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End Terrain

by LOCRIAN

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  • Listening Party

     
    Join LOCRIAN in a special listening party for the new album END TERRAIN one week before it is available worldwide. Join the artists as they share insight from each track and answer questions about the album.

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Six-panel digipack w/spot gloss, fold out insert, download card for PDF edition of 36-page End Terrain Addendum; OUR DEAD AGE - a short story collection by LOCRIAN member Terrence Hannum.

    Includes digital pre-order of End Terrain. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around April 5, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $15 CAD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Pre-order of End Terrain. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Purchasable with gift card
    releases April 5, 2024

      $10 CAD  or more

     

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1.
Your crystal grave, opened wide on the night, of your birth Time's procession Through Infinite Columbariums Cruel in, the light Of this final dawn Centuries of, portents ignored To idle in a tower of silence
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Utopias
3.
Umwelt
4.
The World Is Gone, There Is No World
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We survive ourselves as spectators On exterminated horizons A view from nowhere In nostalgia for the light With divine and absolute retribution A view from nowhere Erased "There won't be a thought to know our death took place."
6.
Black Prisims Of Our Dead Age
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Innenwelt
8.
In The Throes Of Petrification
9.
There is life after extinction Silence in the sediment When does the future begin Lattices cast through poisoned earth There is life after extinction

about

Experimental metal trio LOCRIAN are a prophetic voice of decline and a pioneering force in the world of metal. LOCRIAN’s sonic tapestry weaves elements of black metal, ambient, and experimental music, creating a genre-defying experience that pushes the boundaries of conventional metal norms. Their new album “End Terrain” set for release on April 05, is the proper follow-up to 2015’s “Infinite Dissolution” (Relapse Records) and continues in the vein of LOCRIAN’s distinguishable sonic blueprint brought forth from said release along with such albums as the Relapse Records released “Return To Annihilation” and “The Clearing/The Final Epoch”. 2022 saw the return of LOCRIAN making their return on their Profound Lore debut “New Catastrophism” which saw the trio explore and return back to the more experimental side of their roots.

“End Terrain” is the group’s most direct and concise work to date. More complex and layered than anything in the prolific trio’s catalog, “End Terrain” is a concept album exposing a vision of a future earth consumed by waste. An apocalyptic landscape, inhabited by a generation who despise their parentage and a dying breed fully aware of the wasteland they have left. Mountains of trash and an uninhabitable planet, endless and dead. End Terrain is about inertia and regret, about the future and a mirror to the present, about mourning and extinction.

A seamless and harrowing blend of experimental, post-rock, and post-metal, “End Terrain” is the perfect manifestation of modern, forward-thinking experimental music pushed to a maximalist conclusion.

In the ever-evolving realm of extreme music, LOCRIAN stands as a testament to the power of artistic exploration. Their geographical spread mirrors the expansive sonic landscapes they traverse, cementing their status as trailblazers in the avant-garde metal scene.

"Locrian are a many-tendriled beast. The formerly Chicago-based trio, having released a myriad of albums ranging from abstract guitar noise to krautrock-and-drone-informed metal, are poised to release their first "song-based" album since 2015's Infinite Dissolution (compared to 2022's New Catastrophism–an improvisation-guided, full-band drone and noise album). End Terrain is a high-concept, intense album, telling a very personal story of a dystopian future told through the eyes of a parent.

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Pairing their immense musicianship–some of vocalist/synthesist Terence Hannum's, guitarist André Foisy's, and drummer/electronics performer Steven Hess' most ambitious performances to date–with a book of art, stories, and even a bibliography (of invented future texts, very cool), End Terrain takes from each Locrian era. With influences dating back to Hannum and Foisy's days as a duo (over fifteen years ago now, wow) and through their vast discography as a trio with Hess, End Terrain is a cumulation of ideas, sounds, and a decade-plus of camaraderie as now-displaced experimental musicians. The explosive album opener, "Chronoscapes," leads End Terrain on an intense footing, with large riffs and expansive soundscapes carefully pieced together to craft something larger than life. When paired with an intense video, which can be viewed below, we join the Seer as they remotely view a horrific future of humanoid creatures destroying, well, everything."
--Jon Rosenthal, Invisible Oranges (www.invisibleoranges.com/locrian-chronoscapes-video/)

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releases April 5, 2024

Recorded and mixed by J. Robbins at Magpie Cage.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Artwork provided by Chris Dorland ("Untitled Skinwalker").
Design by Chimere Noire.

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LOCRIAN Chicago, Illinois

Locrian was formed in late 2005 by André Foisy and Terence Hannum. Allmusic has described the band as an ”eclectic mixture of black metal, electronics, drone and noise rock”. The band have identified krautrock and '90s death metal as influences as well. ... more

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