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Marthe - Further in Evil

14/04/25 13:38 Filed in: Music

This is a starter posting for me. I've already listened to the band I'm writing about several months ago. But I would like to have something I feel familiar with. Just to help me find a starting point.

The first time I heard about the Italian Deathmetal Band “Marthe” was at a discussion in a Metal-Magazine. They discussed the new album “Further in Evil” and how bad it was rated by some other magazines. One of the participants was not OK with that and gave a different view on the music.That made me curious about the band and their music. When I started to search for Marthe, I found that there is a different musician with the same name. But the music could not be more different. I was slightly irritated at first. But I found some texts about the head of the band. She is more or less a one-woman show. I was very excited about what I read and found the album on Bandcamp. I started listening right away and was thrilled. The music was rough and so was her singing. From the very first moment, I loved it.

In terms of music and art, it is a very straight album. No left or right, just full throttled Deathmetal. And what makes me love it was the anger in her voice. One can simply feel all the rage she puts in every word she cries out.

In that case, I can say, that's all about. I can feel what this album means to her. I think, sometimes you cannot expect more and usually, you do not need more. It is some kind of understanding between musician and listener. Like “The watcher and the tower” by Mike Oldfield, if this comparison is understandable for you (because sometimes things happen in my brain that outside of it no one else can understand).

Later I found another record of her. That was because the linking on Bandcamp is a bit tricky. There are two different pages for the same musician. The other record is “Sisters of Darkness”. It is older than “Further in Evil”. But there is more that makes me wondering. There is a page on Bandcamp linked to “martheband” on which you find the oldest and the newest record “The Vision & Holding the eternal Grudge”, but not the in-between one “Further in Evil”. This is just to let you know that my links will point to different pages on Bandcamp. For me, it looks like that the artist has changed the naming on Bandcamp and therefore Bandcamp has generated different pages.