Put out on the circuit via the Essen-based Umland Records label on March 20th, 2k25 is "Memorial 6.0", the latest full length vinyl album effort by The Dorf-member and accomplished solo artist Oona Kastner who teams up with Hartmut Kracht and Marvin Blamberg for the realization of this longplayer. Split into a total of eight parts, four on each side of the vinyl record, we see Kastner opening from an angle of tense and brooding ethereal DoomAmbient accompanied by her mystically floating vocals before progressing into dark and heavy Doom x SludgeMetal territories for onerous, post-apocalyptic days under dark leaden skies, bringing on heavy riffs, slowly creeping drums and droning electronic atmospheres as a backdrop for an intense vocal performance meandering between full on singing and an amalgamation of ritualistic speech and song resonating with one's shared human subconscious mind whilst especially "Part 3" evokes memories of certainly funky Metal x SkateMetal x Crossover sounds more prevalent in the early 90s, "Part 5" reveals a more classic, ballad'esque and TripHop x Jazz x NuJazz informed side of the trios sonic approach, "Part 6" weighs in (Post)Punk-infused Spoken Word rage alongside most brutal snare drums and an overall appetite for violence, despair and destruction before further progressing into fully sludged out territories whilst the militaristic stakkato drum precision of "Part 7" evokes faint memories of epic cuts like Portishead's uber-classic "Machine Gun" just to name a few. Quite a diverse and surprising album, this. Only for the headstrong.
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