Today, AOP Records announces April 18th as the international release date for Karg's highly anticipated ninth album, Marodeur.
Karg was founded back in the summer of 2006 as a one-man project. Between 2010 and 2014, Karg was fully formed as a band to play gigs, formally in Germany, Austria, and Central Europe. In the years up until 2018, Karg was, like in its beginning, held as a one-man project and released two more albums. With the release of their sixth studio album, Dornenvögel, Karg did celebrate its rebirth as a live band for a few special dates in 2018 and 2019. They did their first real tour supporting their seventh album, Traktat, in February 2020. Since then, and during the years of the pandemic, Karg recorded the EP Resilienz and the albums Resignation and Marodeur, the first album written as a collective.
The musical style of Karg is still a furious, hysteric mixture of atmospheric black metal and a huge load of post-punk, with significant influences also from grunge, shoegaze, and post-punk. In recent years, the influences from other genres outside of black metal evolved more and more, but they were there, in abridged form, since day one. Lyrically and texturally, Karg was always focused on the more melancholic side of life, such as broken relationships, lost love, estrangement, drug abuse, loss, or suicide thoughts and depression. In contrast to many other bands within the wider "atmospheric black metal" umbrella, Karg's lyrics are equally as important as the music and are written in the dialect written near the Tennen Mountains, where frontman Michael J.J. Kogler grew up.
To celebrate the release of Marodeur, Karg will play a short tour through Europe together with labelmates Harakiri for The Sky and Swiss trio E-L-R. More dates will follow.
In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Findling" HERE at AOP Records' official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Karg's Marodeur
1. Schnee ist das Blut der Geister
2. Findling
3. Yūgen
4. Verbrannte Brücken
5. Annapurna
6. Reminiszenzen einer Jugend
7. Kimm
8. Anemoia
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