| German Import | "Totgeglaubte leben länger!" - "Those presumed dead live longer".

Requiem: the new album from MANTUS. A requiem mass? An obituary? No! In the silent darkness a light shines on the horizon. True to the German motto that those presumed to be dead live longer, Requiem really is a new album from MANTUS. A resurrection of the dead. Nobody knows what happened in the previous years. A creative pause? Dissolution and reinvention? Regardless, the years of uncertainty and silence are over. This could well be the surprise of the year!

Martin Schindler and Thalia rise to their old form of old and easily surpass the high standard of their most recent releases. In the tradition of German gothic music, almost forgotten in these times of visual kei, EBM and future pop, they create a dark-romantic gem. Metallic guitar riffs meet classical arrangements, full strings and piano. Electronic drum sounds mix with expressive melodies and sacral hymns, joined together with elegiac symphonies, over which the fascinating interaction of male and female vocals twinkles like a light shining in the darkness. The accustomed lyrical depth, beyond superficial clichés, comes across as perfect dark poetry in its purest form.

A must-have not only for MANTUS fans, who surely never anticipated this release, but also for those who appreciate the likes of LACRIMOSA and WITT.