15th Anniversary

The coming year will be a year of progress & retrospect alike.
While the second half will be fully dedicated to the release of our 6th studio effort, the first half will lead us back to our humble beginnings.
April 2024 will not only mark our 15th anniversary united under the name Schammasch, it will also be the 10th anniversary of our second album “Contradiction” – the album that was, in so many aspects, itself a beginning – a beginning of professional relationships, of lasting friendships as well as of artistic challenges & human hardships equally important to our history.
In light of this, we invite you to join us in our hometown Basel on the 6th of April, for an ample celebration of that surreal & ecstatic journey we travelled together for the then past 15 years. We will be performing an exclusive one-time set including songs from Contradiction that are likely not to be played live anymore in the foreseeable future.
Keep in mind, tickets are limited.
Joining us, our brothers in arms BØLZER, unleashing their primordial wall of aural might & our dear friends Horresque, giving you a taste of their bone-crushing blackened death metal.
This event is presented by Basilisk Deströyers, District 19, Meh Suff! & Sudhaus Basel
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/203417785658115/

“Innermost, Lowermost Abyss” Video Premiere

Innermost, Lowermost Abyss is the fourth, and fittingly, last visual extension of our latest album ‘Hearts of no Light’, translating the aural journey to the abyss of Dionysus onto the screen. Creating this piece was quite a challenge, since It meant diving into a completely new creative space, speaking from a technical point of view. Oftentimes this was a journey to points of zero in its own way, and much like the music itself, it evolved slowly, step by step. Ever since ‘The Supernal Clear Light of the Void’ I’ve thought about the idea of having an instrumental piece translated into kind of a psychedelic visual trip, but the resources necessary for doing that with a 33 minutes piece of music just wouldn’t allow it. One day last year, during a forest hike, it struck me to do exactly that for ‘Innermost, Lowermost Abyss’, so I started working on it right away. It was finished about 10 months later. While being aware that not all of our listeners enjoy our walks on the wild instrumental ethno/tribal/ambient side (not that this would ever stop us from doing anything in any way), the ones among them who do will certainly appreciate the result. To them we’d like to say a word of advice for the best potential watching experience: take a moment and a few deep breaths to empty your mind beforehand, shut yourself off from outside distractions and focus on the center of the screen for the whole duration.

Premiered via Cvlt Nation

“Ego Sum Omega” Video Premiere

Almost a year has passed, since the release of Hearts of No Light. Many things that should have followed the album’s release fell victim to the pandemic, yet we were fortunate enough having been given a very narrow time frame to be able to realize one of these things — the visual extension of ‘Ego Sum Omega’, filmed in the harsh, majestic & breathtakingly beautiful mountains of Switzerland’s Engadine, parts of it in the magical forests of Sils-Maria, chosen accordingly, in connection to the song’s thematic. Words can never do justice to this place, but do see for yourself:

Premiered via Decibel Magazine

Next EU Tour with Harakiri For The Sky & Gaerea announced

We will be back on the EU road early next year, alongside Harakiri for the sky & GAEREA.

 

28.01.2021 Hydrozagadka – Warsaw PL
29.01.2021 Nova Chmelnice – Prague CZ
30.01.2021 From Hell – Erfurt DE
31.01.2021 Chemiefabrik – Dresden DE
01.02.2021 Goldgrube – Kassel DE
02.02.2021 Live Music Hall – Mörlenbach DE
03.02.2021 Junkyard – Dortmund DE
04.02.2021 De Kreun – Kortrijk BE
05.02.2021 Willemeen – Arnhem NL
06.02.2021 Gebr de Nobel – Leiden NL
07.02.2021 Mergener Hof – Trier DE
08.02.2021 Backstage – Paris FR
09.02.2021 Le Rex – Toulouse FR
10.02.2021 Sala Boveda – Barcelona ES
11.02.2021 Les Caves Du Manoir – Martigny CH
12.02.2021 Hall of Fame – Wetzikon CH
13.02.2021 Airport Eventhalle – Regensburg DE
14.02.2021 Rockhouse – Salzburg AT

“Hearts Of No Light” Released

Today is the official release day of our fourth full length album “Hearts Of No Light”.

Full album stream over Youtube:

Spotify