Greek-German duo Schatten Muse return on 12th December with their second album Schicksalsweg that will be released via The Circle Music. Ahead of that, and out now new single, ‘Transzendenz’.
Regarding the new album, the band said: “The fading splendour of transience is lost in the silence… In secrecy a transcendent soundscape becometh unveiled. The second Schatten Muse album is haunting, mysterious, melancholic, spiritual and powerful. Feel the vastness and freedom in the sound of Schicksalsweg! The album is mainly influenced by the electronic underground sounds of the 1980s and 1990s, especially Neue Deutsche Todeskunst/New German death art.”
Hardly strangers to the gothic and dark music scenes, Schatten(Shelmerdine) is also a founding member of Dark Awake with whom he’s released over 20 albums and EPs. Museis Sylvia Fürst who co-founded a german deathart project, Egotragik, and is credited for translating the song ‘Gott Ist Tot (Antichrist War Mix)’ by Impaled Nazarene on the Ugra – Karma album released in 1993.
Schicksalsweg follows where 2022 debut album Vergänglichkeit (also via The Circle Music) started. With poetic lyrics about madness, desperation and isolation, Schatten Muse combines elements of dark wave, gothic, neoclassical and electro wave, all filtered through their personal prism and poetic mood along with dramatised and theatrical narration.
Schicksalsweg can be ordered on digi-CD here. and via digital platforms here.
‘Transzendenz’ is available via digital platforms here and you can check out the lyric video here at RAMzine.
