Dutch post metallers finally release a debut
Since their inception in 2007, the Dutch five-piece group known as Terzij de Horde has released various EPs and splits, all offering a masterful combination of ferocious, dissonant black metal with expansive, near-post-rock ambiences. Often described as a stunning mix between Khanate, Wolves in the Throne Room, Deathspell Omega, Neil Perry and Envy, the band has garnered some strong accolades from the press not only for their recorded material but for their explosive live performances as well.
1. Absence 07:47
2. A Marriage of Flesh and Air 07:01
3. Averoas 08:53
4. Contre le Monde, Contre la Vie 05:58
5. Geryon – See Extinguished the Sight of Everything but the Monster 10:41
6. Sacrifice – A Final Paroxysm 09:08
2015 finally sees the long awaited release of Terzij de Horde’s first full-length titled “Self”. The album focuses on the problem of self, with each track exploring different ways to live or fail to live with self and world, and the struggles these paths and strategies create: the blindness, suffering, desire for release, for the destruction of self and others, and the turning toward or away from life.Self as prison, self as a source of power, self as vessel for manipulation by outside forces, self as shield and as inner world, self as medium for Dionysian rapture, self as something to be overcome.
In the six songs that constitute ‘Self’, the rage of black metal is paired with a cathartic destruction as well as a contemplative, sometimes crawling melancholy. Instead of navel gazing or the worship of constructs, ‘Self’ is analysis forced. A cerebral celebration of liberation at all costs and a requiem for spheres rendered apart.
The artwork of ‘Self’ depicts ants, consumed by cordyceps. These parasitic fungi appropriate the brains of whichever host they infect, to manipulate and effectively destroy its self-regulating features. Through this annexation, the ants become empty shells of what they once were, governed by destruction from within, imposed and irreconcilable.
‘Self’ is a collaborative effort between Burning World Records, who will release on gatefold LP, Consouling Sounds with a CD edition and a cassette release by Tartarus Records.
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