"time-lapse city" is the first video single of the upcoming Apoptose album "Die Zukunft". Tesco Organisation Germany will release it in late summer 2018. Music & lyrics: Apoptose Vocals: Stephen Carpenter
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Apoptose - Die Zukunft (2018)
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"Wir sitzen in unseren Zimmern und draußen wird unsere Zukunft zerstört." We sit in our rooms and outside our future is destroyed. This line sets the tone for Apoptoses's sixth longplayer "Die Zukunft". Sometimes you don't have to travel far to see and feel desolation. Your hometown, your room or even your head can turn into an overwhelming world full of fear or confusion - from initial alienation to the unsettling moment when just the voices in your head seem to know what is right or wrong. All this is palpable in the songs of "Die Zukunft". Instead of painting these voices in colours of terror, Apoptose shows their inherent beauty in super dark electronics with slow motion rhythms.
In the four years of production Apoptose selected a wide range of different singers for this album. Most outstanding is classical trained tenor Daniel Sans. He sings "What Power Art Thou" - a song that was composed by Henry Purcell in the late 17th century. Apoptose and Sans preserve the complex harmonic structure of the original translating it into a breathtaking five minute ride in apoptotic soundspheres. They succeed in conjuring up Purcell's "cold genius" that had already fascinated legendary countertenor Klaus Nomi in the 1980s. Other voices on "Die Zukunft" include the gloomy spoken words of the advance single "Time-lapse City", the lost girl's voice on the title track and two female singers on "Dornen". Consistent with the album title Apoptose does not look back, but is heading for novel territories within the dark ambient music genre.
Label: Tesco Organisation Format: Album, CD Country: Germany Style: Industrial Darkwave, Ambient, Electronic
01. Two Hours 02. What Power are Thou 03. Time-lapse City 04. Medizin 05. Dornen 06. Das Jenseits 07. Au Ciel 08. Die Zukunft
Label: Self-Released Format: LP, CD Country: Germany Released: September 5, 2025 Genre: Electronic Style: Ambient, Neoclassical
Tracklist
1. Das Haus zwischen den Zeiten (3:48) 2. Im schwarzen Tal (4:24) 3. Die Quelle (3:37) 4. Ist da jemand? (4:09) 5. Sieben Felsen (4:37) 6. Einsamkeit (7:24) 7. Dunkel, fast Nacht (3:42) 8. Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh’ (5:08) 9. Altkönig (3:36)
An album for those who hear the forest breathe
With "Die Zeit und die Dunkelheit", Apoptose presents a deeply introspective ambient album shaped by shadow, silence, and solitude where sound becomes landscape and stillness speaks. Apoptose weaves melancholic piano melodies, pulses of electronic texture, and field recordings - such as solitary bird calls and distant winds - into immersive soundscapes. The album bridges the organic and the electronic, the external world and the inner mind.
This release echoes the atmospheres of earlier Apoptose works like Nordland and Bannwald, revisiting themes of natural mysticism, perception, and introspection - yet here, they show a different approach in emotions and sounds. Recommended for listeners of dark ambient, drone, and ritual music seeking a quiet companion through the passage of time and the depth of darkness.