Austrian folk black metal sensation Perchta has - at last - found an outlet for the uncensored version of the explicit video "Vom Verlånga" (About The Desire). The full clip is now available for adults only on the site Xvideos.com (Perchta - Vom Verlanga) and, hopefully, HERE, while the censured version awaits you below.

"Vom Verlånga" is the first single from Perchta's forthcoming sophomore full-length, D'muata (The Mother), slated for release on 14 June via Prophecy Productions.

Perchta's frontwoman Frau Percht states: "After a long and difficult road, marked by deep disappointments and happy coincidences, it feels like a miracle that we have finally been able to actually fully realise this project. We thank our wonderful, talented, brave and creative friends as well as our label Prophecy Productions, who believed in our vision to the very end and ensured that our work is now released in uncensored form despite many bureaucratic obstacles. The process leaves an ambivalent aftertaste considering that images of violence are being tolerated online, while aesthetic and dignified depictions of the female body are often censored. Nevertheless, we greatly appreciate the protection against abuse at this point. Today we finally celebrate the full splendour of the passionate energy of 'Vom Verlånga'!"

And adds: "Society's distorted view on sexuality is often further twisted by patriarchal bias, and the representation of the female body regularly comes with a one-dimensional perspective. The song and video of 'Vom Verlånga' narrate an authentic tale of wild lust and an intimate joining of woman and man on every level of being".

D'Muata manifesto: Female sexuality has been considered a great mystery for far too long. For centuries, the female body was taboo. It speaks volumes that it took until 2022 when a medical expert finally pointed out that the clitoris was incompletely depicted with only its smallest visible part, even in biology textbooks. The female pubic area was obviously deemed as of too little concern to receive proper representation in both the medical world and society in general.

Due to this kind of censorship, women were deprived of understanding and knowing their own bodily functions. Even today, the arousal and ejaculation of women receive little to no attention beyond the distorting confines of pornography. Therefore, it is essential to represent female desire with its multifaceted sensuality and wildness without artificial restraints and to draw attention to the beauty and wonder of the natural female body. More focus on empowerment, self-love, individual autonomy, and women's freedom is needed.

Outdated manipulative constructs on women and their sexuality, which are propagated by many media and, in societies, have to be broken down. The world urgently needs to move away from superficial self-expression, assimilation, and constant pressure for the "optimisation" of female (and male) body images towards authenticity and healthy self-esteem.

The image of a solitary woman living in a remote Alpine mountain place literally at the edge of civilisation evokes strong connotations, of which "witch" is probably one of the first. An independent woman, confident and free in her actions, sexuality, and self-determination, still goes against the collective expectations of our society.

With Perchta's sophomore full-length, D'Muata, mastermind and vocalist Frau Percht and her band have created a feminist manifesto within a folklore-influenced black metal context. Femininity in all its facets is a rather niche topic in this genre, although it is an inseparable part of everything human and the natural world around us.

All members of Perchta work, in one way or another, with natural materials while being shaped by the majestic mountain landscape surrounding them and even experiencing the essence of life first-hand working as a midwife. D'Muata focuses on procreation, birth, the nourishing of life, and motherhood without reducing women to this aspect. Such themes as female sexuality, menstruation stigma, the loss of a child, violence against women, and even femicide get explored - and also personified as in the dark ancient Alpine folklore figures described in the track "Langtuttin & Stampa".

Taking its name from an alleged pagan goddess that older scholars tried to reconstruct as being worshipped in the Upper German and Austrian Alpine regions, Perchta was conceived in Tyrol, Austria, in 2017 to preserve and rejuvenate regional traditions. Three years later, Perchta released its debut album, Ufång (2020), establishing its reputation as a highly individualistic and unique act. All lyrics of the entire album are intoned in the Tyrolean vernacular. The words are shrouded in a tempest of tremolo guitars and ritualistic folk with bone-piercing extreme vocals on top.

Once touring activities resumed after the global break, Perchta also began to earn attention for their outstanding live performances, which strengthened the bonds within the band. Now, the black witch of the Tyrolean mountains and her pack return with a magical new album that Perchta will also bring to the stage! Link

D'muata tracklist:
1. Vom Verlånga
2. Ois wås ma san
3. Heiliges Bluat
4. Hebamm
5. D'Muata
6. Wehenkanon
7. Ausbruch
8. Långtuttin & Stampa
9. Mei Dianä Mei Bua