Mantar – The Modern Art of Setting Ablaze – Vinyl LP

Coloured Vinyl

Northern Germany’s feral two piece MANTAR have achieved more in five years than most bands twice their age and size. The product of a twenty year friendship between guitarist/vocalist Hanno Klaenhardt and drummer Erinc Sakarya, there is a success story born entirely of one thing: hard work, with 3 albums, an EP and a live release already to their name. Releasing their 2014 Svart Records debut ‘Death By Burning’, an uncompromising clash of strippedback punk attitude and metal intensity to instant critical acclaim, the band toured relentlessly, gracing stages the world over, including the hallowed likes of Roadburn (NL), Wacken Open Air (D) and Maryland Deathfest (US). They used 2016’s ‘Ode To The Flame’, their Nuclear Blast Records debut, to further build upon their incendiary live reputation, conquering not only Europe and the US, but Russia, Japan and South Africa. Now, following a brief period of repose which saw Hanno move to Florida, MANTAR return with ‘The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze’, a short, sharp shock that hones the hungry riffs and breath taking pace of their previous records. ‘The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze’ is a title in-keeping with Hanno’s symbolic obsession with fire on albums previous; this time disavowing mankind’s tendency to blindly follow those that would lead us into oblivion. This isn’t necessarily a political statement; more a morbid fascination with current smouldering tensions that threaten to set the minds of the masses on fire. ‘The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze’ is the spark that will ignite the flame – especially onstage.

1. The Knowing
2. Age of the Absurd
3. Seek + Forget
4. Taurus
5. Midgard Serpent (Seasons of Failure)
6. Dynasty of Nails
7. Eternal Return
8. Obey the Obscene
9. Anti Eternia
10. The Formation of Night
11. Teeth of the Sea
12. The Funeral