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Limited Edition Magenta Colored Vinyl
Though often lumped in with New Orleans sludge bands like Eyehategod and Crowbar, Thou shares a more spiritual kinship with '90s proto-grunge bands like Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden (all of whom they've covered extensively, both in the studio and onstage). The band's aesthetic and political impulses reflect the obscure '90s DIY hardcore punk found on labels like Ebullition, Vermiform, and Crimethinc. From 2004 through 2016, the group has released four full-length albums, six EPs, two collaboration records with The Body, and enough material spread out over splits to make up another four or five LPs.
Sacred Bones Records is proud to present the new album, Magus, Thou's first full-length since 2014's Heathen. In the months leading up to the release of the album, Thou will be issuing three drastically different EPs: The House Primordial on Raw Sugar, Inconsolable on Community Records, and Rhea Sylvia on Deathwish, Inc. Each record will focus on a particular sound – noisy drone, quiet acoustic, and melodic grunge – all of which is incorporated into the new LP, subsumed in the band's more standard doom metal.
While sonically, Magus may be a continuation of Heathen, thematically it stands as a stark rebuttal, a journey beyond the principles of pleasure and pain. It is more the culmination of these distinct EPs, which all orbit some internal black hole. FFO alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as agony, reason as disease.
Inward My Brother Caliban Transcending Dualities The Changeling Prince Sovereign Self Divine Will In the Kingdom of Meaning Greater Invocation of Disgust Elimination Rhetoric The Law Which Compels Supremacy