[promo] Mantra - "Celestial: Spring" (Vlad Productions)
Artist: Mantra
Release Title: Celestial: Spring
Label: Vlad Productions
Release Date: March 20, 2025
Format: Digital
Genre: Progressive Metal, Avant-Garde
Country: France
For the spring equinox, Mantra unveil Celestial: Spring, the third chapter in their ongoing seasonal journey, set for release on March 20, 2025, via Vlad Productions. As the cycle continues, the band moves further from the intensity of Winter, embracing a different kind of energy that reflects renewal, introspection, and transformation.
A single 16-minute track, a piano, an oud, some shamanic percussion, and a mysterious choir. This home that Mantra is erecting has nothing in common with the world in which Celestial began six months ago. After the progressive metal onslaught of Winter, released at the December solstice, the time has now come for a form of serenity, both a return to their roots and an exploration. The band is returning to the themes that are dear to them: the return to the soil, frugality, and spirituality.
This shift is also reflected in the music. Home introduces a soundscape built on piano, oud, shamanic percussion, and choral elements, reshaping the world Celestial has been constructing since last September. It carries a sense of return, a connection to the soil and the essential, both musically and thematically. "This is a song about attempting to create a different world," explains Pierre Junod. "It's about trying to live together more harmoniously and not making the same mistakes we made in the past. It's a bit like being given a second chance."
The band embraced new instruments to challenge themselves creatively, letting them guide the composition in unexpected directions. "We wanted to explore new instruments and let them take us down unknown paths," says Simon Saint-Georges. "It was about rediscovering the core of Mantra’s music through different textures, taking themes from the previous seasons and reshaping them on piano and oud."
Celestial: Spring also features guest musicians, with Niqolah Seeva on oud and Juliette and Matthis Lemonnier adding choral vocals, enhancing the immersive quality of the piece.
Following Celestial: Fall and Celestial: Winter, this latest chapter deepens Mantra’s conceptual vision, balancing freshness and gravity, serenity and tension. The seasonal cycle will reach its conclusion with Celestial: Summer in June, bringing the full vision to life.
Line-up:
- Pierre Junod – Vocals
- Simon Saint-Georges – Guitar
- Arthur Lauth – Bass, Sound Engineer
- Gabriel Junod – Drums
FFO King Crimson, Tool, The Ocean, Leprous
Recorded and mixed by Arthur Lauth @ Brown Bear Recording. Master by Ronan Cloarec @ Incisive
Links:
https://linktr.ee/mantrafr
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