The limited first edition of this album is published as:
• CD in digipak
• 20 pages booklet
• Hand-numbered to 1’000 copies
• Signed by Martin Schindler (MANTUS)
• Booklet including all lyrics
You cannot see those in the dark? Martin Schindler does. He knows what it means to carry your own personal hell around with you. What it means to fight every single day for one tiny spark of light in this utter darkness. For more than 20 years he has been waging a war against the abyss in himself. Not with swords and the clamour of battle, though. But through his music. With every new album, with every new piece of music he reconquers a piece of that light he lost so long ago. And even though he knows he will never entirely leave the shadows behind, he urges us on to do the same, never stopping to seek the light at the end of that endless tunnel.
Massive guitars, nostalgic piano, throbbing drums paint decidedly sombre landscapes onto a bittersweet canvas, infused with Martin Schindler’s weltschmerz-heavy voice and his elegiac counterpart Chiara Amberia. Be it an enigmatic goth rock street ballad, defiant smashers with an almost punkish edge or ashen grey hymns to the morbid beauty of urban nightfall: Not two years after the ingenious double strike “Katharsis” / “Pagan Folk Songs” MANTUS return as creative, as inspired as restless as ever – and that, mind you, after ten studio albums in the last decade alone!
Released Late January 2019 by Trisol.
Track Listing:
01. Moritat
02. Fast Perfekte Welt
03. Mantra
04. Nordwind
05. Durch die Nacht
06. Straßen der Stadt
07. Lohokla
08. Kriegerin
09. Tote Geräusche
10. Keine Sterne
11. Dickicht
12. Die Hölle in Mir
13. Empor
English