Album Review: Winselmutter – Schattentodn in Leibenswelt for #FutureRelics
Band: Winselmutter
Title: Schattentodn in Leibenswelt
Label: Fuckin Kill Records
Release date: 15/05/2025
Country: Germany
Format reviewed: LP Vinyl
Album Review: Winselmutter – Schattentodn in Leibenswelt for #FutureRelics via Fuckin Kill Records by Consanguineus
The name Winselmutter — the “Wailing Mother” of German folklore — carries an omen in itself. Her cry was said to herald ruin, a sign that death walked near. Few names could so perfectly capture the spirit of this band: a sound drenched in darkness, foreboding, and raw energy that suffocates like a heavy fog.
Formed in 2024, Winselmutter wasted no time in making their presence felt. That same year they released their Rehearsal Demo, recorded the old way: straight to tape in the rehearsal room, raw and stripped of all polish. A document of pure urgency — no gloss, no compromise. The underground took notice quickly. Germany’s Fuckin Kill Records pressed the first album to vinyl, and the initial run vanished almost immediately. A second pressing soon followed, proof that Winselmutter had already struck a nerve beyond the local scene.
Not long after, Sapivon — a young but sharp-eyed label — stepped in for the cassette release. A fitting choice, bringing the music back to the tape tradition from which it was born, now carried into wider hands.
Musically, Winselmutter channel the spirit of Old School Black Metal with an intensity that feels both timeless and immediate. Their sound shifts like a storm: cavernous doom passages collapse into relentless blast beats, jagged dissonance cuts against chilling tremolo riffs. It is violent and chaotic, yet strangely coherent — a destructive force that holds itself together through sheer conviction. The raw, unrefined production is not a weakness but a weapon, heightening the danger, leaving the music sharp and alive.
At the center stands their frontwoman, the Eternal Chaos Witch ov Blackened Ritval Nights. Her voice is a force in itself — shrieking, wailing, breaking open with hysteria and despair, yet always pierced by a raw humanity that makes every note cut deeper. Sometimes her delivery edges into punk-like intensity: screams spat with such immediacy they feel as if they bypass the microphone and tear straight into your skull. It’s not just performance — it’s possession.
The result is an album that doesn’t imitate the ‘90s but inhabits their spirit — not nostalgia, but continuation. The cold, black flame burns through every track, leaving scars, but also a strange exhilaration. Listening to Winselmutter feels like emerging from a night spent buried in ash and ruin — battered, but somehow renewed.
This is a band uninterested in trends, frills, or compromise. What they offer is pure Black Metal urgency, the sound of a group hungry to carve its place and unwilling to wait for permission. They have already proved their intent on record. On stage, one can only imagine the devastation that awaits.
A name to remember, and a band that is only just beginning its ritual. 9/10
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