Album Review: Klamm - Misanthropocene (2021)
Picture Credit: Klamm Artwork: Daniel Bechthold 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...