New album, “Eternal Roar Of The Thunder And Rain”, out on February 21st!
Born to recapture the mysticism found in listening to black metal in isolation, New Hampshire’s Malacath was formed in November of 2011 as the solo project of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Lykos. As a two-piece, having enlisted drummer Hiraeth for the band’s second album, No Sense in Self Worth, Malacath’s musical composition style grew to draw inspiration from black metal’s outer corners, culminating in the impending fifth full-length, Eternal Roar of the Thunder and Rain.
Composed around four monolithic tracks across 54 minutes, Eternal Roar of the Thunder and Rain brings the listener through an arduous journey of triumph and tragedy. Malacath’s sound hasn’t so much changed over that timespan as has Lykos’ ambition; sticking to a signature style is one thing, but subtly expanding it or tastefully embellishing it is another. Indeed, Eternal Roar roars with a dreary-yet-emotive power, canvassing a large swathe of sonic terrain whilst remaining focused on a central theme: from spacious, imperial funeral doom to mossy pagan black metal, murderous surges of speed to momentous grandiosity, bittersweet melody to mystical atmosphere, everything EPIC and a seemingly stretched-out catharsis after another – truly, Thunder and Rain. And the plaintive acoustic “Eleusis” is simply the quiet-yet-assertive closer to a journey worth returning to time and again.
Forged in dedication to the old ways of black metal, the undeniable strength of Eternal Roar of the Thunder and Rain will ensure that the flames of Malacath burn beyond the New England underground.
