VALBORG - Beerdigungsmaschine / Plasmabrand
Endstrand (2017)
Prohecy Productions
Germany
Tracklist:
1. Jagen 02:14 2. Blut am Eisen 03:06 3. Orbitalwaffe 04:01 4. Beerdigungsmaschine 04:16 5. Stossfront 04:37 6. Bunkerluft 04:13 7. Geisterwürde 03:58 8. Alter 03:08 9. Plasmabrand 04:12 10. Ave Maria 02:36 11. Atompetze 02:30 12. Strahlung 02:25 13. Exodus 02:48
Band:
Christian Kolf Florian Toyka Jan Buckard
Progressive Doom / Death band from Bonn, Germany. The band started in 2002, released “Songs of a Year” in 2005 and didn’t release their second album till 2009, quickly followed by 2 more releases in the following years. The relative quiet in the early years can be explicained by the involvement of the band members in various other projects during the same period, such as ISLAND, OWL, SLON, WOBURN HOUSE, KOSMOS WALD, CENTAURUS-A, KLABAUTAMANN and TORTUR.
The self-described “German metal monster” rages again! With “Endstrand” Valborg present their sixth full-length album in nine years, which is also their debut release for Lupus Lounge / Prophecy Productions.
Championed by Celtic Frost / Triptykon architect Tom G. Warrior as “abundantly original and unique” and “a mixture of Bohren und der Club of Gore, early Black Sabbath and Hellhammer”, Valborg creates dense, inventive music that escapes categorization. The trio’s blunt, forceful songs are at once raw and primitive yet hold a nihilistic sophistication that forges clouds of nightmarish atmosphere, giving them a narcotic, dreamlike feel that very few bands achieve.
Produced by Markus Siegenhort (Lantlôs), “Endstrand” is a 13 song end-time vision hosting apparitions of empty beaches, bunkers in the dunes, novel biological phenomena, washed up artifacts, noise distorted signals and omnipresent whirring, all of which float above the backdrop of Valborg’s utterly barbaric death crunch. Forging brutal and wasted, yet powerful music, Valborg unleashes sound as scorched-earth policy on “Endstrand”, delivering an immersive mysteriousness and darkness that has earned the group the right to be called one of Europe’s most exciting extreme metal bands.
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