‘The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean’ Preorder Start & Single Premiere

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