IMHA TARIKAT drop digital single & embark on tour

IMHA TARIKAT release digital single ‘Murderflesh‘
& kick off autumn live dates  Europe 2024

IMHA TARIKAT drop the short and bitter digital single ‘Murderflesh‘. The rising German black metal force is releasing this off-album track as an exclamation mark in advance of the autumn leg of their European tour. ‘Murderflesh’ is also a first taste of new great things to come next year, although the track will not appear on the next full-length. 

IMHA TARIKAT comment: “Our new song ‘Murderflesh’ deals with bitter and furious emotions”, mastermind Kerem Yilmaz reveals. “Desperate and hopeless for change, grasping for anything in the world to outgrow suffering, some will resort to extremes. In doing so, many lose pieces of themselves that they can never retrieve. Criminals, addicts, the corrupt, fanatics, apostates, and whoever you care to name – all committ murder on themselves, within their flesh, and to the flesh of others.”

Tracklist
1. Murderflesh

‘Murderflesh’ recording line-up
Kerem Yilmaz – vocals, all guitars
Jerome Reil – drums

Recording, production, mix & mastering
Fire Burning Productions & Joshua Steinweg at The Collective HQ, Essen (DE)

Single cover by Dennis “Iron Quasar” Dittfeld (LGHTDVRR Arts)

Tracklist “Hearts Unchained – At War with a Passionless World”
1. Intro: Deeper Within
2. Radical Righteousness
3. Touch of Mercy
4. Brute Majesty
5. Flood of Love (The Beast Trigger)
6. Interlude: Birth of Grandeur 
7. Dominator Proselytism Tactics 
8. Streams of Power – Canavar
9. Stardust Wisdom (Manifest of the Deity to the Unkeen)
10. Beast of Sovereignty                     

Vicious and vitriolic, full of raw anger and burning hatred, yet at the same time bursting with live and lingering on moments of astonishing beauty – IMHA TARIKAT‘s third album “Hearts Unchained – At War with a Passionless World” announces its inherent contradictions and struggles already in the title.

Essentially a black metal album in the crackling dry and humourless German style that renounces all bombast and often folk-ish undertones of its Nordic counterparts, IMHA TARIKAT‘s lyrical and musical mastermind Kerem Yilmaz aka Ruhsuz Cellât has once again created new layers and expanded the dimensions of his unique compositions.

While adding even more throat-torturing approaches to his physically violent singing style, the ferocious drumming and relentless churning of frost-covered guitar strings remain as the either ice cold or glowing hot foundations of IMHA TARIKAT. Then again, while his songs twist and turn through the black void, they sometimes take surprising detours into passionate moments and solos rather derived from heavy metal, hard and occult rock, and even a knife-tip of punk.    

Lyrically, IMHA TARIKAT continue to function as some kind of an encrypted diary recording Kerem Yilmaz’ personal experiences, growth, and fascinations: “I literally let myself go insane to create an absolutely authentic experience”, the singer and guitarist reveals about the recording process of “Hearts Unchained”, which not surprisingly revolves around inner conflicts, suffering, escalating emotions, but also catharsis and redemption. 

IMHA TARIKAT and its brutal black sound were created as an emotional pressure valve for its founder, Kerem Yilmaz. His burning musical passion reveals itself in the fast progression, which with his songwriting grows remarkably into all directions with every new release. While even the first EP “Kenoboros” left an excellent impression in 2017, the band audibly conquered new grounds on the following demo “Son Mistisizm” (2018) and via the 2019 debut-full length “Kara Ihlas” and the black metal supernova album “Sternenberster” (2020) to reaching a new climax with “Hearts Unchained – At War with a Passionless World”. 

IMHA TARIKAT are out to turn the world into a fiery spectacle and “Hearts Unchained – At War with a Passionless World” is the spark to ignite it all. Before all emotions become ash and cinder, let them burn! 

Release date: December 2, 2022

Style: Black Metal

Current line-up
Kerem Yilmaz – vocals, all guitars, bass, compositions, lyrics
Jerome Reil – drums (live, studio)
Marvin Giehr – guitar (live)
Ricardo Baum – bass (live)

Drums, guitars, and vocals recorded & produced by Kerem Yilmaz
Drums recorded & produced by Konstantin Kunow at Black Wolf Music Production, Köln (DE)
Mixed by Michael Zech
Mastered by Victor Santura

Album Cover and illustration by Artem Grigoryev
Sigil and additional illustration by Next Gate Art
Additional illustration by Raul CJ Peña

Links
www.facebook.com/imhatarikat
www.instagram.com/imhatarikat
www.prophecy.de/artists/imha-tarikat

Shop album
http://lnk.spkr.media/imha-tarikat-hearts-unchained

Available formats
“Hearts Unchained” is available as gatefold LP on smokey (clear with black marbling) vinyl, gatefold LP on black vinyl, and as Digipak CD.