MANES - New Album Title, Artwork, Release Date Confirmed
February 12, 2007, 17 years ago
Norwegian experimentalists MANES' new album, How The World Came To An End, is set for release via Candlelight Records on April 16th. The artwork for the album (click left to view larger photo) is done by Trine Paulsen and Kim Sølve of Trineogkim.no, who may be better known for their earlier work for bands like ULVER, WHEN, ARCTURUS, DARKTHRONE, SOLEFALD and many more.
The tracklisting for How The World Came To An End will be like this: 'Deeprooted', 'Come To Pass', 'I Watch You Fall', 'A Cancer In Our Midst (Plague One)', 'Last Lights', 'Nobody Wants The Truth', 'My Journal Of The Plague Years (Fuckmensch Warmensch)', 'The Cure-All', 'Transmigrant', 'Son Of Night Brother Of Sleep'.
"As we've mentioned earlier, the path leading up to this finished album has been a very conceptual process for us" comments bassist Torstein."It's been us creating our path as we've gone, never really being able to see clearly the end of it, or when the end would come. It's not like it's miles away from our last album Vilosophe; it's still dark and down, and it's still got elements of rock, metal and electronica in different measures throughout, but it's very different in many ways as well. We've collaborated with a lot of talented people on this album, each of them with important creative input forming the outcome of this weird process. We're a total of 16 people on this album, and apart from Cern, Eivind and me, they are Asgeir Hatlen, Tor Arne Helgesen, Flegmatical, Trine Kolmannskog, WT, Spaz, P. Emerson Williams, Stein E. Bratland, Emily A. Saaen, Emil Sporsheim, CorneliusJakhelln, Rachmiel and Rune Sørgård."
Torstein continues "The only little teaser we've shared from the album yet, is the song 'Deeprooted' that has been available a while now on the Candlelight sampler enclosed with the February issue of Metalhammer UK, but we'll be posting a track online in the close future for the rest of all y'all to enjoy. And finally, a major www.manes.no overhaul is initiated now too. For obvious reasons."
