Extraordinary and independent are the first two words that came into my mind about this really special work - and this is meant in a positive way of course. I have heard a lot of good reports about KLABAUTAMANN, and now, holding Der Ort in my own hands, I can just agree with the rumours - here we deal with a total special band. A band that makes me think about why categorisations like Black Metal have to be made, because this badge can`t not even rudimentally describe, what KLABAUTAMANN play. Well, the prevailling mood and atmosphere remind me of Black Metal, but it`s puttered with genre-unusual styleelements, so that I can`t really approve this badge. The band creates an enormous varity of emotions: while some songs piecewise bristle with power and energy, they are fragile und deliberate on the other parts, one finds oneself in a chaos of emotions, that lasts during the whole playingtime of nearly 50 minutes. While at the beginning they play it hard and cracking the tempo noteable tempers with Red Urn and October, the last song displays the complete change in style, including female vocals in the vein of Liv Christin. Each song bristles with imagination and variability - to live this album completely you need to invest more then a few sweeps and a lot of attention - for people who don`t want to spend a little bit of time on an album, The Ort isn`t compatible. I would like to thank the band for showing me, that it`s still reasonable to search after pearls in the big metalworld, because they do exist.