The fearlessly hypnotic third album from MÜTTERLEIN – the vehement and shadowed project of Marion Leclercq (ex-OVERMARS) – is now officially released. The seven compositions form a compelling reconstruction: a cry, a lament, and a promise of resilience against collective suffering.
Listen to the album on DMP’s YT channel, via Bandcamp and all relevant streaming platforms!
Taking the layered electronics, cavernous sound-design and magnetic rhythms of 2021’s “Bring Down the Flags” to a logical conclusion, “Amidst the Flames…” is anchored by an abrasive and darkly cinematic Industrial aesthetic – contrasting brutality and catharsis in a flickering, spellbinding and unsettling trip into hyper-conscious rage.
Artist Marion said this about the new album and its relation to predecessor “Bring Down The Flags“:
“Amidst the Flames…” is connected to “Bring Down the Flags“, but not as a direct continuation – rather, as the next phase of the journey. If “Bring Down the Flags” was about grief and transformation, this album confronts what remains: the rawness of survival, the weight of memory, and the search for meaning amidst destruction. Fire is central to this record, both as a force of devastation and renewal. Where the last album was a descent into mourning, this one stands within the fire, facing its heat, questioning whether to be consumed or to forge something from the ashes. Both albums deal with transformation, but from different angles. If “Bring Down the Flags” was about letting go, “Amidst the Flames…” is about what we do with what’s left – how we endure, and whether anything can truly rise from ruin.“
The album has received high praise from fans and press alike:
“This is a new masterpiece – radical, dark, cathartic, and monumental.” (Verdammnis)
“Hallucinatory and harrowing throughout, the music crests and subsides, and crests again, within a frightening and freezing other-realm.” (No Clean Singing)
“If you’re looking to be consumed by raw and unfiltered emotions like rage and fear, then MÜTTERLEIN is the right place for you… although this Mother surely won’t lend you a shoulder to cry on!” (Rock Tribune)
“Amidst the Flames, May Our Organs Resound” is released on CD, vinyl (including an exclusive DMP vinyl variant) and digital. A special t-shirt design accompanies the launch. Orders are possible via DMP’s EU, US, and Bandcamp shops.
MÜTTERLEIN is the solo project of Marion Leclercq (ex-OVERMARS), composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist.
Adopted in 2014, this pseudonym is a nod to the nightmarish yet fragile work of NICO, who in many ways deconstructed the unbearable myth of ‘femininity’ imposed on us.
Musically, MÜTTERLEIN mixes Post-Punk savagery, Doom, Noise, Industrial and Black Metal to create a vast universe of Post-Metal experimentation.
First album, “Orphans Of The Black Sun” – released in 2016 on Sundust Records, a label co-run by Vindsval from BLUT AUS NORD – leaned towards the Post-Punk and Doom registers using minimalist, cold instrumentation to create a record organic and ritualistic as a witch-dance around a fire.
In 2020, MÜTTERLEIN responded to an invitation by the artist LIMBES (ex-BLURR THROWER) to create a mirror piece to his epic 25 minute track entitled “Vérité” (French for Truth) for a split release issued in 2021 by LADLO. The free format allowed MÜTTERLEIN to experiment even further, constructing a slow, desolate dreamscape of doom-laden Dark Ambient.
“Bring Down The Flags“, MÜTTERLEIN‘s second album, was released in late 2021 by Debemur Morti Productions. Dark, haunting and immediate, the album incorporated more electronic sounds and blackened Industrial atmospheres to serve a more direct subject and voice.
After a couple of years performing both solo and alongside TREHA SEKTORI following the release of “Bring Down The Flags“, Marion helped forge a new entity, EITRIN, in collaboration with Dehn Sora (THROANE, TREHA SEKTORI) and Vindsval (BLUT AUS NORD). The alliance was conceived to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Debemur Morti Productions, with an instinctive and impassioned self-titled debut album released in December 2023. As a crowning moment, both MÜTTERLEIN and EITRIN graced the stage at the label’s own Servants of Chaos festival in October 2024.
In early 2025, MÜTTERLEIN unveiled plans for a third album, “Amidst the Flames, May Our Organs Resound“, a work that delves into the profound scars left by oppression throughout history. Anchored by an abrasive and darkly cinematic industrial soundscape, “Amidst the Flames…” is set to be released on May 9th.