III: trauma
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| Harakiri for the Sky studio album | ||||
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July 22, 2016 |
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| Label (s) | Art of propaganda | |||
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Title (number) |
8th |
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running time |
75 min 12 sec |
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Guest musicians:
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Matthias "MS" Sollak (Production) |
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III: Trauma is the title of the third studio album by the Austrian post-black metal duo Harakiri for the Sky , which was released on July 22nd, 2016 via Art of Propaganda .
The album, which has eight tracks and a total playing time of 75 minutes and 12 seconds, was recorded and produced by guitarist Matthias "MS" Sollak while Daniel Fellner was responsible for the mixing .
III: Trauma received mostly positive reviews from the trade press. To promote the album , a music video was released for Funeral Dreams and The Traces We Leave , as well as an extensive European tour.
Track list
| # | title | composer | length | Remarks |
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| 1. | Calling the Rain | JJ (Michael V. Wahntraum) (song) Michael "MS" Sollak (text) |
11:28 | • Single |
| 2. | Funeral dreams | JJ (song) , MS (lyrics) | 8:58 | • Music video |
| 3. | Thanatos | JJ (song) , MS (lyrics) | 9:21 | • feat. Davide Straccione |
| 4th | This Life as a Dagger | JJ (song) , MS (lyrics) | 9:26 | |
| 5. | The Traces We Leave | JJ (song) , MS (lyrics) | 8:33 | • Music video |
| 6th | Viaticum | JJ (song) , MS (lyrics) | 8:38 | |
| 7th | Dry the river | JJ (song) , MS (lyrics) | 9:50 | |
| 8th. | Bury Me | JJ (song) , MS (lyrics) | 8:56 |
promotion
In order to be able to promote the album, a music video was produced and published for each of the songs Funeral Dreams and The Traces We Leave .
After the release, the group completed a multi-part European tour, which was accompanied by Sylvaine and Shores of Null , among others . The first pieces from III: Trauma were presented even before the album was officially released during the tour with Der Weg einer Freiheit .
Press reviews
III: Trauma received mostly positive reviews from the trade press. Fabian Schneider from the German music portal Metal.de writes that Harakiri for the Sky would not only focus on the aggressiveness of Black Metal on their album , but also specifically incorporate atmospheric sound passages into their pieces. He mentions pieces such as Calling the Rain , Funeral Dreams and Dry the River as references , whereby, as in the latter piece, the group also rely on dreamy and picturesque sounds that invite the listener to lose himself in the melancholy walls of sound. The critic judges that III: Trauma is not for listeners who can not make friends with emotional or post-black metal . However, those who can identify with Agrypnie , Tear Child or the band's previous album Aokigahara from 2014 will also enjoy this album. Robert Müller from the German Metal Hammer put forward the thesis that "Black Metal, the post-rock aesthetics, loud-quiet games and beautiful instrumental sound and thereby emotions not in small, but in large note sequences" pick up either quickly in a kitsch way or as catchy the predecessor Aokigahara could be. While in comparison he describes Aokigahara as a "rare ray of hope" in the post-black metal scene, III: Trauma tries to solve the thesis put forward by Müller in a Solomonic manner. Müller describes the music “at its core as dark rock music with funny vocals”. He draws the conclusion that III: Trauma is a refined, successful and better successor but not a musical quantum leap.
Kim Kelly of the English-speaking Vice writes that Harakiri for the Sky blends moments of beauty and utter ugliness into a cohesive whole. The duo process swaths of post-rock with light shadows of depressive black metal and post-hardcore- like vocals. The lyrics are about dying , but they are so poetically packaged that the tip is blunted, so the effect is far less moping than what a band named after a traditional suicide ceremony would generate. Björn Backes from the metal- specialized portal Powermetal.de describes III: Trauma as "the whole crowd simply impressive and rousing", so that he comes to the conclusion that with this release the paths to bigger stages are now open for the duo at the latest. Two reviews were found in the German music magazine Rock Hard : While Jan Jaedike rated the album positively, his colleague Andreas Schiffmann wrote more negatively about the third album. He wrote that the Viennese duo sound like a product of their musical role models and that the album comes across with boring structures, uniform screams and shimmering guitars. Schiffmann found the only positive innovation to be the omission of terrible cover versions, as the group did on their previous albums with Mad World or Hurt .
Stefan Frühauf from dark-festivals.de emphasized the contrasts between the melodic mood and the hardness as well as between the artistic claim and the catchiness of the album. He described III: Trauma as "the post-black metal album of the year" and awarded nine out of ten possible points. It was the highest rating given by dark-festivals.de in 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ III: Trauma at Discogs
- ↑ According to the attachment
- ↑ Michael Nelson: Stereogum : Harakiri For The Sky - "Funeral Dreams"
- ^ Metal Hammer : Harakiri For The Sky release artistic new video for The Traces We Leave
- ↑ Dragonhead942: Dark Art Conspiracy : SYLVAINE REVELED THE LAST DATES OF UPCOMING TOUR W / HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY AND SHORES OF NULL
- ↑ Kivents.com : Harakiri For The Sky, confirma el Trauma Tour 2017 II con fechas españolas (Spanish)
- ↑ Stephan Möller: Metal.de : Der Weg einer Freiheit: Coming on a European tour in 2016 with HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY and THE GREAT OLD ONES
- ^ Fabian Schneider: Metal.de : Harakiri for the Sky - III: Trauma criticism
- ^ Robert Müller: Metal Hammer : Harakiri for the Sky - III: Trauma criticism
- ↑ Kim Kelly: Vice : Harakiri for the Sky - III: Trauma criticism
- ^ Björn Backes: Powermetal.de : Harakiri for the Sky - III: Trauma criticism
- ↑ Jan Jaedike, Andreas Schiffmann: Rock Hard : Harakiri for the Sky - III: Trauma criticism
- ↑ Stefan Fruehauf: dark-festivals.de : Harakiri for the Sky - III: Trauma criticism
- ↑ Stefan Frühauf: dark-festivals.de : Review statistics for the whole of 2016