Porta Nigra — Weltende (2023) [Full Album]

Описание: 00:00 — 1. — Es ist Krieg

05:33 — 2. — Götterblut

10:24 — 3. — Völkerbrand

15:36 — 4. — Verlorene Paradiese

19:47 — 5. — Bestienschlund

23:30 — 6. — Die himmlische Revolution

28:24 — 7. — Weltende

35:35 — 8. — Triebgeschwärme

40:49 — 9. — Hora Mortis


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The cover art is "Uprising" (1899) by German artist Käthe Kollwitz.

Avant-garde Black Metal Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The label describes the musical style as "Decadent Dark Metal" in reference to the so-called era of the Fin de siècle.



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PORTA NIGRA, the prime example of a more avantgarde expression within extreme metal, return with their 4th fullength studio album!
Shocking, fanatic, dramatic and depressing in equal measure like the great war it was inspired by, “Weltende” is definitely no easy listening material, but an album that grows and grows like the horrors of martial destruction!
Now taste their German steel!

Released July 28, 2023

Tobias – guitars, lyrics
André Meyrink – vocals
Jöschu Käser – drums, bass
Kraal – additional vocals
Stefan Hofmann – additional solo-guitar
John Never – fx and piano
Anna Maren – additional vocals and violin

Recorded in Germany and Switzerland.
Engineered and mixed by Markus Stock at Studio Klangschmiede E.
Produced by Porta Nigra.
Layout by Valnoir for Metastazis.
Artwork by Käthe Kollwitz

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PORTA NIGRA's latest temporal tempest, "Kaiserschnitt", is an abstract work of non-conforming Dark Metal art.

Once more, the peerless duo takes us back in time to a bygone era, a century past, to visit an empire and mind-(s)pace synonymous with unspeakable depravity; to celebrate a time of inner and outer turmoil that frequently manifested itself in lurid acts of mental and sexual deviancy.

At once a historical documentation of the past and a leap forward to our bleak future (end), "Kaiserschnitt" stands defiantly alone – a solitary script delivered in a distinct voice.

https://portanigra.bandcamp.com/album...

Review by F3ynman:
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Porta Nigra, named presumably after a Roman city gate in Trier (or, perhaps, named after the Black Gate of Mordor in Latin), are a German band who play an undefined genre-blender of metal about war and suffering. I only know one of their previous albums, 2015's Kaiserschnitt. That album was very critical and mocking of the German Kaiserreich and concerned itself with exposing the senselessness and horrific loss of life in battles such as the Battle of Verdun in WWI. The title track of Kaiserschnitt, describing the birth and parodying the reign of the last German emperor (“Kaiser”) Wilhelm II, also has a double meaning because the title is the German term for a cesarean section but can also obviously refer to the “cut (execution?) of the emperor”.

Anyway, I'm very fond of Kaiserschnitt (and whoever hasn't listened to it yet needs to go check it out straight away!). Therefore, I greatly anticipated what Porta Nigra’s 2023 release could offer. Their fourth and newest album is called Weltende, German for “end of the world”. A very fitting title, as it turns out, as this album continues the focus on the horrors of war. There also seem to be several references to God or many gods, but it's unclear whether there's a punishment from the gods or war among the gods. (As I couldn't find any official lyrics to read, I have no choice but to listen with my German ear.) For those who can understand some of the German lyrics, there is an especially nice recurring element: throughout the album, there are audio samples of apocalyptic yet very poetic descriptions. For instance, the last two minutes of the title track detail how the world slowly goes silent as mankind and all life dies to clouds of poisonous gas: (This was easier to transcribe as it's purely in spoken word.)...

Come on, tell me you don't get chills from reading that! Anyway, that's probably enough analysis of the lyrics. Let's go to the instruments, shall we? Well, on Kaiserschnitt, Porta Nigra played a style that is quite hard to pin down in one genre. With a vague mix of black metal, doom metal, and punk, it's safe to put them under the umbrella of “avant-garde metal”. On Weltende, the music is unfortunately less unhinged, less unique, and less immediately catchy than Kaiserschnitt. Whether it's the atmospheric tremolo-picking of the first track or the faster pace of “Götterblut”, they seem to be lacking a really impactful punch that, for instance, Kaiserschnitt readily provided in the form of super-heavy mid-tempo rhythm riffs. Alas, the first half of the album goes through the motions, slightly reminiscent of their past style, yet never quite leaving a lasting impact...