Jan 162025
 

(written by Islander)

“Hell ain’t a bad place to be”, they say. Well, it’s probably because Throne are not running the place, because if they were, hell would be really… hellish. Throne are back with their heaviest, strongest and most desperate effort so far and their solid sludge metal morphed into something more sulphureous, more malignant and definitely more feral.

That’s part of how the Dusktone label introduces this Italian band’s new album Ossarium, which they also describe as “a long, painful trip into the territories laden out by Eyehategod, Buzzoven, and Acid Bath but with an evolved take bordering on black metal sound….”

In support of these descriptions, Dusktone has already premiered a first single named “Aten,” and today we bring you a video for a second one — “Morrigan” — the song that opens the album.

Before we get to “Morrigan,” you would do well to listen first to “Aten.” Propelled by furiously hammering drums and enormous, undulating bass-lines, and fronted by gritty and terrorizing howls, the music churns like a heated vat of magma, razors, and acid.

The sound is dense, searing, and corrosive, but when it becomes less rabid, the guitars also seem to moan and squirm in agony (or to slither like sinister reptiles) around bludgeoning drums, slugging low frequencies, and monstrous roars.

The pounding is immense; the whine of the vibrating guitars puts nerves on edge; the vocals sound like imperious, malignant monsters. Catastrophic upheavals occur, like the earth shaking itself apart; and the music also powerfully lurches, dismally groans, and wails in paroxysms of pain. It will get listeners’ bodies compulsively heaving while it’s abrading and broiling their minds.

And now it’s time for the “Morrigan” video. Made by Antonio Pupa and Shutter Brothers in black-and-white, it provides gripping footage of the band’s performance in tandem with terrifying imagery, which well-suits the terrors of the music.

Like “Aten,” this song too is a big rock-breaker and muscle-mover and it too delivers doses of venom with gnashing fangs, but from the very start the mood of the sizzling and clanging riffage is more doomed and despairing, more stricken in its soul.

The vocals are also no more forgiving than in “Aten.” They provide a frightening bestiary of torment and fury, but their intensity (which reaches zeniths in long, throat-stripping shrieks) is matched by the dismally drilling and catastrophically screaming tones of the riffage and the electrifying drum-fills.

Eventually, the music begins to throb like the pulse of blood in opened veins spilling out their life, while the rhythm section pound like sledgehammers in the hands of giants and those vocals lacerate the mind. By the end it seems like we have been made witness to apocalypse.

Ossarium will be released by Dusktone on February 14th, on these formats: digipak CD, regular vinyl LP, and limited-edition vinyl LP. They recommend the album for fans of Conan, Fistula, Eyehategod, Primitive Man, Amenra, and anyone who enjoys blackened sludge metal.

PRE-ORDER:
https://dusktone.bandcamp.com/album/ossarium
https://www.dusktone.org/band/throne/

THRONE:
https://www.facebook.com/thronesludge
https://www.instagram.com/throne_sludge/
https://thronesludge.bandcamp.com/music

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