Mantus (band)

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Mantus
Mantus at the Amphi Festival 2016 in Cologne
Mantus at the Amphi Festival 2016 in Cologne
General information
Genre (s) Metal , dark rock
founding 1997, 2008
resolution 2005
Website www.mantus.de
Current occupation
Martin Schindler
Chiara Amberia (since 2012)
former members
Tina Schindler (until 2012)

Mantus is a music project from the black scene that was founded by Martin Schindler around 1997. The band name is derived from the underworld god of the same name, the Etruscans .

history

Mantus has developed into a highly regarded band in its band history. Many of her songs have appeared on compilations, but the big breakthrough did not materialize, so that Mantus was not particularly successful commercially and was never represented in the charts.

Although Mantus had existed as a solo project by Martin Schindler for a long time, the first album "Liebe und Tod" was only released in 2000 when his sister Tina (who appears under the stage name "Thalia") joined the project. With it the alternating male and female singing could be realized, which contributes significantly to the "dark romanticism" - as Martin Schindler calls it. Since the band consisted only of these two people and often had to rely on guest musicians, Mantus never performed live until 2009.

Mantus temporarily disbanded in early 2005. With the "Chronik" -Best of the band said goodbye to the active music business on May 5, 2006. The musicians wanted to take a new direction that was incompatible with Mantus. As a successor, the band Sepia was founded in 2005 , in which you can find Martin Schindler and Thalia. The Black Heaven project , which was also founded by Martin Schindler, ran parallel to Mantus right from the start .

At the end of 2008 Mantus was revived with the usual line-up, released a new album in 2009 with “Requiem” and performed live for the first time at the 5th Amphi Festival in Cologne.

Chiara Amberia, singer of Mantus at the Amphi Festival 2016 in Cologne
Mantus at the Amphi Festival 2016 in Cologne
Mantus at the Amphi Festival 2016 in Cologne

In April 2012, Tina Schindler's departure from the Mantus project was announced; her successor is Chiara Amberia.

With 16 (regular) studio albums published to date, Mantus is one of the performers within the black scene who have released the most albums.

style

music

The music is often perceived as melancholy, moody and melodious. The alternation between Martin and Thalia's vocals and the hard metal guitars, which partially shift the band's work into the dark metal or doom metal area, are striking.

Texts

The mostly German-language texts deal with topics such as love, death, eternity or immortality. However, there is also a place for socially critical problems, such as racism , xenophobia and rape , which are appropriately addressed in the titles. For example, at the beginning of the song Utopia there is a passage from Joseph Goebbels ' speech in which he calls for total war.

Discography

Albums

  • 2000: Love and Death (CD; Sad Eyes / Trisol Music Group )
  • 2001: Farewell (CD; Sad Eyes / Trisol Music Group)
  • 2002: Fremde Welten (CD; Sad Eyes / Trisol Music Group)
  • 2003: Weg ins Paradies (CD; Sad Eyes / Trisol Music Group)
  • 2004: A touch of reality (CD / 2xCD; Trisol Music Group)
  • 2005: Time must end (CD / 2xCD; Trisol Music Group)
  • 2009: Requiem (CD; Trisol Music Group)
  • 2010: Humility (CD; Trisol Music Group)
  • 2010: The Wedding of Heaven and Hell (CD; Trisol Music Group)
  • 2011: Characters (CD; Trisol Music Group)
  • 2012: Wölfe (CD; Trisol Music Group)
  • 2014: Portrait of anger and grief + bonus album Grenzland (2xCD; Trisol Music Group)
  • 2015: Melancholia (CD / 2xCD; Trisol Music Group)
  • 2016: Refugium (CD; Trisol Music Group)
  • 2018: Dust and Ashes + bonus album Flowers of Hell (2xCD; Trisol Music Group)
  • 2019: Katharsis + bonus album Pagan Folk Songs (2xCD; Trisol Music Group)

Compilations

  • 2006: Chronicle (CD / 2xCD; Trisol Music Group)
  • 2013: Fatum (CD / 2xCD; Trisol Music Group)

EP

  • 2004: No Love (CD + DVD; Sad Eyes / Trisol Music Group)
  • 2009: Kingdom of Fear (CD; Trisol Music Group)
  • 2011: Sinner (CD; Trisol Music Group)

Music videos

  • 2004: We are waiting for death
  • 2004: no love
  • 2004: shards
  • 2004: Dance of the Senses
  • 2017: white and cold
  • 2019: The Heart Of It All
  • 2019: sweet as death

Web links

Commons : Mantus  - collection of images, videos and audio files