ALBUM REVIEWS
MANTAR
Post Apocalyptic Depression
Mantar contemplate a decade’s worth of wanton destruction
PRESS/SONJA SCHURINGA CHANTIK PHOTOGRAPHY
METAL BLADE
Teutonic twosome hit the gnarly, anthemic motherlode
WHEN MANTAR EMERGED,
just over a decade ago, there was some debate about where they sat on the metal spectrum. Their 2014 debut album,
Death By Burning
, was variously described as black metal, noise rock, sludge metal and any number of niche, gnarly subgenres. Since then, Hanno Klänhardt and Erinc Sakarya have flourished in their own self-created and perennially tumultuous grey area, where the only thing that really matters is the size of the riff and the amount of ruthless determination used to perform it.