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Purity Through Fire sets 25 September as the international release date for Triacanthos' striking debut album, Apotheosis, on CD format. The band's first track "Pagan North" was unleashed two days ago.
Hailing from Austin, Texas, the germ of what would eventually become Triacanthos first grew roots in 2013 when drummer and then-vocalist Lord Frost began collaborating with Imazapyr on guitar. Together they refined and honed their sound over several years, resulting in one EP released on Red River Family and a single show to the original lineup's credit in February 2019. Things continued to take shape and form with the addition of Thornicator on bass and lead vocals shortly thereafter. They forged ahead as a three-piece, sharing the stage with such acts as Horna, Vale, Master, and Black Vice. After much delay and false starts, the trio completed their full-length debut, Apotheosis.
With the band's moniker meaning the Latin species name for the honey locust tree, bearing the thorns used for the crown of Christ, it's entirely fitting that Triacanthos' Apotheosis is a piercing work of epic-yet-catchy black metal born from the cauldron of olde. Both stridently martial and lithe 'n' loose, the power-trio erect towers of alternately majestic/melancholic might. Triacanthos' march across Apotheosis is, in fact, deceptively brisk: iron-fisted power is felt rather than merely "told" to the listener, and each of the album's ten central compositions ensnares with equally deceptive ease despite the generally generous length. The album's production, in kind, is bravely clear and cutting, jettisoning withering rawness in favour of a gleamingly bright blade. Their sword strikes thus cut that much deeper, all concluding with a reverential cover of Judas Iscariot's "Eternal Bliss... Eternal Death". Behold their Apotheosis, and check on the "Pagan North" track in the player below. Link
Apotheosis tracklist:
01. Maledictio En Spinis Coepit
02. Rite Of Recalling
03. Apotheosis
04. Rex Mundi
05. Pagan North
06. Lycanthropic Transmutation
07. Procession Of The Aeons
08. Thaumiel (Extinguishing The Holy Light)
09. Morningstar
10. Occulta de Tenebris Frigidus
11. Eternal Bliss... Eternal Death [Judas Iscariot cover]
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