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Today, German black metallers Mavorim set 22 April as the release date for their fourth album, Ab Amitia Pulsae. While the new full-length will come out via Purity Through Fire on CD, A5 digipack, and vinyl, the first unveiled track, "Ein Zerrbild aller Leiden", is already in the player below.
Since the band's formation in 2014, the band has quickly come to define the new breed of German black metal that hearkens back to the old guard: Teutonic to the bone, harsh and harrowing yet heralding triumph.
While still qualitatively a black metal record, Mavorim's fourth album displays deft layering of sounds, particularly Baptist's subtle-yet-concerted integration of keyboards and other synth sounds, adding an exceptionally dynamic contour to otherwise-straightforward aggression. Further, his guitar leads display a much wider swath of feeling and texture, each song seemingly featuring something new in the Mavorim dialect, while drumming co-conspirator Valfor occasionally adds choral voices to a poignant effect. And it's gripping and urgent all the way through to the 53-minute album's end...again and again and again.
At times tragic, at times folkloric, melancholy giving way to bloodlust, Ab Amitia Pulsae again proves that Mavorim is uniquely adept at fully colouring within the lines of black metal with the boldest and bravest hues. Link
Ab Amitia Pulsae tracklist:
01. Zeitgeist
02. Ein Zerrbild aller Leiden
03. Das Joch der Schande
04. Bis nur noch Knochen übrig bleibt
05. Was des Lebens nicht wert
06. Zerinne im Nichts
07. Die andere Seite deines Traumes
08. Unter den Mühlen der Zeit
09. Das Schluchzen und Wimmern
10. Erlischt für immer nun das Licht
11. Endzeit
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