Artist: THY ART IS MURDER
Album: HOLY WAR LTD. EDIT. (DIGI)

Release date: 2015
EAN/UPS: 727361307127
Media type: CD

Rare is it for a band to live up to their name so profusely. Since their formation in 2006, New South Wales' Thy Art Is Murder have made killing their business... and as ol' Dave would say, business is good. Their nightmarish void is one where resistance is futile – you can but sit helplessly as the relentless blastbeats and gut-ripping guitars pummel you sideways. In the best possible way, of course.

With 2012's riff-shitting monolith, Hate, the Aussie death crew made history: being the first ever extreme metal band to crack the top 40 on home soil, and in the process sit proudly at the top of the Australian Independent Record chart. It was a cycle that would see them play a colossal 342 dates around the world, butchering crowds in each corner of the globe and touring the US more times than every other Australian band out there. Their appearances on touring megafest Summer Slaughter – as well as dates with Suicide Silence, Born Of Osiris and Emmure – soon became the stuff of legend. Like we said, resistance is futile...

“We weren’t surprised by the success at all,” deadpans guitarist Andy Marsh. “I knew it was gonna be crazy... I think I have a sixth sense for things! We were all living together as the album was being written and talked about combining elements of depressive hardcore with death metal. We didn’t want to write stuff that was like, ‘I’m gonna kill you’ or ‘Satan this’. We wanted more intelligent lyrics focused around deeper levels of human suffering. That felt more evil.”

And if you think Hate was a facemelter, just wait ‘til you hear third studio album Holy War, produced by Will Putney  (Suicide Silence, The Acacia Strain, Molotov Solution) and set for release this June through legendary metal label Nuclear Blast. The juggernaut grooves heard on tracks like Absolute Genocide, Fur And Claw and Emptiness will snap your neck like a swarm of beers engulfing you. And the increased dynamics of haunting synth textures and moody strings will simply add to the confusion: it’s more uncompromising, more unsettling and more bloodthirsty in its own unique way – something which the band were keen to explore right from the off.

TRACKLIST:

01. Absolute Genocide
02. Light Bearer
03. Holy War
04. Coffin Dragger
05. Fur And Claw
06. Deliver Us To Evil
07. Emptiness
08. Violent Reckoning
09. Child Of Sorrow
10. Naked And Cold

Digipak bonus track:
11. Vengeance

LINE-UP:

CJ McMahon - | vocals
Andy Marsh | lead guitar
Sean Delander | Bass/Rhythm Guitar
Lee Stanton | drums