As Flaming Wrekage’s brutal fourth album tickles your earholes, you know this is something special. …
Extreme metal legends Thy Art Is Murder have dropped a bomb of massive proportions by announcing their fourth record Dear Desolation.
After a thunderous performance at this year’s Unify Festival, the band are set to release the new record on August 18 through new boutique label Human Warfare. Fans have been clamouring for new material after the release of stand-alone single No Absolution earlier this year, and the band have delivered with first-taste Slaves Beyond Death.
Returning frontman CJ McMahon says of the new record “I feel the strongest I’ve ever felt going into a record. Coming back to the fold of our band has reinvigorated me. I missed my brothers, touring, and of course all our dedicated fans around the world who have always given us their all. This new record is going to shape our future; we gave it everything we could and then some. In the past, I was the weakest link and now that I have re-built myself, we are stronger than ever and nothing can stand in our way.”
The follow up to Holy War, the band’s third record that debuted at #7 on the ARIA charts, is produced by long-time friend Will Putney and promises to be another despondent chapter in the band’s storied history. Says guitarist Andy Marsh of the title: “Hate, War, Desolation; the trilogy series of the path mankind has laid out before himself. We are prouder than ever of our efforts on this record. A lot of time, planning, creativity and teamwork has culminated in what we think is our most completed vision yet: Dear Desolation… [it] was the easiest way to sum up our new record and some of the issues we talked about. With lyrics ranging from extinction level events, to mortality’s interaction with morality, [it] seemed like an appropriate address toward nothingness, a call into the abyss, from which we might not hear an answer.”
Thy Art are fucking back baby, so get ahead of the curve and pre-order the new record here! Catch them in July and August by grabbing tickets here
