i came across this one here accidentally. my first encounter with this album was while reading the fuze magazine. it's a free music magazine that comes with orders from certain labels and distros or can be found in physical record store to take away. they specialised on hardcore, punk and some assorted metal stuff. i don't know which issue it was anymore, but i know that saw the album cover in the review section. i shortly glanced over it but it left no deeper impression.
a physical copy crossed my path when i was in hamburg's saturn store. actually i wanted to pick up a different record.it was the latest emmure record i actually wanted. but read about this disaster and the happy ending in the up-coming post. my girlfriend was with me and we had not that much time, but she looked at me and must have seen the disappointment in my eyes. she said that she knew that i hate to leave a store empty handed and that we should take a quick look through the metal vinyl section. god knows i love her.
so i started flicking through the vinyl and she, just to kill some time, looked at some covers she thought were cool. doing so she pulled 'death by burning' from the shelf.i looked at it and remembered the fuze magazine incident. so i took a quick listen and i was sold. that was some pretty good stoner/doom metal with a good portion of hardcore in the mix. as i'm on a huge high on fire kick right now, mantar really appeals to me. great shit. listen to 'the berserker's path' and to 'into the golden abyss' and convince yourself.
mantar is a two-piece from northern germany. amazing how just two instruments can produce such lovely noise. the amazing cover art tops it all off. my girlfriend proved good taste here. very good release all around. 700 on black vinyl and 300 on bronze vinyl. another version on white vinyl also available. probably the second press? svart records. 2014.
