Release:
Death Age Records
2. Dec. 2024
Info:
With their third full-length album “Withering Shine (...Into Oblivion)”, German Melodic Death Metallers MINDREAPER present their opus magnum so far!
Packed with hymns for eternity, the band expands their music with new symphonic elements and a unique sound between tradition and modernity. The songs are all catchy and stand for the highest musical standards in a genre that is still one of the most popular, but also one of the most fiercely contested. On “Withering Shine (...Into Oblivion)”, Mindreaper easily manage to fire one powerful song after the other at listeners who aren't squeamish. Melody meets brutality, skill meets relocation, emotion meets calculation! The band takes the listener on a journey through the silent testimonies of past existences and shows them their own transience and irrelevance. Old wounds are torn open and the lowest socio-cultural structures are processed with a constant eye on possible apocalyptic dystopias. It is not the raised index finger, but the middle finger that wields the pen and the sword!
The now legendary Andy Classen (Legion of the Damned, Belphegor, Graveworm and many more) also took on the production of this output together with the band as sound wizard. This provides the brutally snotty and open sound that many other representatives of the genre seem to have lost. Guitars that saw nastily into your face, bass that pierces your lungs and percussion that smashes your stomach, which is embraced by an epic orchestral arrangement without falling into kitsch! In addition, there are always the varied vocals of two singers with powerful voices.
The sheriff of the legendary Antfarm Studio Tue Madsen (Dark Tranquillity, Heaven Shall Burn, Moonspell and many more) is responsible for the mastering of this special album! This gives the album an openness and breadth, indeed a grandeur, that completely transcends the current compressed mulch. The dream team Andy Classen / Tue Madsen creates their far and wide unique sound league on this album! The epic cover, which perfectly reflects the music of this output, was created by none other than the ingenious scene artist Björn Gooßes / Killustrations.
“Withering Shine (...Into Oblivion)” will be released worldwide via Death Age Records on December 2, 2024, so be ready!
"The God I Am" - Official Lyric Video: https://youtu.be/5d3VbD29pPY
Tracklist:
01. Withering Shine (… Into Oblivion)
02. Liberty’s Fate
03. Death T(h)rust
04. Nocturnal Animals
05. Desert Trails
06. Vengeance Dawn
07. Power Plant
08. The God I Am
09. Bequest for No One
10. Black Stone Misery
11. Final Heaven
Line-up:
Sebastian "Sucking" Rehbein - Lead Vocals
Marcel Bangert - Guitars, Keys
Christian "Ens" Schoenke - Bass
Marcel Schneider - Drums
Manuel Nozulak - Additional Vocals
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