KAPUTTH - Brocken (EP Review)

Release Date: March 27th 2026. Record Label: Fucking Kill Records. Formats: DD/Vinyl.

Brocken - Tracklisting

Brocken

Members

Vocals - Tobias Ralf Robert Hüttmeyer

Guitars - Adrian Lorenzo Waldemar Seifert

Bass - Salvatore Giallo

Drums - Lanthir Lörp Saibøt

Review

Funeral Doom/Sludge Metallers KAPUTTH return with their latest EP entitled Brocken. This is a singular seventeen minutes track which continues the great work they captured with their epic 2024 debut album “i”. This is a very slow-paced track which oozes ICE-COLD atmospherics which delves into areas of Psych, Prog and Post-Metal techniques. There is a certain fantastical storytelling element to this record which comes across the cinematic style of music that KAPUTTH incorporates into the overall theme of Brocken. 

The vocals from Tobias Ralf Robert Hüttmeyer are from the extreme metal world with his brutal style of harsh growls and non-descriptive grunts. I would say I understood about fifty percent what he was singing within this EP and that’s a good thing. As this gives an air of mystery of what’s being said or I could be showing my advanced age now. Though, the music itself is stunning that delicately balances Post-Rock melodies and aggressive Sludge Metal surroundings. There’s some classic instrumental solos being played along the way which reminds of certain film scores and video game soundtracks. You’ll know when you hear it.

However, for the most part, KAPUTTH move themselves to this glacial cinematic sound that transforms into a highly meditative style of Post-Black Metal with the emphasis on slowly played melodies and levels of progressive depth from beginning to end. Despite the slow paced nature of it all, KAPUTTH are superbly heavy and create their own great style of music that makes you feel this track was on slightly longer. 

The ambient textures and sullen sludgy guitars have quite an organic and personal sound which the band have called “FUNERAL MOUNTAIN DOOM” and that’s a great description. There’s an old school flavour to the band’s creative vision and whilst it may be quite different it’s also absolutely daring in its own right.

Brocken is part of a split 10 inch vinyl release with another singular superb EP from Experimental Sludge Metallers KOLLEKTIV RAUMORDNUNG called "Selbstbefriedigung in the Temple Plains”. That record is vastly different to Brocken but is also worth checking out.

However, this is my review for Brocken and KAPUTTH have delivered the goods with this outstanding and highly charismatic release.

Excellent and Highly Recommended.

Words by Steve Howe

KOLLEKTIV RAUMORDNUNG / KAPUTTH - "Selbstbefriedigung in the Temple Plains / Brocken" is available to buy now on DD/Vinyl via Fucking Kill Records.

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KAPUTTH - I (Album Review)

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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