Yes, German genre-engulfing post-whatever troupe are heading out on another round of tour dates this Fall. Killer. They’ll be out through most of October and into November, and while they don’t seem as yet to have come to the attention of the Euro festival circuit — something which I imagine their next album will correct — they’ve amassed a significant run between cities across their home country and reaching into neighboring nations.

All well and good. Great, in fact, since touring is exactly what they should be doing at this point, both to build their fanbase and refine their own processes. But I have an issue that I was wondering if you could help me with:

As you scroll down to the tour dates, you’ll notice they’re in bold. I didn’t bold them. The band did. And it’s not done in any kind of html or whathaveyou that I can strip out. I’m sure this makes me old and ignorant — both of which I’ll cop to being — but I don’t know how to make it the plain old text that I turn PR wire blue. So yeah, if you know how to do that, and you could tell me, I’d appreciate it. This isn’t the first time I’ve run into that, but I’m trying to teach my kid to ask for help when she needs it, and so am also putting that into practice for myself. I can’t even find the right phrasing to Google it, and when I ask the Bing AI, it has no clue what I’m talking about. I just don’t want it to be bold, and I want the fonts to match, and I can’t do that in WordPress, apparently.

Thanks if you can help. If not, still good for Coltaine going on tour. Here’s the info:

We’re hyped to announce our next three-week adventure through Europe:

Forgotten Ways European Tour 2023

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✠: with @allochiria.the.band
◆: with @vampyresband

This will be our first time in Poland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. During the first half of the tour, we’ll be joined by post-sludgers Allochiria from Athens, Greece. And for the second half of the tour, our long-time friends ‘Vampyres’ from Austria will join. It’s going to be a lot of fun!

We look forward to meeting each and every one of you on the road!

Coltaine:
Julia Frasch – vocals
Moritz Berg – guitar
Benedikt Berg – bass
Amin Bouzeghaia – drums

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Coltaine, “Gorit” (2023)

On Aug. 4, which is tomorrow, German post-genre rockers Coltaine will release their new digital single “Gorit.” The song runs five and a half minutes and was captured live in June along with the video premiering below, following a second round of touring the band had done alongside Russian-born dark folk singer-songwriter Kariti earlier this Winter/Spring. It has enough scope to fill a full-length. With elements of sludge, post-rock, post-metal, heavy rock, noise, black metal, psychedelia, doom and some genuinely admirable brutality from vocalist Julia Frasch after its feedback-barrage of a break, “Gorit” finds Coltaine in their element manifesting a progression all their own. Here they pummel more than soothe — and I’m not complaining about that; we all gotta take a beating sometimes — but as their most recent album, 2020’s Afterhour in Walhalla (discussed here), demonstrated, the band are capable of great aural kindnesses as well and just because they’re doing one thing in a given track, part, etc., doesn’t necessarily mean that’s also where the next song is headed.

The unpredictability, then, is part of the appeal going into “Gorit,” and Coltaine — Frasch on vocals, Moritz Berg on guitar, Benedikt Berg on bass, Amin Bouzeghaia making his first studio appearance here on drums — offer crush beyond what one might have expected anyhow. With its still-catchy chorus screamed in Russian and a trajectory that shifts from its initial post-sludge push through an ambient pullback into a mellow part made tense by the toms, slowly building through the measures of the pre-chorus before surging back with the hook itself at full volume/impact. Just before two minutes in, they swap out for a stoner rock riff — don’t tell anybody; I think it’s a secret — and Moritz takes a plotted lead over it, not flashy but effective, and the mid-paced insistence of that riff is more fervent for his return after.

You don’t know it yet, but the band are about to throw down. With his headstock on the floor first and then the drop ceiling, Moritz squeals out harsh amplified noise as Benedikt and Bouzeghaia dig into the slowdown with vital force. In the video premiering below, Frasch kneels in front of the drums and makes ready to unleash the above-noted punishment. Laced with echo enough to be cavernous, she joins the lurch and lends the crescendo the destructive presence it has earned before the final minute gives over to a noise-wash comedown, ending in feedback as the clip fades out, somehow seeming short at 5:39 when one considers the amount of ground Coltaine cover. And not just cover, but bring together, because while the band might flash an element of this or that stylistic particularity along the way, their sound is cohesive all the while, purposeful even at its most unhinged. They’ve got a new video now to (further) prove it.

And you’ll find it below, followed by some more comment from the band, recording info, upcoming shows, and so on.

Please enjoy:

Coltaine, “Gorit” live in studio premiere

Benedikt Berg on “Gorit”:

“‘Gorit’ was written by us during a very difficult time. We always played the song last on the ‘Tales of Southern Lands’ tour. However, by now, we also associate positive feelings with the song. Even though the world has still darkened, the many different people we encountered at our concerts in Europe have given us a lot of strength and hope. It is the first song we recorded with Amin Bouzeghaia, who joined Coltaine on the drums during the ‘Summer Death Anthems’ tour in September 2022.”

Spotify, Bandcamp and Youtube release date: August 4th

“Gorit” is a powerful and diverse song that explores themes of burning pain and Weltschmerz. It delves into various subjects, including closure, loss, emotional burden, adaptation to authority, remorse, and the pursuit of reconciliation. The lyrics are written in English and Russian. The live session for “Gorit” was filmed in one continuous take, capturing the raw energy of the band’s performance. The song was recorded in Coltaine’s rehearsal room in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Formed by the Berg brothers, Moe and Benedikt, in 2014, Coltaine emerged in the Black Forest of southern Germany. Channeling their emotions into a unique sound, their music blends 70’s rock, black metal, and ethereal melodies with powerful rock and metal arrangements. Fronted by the versatile singer, Jules, their atmospheric sound spans from soulful harmonies to the darkest growls. With Amin’s relentless drumming, Coltaine’s lineup promises an exciting future.

Lyrics:
This whole canon is final.
Burning into the sky.
The fallen, your child is haunting.
You can’t forget all those fights.

горит, горит
душа горит
сердце болит

(engl.: Burning, burning, the soul is burning, my heart aches)

Adjust to leaders.
Soul lost for real.
Tell my careless trait.
I’ve hurt your soul.

– “Gorit” recorded on June 30th in Karlsruhe, Germany by Coltaine.
– Audio captured by Jables.
– Mixed & Mastered by Alex Pojda at Holodeckstudio.
https://www.holodeckstudio.de
– Live session video filmed and edited by Jonas Berg.

Coltaine’s next shows:
13/08 DORTMUND Junkyard Rock with Messa
15/08 MUNICH Backstage München with Messa + Crowbar

BAND MEMBERS
Julia Frasch – vocals
Moritz Berg – guitar
Benedikt Berg – bass
Amin Bouzeghaia – drums

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