MANTICORA parts ways with drummer Mads Volf

[KingsGene]

MANTICORA PART WAYS WITH FOUNDING MEMBER / DRUMMER MADS VOLF

"...Copenhagen, Denmark-based metallers, Manticora, and founding member/drummer Mads Volf, have decided to part ways after two decades of musical endeavours. The departing of Volf is a decision that has been long under way, but the split is happening in orderly fashion, and Mads and the rest of the band are still the best of friends.

Mads decided he simply didn't have the spirit to carry on anymore, with a business that seems to appear as an uphill battle for the majority of bands today. Moreover, he has been playing in the Danish party/metal band Red Warszawa for the last two years, and this has evolved to being his focus, musically....

...Manticora has released seven critically acclaimed albums since 1999, and toured numerous times around Europe as well as in the US, and is currently working on their next album...."

See above link for statements from Mads and Lars F. Larsen (vocals).

 

[Lars/Intromental]

MANTICORA PART WAYS WITH FOUNDING MEMBER / DRUMMER MADS VOLF

"...Copenhagen, Denmark-based metallers, Manticora, and founding member/drummer Mads Volf, have decided to part ways after two decades of musical endeavours. The departing of Volf is a decision that has been long under way, but the split is happening in orderly fashion, and Mads and the rest of the band are still the best of friends.

Mads decided he simply didn't have the spirit to carry on anymore, with a business that seems to appear as an uphill battle for the majority of bands today. Moreover, he has been playing in the Danish party/metal band Red Warszawa for the last two years, and this has evolved to being his focus, musically....

...Manticora has released seven critically acclaimed albums since 1999, and toured numerous times around Europe as well as in the US, and is currently working on their next album...."

See above link for statements from Mads and Lars F. Larsen (vocals).

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(Excerpts from the upcoming MANTICORA release):

..…an hour later we’re standing in the fading dusk at the Western wall, digging like madmen in the gleam of a subdued flashlight. We’re situated less than 300 meters from the old country road and less than 100 meters from the nearest settlement. It might seem a bit risky to use an area so close to inhabited houses, but there are a lot of trees, thickets and hedges/fences between us and other people. Moreover, we’re situated on the side of the wall facing the moat, containing water, running in between the two walls. This means that our flashlight, in no way, should be visible from other places, but the other wall – and on that side, there’s no access for the average person. There’s some kind of dog-training school on the other side of that wall, so there’ll be no one at all at this time of night. Last but not least, we’ve built a makeshift shelter fence. 1½ meters high, black plastic around 4 wooden spears, so the light is even more limited. The spears, cornerflags borrowed from the local football club, will of course be delivered back, so the football players won’t be short of their corner markers.

We’re both wearing blue coveralls, you’d normally use in chemical laboratories, but we’re only wearing them from our necks down, as we’re not trying to protect ourselves from bacteria or vira. We’re just here to bury this motherfucker. It’s simply to avoid our clothes getting muddy…mud that’ll be dragged into the car, etc. We each have a set of clean shoes in the car. We’ll get rid of the suits and the dirty shows later.

We’ve been digging for 25 minutes – I’m working with the spade and Jens is removing soil with the shovel – when I hear an odd sound…