Mantar announce new album ‘Pain Is Forever And This Is The End’

MANTAR have announced a new album!

Titled Pain Is Forever And This Is The End, the upcoming album from the German metal duo is the follow-up to 2018’s The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze. and is scheduled to be released in July this year, marking their label debut at new home Metal Blade Records.

“I just knew I wanted to write stronger ’songs‘ in relation to ’songwriting‘ and rely less on being an ’extreme‘ metal act that only convinces through a certain sound or general ’heaviness,‘” notes guitarist/vocalist Hanno Klänhardt. “I invested more time on trying to write better songs, interesting structures, and catchy tunes.” The results speak volumes. This is the most diverse and interesting MANTAR album to date, taking things to the proverbial next level. With the previous albums I was so focused on making the band sound exactly as we would sound live. That is cool and still important but this time I wanted to make an album that is overall entertaining and not just a forty-five-minute ’live set.‘ We‘ve proved countless times that we have no problems at all convincing in a live setting, so I had to gather some courage to ’produce‘ a little more, mostly in order to entertain myself as the songwriter and producer.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming album; Hang ‘Em Low (So The Rats Can Get ‘Em). Speaking about the new song, Hanno adds, “Hang ‘Em Low… is one of the catchiest and strongest tunes we ever did. We thought it deserves a cool video that portrays the key MANTAR ingredients: stress, hectic and bad vibes plus a whole lot of beautiful sad Florida nature shots… We are an old school band. We can’t help it. Good old fashioned music videos still rule.”

Watch the official music video for Hang ‘Em Low (So The Rats Can Get ‘Em) here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: 

1. Egoisto
2. Hang ‘Em Low (So the Rats Can Get ‘Em)
3. Grim Reaping
4. Orbital Pus
5. Piss Ritual
6. Of Frost and Decay
7. Walking Corpse
8. New Age Pagan
9. Horder
10. Odysseus

Pain Is Forever And This Is The End is set for release on July 15th via Metal Blade Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.