Sounds | Unverkalt - Mass Hysteria

Industrial drones, door merg en been snijdende hoge vocals, bakken duistere sfeer, een steeds wisselende dynamiek ondanks het aanhoudende slepende tempo... het staat blijkbaar voor avant-garde post metal. Ik moet bij deze term aan o.a. Thurisaz denken, maar Unverkalt kan je toch niet vergelijken met onze metalen trots. Van oorsprong een Griekse band - Dimitra Kalavrezou (zang) en Themis Ioannou (gitaar en keyboards) komen uit Athene - maar nu residerend in Berlijn. Mass Hysteria is alvast een sterke, emotioneel geladen compositie van maar liefst een dikke acht minuten. Net als bij die andere single Le Triomphe de la Mort wordt de muziek ondersteund door erg knappe videos. Noem het gerust cinematografische meesterwerkjes. De twee songs verschenen twee jaar geleden op het album A Lump of Death: A Chaos of Dead Lovers. Moet ik toch eens beluisteren.

Luister ook naar: Le Triomphe de la Mort

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“Big News, Big Moves!” says Unverkalt. “We are excited to announce that Unverkalt officially joined the Season of Mist family.

“We’ve found a home with a label that doesn’t just handle the heavy, the weird and the loud - it amplifies it. We're very stoked about working with a team that gets what we’re about and isn’t afraid of a little sonic destruction.

”Unverkalt always stood for real, raw, untamed art and never gave a damn about fitting into scenes or trends. We just wanted to create something honest - loud, heavy, broken and alive. And now we’ve found a place that welcomes that chaos with open arms.

”The next chapter of Unverkalt starts here. Expect more music, more shows and more beautifully controlled chaos. Stay tuned and brace yourselves - this ride's only getting louder.”

Formed in 2017, Unverkalt emerged from a desire to give voice to grief, memory, and the visceral undercurrents of the human condition. Their early work established them as a unique presence within the European post-metal underground, marked by a brooding atmosphere and arresting vocal performances. Their most recent output saw the band embrace a darker, more immediate sound—steeped in gothic tension, doom-laden weight, and avant-garde nuance.

The band’s debut album, L’Origine du Monde, emerged rooted in emotional unrest and tense atmospherics while delving deep into loss and catharsis beneath shades of post-metal and slow-burning doom. Their follow-up, A Lump of Death: A Chaos of Dead Lovers, pushed deeper into obsession and decay, blending gothic unease with cinematic grandeur and raw urgency. Together, the band’s first two albums trace their evolution from mournful elegance to something more immediate and consuming—a path worth retracing before the next part of their journey unfolds.

Lineup:

Dimitra Kalavrezou - Vocals

Themis Ioannou - Guitars, Keys

Eli Mavrychev - Guitars, Vocals

Joscha Hoyer - Bass

Christian Eggers - Drums

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