Release Date: December 27th 2024. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: DD/Vinyl
I - Track Listing:
1.Am Anfang der Schmerz 03:25
2.Ich sehe keine Tannen mehr 11:32
3.N(osferatu)3 06:30
4.Scheise was is pasirt 07:03
5.Erst die Schlacht dann das Sterben 07:33
6.Kaventsmann 07:37
7.Auf dem Gipfel ein Sturm 06:45
8.Bergschwer 07:25
Members
Vocals: Tobias Ralf Robert Hüttmeyer
Guitars: Adrian Lorenzo Waldemar Seifert
Bass: Salvatore Giallo
Drums: Lanthir Lörp Saibøt
Review
Funeral Doom/Sludge Metallers KAPUTTH new album “I” is quite a dark, brooding and at times a very slow-to-mid moving style of bleak obsessed metal. KAPUTTH are well observant with their Funeral Metal roots with the album having a long drawn out “LOW & SLOW” and “DOWN TUNED” approach with their instrumental passages. The record is quite experimental and progressive with the band changing their whole creative direction just to play a brief moody musical interlude before returning to the more violent style of Blackened Doom and sometimes violent harsh growls that originate from Tobias Ralf Robert Hüttmeyer vocal style.
There is a sense of Appalachian Doom appearing within the music where the band proclaim themselves as German Funeral Mountain Doom Wizards. You can hear echoes of Black Sabbath and Electric Wizard within KAPUTTH’s music but given a Blackened Doom/Sludge Metal makeover with a nightmarish quality appearing at times. “I” can be quite abstract with how KAPUTTH deliver their music and the way Tobias Ralf Robert Hüttmeyer delivers his excellent screams, growls and clean vocals along the way.
I can’t comment on the lyrics or the creative storyline for the album as everything is sung in German and I haven’t studied German in over thirty years when I was back in high school. Though, the band absolutely kills it with their highly atmospheric blend of Prog Metal, Doom, Sludge, Thrash, Psych, Post-Rock and Black Metal which brings a sense of dread to the already gloomy winter months.
The instrumental sounds are quite eclectic and highly obsessive at times but KAPUTTH work best when they think outside of the box especially on tracks such as Ich sehe keine Tannen mehr, N(osferatu)3, Kaventsmann and Bergschwer. Sometimes the tracks can be very drawn out at times but KAPUTTH manage to find a way to sweeten the mood with a Classic Hard Rock or Proto-Doom based grooves that come out of nowhere to give this album quite a contemporary and classic feeling.
Overall, “I” is a spellbinding, superbly weird and quite gloomy experience with KAPUTTH creating something grand and ambitious with the standard FUNERAL DOOM METAL sound. Give this one a spin and you’ll be majorly surprised by what you hear.
Excellent and Highly Recommended.
Words by Steve Howe
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