For those who want more than just music.
With “Vota Tenebris I” SAMSAS TRAUM unveil a new, darker, uncompromising and intense chapter. This limited Collectors Set combines the new album in a high-quality digipak edition with a truly iconic unisex shirt that brings the soul of the album to your skin.
FRONT: The grimacing face
BACK: Slogan “Ich bin das Messer!“ (engl. “I am the knife!”) accompanied by the band’s striking logo
PRINT: White and red on a black T-shirt
T-SHIRT:
- Main: Single Jersey
- 100% Cotton - Organic Ring Spun Combed
- Fabric washed
- 180 g/m2
- Color ‘black’
- Medium fit
With ‘Vota Tenebris I’, the fourteenth studio album by SAMSAS TRAUM, Alexander Kaschte asserts his vision without compro mise. Stripped of exhausted scene conventions, the album summons the forsaken ideals of subcultural 1980s: aesthetic rigor, intellectual substance, self-interrogation, and existential weight. Its sound world-both familiar and renewed-stands as a cultural beacon in an age of erosion.
‘Vota Tenebris I’ reveals itself as a harrowing total work: symphonic excess collapses into bitter irony, only to be torn open by brutal Lovecraftian metal narrations. Each piece cuts deep, demanding surrender rather than passive listening-an intensity pursued with such resolve by SAMSAS TRAUM alone.
Written and produced by Kaschte himself, mixed by Scott Atkins (CRADLE OF FILTH) and mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Alex Wharton (BRING ME THE HORIZON, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE), ‘Vota Tenebris I’ emerges as an unyielding milestone-bearing witness to a time when subculture carried conviction, and to the possibility that it may yet do so again.
