Swiss black metal crew known as Schammasch has no intention to rest after releasing the acclaimed three-disk album, Triangle, last year. They have announced that the band plans to release a series of records entitled The Maldoror Chants, which is seemingly inspired by the novel "Les Chants de Maldoror", which the band calls "one of surrealism's dire fathers and up to this day one of the biggest literary mysteries and outgrowths. Having been an inspiration to Schammasch ever since Contradiction..."

Each record will deal with an specific moment of the book. The first planned record is named Hermaphrodite, which is "a short story which appears aside the main story line in the book's first half."

Here is what the band says about the music: "From a musical point of view these records are to be seen as an artistic experiment, apparently deriving from a different place than what we've done so far. Focus lies on telling instead of singing, atmosphere instead of technique, flow instead of structure. Don't expect anything but explore everything."

June 9th will be the release date for this record. You can also check the cover artwork and teaser here.

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Band profile:	Schammasch