Manntra - Monster Mind Consuming
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- Very entertaining album with different songs
- Nice instrumental range of songs
- Nice fusion of folk, rock and metal
Croatian folk–rock with a metal touch? Sounds quite interesting, doesn’t it? And, indeed, when I scanned one of the music promotion networks I have access to, I just had to give the band Manntra and their new album Monster Mind Consuming a listen. The album has been released on 26th March 2021.

Manntra – About The Artists
Manntra is a rock band from Umag, Croatia. They are a follow-up project of the metal band Omega Lithium. Manntra has been formed in 2011 by Marko Matjevic Sekul and Zoltan Lecei, who left the band in 2016. Currently, Sekul (vocals, guitar, keyboard) is joined by Andrea Kerl (drums), Marko “Pure” Purisic (guitar), Boris Kolaric (guitar, bagpipes, mandolin) and Maja Kolaric (bass). The band mixes rock with folk and metal elements. Monster Mind Consuming is the second album of the band in English. Overall, the band has released four albums so far: Horizont (2012), Venera (2015), Meridian (2017) and Oyka! (2019). Their most well-known song is likely In The Shadows, with which they competed in the Croatian contest to determine the national Eurovision Song Contest representative.
Manntra – Monster Mind Consuming – Track by Track
The eleven track album lasts 36 minutes.

1. Invocation
The Invocation of Monster Mind Consuming is just an intro, which directly connects to the first song, Heathens.
2. Heathens
It takes some two minutes of the album in total (including the intro) until you finally listen to lyrics (apart from the lei-lei you already got in the intro). The guitars give a powerful sound and the different sections with different volume and power lead to very versatile sound. The lei-lei is contuing through the whole song. Interesting element and cool song.
3. Ori Ori
Yeah, the lei-lei is still there – the song Ori Ori however feels much darker than its predecessor. Stomping drums, heavy background choir-alike vocals. The mandolin sound is very cool as well and gives an overall touch of folk metal to this one.
4. Slave
The album now comes with an more threatening feeling. The song feels very impressive as well. Enjoy to listen to it, for sure.
Serve me just like a slave
You’ll be my prey
I’ll never let go
Hunting only at night
I’ll eat you alive
Remember the light.
5. Voices of the Sea
Voices of the sea
Calling out for me
Buried in my heart
Calling out for me
Voices of the sea
Tearing me apart.
This section of the album has majorly been already published before the album release. If you need a reason to understand what is special about Manntra, this one is a good option to listen to. Powerful hard rock-metal sounds, nice stories, but still with clear vocals and a good sing-a-long potential. These guys just stay in your ear. The composition of their musical crafts (this time even with flute sounds) lead to a very good listening experience.
6. Barren King
Songs of the ancient bards
Claimed to have some discards
Sailors of the solemn seas
Claimed the halo from his feet.
Cast off for the Barren King! Is there something like sailor metal or sailor rock? This one could have been recorded a shabby harbor shebeen, close to the sea, full of drunken sailors – with electric guitars and long hair. I see them headbanging. And I want to sing along – this one is really good and catchy.
7. Monster Mind Consuming
After this folk-ish sailor reference, the title track of the album mixes electric elements with metal sounds. The powerful Manntra-shouting vocals almost make you feel being in one dirty Rammstein tune. Cool.
8. I Want to Eat You
The title almost sounds promising – could be a verse from a Lordi album 🙂 While the verse feels a bit of dirty and dangerous, the chorus almost leads to a happy feeling.
I want to eat you
Feel free to feel ecstatic
Climb down that tree
And let us be.
I want to bleed you
No, don’t be so dramatic
Climb down that tree
And set me free
You may use at as a statement of bad taste – but this one really makes me smile. Good appetite!
9. In Your Eyes
After this dining experience, In Your Eyes is another dark song with a very catchy chorus. Really enjoy listening to this one again.
10. Let’s Invite the Storm
Let’s Invite the Storm lives from a really cool duet of Marko Sekul and Maja Kolaric. The song comes with a strong folk touch.
11. Lipa
Lipa is the longest song on the album. As I do not the lyrics, I strongly guess for Croatian lyrics. The song is again very melodic, nice closing of the album.
Manntra – Monster Mind Consuming – Spotify
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Manntra – Monster Mind Consuming – My View
This musical trip to Croatia was indeed a fun one. Manntra do a great sound with their Monster Mind Consuming. No matter if you rather enjoy folk rock or metal, these guys will give you some good tunes to enjoy. Absolutely worth listening to.
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In April 2021, I finally had my first flight connections to/from the new Berlin airport, BER - Berlin / Brandenburg ...
Despite the limited travel situation in Germany due to Covid-19, there are some quite interesting virtual airline projects in Germany ...
Two Olympic Gold Medals and multiple other medals and World Cup victories (with a special focus on Super-G) - undoubtedly, ...
Undoubtedly, Munich Olympic Tower is one of the iconic buildings of the Bavarian city. Even though the tower is located ...
Gronau in the Münsterland region in Western Germany calls itself the "Music City". The some 50,000 inhabitant town is definitely not the ...
The Weiße Rose / "White Rose" was a resistance group during the German Nazi regime. Mainly consisting of university students, she ...
The Berchtesgadener Land is not only nowadays well-known as a popular tourist destination, there is also a dark part of ...
A museum with 90 vintage cars and so-called Yountimers might not feel to thrilling. If you add that about half of ...
The marketing flyer of the Museum Prototyp in Hamburg is really self-confident. The name of the car history museum is not ...
The Munich Toy Museum is one of these typical hidden gems you find in many cities. Right in the city ...
While I have a couple of "PCR professionals" in my circle of contacts, it took me until December 2020 until ...
I haven't been to too many hotels which are featured in own wikipedia articles in my life. One stay, at ...
Due to the early departure of an ECE 451 ride from Frankfurt to Milan in September 2020, I looked for ...
Cologne Cathedral is the key attraction of my home town Cologne, of course (it is even one of Germany's very ...
There is no better start of the day for Munich people than a Weißwurst breakfast with a prezel and a beer. The Weißwurst, ...
Before Germany went to a lock-down of touristic travel in November 2020, I had a short trip to Munich. For ...
For a stay in September 2020, I tested the Hilton Garden Inn Munich City West for two nights, Friday to ...
Frankfurt is the banking capital in Germany and one of the key financial centers of all Europe.Thus, it may not ...
Similar to the Europarad Ferris Wheel in Cologne, Munich is hosting a giant mobile ferris wheel, which is offering its ...
After we visited a couple of hotels in Bonn, we finally wanted to check out the only five star one ...
Especially in the recent past, I read a couple of ridiculous comparisons between certain people and political groups (which I ...
The Königssee (literally: "King's Lake") is a beautiful lake in Southeastern Bavaria, not too far away from the Austrian border ...
The Rheinturm - or Rhine Tower - is definitely one of Dusseldorf's most iconic viewpoints. During a recent stay at the ...
What is Germany's most popular tourist attractions? According to many popular rankings including TripAdvisor, it is neither the Brandenburg Gate ...
Aviation fans likely first think about the zeppelins when it comes to Friedrichshafen, Germany. However, the city is also home ...
The "Flower Island" Mainau is one of the key attractions of the whole Bodensee / Lake Constance region. No doubt that ...
For my June 2020 stay in the Salzburger Land / Berchtesgadener Land area, I decided to go for two nights ...
Whenever you happened to watch Bobsleigh races in TV, did you also often think about how it is like to ...
During my Covid-19 day trip to Berlin, I spent some time in the Berlin Zoo. Berlin is quite famous for ...
Air ship and zeppelin flights / flight history is a quite popular part of a visit at Lake Constance. In ...
A Calculation Museum? Sounds like a place for die-hard nerds - but the Arithmeum in Bonn is really a popular ...
If you fly a non-Schengen flight from Terminal 1 (the non-Lufthansa one) at Munich Airport and depart from the B ...
After I had some stays at Hilton Munich Airport in the past, I was happy to be back in this ...
As an overnight stay after the Mrs Greenbird concert in Frankfurt, I decided to opt for a hotel chain, which ...
You may know Mönchengladbach (or: Moenchengladbach) for soccer, likely. However, the city hosts one of the most remarkable Star Wars ...
Though it just processes about a half of the number of passengers of Munich Airport and even just a third ...
Like you already saw in my review of the Emirates Aviation Experience, including the A380 simulator, I have a certain ...
The next cities around are Trier, Sankt Wendel or Idar-Oberstein - the small city of Hermeskeil could be seen as ...
After I mentioned the Air Canada Lounge at Frankfurt Airport already in my love letter posting to LATAM flight 705, ...
Flying back from the Write Like A Girl event in London, I had the opportunity to fly Sun-Air of Scandinavia for ...
My trip to Singapore and Malaysia was my debut First Class experience (apart from Domestic First in the USA). I ...
For customers flying on Lufthansa's top notch First Class product (and HON Circle Members), the German airline offers a very ...
Wuppertal in the Bergisches Land region Northeast of Cologne hosts a very special attraction for train and rail enthusiasts: the ...
The Lufthansa Lounges for Senators and Business Class customers are tending to be too crowded, especially in peak times. Thus, ...
Due to a career event of my wife, we had to travel to the trade fair area of Hanover in ...
Lindlar, a minor Eastern suburb of Cologne, hosts one of two open-air museums driven by the regional Rhineland authority LVR ...
Bergisch Gladbach, a 110,000 inhabitant city East of Cologne, is a traditional location for the production of paper. While nowadays, ...
After I visited the Sinsheim sister museum in February, I have been very curious about visiting the Speyer Technology Museum ...
The route between Cologne and Rostock is a quite traditional connection from Rhineland to the Baltic Sea - which has ...
Located North of Cologne, the "Wildpark Tannenbusch" offers a nice way to spent your free time with your family, enjoying ...
As I for example stated in my review on Louvre Abu Dhabi, I am quite much interested in ancient cultures ...
If you collect and something, you likely also have one or more several favourite pieces in your collection. What do ...
Located quite prominently right at the motorway A6 at Sinsheim (home of the TSG Hoffenheim soccer club), the Technik Museum ...