Since the dawn of the genre, death metal has been a bastion to the macabre and themes that many of us don’t want to bring to the light much less discuss in any meaningful capacity. While there are many ways to go about it, not many are able to come around with such a sound that really makes you feel the nastiness and the horror of it all in the very music. It’s the sort of intensity that really seeks to siphon all light out of the world to that it can really work its dark magic without hinderance as the listener is left recoiling in the blackness without so much as a choice as to what comes next. With an industrial approach that is more than fitting for this kind of creation, Thunraz’s forthcoming effort strikes hard and strikes true with this particularly potent topic.

The very themes of uncovering the mask of humanity’s supposed face of enlightenment are what many bands throughout the realm of death metal have long done their best to tap into, but very manage to make it come across in such a form that carries actual weight from delivering it in such a form that really makes you feel like you need a shower in order to wash off the grime of what you just subjected yourself to. An absence of light and the withering of all things is a concept that few are able to encapsulate in its nastiest forms without so much as a shred of compromise or hope which makes Thunraz’s success at bringing it to life throughout “Revelation” all the more intriguing. Wasting no time at unveiling the pathetic reality that we find ourselves in, the industrial approach to death metal that feels purposefully unrefined for maximum effect, this is an album whose concept we have seen many time before but not often enough with an approach like this with Thunraz more than adept at bringing it all together for an unyielding performance that never once lets up. Even when “Revelation” gives way to the occasional melody or brief moments of reprieve, it’s merely priming you for the furtherance of terror that is not far behind.

A scorched earth policy is the very base of what we have here, and it should be without saying that this record brings it about in magnificent form with such aggression and ferocity that its effects are simply indisputable. It can be argued very easily that there are many works throughout the decades that have done this kind of album many times over, but it’s with the industrial aspects and a clear understanding of how it brings it all to life that “Revelation” takes the form of a massive beast that will not stop before all things that are good disappear from the world with Thunraz the very conductor of that apocalypse without so much as an ounce of sympathy in any of its motions.

“Revelation” releases on May 29th!

LISTEN to an advanced track from “Revelation” on Bandcamp here.

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