Time Obliteration, the third album from Polish doom and alternative metal act The Black Thunder, has a release date of 16th October on the Pagan Records label.
Ahead of that and out now is a music video for ‘Verification Of Wounds’, the first single taken from the album.
“‘Verification Of Wounds’ is the first track from the new album that we wanted to share,” bassist, vocalist and founder Marcin Szczepański commented, going on to outline the background and musical shifts behind the track: “It is the opening track and was among the first ones written for the record, so everything fits together perfectly.
“This song marks the first time, both on the album and in the band’s history, that we’ve used growled vocals. The intro reveals a strong influence from Sepultura and their song ‘Arise’, a track that, like the album itself, made a massive impression on us during our teenage years. That impression was so profound that the lyrics contain numerous references to song titles from the Arise album. There is also a subtle nod to Mastodon‘s Oblivion, an album that had a major impact on me when it was released and continues to leave its mark on me to this day.”
The Black Thunder have moved from the stoner and groovy sounds that characterise their previous albums Visions In Black (2017) and Into The Darkness We All Fall (2021). The album takes the band to darker tones with a mixture of black metal elements, sludge elements, technical elements and crust punk elements.
Time Obliteration features the tracks: ‘Verification Of Wounds’, ‘Ash in My Marrow’, ‘Nothing Remains’, ‘Turn into Absence’, ‘The Eternal Search For Inner Balance-Consciousness’, ‘Fractured Time’, ‘To Live, To Suffer, To Die’ and ‘Revelation Of Times To Follow’.
Read more about The Black Thunder on RAMzine.
