With ‘Vota Tenebris I’, the 14th studio album by SAMSAS TRAUM, Alexander Kaschte asserts his vision without compromise. Stripped of exhausted scene conventions, the album summons the forsaken ideals of subcultural 1980s: aesthetic rigor, intellectual substance, self-interrogation, and existential weight. Its sound world—both familiar and renewed—stands as a cultural beacon in an age of erosion.
‘Vota Tenebris I’ reveals itself as a harrowing total work: symphonic excess collapses into bitter irony, only to be torn open by brutal Lovecraftian metal narrations. Each piece cuts deep, demanding surrender rather than passive listening—an intensity pursued with such resolve by SAMSAS TRAUM alone.
Written and produced by Kaschte himself, mixed by Scott Atkins (CRADLE OF FILTH) and mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Alex Wharton (BRING ME THE HORIZON, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE), ‘Vota Tenebris I’ emerges as an unyielding milestone—bearing witness to a time when subculture carried conviction, and to the possibility that it may yet do so again.
Released June 2026 on Trisol.
Track Listing:
01 Heut wird er umgebracht
02 Leitstern
03 Scheiße ohne dich
04 Der Ruf des Cthulhu (Ein Traum, der an Augen zerschellt)
05 Schattenfalter
06 Die Fratze meiner Einsamkeit
07 Der Riss in deiner Stimme
08 Bring mir Licht
09 Plutonium (1.21 Gigawatt)
10 Für die Liebe
11 Einst war ich ein Schrei
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