Mantar's 2022 LP, 'Pain Is Forever and This Is The End', saw the German duo bring a sonic richness to their madly heavy blackened death-punk grooves, assisting the record to its position at #2 on Germany's Official Top 10 album chart. The record added smoother, calmer, more harmonic textures to Mantar's expanding palette, but on 2024's 'Post Apocalyptic Depression', Mantar smash the palette and punch a hole in the canvas.
"We wanted to do EVERYTHING different from the last album," affirms Hanno. "The last album was very produced. A huge sounding record, clean production. Display of power. That was what we wanted and felt at that time. Now we are trying to destroy what we've built up with the last album. There is a certain beauty in disappointing people's expectations."
One earful of monster-grooving punk'n'roll opener 'Absolute Ghost' confirms that disappointment is an implausible reaction to the wildly energised righteous blood-shakers assembled here. Mantar have already eaten up the road all over Europe, the US, Japan, Latin America, and South Africa, as well as all the major European festivals and American festivals, but these tunes are destined for especially visceral live connection.
CD digipack version
Tracklisting
1. Absolute Ghost
2. Rex Perverso
3. Principle of Command
4. Dogma Down
5. Morbid Vocation
6 Halsgericht
7. Pit of Guilt
8. Church of Suck
9. Two Choices of Eternity
10. Face of Torture
11. Axe Death Scenario
12. Cosmic Abortion
