Phantom Winter releases clip for new song “The Unbeholden”

Phantom Winter, who were originally founded in 2014 as a side project of the unique instrumental band Omega Massif, are throwing a nasty and massive dark chunk at our ears: black and post metal mix with sludge, ambient and post-punk at a high level. Basically melancholic and epic, backed by machine-like staccato drumming, dark, cold and angry.

You have to take your time for the 6 slow, grinding songs, the excellent songwriting unfolds layer by layer into a nightmare scenario that seems to be constantly lurking, aggressively crouched and in the shadows. The contrast between gentle, melodic E-Bow leads and clear vocals or even spoken vocals on the one hand and precise, pressing riffing, speech samples and beastly growls on the other only increases the discomfort when listening. Overall, you can clearly see how much effort has been put into the songs, there are a lot of details to discover on their music.

The band recently released his new single The Unbeholden which you can listen to below:

Phantom Winter will release his new album Her Cold Materials on October, 27th via This Charming Man Records. In terms of content, the record is based on the novel cycle His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, which further reinforces the impression of a soundtrack through the use of spoken texts or samples (partly English, partly German).