From Veil of Sound:
"Eyes in your feet, watch where you step is the word...sudden transversals, unanticipated steps, and blindfalls render pretty much any apparel, whether gravity boots or seven-leaguers, causeless. Your natal dancing shoes will just have to do. Nothing captures this signature surrealism so immediately as the aptly titled “Deadly Stairs,” the shortest track but also the most transparent. Naked skins and gut in all their audible resplendence, it’s a puzzle of interlocking riffs and surprise suspensions in timing. “The ”Mellow Dies” doubles down on the doom, but dig the freer interludes where you’ll hear Neidorf’s surgically incisive cymbal work sparkling over inventive pulled punches on the kit. Yet, for all the pretzel logic, Mellowdeath is always in the pocket. Reliable groove is for cowgrrls on “Dead Western”. Its vocalese spook, gallops around the corral, and do-si-dos are guaranteed to get you up on your haunches. While “Dances with Death” introduces a little macabre psychedelia by way of integrated guitar atmospherics and skronk."
upcoming shows:
11. December @ Trixxxxter, Berlin
past shows:
30.09.17 @ Wagenburg Lohmühle, Berlin
27.04.18 @ Maxim, Berlin
28.04.18 @ Bei Ruth, Berlin
25.04.18 w/ Choral Hearse @ Phonoclub, Berlin
26.05.18 w/ Choral Hearse @ Koma F / Køpi, Berlin
16.06.18 @ Wagabanda, Bielefeld
24.08.18 w/ Earth Tongue @ Art Geyger, Berlin
25.08.18 w/ Earth Tongue, @ Karlhelga, Leipzig
17.01.19 w/ Choral Hearse @ Potemkin Bar, Bielefeld
18.01.19 w/ Choral Hearse @ AZ Ottersberg
19.01.19 w/ Choral Hearse @ BDP Haus, Bremen
14.02.19 w/ Alastor @ TIEF, Berlin
09.03.19 w/ 24/7 Diva Heaven @ Zum faulen August, Cottbus
20.04.19 w/ Atom Womb @ Gänge 4, Hamburg
21.04.19 w/ Atom Womb @ Art Geyger, Berlin
11.05.19 @ Krumm und Schief Festival, Potsdam
07.06.19 w/ Weedshitter @ private location, Leipzig
09.06.19 w/ Atom Womb and Lupus @ Venster 99, Vienna
31.01.2020 @ TIEF, 5th Anniversary show, Berlin
11.07.2020 @ Stoned from the Underground, Erfurt (abgesagt)
30.08.2020 @ Zukunftsvisionen Festival, Görlitz
05.11.2021 @ Nox A Carnival, Tommyhaus, Berlin
06.11.2021 w/ The Inserts @ Køpi AGH, Berlin
30.04.2022 @ Zukunft Hausfest, Walpurgisnacht
13.05.22 @ Kultur im Bunker, Bremen
23.06.22 @ Schokoladen, Berlin
24.06.22 @ Mondfisch, Dresden
25.05.22 @ ZuSaNe, Neuendorf
13.08.22 @ Vrankrijk, Amsterdam
01.12.22 @ w/ Divide & Dissolve, Urban Spree, Berlin
02.12.22 @ Pink Noise Fest, Urban Spree, Berlin
21.01.23 @ KaKaDu, Limburg
27.01.23 @ Trixxxxter, Berlin
16.03.23 @ BLO Ateliers, Berlin
19.03.23 @ AJZ Bielefeld
17.05.23 @ Noch Besser Leben, Leipzig
18.05.23 @ TIEF, Berlin
20.05.23 @ Veränderbar, Dresden
22.06.23 @ Cross Club, Prague
25.06.23 @ Venster 99, Vienna
15.07.23 @ Umsonst & Draussen Fest, Dresden
10.11.23 @ An der Autobahn, Berlin
01.12.23 @ Trixxxxter, Berlin
09.06.24 @ Scheune, Dresden
01.11.24 @ Petrichor Fest, Leipzig
29.11.24 @ Loge, Berlin
31.05.25 @ as part of Divide By Zero, Sowieso, Berlin
Mellowdeath is an instrumental nightmare jazz duo featuring Sara Neidorf (Sarattma, Mad Kate The Tide) on drums and Isabel
Merten (No Chronicles) on bass. The duo sends the listener on a haunted hay ride through hypnotic rhythms, ghost surf, and dirges fit for a clown’s funeral. They will release their debut s/t full-length in November 2025....more
supported by 5 fans who also own “Deadly Stares [EP]”
This album is an original combination of doom, post-metal, and even jazz. It's the depiction of a complex musical landscape, ever-changing and yet completely consistent. My only complaint is that there isn't more content. madmann
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Airships on the Water return with another LP of phenomenally textured post-rock, moving from tender passages to well-earned crescendos. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 13, 2022