PERCHTA drop new lyric video ‘Ois wås ma san’
taken from the forthcoming new album “D’Muata”
Folk black metal fast-risers PERCHTA drop the new lyric video ‘Ois wås ma san’ (“Everything that We Are”) as the third single taken from the Tyroleans‘ forthcoming sophomore album “D’Muata” (“The Mother”), which has been chalked up for release on June 14, 2024.
PERCHTA comment: “Our mothers and grandmothers fought for more equality and freedom”, frontwoman Frau Percht states. “The anger of several generations about violence, oppression and stigmatization is boiling in our veins. We expect and we experience the transformation to a more harmonious, empathetic world for all genders.”
Video credits
Video by Nanna Cartis (Cartismandua)
Concept by Frau Percht and Cartismandua
Tracklist
1. Vom Verlånga
2. Ois wås ma san
3. Heiliges Bluat
4. Hebamm
5. D’Muata
6. Wehenkanon
7. Ausbruch
8. Långtuttin & Stampa
9. Mei Dianä Mei Bua
The image of a solitary woman living in a remote Alpine mountain place literally at the edge of civilisation evokes strong connotations of which ‘witch’ is probably one of the first. An independent woman confident and free in her actions, sexuality, and self-determination still goes against the collective expectations of our society.
With PERCHTA‘s sophomore full-length entitled “D’Muata”, which translates from her Alpine Austrian dialect to English as “The Mother”, mastermind and vocalist Frau Percht and her band have created a feminist manifesto within a folklore influenced black metal context. Femininity in all its facets is a rather niche topic in this genre although it is an inseparable part of everything human and the natural world around us.
All members of PERCHTA work in one way or the other with natural materials, while being shaped by the majestic mountain landscape surrounding them and even experiencing the essence of life first hand working as a midwife. “D’Muata” places the focus on procreation, birth, the nourishing of life, and motherhood without reducing women to this aspect. Such themes as female sexuality, menstruation stigma, the loss of a child, violence against women, and even femicide are also explored – and also personified as in the dark ancient Alpine folklore figures described in the track ‘Langtuttin & Stampa’.
Taking their name from an alleged pagan goddess that older scholars tried to reconstruct as being worshipped in the Upper German and Austrian Alpine regions, PERCHTA were conceived in Tyrol, Austria in 2017 with an aim to preserve and rejuvenate regional traditions.
Three years later, PERCHTA released their debut album “Ufång” (2020), which established the band’s reputation as a highly individualistic and unique act. All lyrics of the entire album are intoned in the Tyrolean vernacular. The words are shrouded in a tempest of tremolo guitars and ritualistic folk with bone-piercing extreme vocals on top.
Once touring activities resumed after the global break, PERCHTA also began to earn attention for their outstanding live performances, which strengthened the bonds within the band. Now the black witch of the Tyrolean mountains and her pack return with a magical new album that PERCHTA will also bring to the stage!
Release date: June 14, 2024
Style: Folk Black Metal
Label: Prophecy Productions
Line-upFrau Percht – harsh & clean vocals, Teufelsgeige, percussions
Walscher Fabio D’Amore – bass, keys & programming
Loda Chris Knoll – electric lead & acoustic guitars
Moosmandl Christian Höll – dulcimer (Hackbrett)
Gsell Lukas Massinger – electric rhythm & acoustic guitars
Håscht Simon Schnückel – drums
Guest musicians
Morean (ALKALOID, ex-DARK FORTRESS) – vocals on ‘D’Muata’
Dr. Ranklstein (ARG!) – Percussion on ‘Wehenkanon’
Theresa Wopfner – tenor hammered dulcimer & zither
Claudia Ciresa, Katja Reisenbauer, Felix, Maria, Laurenz & Darius – choir
Guitar arrangement by Loda and Gsell
Rhythm& lead guitar recordings & editing at Loda’s home studio
Production, recording & editing
Fabio D’Amore at Synonym of Sound, Silz (AT)
Mixing
Staffan Karlsson at The Sweetspot, Halmstad (SE)
Fabio D’Amore at Synonym of Sound, Silz (AT)
Mastering
Mika Jussila at Finnvox Studios, Helsinki (FI)
Cover artwork by Lisa Schubert (Vinsterwan)
Graphical design by Janus Net-Works
Link
www.facebook.com/perchta.band
www.instagram.com/perchta.band
Available formats
“D’Muata” is available as a 72-page hardcover CD artbook with bonus DVD, as ltd. smoke clear & black marbled vinyl LP, as black vinyl LP, and as Digisleeve CD.
Shop
http://lnk.spkr.media/perchta-dmuata
Live
01 JUN 2024 Burg Piberstein (AT) Teifljågd Open Air
02 AUG 2024 Münster (DE) Zappenduster
6-7 SEP 2024 Balver Höhle (DE) Prophecy Fest
28 SEP 2024 Heidelberg (DE) 20 Years NEM
29 NOV 2024 Salzburg (AT) Dome of Rock
30 NOV 2024 Innsbruck (AT) PMK Aftertour Show
