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Italian black metal band Thysia streams the entirety of its debut album, Islands In Cosmic Darkness, due out on 7 April via Chaos Records. The album awaits you in the player below.
Translated from ancient Greek as "ritual sacrifice", Thysia was spawned in 2019 in Cavaso del Tomba (Treviso, Italy) by Nefasto on guitar and vocals, Mistyr on drums, and Nihil on bass; Fenrir joins in 2021 and takes over vocals. The band's collective experience includes the likes of Haemophagus, Messa, Undead Creep, Assumption, and Nox Interitus. After a couple of interruptions due to the pandemic, Thysia completed its first public work, the full-length Islands In Cosmic Darkness.
Just as Thysia is aptly monikered, so, too, is Islands In Cosmic Darkness truly titled. Its black metal is deeply rooted in the ancients, but not just one corridor of this rich tradition; lurking within Thysia's cauldron, one will find Craft, Varathron, Mayhem, Celtic Frost, Tangorodrim, and early Rotting Christ, among others. With a suitably cavernous but fully physical sound, Islands In Cosmic Darkness sends out undulating sinewaves of spiritual negativity, its lyrical references rooted in Greek mythology and its inner cosmic landscapes expanding outward from an austere core. Put another way, Thysia, in general, and its debut album, in particular, sound astoundingly old - not simply "old" like 90s black metal, but rather old as the earth itself. Dusty and dusky like so much Mediterranean black metal from the darkest past, these sonic bones and scrolls emit a blanching aspect that's simply impossible to find nowadays. Modernity is left to rot in Thysia's world. Link
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