MANTAR have deconstructed their sound and rebuilt it in a brand new type and subsequently songs comparable to ‘Absolute Ghost’ have their bones poking by means of the flesh; it’s emancipated, but it’s exactly this starvation that drives the album ahead. It bristles with an vitality beforehand solely discovered on early crust punk releases and proves Put up Apocalyptic Melancholy the remedy for a lot of ills.” – Devolution UK
“In an period the place overproduced metallic can generally really feel sterile, MANTAR has delivered an album that’s alive with grit and venom. That is an album that doesn’t simply demand to be performed loud – it necessitates it. Pure, unrelenting, and unfiltered, Put up Apocalyptic Melancholy is MANTAR at their most primal, proving as soon as extra that their finest work is cast within the fires of chaos.” – Antihero Journal
“…an album of potent groove, with slices of melody disturbing the darkness like arterial sprays. Raging and belligerent, but additionally extremely catchy and infectious, Put up Apocalyptic Melancholy hits the spot.” – Wonderbox Steel
“Put up Apocalyptic Melancholy has the snarl of blackened demise, the angle of punk, and the swagger of rock n roll.” – Steel Digest
MANTAR is presently within the midst of a brief run of European exhibits with Kvelertak with extra dates to be introduced within the weeks to come back.
MANTAR Dwell w/ Kvelertak, Urne [remaining dates]:
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 metallic underground. MANTAR manages to sound heavier than most 5 piece bands chances are you’ll know, regardless of the truth that no bass guitar is used on this file. Simply drums and guitar set for destruction. Overlook about rock ‘n’ roll. This can harm. Flogging beats and blackened melodies meet suggestions orgies and doom mayhem. Early Melvins, Motörhead, Darkthrone. You identify it. Don’t name it sludge although…
MANTAR:
Hanno Klänhardt – guitars, vocals
Erinc Sakarya – drums
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