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artist: Stahlsarg
title: Suicide of God
year: 2023
genre: Black Metal
type: EP
label: Cult Never Dies
language: English
rel. date: 2023-03-01
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:19:38
size: 45.0 MiB / 3 tracks
rip date: 2026-08-19
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/t85rj38pwuqub
tracklist:
01. Suicide of God 4:52
02. Golems 6:27
03. Darkness, My Accomplice 8:20
release notes:
Stahlsarg's name translates as 'steel coffin', a grim reference to the
submarines sunk during WW2 and an apt allusion to the deeply war-inspired
lyrics of their music. The group released their debut Comrades in Death
on Mighty Music (Vulcano, Panzerchrist) in 2015, and two years later
followed this up with Mechanisms of Misanthropy, issued on Non Serviam
Records (Pantheon I, Wormwood).
Endorsed by the likes of Mayhem's Hellhammer, the band performed
alongside international black metal artists such as Sarkom and Endstille
and appeared at respected festivals including Inferno in Norway and Kings
of Black Metal in Germany. The band spent much of the late 2010s on tour,
the result being a prolonged hiatus from recording.
Now the band return with mini-album Suicide of God, their first studio
release in over half a decade. It boasts the strongest material by the
band to date, cleverly weaving slower melancholy-soaked atmospheric
passages with frantic riffing and frenzied blasting, new vocalist John
Hirst adding a highly effective Gorgoroth-esque snarl to proceedings.
Boasting a powerful and gritty Russ Russell production (Memoriam, Samael,
Vallenfyre) the songwriting is potent, with highly memorable guitar work
and slow-building tension, not least in the 8-minute epic 'Darkness, My
Accomplice'. There are nods to the likes of Marduk, early Mayhem and
Endstille as well as hints of Bolt Thrower's embittered intensity, and
haunting touches of early Christian Death, a nod perhaps to the founding
member's involvement with the band.