Schammasch announce new album 'The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean' and share first single

Swiss avant-garde experimentalist band Schammasch have announced their sixth album, The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean, and shared the first single, "They Have Found Their Master". The album with be available October 25th via Prosthetic Records. 

Pre-order The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean here.

The band shared the following about the new album and single:

What began as a devious & arty experiment with 2017's "The Maladoror Chants: Hermaphrodite", is being perpetuated and steered into new strange lands with "Old Ocean" - an attempt to capture that delicate spirit of the ultimate creativity inherent in Lautréamont's 19th century writings "Les Chants de Maldoror", to translate & reshape that very spirit onto the aural spheres.

But make no mistake; "Old Ocean" is not musically bound to its predecessor any more than it is to any other Schammasch record. Instead it conjures its very own cosmos, as they all strive to do. And this time that is, above all, an oceanic one. A cosmos of solitude & longing, of melancholy & dark romanticism, of abstraction & escape - characteristics that we hope will offer you a haven of tranquility in these most boisterous of times in which we live.

We now invite you to dive head-on into the deep, dark waters of "They Have Found Their Master", the album's first single output premiering now on streaming platforms along with my very own visual adaption, offering a significant dose of insight to the creative direction this new chapter is headed for. Enjoy.

Pre-order The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean here.

The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean track list:

1. Crystal Waves
2. A Somber Mystery
3. Your Waters Are Bitter
4. They Have Found Their Master
5. Image of the Infinite
6. I Hail You, Old Ocean