Folterkammer announce new album ‘Weibermacht’
FOLTERKAMMER have announced a new album!
Titled Weibermacht, the upcoming album from the American operatic symphonic black metal band is the follow-up to 2020’s Die Lederpredigt, and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Century Media Records.
The upcoming album was recorded with Kevin Antreassian at Backroom Studios in New Jersey and was produced by guitarist Zachary Ezrin.
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Anno Domina. The new song is the second single to be released from the upcoming album, following on from Das Peitschengedicht, which was released in October last year.
Speaking about the new song, vocalist Andromeda Anarchia says, “AD stands for Anno Domini, Latin for ‘in the year of the Lord,’ signifying Christ’s birth year. With Christian terms traditionally linking to male dominance FOLTERKAMMER find such expressions irksome & strive to reject misogynistic ideologies. Playfully reinterpreting, they coined Anno Domina (the year of the dominatrix) symbolizing the era of female supremacy against institutionalized superstition and sexism. The term reflects rebellion & aligns with Weibermacht‘s themes of BDSM & femdom. The song captures this mood of awakening, with the ringing of bells, the counting of whips… and a wonderful harpsichord solo, played by none other than the bassist of IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT, who is actually a trained jazz pianist, Steve Blanco.”
Drummer and filmmaker Brendan McGowan, who directed the music video, adds, “the Anno Domina video takes the refined baroque aesthetic, draped in its Catholic vestments, and blasphemes it against a cyberpunk future in leathered indecorous lechery.”
The band collectively muses, “after the last single, Das Peitschengedicht, we once again work with the symbolism and expressiveness of the whip: an elegant torture instrument, delicate at the tip, but also very sharp and painful, used to set things in motion and drive them forward or to punish stagnation or slow progress. Andromeda captivates right from the start with pure bel canto singing. She deliberately wrote a verse melody that stretches over two octaves from the beginning, making it a vocal challenge. On a symbolic level, it was intended to stand for something sophisticated, virtuoso, strong and even superior; Andromeda‘s way of smashing the patriarchy. The kinky lyrics speak of how men are at the mercy of women and of the submissiveness demanded of men, who are henceforth to devote themselves entirely to the well-being and celebration of women.”
Watch the official music video for Anno Domina here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Anno Domina
2. Leck Mich
3. Die Unterwerfung
4. Kuess mir die Fuesse
5. Algolagnia
6. Herrin der Schwerter
7. Das Peitschengedicht
8. Venus In Furs (Cover Version)
Weibermacht is set for release on April 19th via Century Media Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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