Kankar - Dunkle Millennia (2021)

Germany’s newest black metal upstart Kankar are prepping for a great spiritual and constitutional conflagration with new album, Dunkle Millennia (Eisenwald). Throughout the album’s 11 songs, the duo — Stríð (vocals, guitar, bass) and Plágan (drums) — pose heavy questions to their audience. Do they comply with the status quo, in which humans shield their primal instincts using a variety of moral, religiously-contrived platitudes? Or, do humans untether their long-caged urges for a freer concept of self. Actually, that’s just touching the surface on Dunkle Millennia, a German-language based album. Diving into Kankar’s misanthropic missive will require an English-German dictionary and a lot of metaphorical understanding.