Artist:
Samsas Traum
Overview:
Black/Gothic Metal which is dreamy, dismal, and melancholy.
Format:
CD
Additional Info.:
The master of symphonic gothic music & undisputed king of German fairytale-metal is back – Alexander Kaschte presents a new studio album by Samsas Traum. While the last 3 albums were rather experimental, with his new album ‘Anleitung zum Totsein’ (Instructions about how to be dead) he returns to the band’s roots and skilfully combines all of the Samsas Traum motifs into a thrilling and intense hour of music. Bombastic orchestration collides with massive walls of guitars and violent bass attacks interweave with deadly accurate drum salvos to form a homogenous whole which lays the foundations for his vocal acrobatics.

Whether sensitive and tender, bold and brutal, infernally screeching or with stirring choirs, on the new album Kaschte fulfills the dreams of fans old and new alike. His lyrics are once again formidable in their authentic German lyricism and poignant poetry. Kaschte’s words begin where the language of other bands ends. His music tests the boundaries of his audience. The intensity of his works leaves his contemporaries far behind. On ‘Anleitung zum Totsein’ Kaschte once again receives musical support from the lightning-fingered Luca Princiotta (DORO) and Stephan ‘Gudze’ Hinz (H-BLOCKX) – both instrumentalists of the highest standard and masters in their fields. Furnished with a production which will blow the dust out of the hintermost crannies in the cellar, the new album will be celebrated in the appropriate scene clubs as it produces four club hits. ‘Durch die Wand der Träume’, ‘Im Zeichen des Wurms’, ‘Betet für mich’ and ‘Den Wolken näher’ proclaim Kaschte’s return to joyful patrons on dancefloors throughout the land.

Released early July, 2011 on Trisol.

Track Listing:
01 Was danach kommt: Spinnen
02 Das ist Liebe
03 Ich sehe die Sterne bei Tag
04 Das vor allen Spiegeln - Für Isabelle
05 Mein Versprechen
06 Durch die Wand der Träume
07 Den Wolken näher
08 Im Zeichen des Wurms
09 A - wie „Antarktika“
10 Gott hat kein Gesicht
11 Betet für mich
12 Das Lächeln eines Toten