Klangstabil - Chronik
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I listen to a lot of new music. Some of it is great, technically — yet it leaves me untouched. Some is entirely forgettable the second it stops playing. Some aspires, some repeats, some follows patterns so closely it disappears into them. But music that is truly good, deeply good — music that stays with me, shapes something inside me, shifts my sensibility — that’s rare. And when it happens, it’s sacred.
Klangstabil is not a new name, but their music hit me as if I had never heard anything like it before. From the very first listen, it carved a mark into my emotional memory, into my taste, and into something far more vulnerable: a space I hadn’t known was waiting to be filled. This wasn’t just sound. It was a mirror to unnamed emotions — a sonic answer to a question I didn’t yet know how to ask.
Chronik is not just a collection. It is a distillation of Klangstabil’s essence — the edge they reach in every piece, in every cracked word, every perfectly imperfect beat. It’s a reminder of the sheer intensity of what sound can hold when it stops pretending and simply tells the truth.There’s something brutally honest in these distorted lyrics — not performative, not stylized, but raw. There's pain, yes, but not a hysterical gesture toward pain. It is honest pain. Real. And in that honesty lies connection. Boris May’s voice — rough, trembling, on the edge of collapse — doesn’t ask to be admired. It hits. It moves. It pulls. It reaches into the places we hide and drags the feeling to the surface. Maurizio Blanco and Boris May don’t perform often, and maybe that’s why when they do, it feels so essential. Chronik is not about nostalgia. It’s about truth. It’s a masterclass in sonic vulnerability — and that is a quality no machine can replicate.
This album doesn’t just echo. It stays.
Tracklist:
math & emotion (the square root of one)
you may start
pay with friendship (disco remix by sonic area)
gloomy day (album version)
end of us
vertraut
schattentanz
push yourself
twisted words
kill all lifeforms
lauf, lauf!
Label: Ant-Zen / MHz-CD13
Release Date: 22.04.2025
https://ant-zen.bandcamp.com/album/chronik
Upcoming Tour Dates:
26.04.2025 – Rockfabrik, Augsburg
06.–09.06.2025 – Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Leipzig
20.07.2025 – Amphi Festival, Köln
06.09.2025 – M.A.U. Club, Rostock
20.–21.09.2025 – Death Disco Athens Festival, Athen
18.10.2025 – Der Cult, Nürnberg
25.10.2025 – Takt Bizarre Festival, Reutlingen
15.11.2025 – Creatures of the Night, Halle (Saale)
16.11.2025 – European Dark Dance Treffen, Mannheim
10.01.2026 – Schachtfrequenz Festival, Zwickau
14.02.2026 – Katzenclub Festival, München
28.02.2026 – Subkultur, Hannover
21.03.2026 – Urban Spree, Berlin
Klangstabil is not a new name, but their music hit me as if I had never heard anything like it before. From the very first listen, it carved a mark into my emotional memory, into my taste, and into something far more vulnerable: a space I hadn’t known was waiting to be filled. This wasn’t just sound. It was a mirror to unnamed emotions — a sonic answer to a question I didn’t yet know how to ask.
Chronik is not just a collection. It is a distillation of Klangstabil’s essence — the edge they reach in every piece, in every cracked word, every perfectly imperfect beat. It’s a reminder of the sheer intensity of what sound can hold when it stops pretending and simply tells the truth.There’s something brutally honest in these distorted lyrics — not performative, not stylized, but raw. There's pain, yes, but not a hysterical gesture toward pain. It is honest pain. Real. And in that honesty lies connection. Boris May’s voice — rough, trembling, on the edge of collapse — doesn’t ask to be admired. It hits. It moves. It pulls. It reaches into the places we hide and drags the feeling to the surface. Maurizio Blanco and Boris May don’t perform often, and maybe that’s why when they do, it feels so essential. Chronik is not about nostalgia. It’s about truth. It’s a masterclass in sonic vulnerability — and that is a quality no machine can replicate.
This album doesn’t just echo. It stays.
Tracklist:
math & emotion (the square root of one)
you may start
pay with friendship (disco remix by sonic area)
gloomy day (album version)
end of us
vertraut
schattentanz
push yourself
twisted words
kill all lifeforms
lauf, lauf!
Label: Ant-Zen / MHz-CD13
Release Date: 22.04.2025
https://ant-zen.bandcamp.com/album/chronik
Upcoming Tour Dates:
26.04.2025 – Rockfabrik, Augsburg
06.–09.06.2025 – Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Leipzig
20.07.2025 – Amphi Festival, Köln
06.09.2025 – M.A.U. Club, Rostock
20.–21.09.2025 – Death Disco Athens Festival, Athen
18.10.2025 – Der Cult, Nürnberg
25.10.2025 – Takt Bizarre Festival, Reutlingen
15.11.2025 – Creatures of the Night, Halle (Saale)
16.11.2025 – European Dark Dance Treffen, Mannheim
10.01.2026 – Schachtfrequenz Festival, Zwickau
14.02.2026 – Katzenclub Festival, München
28.02.2026 – Subkultur, Hannover
21.03.2026 – Urban Spree, Berlin
