5 years – the biggest gap between releases we’ve had in Schammasch thus far. Today we are highly pleased to end this persistent dry spell & without further ado we announce our sixth studio effort, entitled “The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean”, to be released on October 25, available for preorder now: 

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What began as a devious & arty experiment with 2017’s “The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite”, is being perpetuated and steered into new strange lands with “Old Ocean” – an attempt to capture that delicate spirit of the ultimate creativity inherent in Lautréamont’s 19th century writings “Les Chants de Maldoror” & translate & reshape that very spirit onto the aural spheres. But make no mistake; “Old Ocean” is not musically bound to its predecessor any more than it is to any other Schammasch record. Instead it conjures its very own cosmos, as they all strive to do. And this time that is, above all, an oceanic one. A cosmos of solitude & longing, of melancholy & dark romanticism, of abstraction & escape – characteristics that we hope will offer you a haven of tranquility in these most boisterous of times in which we live.

We now invite you to dive head-on into the deep, dark waters of “They Have Found Their Master“, the album’s first single output premiering now on streaming platforms along with my very own visual adaption, offering a significant dose of insight to the creative direction this new chapter is headed for. Enjoy.

-C.S.R / Schammasch

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.

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