01/05/2019 19:41
Katechon
Katechon announce new album 'Sanger fra Auschwitz'
Katechon started up in 2011 in Trondheim, Norway, with 5 members from different local metal and punk bands who were fed up by doing music by the numbers. They recorded an eponymous demo in 2012 which gained a lot positive feedback from the underground and was soon signed to Nuclear War Now. In 2013 they released 'Man God Giant' to great reviews and in 2015 their sophomore album 'Coronation' was released, again to great reviews. After this the band decided to go on without their guitarist PGS and the drummer MD had to leave for personal reasons. Shortly thereafter Kråbøl (from Thorns and Sarke) took over on drums and CB became the sole guitar architect of the band. With this line-up they spent almost one and a half year in the studio recording 'Sanger fra Auschwitz'. During the studio sessions, Nuclear War Now and Katechon decided to part ways, and soon they found a new label, Saturnal Records, with whom they feel they can pursue their musical goals even further.
With the album 'Sanger fra Auschwitz', Katechon takes a deep dive into the darkest places of the collective human psyche. Here Auschwitz is not just the physical, but also the meta-physical manifestation of evil on earth. The record is a view into events of the second world war and how it affected people on both sides. It is antitotalitarian in form, drawing textually from Paul Celan, T.S. Eliot and beat poetry. The music is cold and bleak, which is ironic considering they spent over one year recording it, utilizing a lot of guitar effects, synthesizers and mellotrons to achieve the full and rich sound it has. With this album Katechon kills off the esoteric child diseases they had in their early years and head straightforward into the entropy of collective madness. 'Sanger fra Auschwitz' is 37 minutes of pure total darkness!
Album info:
Title: 'Sanger fra Auschwitz'
Length: 37:31 minutes
Tracklist:
1. Fotspor
2. Eloi
3. Renselsen
4. Ankomst
5. Mørkets hjerte
6. Tre hoder
7. Davids skjold
8. Unheimlich
Recorded: 2017–2018 in Nordstern Studios
Music and lyrics: Katechon
Mastered, mixed and engineered by: Christian Broholt
Artwork by: Martin Schreiner
(source: Saturnal Records)