Hailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Historic Thrones’ second album, Melancholia not solely cherry picks from a sturdy steady of metallic subgenres — from the melodic, blackened and textural to the technical, exploratory and unhinged — however can also be floor zero for an fascinating idea/story. The report’s 9 songs inform the story of a colorblind particular person who dives head first into psychedelic drug use as a final ditch try and expertise life in coloration. The album chronicles every part they expertise within the course of as life goes on with their newly minted perceptual capabilities. Provided that it’s an excessive metallic album, we will solely surmise that the story doesn’t finish on a very completely satisfied be aware, however yow will discover out for your self through the stream of Melancholia we’re operating under, a single day earlier than its launch date.
Says the band about their newest work: “Melancholia is an aggressive show of demise metallic with out borders. Each track explores a special terrain of maximum music that flows with the narrative of our character on his final try and see coloration throughout an ever-spiraling, nervousness stuffed psychedelic journey. We meant to strip away each ounce of hope that was hinted at in our earlier report, and shatter the phantasm of a contented ending. We additionally got down to pay homage to the bands that formed us, the Black Dahlia Homicide and the Purple Chord. The album captures a time now misplaced, and crumbles into itself in its ultimate moments to cement that concept. That it is a meditation of existential exhaustion, formed by depth, and punctiliously crafted to ship a painful message. That message is Melancholia.”
