EisenwaldsetsMarch 19th as the international release date forKankar's striking debut album,Dunkle Millennia, on CD and vinyl LP formats. In lieu of this announcement,the Black Metal Promotion YouTube channelpremieres the new track"Zerfall des Lichts."HearKankar's "Zerfall des Lichts" in its entirety exclusivelyHERE.Kankarare a black metal duo hailing from Thuringia, Germany. The band began in 2016, and two years later had released their debut EP,Elemental Fury. Aptly titled,Elemental Furyindeed lived up to its title and then some: despite the relatively raw nature of the recording,Kankar's songwriting chops were already honed to an enviable degree. Proud was their power and forward was their movement, even when taking detours; strident and austere, their surge betrayed a depth of nuance and detail. And yet, this EP was just a first step...
Now,Kankarmake their first grand statement withDunkle Millennia, the duo's debut full-length. Immediately recognizable asKankarbut bolstered on every level - songwriting, performance, production -Dunkle Millennialiterally bristles with an electricity that's undeniable. For a band still (proudly) black metal, theKankarof now here evince an artistry that spans decades and even genres; one can detect trace elements of classic death metal, pagan metal, traditional metal, and even rock 'n' roll within the album's succinct-yet-expansive 45-minute runtime, and yet all of it's spliced and diced in a most fluid manner, and not once ever schizophrenic. In fact, the muscular-yet-finessed interplay between vocalist/guitarist/bassist StrÃð and drummer Plágan suggests an almost symbiotic relationship, each ever-unfolding passage walking/surging down a thorny path but with the route known only toKankar. Even with these increasingly tricky detours, the 11 component songs ofDunkle Millennianever suffer from information overload or convoluted expressions of such: everything is alwaysfelt, darkly and dynamically. Credit that feel to the gleaming(ly powerful) production of Markus Stock (Helrunar, Bethlehem, Empyrium, Secrets of the Moon etc.) at his renown Klangschmiede Studio E.
References to be made include everyone from classic Windir and Germany's Horn to more recent Satyricon and Vreid, from later Lunar Aurora and Skogen to even now-labelmatesUADA, butKankarare well on their way to etching out their own celebrated history with the startlingly developedDunkle Millennia. The time is NOW to begin beholding its obsidian brilliance!
Begin beholding that obsidian brilliance with the brand-new track"Zerfall des Lichts" exclusivelyHERE, courtesy of the Black Metal Promotion YouTube channel. 'Order options for physical formats will become available closer to the release date. Cover artwork, courtesy ofNorthem Art and House of Inkantation, and tracklistingare as follows:
Tracklisting for Kankar's Dunkle Millennia
1. Gier
2. Krater in Sarx
3. Zerfall des Lichts
4. Vergeltung
5. Thüringer Schwarzmetall
6. Der Schütze
7. Neid
8. Festmahl für die Krähen
9. Pilgerreise
10. Die Sonne über Ikarus
11. Dunkle Millennia
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