HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY · Reliving the Trauma - Live at Theater Akzent Vienna | BLACK 2LP

Black double vinyl in gatefold sleeve, includes a 30x30 cm inlay card.

Background information about 'Reliving the Trauma - Live at Theater Akzent Vienna'

Some albums are meant to be heard in a room full of people who all hold their breath at the same moment. "Reliving the Trauma - Live at Theater Akzent Vienna" is exactly that kind of document: Harakiri for the Sky taking their tenth anniversary celebration of "III: Trauma" onto a theatre stage in Vienna in May 2026, and turning a seated hall into a cathedral of grief and catharsis. What could have been a nostalgic victory lap becomes something far more alive. The band does not reproduce the record, they reopen it.

You can hear the room breathing. Guitars that usually sit buried in a wall of sound get space here, and that space is dangerous, because every melodic line lands with full weight. The post-rock shimmer, the grunge-tinged melancholy, the hardcore-driven surges, all of it feels hand-played and human, with the occasional rough edge that studio polish would have sanded away. Vocals crack where they should crack. Drums hit like doors slamming in an empty corridor. And through it all runs that unmistakable thread of despair, loss and stubborn love that has defined the Austrians since 2011.

Six albums deep, with "Maere" crashing into the German charts at number four and five Amadeus Music Award nominations behind them, this band has earned the right to look back. But this is not looking back. It is standing in the middle of it, lights down, chest open. A live album for people who thought they were done crying at concerts.

For fans of: Heretoir, Ellende, Agrypnie, Waldgeflüster, Alcest

Other Versions

DIGIPAK CD · 13,99 €

Track listing

LP 1:
A1. Calling the Rain
A2. Funeral Dreams
B1. Thanatos
B2. This Life as a Dagger

LP 2:
C1. The Traces We Leave
C2. Viaticum
D1. Bury Me
D2. Dry the River

Manufacturer: AOP Records, Auf den Steinen 15, 38723 Seesen, Germany, Contact: www.aoprecords.de