Album Review: Klamm - Misanthropocene (2021)
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Klamm - Misanthropocene
Release Date: June 01, 2021
Label: selfrelease
Format: CD / Digital
Length: 61:23
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Origin: Würzburg, Germany
Six years after the release of "Ernte", Klamm are back with a brand new full length album. The nine-track CD contains more than an hour of deep, dark, and misanthropic thoughts conveyed in melancholic tunes. Although some of the songs or parts are actually way older and have been re-arranged for this album, "Misanthropocene" has become a beautifully coherent work of sonic darkness.
The theme is a distant reflection on the status quo of humakind and society in the 21st century. Chasms of human behaviour are thus taken on: egoism, intolerance, social inequality, patriarchym capitalism, violence, war, and religion. A typical Black Metal release, one could say, and yet content and music are presented in a very contemporary way. "Misanthropocene" is hence a pitch black zeitgeist document.
The atmosphere created on the album combines all stages of apocalypticism. The soundscapes on "Misanthropocene" make the sun turn black, rip cracks into the soil that bear infernal eruptions, while at the same time they make the air freeze, and send an army of demons to take care of every living being.
Depressing disharmonies, brutal riffing, and the heavy impact of Doom Metal make Klamm's recent album a stunning Black Metal release. The use of melodic parts is neither too much nor too little and thus ideally fits the mood.
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