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Having been away from the recording studios for nearly seven years, Melbourne-based black-metal collective Thrall appeared to be relegated to the fate of “cult act”, especially considering they vanished after releasing their most accomplished and critically lauded album “Aokigahara Jukai”.
Back with an enlivened recorded line-up that features members of Gatecreeper, Noose Rot, ex-Extinct Exist, Förfalla, Slothferatu, ex-Ruins, Mar Mortuum and Myotragus, the group picks up where they left off, merging some primeval and heinous black metal, with a ferocious thrash metal attack, a raucous crust and miserable doom atmosphere.
New album “Schisms” possesses a similar vibe to their previous efforts but can hardly be seen as nostalgic imitation as Thrall also try to keep their songwriting interesting and varied by adding elements of post-rock to the mix.
Set for release on May 28th (vinyl via Impure Sounds and cassette via Brilliant Emperor), “Schisms” is equally ripping, engaging, and despairing and hopefully will cement Thrall's position as one of the most interesting and creative bands from the current Australian extreme metal scene.
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Having been away from the recording studios for nearly seven years, Melbourne-based black-metal collective Thrall appeared to be relegated to the fate of “cult act”, especially considering they vanished after releasing their most accomplished and critically lauded album “Aokigahara Jukai”.
Back with an enlivened recorded line-up that features members of Gatecreeper, Noose Rot, ex-Extinct Exist, Förfalla, Slothferatu, ex-Ruins, Mar Mortuum and Myotragus, the group picks up where they left off, merging some primeval and heinous black metal, with a ferocious thrash metal attack, a raucous crust and miserable doom atmosphere.
New album “Schisms” possesses a similar vibe to their previous efforts but can hardly be seen as nostalgic imitation as Thrall also try to keep their songwriting interesting and varied by adding elements of post-rock to the mix.
Set for release on May 28th (vinyl via Impure Sounds and cassette via Brilliant Emperor), “Schisms” is equally ripping, engaging, and despairing and hopefully will cement Thrall's position as one of the most interesting and creative bands from the current Australian extreme metal scene.
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Having been away from the recording studios for nearly seven years, Melbourne-based black-metal collective Thrall appeared to be relegated to the fate of “cult act”, especially considering they vanished after releasing their most accomplished and critically lauded album “Aokigahara Jukai”.
Back with an enlivened recorded line-up that features members of Gatecreeper, Noose Rot, ex-Extinct Exist, Förfalla, Slothferatu, ex-Ruins, Mar Mortuum and Myotragus, the group picks up where they left off, merging some primeval and heinous black metal, with a ferocious thrash metal attack, a raucous crust and miserable doom atmosphere.
New album “Schisms” possesses a similar vibe to their previous efforts but can hardly be seen as nostalgic imitation as Thrall also try to keep their songwriting interesting and varied by adding elements of post-rock to the mix.
Set for release on May 28th (vinyl via Impure Sounds and cassette via Brilliant Emperor), “Schisms” is equally ripping, engaging, and despairing and hopefully will cement Thrall's position as one of the most interesting and creative bands from the current Australian extreme metal scene.
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Having been away from the recording studios for nearly seven years, Melbourne-based black-metal collective Thrall appeared to be relegated to the fate of “cult act”, especially considering they vanished after releasing their most accomplished and critically lauded album “Aokigahara Jukai”.
Back with an enlivened recorded line-up that features members of Gatecreeper, Noose Rot, ex-Extinct Exist, Förfalla, Slothferatu, ex-Ruins, Mar Mortuum and Myotragus, the group picks up where they left off, merging some primeval and heinous black metal, with a ferocious thrash metal attack, a raucous crust and miserable doom atmosphere.
New album “Schisms” possesses a similar vibe to their previous efforts but can hardly be seen as nostalgic imitation as Thrall also try to keep their songwriting interesting and varied by adding elements of post-rock to the mix.
Set for release on May 28th (vinyl via Impure Sounds and cassette via Brilliant Emperor), “Schisms” is equally ripping, engaging, and despairing and hopefully will cement Thrall's position as one of the most interesting and creative bands from the current Australian extreme metal scene.
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Having been away from the recording studios for nearly seven years, Melbourne-based black-metal collective Thrall appeared to be relegated to the fate of “cult act”, especially considering they vanished after releasing their most accomplished and critically lauded album “Aokigahara Jukai”.
Back with an enlivened recorded line-up that features members of Gatecreeper, Noose Rot, ex-Extinct Exist, Förfalla, Slothferatu, ex-Ruins, Mar Mortuum and Myotragus, the group picks up where they left off, merging some primeval and heinous black metal, with a ferocious thrash metal attack, a raucous crust and miserable doom atmosphere.
New album “Schisms” possesses a similar vibe to their previous efforts but can hardly be seen as nostalgic imitation as Thrall also try to keep their songwriting interesting and varied by adding elements of post-rock to the mix.
Set for release on May 28th (vinyl via Impure Sounds and cassette via Brilliant Emperor), “Schisms” is equally ripping, engaging, and despairing and hopefully will cement Thrall's position as one of the most interesting and creative bands from the current Australian extreme metal scene.
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Having been away from the recording studios for nearly seven years, Melbourne-based black-metal collective Thrall appeared to be relegated to the fate of “cult act”, especially considering they vanished after releasing their most accomplished and critically lauded album “Aokigahara Jukai”.
Back with an enlivened recorded line-up that features members of Gatecreeper, Noose Rot, ex-Extinct Exist, Förfalla, Slothferatu, ex-Ruins, Mar Mortuum and Myotragus, the group picks up where they left off, merging some primeval and heinous black metal, with a ferocious thrash metal attack, a raucous crust and miserable doom atmosphere.
New album “Schisms” possesses a similar vibe to their previous efforts but can hardly be seen as nostalgic imitation as Thrall also try to keep their songwriting interesting and varied by adding elements of post-rock to the mix.
Set for release on May 28th (vinyl via Impure Sounds and cassette via Brilliant Emperor), “Schisms” is equally ripping, engaging, and despairing and hopefully will cement Thrall's position as one of the most interesting and creative bands from the current Australian extreme metal scene.
PLEASE NOTE *For international orders (i.e. outside Australia and New Zealand) please contact us re: shipping price or it may require adjustment.*
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Having been away from the recording studios for nearly seven years, Melbourne-based black-metal collective Thrall appeared to be relegated to the fate of “cult act”, especially considering they vanished after releasing their most accomplished and critically lauded album “Aokigahara Jukai”.
Back with an enlivened recorded line-up that features members of Gatecreeper, Noose Rot, ex-Extinct Exist, Förfalla, Slothferatu, ex-Ruins, Mar Mortuum and Myotragus, the group picks up where they left off, merging some primeval and heinous black metal, with a ferocious thrash metal attack, a raucous crust and miserable doom atmosphere.
New album “Schisms” possesses a similar vibe to their previous efforts but can hardly be seen as nostalgic imitation as Thrall also try to keep their songwriting interesting and varied by adding elements of post-rock to the mix.
Set for release on May 28th (vinyl via Impure Sounds and cassette via Brilliant Emperor), “Schisms” is equally ripping, engaging, and despairing and hopefully will cement Thrall's position as one of the most interesting and creative bands from the current Australian extreme metal scene.
PLEASE NOTE *For international orders (i.e. outside Australia and New Zealand) please contact us re: shipping price or it may require adjustment.*
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As you sleep, I destroy the world
You are legion, within my panopticon
I forged your shackles
In the icy furnace of blackened affinities
I sacrificed your progeny
Upon altars of your forebears’ corpses
As you sleep, I spin silken schisms
You are flies, within my web of lies
I forged your shackles
In the icy furnace of blackened affinities
I sacrificed your progeny
Upon altars of your forebears’ corpses
As you sleep, I ensure your obsolescence
You are sacrificial lambs, within my den of wolves.
Myopic masses
Kneel in blind devotion
Before the bloody tyrants throne
Nature created neither
Servant nor master
I seek neither to rule nor to serve
And its hands would weave the entrails of the priest
For the lack of a cord with which to strangle kings
Faster, ever stronger
Colder, ever crueller
We are the arrows that blind God
Bible-black tyrants
Crushed beneath the ruins
Of their ivory towers
Nature created neither
Servant nor master
I seek neither to rule nor to serve
And its hands would weave the entrails of the priest
For the lack of a cord with which to strangle kings
Faster, ever stronger
Colder, ever crueller
We are the arrows that blind God
They forge Gods hallowed shackles
From their own minds and flesh
Earth’s altar of desolation
Feeds the barren devourer
Rend asunder
Those exalted vaults
Bible-black tyrant
On bloody throne
Sovereign, exultant, in our exteriority
We are the arrows that blind God.
Those who spurned thee
Whom I have laid beneath tumult of fire
Who reap the maelstrom
Leave them ever besieged
No catharsis
No transcendence
Aeons of blackness
Dust and silence
Those who scour the wasteland
Whom I have doomed to pandemonium
Who suffer the flood
Leave them ever engulfed
No catharsis
No transcendence
Aeons of blackness
Dust and silence
Those who sowed the seeds of fear
And reaped the fruit of hate
Who thrived on conflagration
Leave them ever divided
We watch the fools
Struggle for resurrection
Never to peer
Beyond the veils of flesh
Weeping masses kneel
Before the bloody tyrants throne
Their prayers are dying stars
Leave them ever bereft
We watch the fools
Struggle for resurrection
Never to peer
Beyond the veils of flesh.
Beneath altars of desecrated dreams
Hollow beings summon the storm
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the shadow
Between the dream
And the silence
Falls the shadow
Boundless dunes subsume
And grind their cities to dust
Their prayers are sand in a desert - fallow
Their dreams of paradise beyond - hollow
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the shadow
Between the dream
And the silence
Falls the shadow
Their prayers are sand in a desert - fallow
Their dreams of paradise beyond - hollow
Beneath altars of desecrated dreams
Hollow beings summon the storm
Boundless dunes subsume
And grind their cities to dust
Within the furnace of fear
They forge my hallowed shackles
Beholden to my inexorable thrall
I am the barren devourer.
In eternity
Nothing can become
Death created time
To grow what it would kill
Born into suffering
From the womb of nothing
The terrible fate of all life
Born into the same nightmare.
Inexorably bound
To birth, life, and death
Time devours the spirit
Death reigns, where no life prevails
As the screaming spheres
Shatter time and space
Into new forms of chaos
The portal to the abyss
Inexorable fall
Into chasms of failure
Aeons silence the spirit
Death reigns, where no life prevails
As the screaming spheres
Shatter time and space
Into new forms of chaos
The portal to the abyss
Inexorable tumult
Unfurling maelstrom maw
Devourer of the web of souls
Aeons of blackness await
Beyond galaxies of terror
Chaos reigns, where no life prevails.
Nature birthed its antithesis
A cursed species disavowed the Earth
Who remains to mourn the fall of nature
When the web of fecund decay fails
Descent of a corrupted consciousness
That contaminate Earth’s altar
Who remains to mourn the fall of nature
When the web of fecund decay fails
Earth’s altar a desolation
Where no life prevails
Humankinds epoch
The parthenogenesis of extinction
The Anthropocene collapse.
Waking in a dead world
Life in the sunshine forgotten
More distant and solemn than a fading star
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field, behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer
Their whispered prayers fade
As meaningless as wind in dry grass
Shape without form
Shade without colour
Gesture without motion
Paralysed force
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field, behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer
Shape without form
Shade without colour
Gesture without motion
Paralysed force
Their whispered prayers fade
As meaningless as wind in dry grass
As rats’ feet over broken glass
The colossal arbour death like silence
Let me be no nearer
In death’s dream kingdom
Eternity in a drop of horror
Fear in a handful of dust.
about
Having been away from the recording studios for nearly seven years, Melbourne-based black-metal collective Thrall appeared to be relegated to the fate of “cult act”, especially considering they vanished after releasing their most accomplished and critically lauded album “Aokigahara Jukai”.
Back with an enlivened recorded line-up that features members of Gatecreeper, Noose Rot, ex-Extinct Exist, Förfalla, Slothferatu, ex-Ruins, Mar Mortuum and Myotragus, the group picks up where they left off, merging some primeval and heinous black metal, with a ferocious thrash metal attack, a raucous crust and miserable doom atmosphere.
New album “Schisms” possesses a similar vibe to their previous efforts but can hardly be seen as nostalgic imitation as Thrall also try to keep their songwriting interesting and varied by adding elements of post-rock to the mix.
Set for release on May 28th (vinyl via Impure Sounds and cassette via Brilliant Emperor), “Schisms” is equally ripping, engaging, and despairing and hopefully will cement Thrall's position as one of the most interesting and creative bands from the current Australian extreme metal scene.
credits
released May 28, 2022
THRALL
Tom Void – music, lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass, synthesizers, and samples.
Ramez Bathish – guitar solos on Schisms and Dust.
GUESTS
Matt Arrebollo – drums.
Brock George – guitar solos on Tyrant, Nihil, and Epoch.
Richard McMaster – additional vocals on Tyrant, Hollow and Epoch.
Kama Way – additional vocals on Tyrant, Hollow and Epoch.
Leigh Ritson – additional samples on Abyss and piano on Dust.
Brad Gentle – synthesizers on Abyss.
RECORDING
Jeff Owens – drums
Brendan Sloan – re-amped guitars.
Kirt Keating – additional vocals.
Thrall and Guests – all other vocals and instruments.
MIXING
Richard McMaster at Impure Sounds.
MASTERiNG
Jack Control at Enormous Door.
ILLUSTRATION
Maéna Paillet.
LABELS
Released under license to Impure Sounds (LP / Digital) and Brilliant Emperor Records (Tape / Digital).
The album description mentions an “emotional apex.” That’s really the difference between Stare and the band’s previous albums. Ulcerate was always supremely technically proficient. I just didn’t care all that much. Their growth has come from making music you will feel. Metallurgical Fire
Late 90's BM worship, but it's also a lil more than that. This album takes the best elements from the scene it's inspired by and mostly avoids the worst of it; the song-writing is well-written, it's performed with passion and fun, and the production is raw but isn't lo-fi. (i.e. it doesn't obfuscate and/or suckass).
Tl;dr It's safe but high quality BM. Recommended. Rabbit
