Manes Impetus, by ESSENZ

Manes Impetus

by ESSENZ

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Entleiber There's some metaphysical tissue on these bony riffs. Translucent yet opaque, this music oscillates between refreshing aggression, haunting passages and uncanny sounds where life is distorted to inscrutable fragments of voices and noise - or simply shown from another, ghostly perspective. Favorite track: Sermon To The Ghosts.

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1.	Peeled & Released 11:14	buy track
2.	Unfolding Death 06:44	buy track
3.	Amortal Abstract 07:40	buy track
4.	Randlos Gebein 11:22	buy track
5.	Apparitional Spheres 03:27	buy track
6.	Sermon To The Ghosts 09:28	buy track
7.	Ecstatic Sleep 07:25	buy track

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This record is dedicated to the infinite spirit and its spectral manifestation.
Creation for eternal death.

press:
"Wie fasst man etwas in Worte, das einem die Sprache verschlägt? “Manes Impetus”, das dritte Album der Berliner ESSENZ ist eines dieser Alben, von denen man viel erwartet, das aber dann jegliche Erwartung so weit übertrifft, dass man es nicht mehr hört, sondern nur noch fühlt. Das Gänsehaut nicht nur beim Hören verursacht, sondern schon beim Gedanken daran. Das jegliche Objektivität zur totalen Irrelevanz degradiert. Und das die starken Alben von Funeral Mist und Mare tatsächlich hinter sich lässt, auch wenn ESSENZ sicher keine reinrassige Black-Metal-Band sind. Der Geistersturm, wie der Titel übersetzt lautet, wird so treffend akustisch umgesetzt, wie man es nur ganz selten zu hören bekommt. Die Geister manifestieren sich in gesprochenen und geflüsterten Vokalpassagen ebenso wie in Soundeffekten, die einem das Blut in den Adern gefrieren und diese Geister erschreckend real werden lassen. Der Sturm wiederum wird in peitschendem, rasendem, primitivem, aber perfekt gespieltem Black Metal entfesselt. Doomige Passagen und vereinzelte Death-Metal-Anleihen finden zwar ebenfalls immer wieder ihren Weg in die Songs, doch das pechschwarze Element dominiert deutlich, spielerisch wie atmosphärisch. G.STs beeindruckende Gesangsperformance und der saugeile Sound (insbesondere der Drumsound ist ein Traum) runden ein Album ab, das seinesgleichen sucht. Mein bisheriges Album des Jahres, ohne jeden Zweifel."
— Andreas Schulz, Deaf Forever (9.5/10)

"Une baffe comme celle là, je ne l’ai pas vue arriver ! Dès la première écoute, la sensation d’avoir assisté à quelque chose de grand ne me lâchait plus, sensation d’autant plus forte que je n’avais jusqu’alors pas écouté cette formation."
— Metalfreak, soilchronicles.fr (9.5/10)

credits

released August 11, 2018

All music by Essenz.

Recorded and mixed by T.ngl at Englsound Studio in Berlin 2018.
Drum soundcheck by Costa Kostopoulos.
Mastered at Audiamond in Finland.
Entity recordings by Essenz.

Layout by Vortex Arts.
Artwork by Vortex Arts & Essenz.

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