Archive for June 17, 2025

Stoner/Doom Metal Powerhouse, THORNDALE, Announce New Album: Spiritual Chains

Posted in doom metal, Heavy Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags , , , , , , , on June 17, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

Haarlem (NL) – Thorndale, the Netherlands based stoner/doom metal powerhouse, Thorndale, is thrilled to announce the September 12release of their sophomore album, Spiritual Chains. A music video for the album’s first single, “Veins of the Phoenix“, is available at youtu.be/jQvSLVMMjv8.

“Veins of the Phoenix” is also available on Bandcamp. The single will be available on all other digital platforms soon.

This highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2024 debut, Lightning Spawn, promises a darker and more mature sound, showcasing the band’s evolving artistry and the addition of a second guitar player to their lineup.

Pre-order:

thorndale.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-chains

Photo credit: Gustavo Valderrama (edited by Gonzalo Restrepo)

Line-Up:

Gustavo Valderrama – Vocals
Peter Shannon – Guitars
Maarten Jungschläger – Guitars
Zigor Munoz – Bass

Guest musician: Rob Stone – Drums

Comprised of seasoned musicians from notable acts such as Adarrak, Killing Darlings, Embers of Oblivion, Epinikion, and Primal Charge, their unique blend of heavy, stoner, and doom metal has resonated with fans worldwide, setting the stage for Spiritual Chains to be a significant release.

Spiritual Chains was recorded across various studios in North America and Europe, a testament to Thorndale’s commitment to sonic excellence. Jeff Henson (Duel) lends his talent to the album, featuring a guest solo on the track “Exiles and Masters”. The album was mixed and mastered by Rickard Bengtsson and Stafan Karlsson at Sweetspot Studiosin Halmstad, Sweden (Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars).

Track Listing:

1 – Veins of the Phoenix
2 – Battles Fought in Vain
3 – Gods of Pain
4 – Twenty Thousand Souls
5 – Spiritual Chains
6 – Exiles and Masters

Album Credits:

Cover Art – Costin Chioreanu.

Jeff Henson – guest guitar on “Exiles and Masters”.

All music by Thorndale.

Photo credit: Gustavo Valderrama

All lyrics by Gustavo Valderrama and Zigor Munoz.

Produced by Thorndale.

Recorded locally in Austin, Texas; Scarborough, Ontario and Haarlem and Den Haag, Netherlands across 2024 and 2025.

Mixed and mastered by Rickard Bengtsson and Stafan Karlsson at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden.

thorndalelegions.com

facebook.com/thorndaleofficial

instagram.com/thorndaleofficial

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MALTHUSIAN Signs To Relapse Records – New Album, The Summoning Bell, To See Release August 8th | New Video/Single Now Playing

Posted in Death Metal, death metal bands, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags , , , , , , , on June 17, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

Photo by Kate M.

Relapse Records is pleased to welcome Dublin-based death metallers MALTHUSIAN to its esteemed roster. The band will unearth their deathly opus, The Summoning Bell, on August 8th. In advance of the record’s release, today the band unveils a video for the title track.

Comments guitarist/vocalist MB, “We always find something… to give us the impression we exist.”

On their highly anticipated new album, MALTHUSIAN‘s fetid hallmarks are ever present: truly unforgiving, unrelenting death metal.

Watch MALTHUSIAN’s “The Summoning Bell” video, directed by Ray K Media, HERE.

The Summoning Bell will be released on 2xLP, CD, and digital formats. Find preorders at Relapse.com HERE.

Listen to “The Summoning Bell” and presave the full-length HERE.

Swirling chords and ominous cymbal swells give way to the band’s opener “Red, Waiting.” What follows is a flurry of murk and madness – blastbeats pummel against churns of distortion. The sonic atmosphere cultivated by MALTHUSIAN‘s palpable fury is suffocating; each riff carefully crafted to push and pull on the momentum behind their music. The Summoning Bell is undeniably a pitch-black take on the genre.

The Summoning Bell – Track Listing:

  1. Isolation
  2. Red, Waiting
  3. Between Dens And Ruins
  4. The Summoning Bell
  5. The Onset Of The Death Of Man
  6. Eroded Into Superstition
  7. Amongst The Swarms Of Vermin
  8. In Chaos, Exult

The Summoning Bell is a lighting of the pyre. Each of the album’s tracks explore themes of true nothingness, condemnations of superstition, and a profound descent into darkness and time. The end result is a record that seemingly reconciles with a dimming – internal and external, a true end of everything.

MALTHUSIAN:
MB – guitar, vocals
TMK – guitar
FB – bass
JK – drums

https://malthusian.bandcamp.com

https://www.facebook.com/malthusianDM

Source: EARSPLIT PR