The German Emo Hardcore outfit Mahlstrom is back with their debut "MÆANDER". After 2 EPs and one split with Every Stranger Looks Like You it took more than 1,5 years to finish the debut 12" record. We're releasing this exclusively on limited vinyl, CD and digital.
I generally appreciate the album by album move away from hardcore towards extreme metal. Yet for me personally, this is where the balance is perfect. Kind of like Metallica's Ride the Lightning: subsequent albums were more sophisticated and complex, yet less intense, too. Great to come back to, again and again. jornfin
Massive soundscapes and all around awesome album! A long time coming but worth the wait!
Thanks for staying HEAVY. So many bands now mellow out over time! Matt Peterson
Toronto band Respire deliver a post-hardcore tour de force on the largest scale possible, orchestrally rich and incessantly uncompromising. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 6, 2021
Hearing the songs while reading the narrative behind the lyrics, I felt overwhelmed by this tragic story in which humans and artificial intelligence couldn't coexist side by side. Their reciprocal annihilation was inevitable. Except one "sole survivor, in a ship filled with memories. She had become the proof of Earth, proof that life had existed there, a voice for all the species and beauty we once knew". A dystopian concept dressed up in brilliant musicianship! @Slevin, thanks, I owe it to you! Umbra Cornuta