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**Ltd Red Vinyl Edition
Perseverance is central to Threshing Spirits The Crucible, a one-person black metal album about environmental and experiential extremity with nods to psychedelic, noise, and country traditions. Ive always found transcendence hiding in pockets of adversity, explains the artist. For this release I used language dedicated to the desert, heat, and the interconnectedness of the planet and cosmos to showcase that. The sun, sand, and drought become consistent motifs of the album as the albums protagonist moves through an apathetic wasteland.
The album goes through a variety of sounds, evoking a cinematic, narrative progression. Clean guitar passages like intro Into the Crucible and outro The Frolic allude to entrances and exits a la characters in John Ford and Sergio Leone films, providing scaffolding wherein the narrator wrestles with the Crucibles trials. Songs like lead single The Abyss Embrace (A Ship Of Fools) begin with breakneck drumming and soaring guitars as Threshing Spirits high-register howl escorts the listener into a swirling miasma. Other songs are more hardcore-influence like Survival with its plodding rhythm and menacing guitar.
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