New album, “Sombre Vaults”, out on May 30th!
Kalmen is hypnotic doomed black metal from Berlin/Dresden/Halle and was founded in 2009. While their self-produced demo from 2011 was rooted in sludge and doom riffings, their first full-length album Course Hex manifested a cold and dark atmosphere that has shaped the band‘s musical repertoire ever since. The release of Course Hex in 2015 also laid the foundation for years of collaboration with German black metal label Ván Records. Funeral Seas (2018) finally merged the cold dreariness of doom with the elemental force of black metal into a maelstrom of darkness. The third album Sombre Vaults, which was produced entirely on their own and will also be released via Ván Records in spring 2025, marks the current climax of their sound. The musical journey of Kalmen is a constant immersion into the dark depths of hypnotic soundscapes. In freezing dark atmospheres of haunting screams, tempests of banging come with piercing melodies, crushing riffs and ravishing leadings to form an unique experience of Spiritual Black.
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