Coltaine Post Live Session Video; On Tour This Week
My current read on Coltaine is they’re a way better band than people necessarily realize. To wit, the below live session — the band in a room playing “Mogila” and “Dans un Nouveau Monde” from last year’s Forgotten Ways (review here) — seamlessly brings together post-metal, sludge, the cultistry of The Devil’s Blood and the black metal that that band always seemed to hint toward more than manifest. While they’re by no means just doing one thing on the album — the player’s at the bottom of this post — as someone who’s never had the chance to see them live (though I’ve met members in-person), the session below is both an immersive and an encouraging sampling.
As with the LP, which opens with “Mogila,” ambience is a significant part of the impression Coltaine make. The music is both soothing and crushing in its repetitions in a way that invariably touches on what Amenra do, but that later on finds its apex not at its most extreme moment, but its most melodic. In the video, the shift from “Mogila” to “Dans un Nouveau Monde” happens just before the eight-minute mark, and the latter’s outreach into open spaces is resonant from the initial build onward, an eventual comedown marked with tambourine calling to mind a chime to close the ritual the band have just undertaken.
This video came out to coincide with a tour that started yesterday. I dig it, and maybe if you’re feeling like giving something a little out there a chance it’ll hit you just right, so I’m posting it. Pretty simple math.
Production info and tour dates follow, as per the internet. Enjoy:
Coltaine, Full Performance (Monkey Moon Sessions)
We’ve just released a live session where we perform two songs from Forgotten Ways – “Mogila” and “Dans Un Nouveau Monde.”
Production: Menny Leusmann & Jens Vetter
Bock auf eine Live-Session? Dann schreibt uns an info@monkeymoonrecordings.de
Iberia Tour 2025 kicks off [March 18] in Paris-Montreuil! We’ve also added a show in Portugal on Saturday, March 22nd. We’re excited to visit many new places for the first time. See you there!
18/03 🇫🇷 PARIS – Les Nouveaux Sauvages
19/03 🇫🇷 BORDEAUX – Salem Bar
20/03 🇪🇸 LA CORUÑA – Mardigrass
21/03 🇪🇸 VIGO – Transylvania Club
22/03 🇵🇹 PAREDES DE COURA – Xapas Sessions
23/03 🇪🇸 VALLADOLID – Sala Porta Caeli
25/03 🇪🇸 MADRID – Sala Rockville
26/03 🇪🇸 SANTANDER – Rock Beer The New
27/03 🇪🇸 BILBAO – Estudios Groobe
28/03 🇪🇸 BARCELONA – Freedonia
29/03 🇪🇸 ZARAGOZA – Sala Utopia
30/03 🇫🇷 TOULOUSE – La Mécanique des Fluides
Coltaine, Forgotten Ways (2024)
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