The more mysterious a band is the more you want to know about them. Germany’s TODESKULT has me mind boggled. Apathy is their third release from this five man band. Not much information is known about them unless you are fluent in the German language. Now we shall journey into the depths of depressive black metal that TODESKULT seems to produce so well.

From the very beginning of the first song, Where Discomfort Is Lurking, I can tell this is going to be heavy. I don’t mean heavy as in a traditional sense of heavy metal, but I mean heavy as in the emotions of the music. TODESKULT’s take on black metal is as grim and distant as a misanthrope can get. The vocals are quite abrasive. They are screamed in a rather distinctive high pitched voice. Very reminiscent of Silencer! If that says anything to you. Even though the lyrics are all in German, you can not mistake the painfully tortured screams that seem to communicate universal agony. As far as the music goes I here quite a bit of Silencer influence in TODESKULT’s music. Guitars are solemnly played slowly; don’t look for anything fast here, including drum beats. Aside from that, the songs are incredibly long, and when you think it is ending, it just changes from one oppressive form and continues into an even darker place. Sometimes though, the song keeps dwindling on and you wonder how much more melancholic it can get. The songs seem to fade into one another after awhile and it gets hard to tell where one ends and one begins, literally. TODESKULT seems to be the type of Black Metal band that isn’t afraid to take risks with their music. Apathy soars to new heights of depression and takes you down to a bottomless black abyss.