Stahlmagen – Winter

Releasedate: 2019

German formation Stahlmagen makes Gothic Metal. The band released their new album “Winter” recently. It is the band’s second full length album since their foundation in 2002.

The band likes to mix up their genres and tries to give it their own face, partly it works and partly it leads towards a bi of a messy release in which you never quite know what to expect. Being thrown back and forth you wonder if there is anyone who can put the whole into a unity, it seems a bit like a collection of favorite songs. Here and there they give you a little torture with strange soundeffects as well. Is it seriously meant to enhence the song?

They do not always seem to take themselves too serious. They sing that they are they only ones who know how to party hard. And that they are the vikings. Thanks for this statement, it being in the song “Navigation Problems” makes us aware that they lost it there. Puts it in perspective.

At the end of this release we are still not so sure whether this is an album we really need to hear again. Or see live. The band puts in a lot but never really owns a single element of it. Borrowing here and there it became a puzzle that violently got smashed to fit. The picture ain’t right, but it had to get out there. No, thanks.

Line up:

• Karl Palke – Bass
• Michael Goelz – Drums
• Hansjörg Rommel – Guitars
• Finn Rumpela – Guitars
• Thorsten Steinle – Vocals
• Martin Zapfl – Guitars

1. The End
2. Trail Of Tears
3. Winter
4. Burn To Nothing
5. Fell Down The Well
6. Greater Purpose
7. Bauerntanz und Minnesang
8. Navigation Problems (We Are The Vikings)
9. Margaritkelekh
10. Long Way Home

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