MANTAR Streams Sludgy New Single “Valhalla Hammering”

Mantar is now streaming their new, standalone single “Valhalla Hammering”. Clocking in at seven minutes, the only is certain to please any old-school followers of Mantar‘s doomier materials.

“‘Valhalla Hammering’ is a kind of songs that we immediately fell in love with however by no means made it on the album final 12 months,” mentioned Mantar‘s Hanno Klänhardt. “It is a kind of songs that you don’t write to create an ‘immediate traditional’ however a lot reasonably with the intention to entertain your self as a songwriter. It is about 7 minutes lengthy however we actually favored the idea of getting essentially the most catchy, on level songs all on the final Album so it by no means actually discovered its place.

“I truly already knew it more than likely wouldn’t find yourself on the album after I was writing it. In reality I wrote it with the plan already in my thoughts to launch it fairly a while AFTER we’d launch Ache Is Perpetually And This Is The Finish with the intention to current one thing utterly totally different as a subsequent transfer. It is all the time good to trigger confusion.

“The primary two minutes are kinda a homage to our VERY early days when Doom as a style was extra vital to us. You’ll be able to hear that for example on the final track of our first album. It is a track referred to as ‘March Of The Crowes’. Individuals typically mentioned that gradual SUPER heavy suited us nicely however we had been additionally all the time very track oriented, so with ‘Valhalla Hammering’ we completed one of the best of each worlds. Gradual, heavy groove and a catchy, nearly trippy hook. Additionally We now have a freakin’ flute solo round 5 minutes in. This very nicely could be thought-about the spotlight of our songwriting profession.

“The video for the track is simply as trippy because the track itself. Primarily based on a documentary by Amsterdam based mostly artist Willehad Eilers aka Wayne Horse. Creating the footage was method past a daily video shoot and to be fairly frank a few of it higher not be defined any additional. Even when we wished to, we won’t. Benefit from the trip.”