Surfing The Abyss! New Voidthrone Single/Video Released!
- Jason Hesley
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Dissonant Blackened Death Metal quartet, Voidthrone, have released a lyric video for "Surfing The Abyss," the second single from forthcoming album, Dreaming Rat.
In the band's own words: "Surfing the Abyss is our first song to feature a vibraslap (!), and, well, a honky-tonk section? You be the judge. It's black-death metal with absurd genre touchstones, a few Tom G. Warrior inspired "ugh!" vocalizations, and very tasty fretless bass from Gavin Brooks. Enjoy!"
Check out "Surfing The Abyss" at youtu.be/UM9eza2GCAA. The song is also streaming on Bandcamp.
Voidthrone will release Dreaming Rat, their most unhinged and trenchant record yet, on May 8.
Structured as a three-part cosmic death ritual, Dreaming Rat follows a triptych of parallel arcs: a solar system burning through its lifespan, a civilization collapsing under its own complexity, and a parasite replicating itself across language, culture, and flesh. The band trades some of the prior atmospheric murk for a more immediate, frenetic mix—closer, sharper, and meaner.
Vocalist Zhenya Frolov delivers his most insane performance yet, retching through death-metal lows, black-metal shrieks, and ritualistic howls as the album spirals toward extinction. The listener is invited to drift calmly and unflinching through the maelstrom, like the dreaming rat on the album’s cover.
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Track Listing:
Arc 2 - The vital present. A universe, a civilization, an idea flourishing into a promised infinity.
1. II-I. Homeless Animal
2. II-II. Morbid Seagull
3. II-III. Ren Omega
Arc 1 - The hopeful past. A maelstrom of violence and optimism.
4. I-I. Bergen
5. I-II. Dreaming Rat
6. I-III. First Blood [Video]
Arc 3 - The silent future. An extinguished, lonely death of the physical, spiritual, and cognitive.
7. III-I. Surfing the Abyss [Video]
8. III-II. The Dying Squid
9. III-III. Worm Spiral
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