THOU 8211 Magus (2024 Reissue) 8211 2LP 8211 Transparent Tan Vinyl

2LP – Limited Edition Transparent Tan Vinyl. Though often lumped in with New Orleans sludge bands like Eyehategod and Crowbar, Thou shares a more spiritual kinship with 90s proto-grunge bands like Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden (all of whom theyve covered extensively, both in the studio and onstage). The bands aesthetic and political im-pulses reflect the obscure 90s DIY hardcore punk found on labels like Ebullition, Vermiform, and Crimethinc. From 2004 through 2016, the band has released four full-length albums, six EPs (some bordering on full lengths), two collaboration records with The Body, and enough material spread out over splits to make up another four or five LPs. Sacred Bones Records is proud to present the new album, Magus, Thous first full-length since 2014s Heathen. In the months leading into the new album, Thou will be releasing three drastically different EPs: The House Primordial on Raw Sugar, Inconsolable on Community Records, and Rhea Sylvia on Deathwish, Inc. Each record will focus on a particular soundnoisy drone, quiet acoustic, and melodic grungeall of which is incorporated into the new LP, subsumed in the bands more standard doom metal. While sonically, Magus may be a continuation of Heathen, thematically it stands as a stark rebuttal, a journey beyond the principles of pleasure and pain. It is more the culmination of these distinct EPs, which all orbit some internal black hole. FFO alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as agony, reason as disease. Tracklist: A1. InwardA2. My Brother CalibanA3. Trancending DualitiesB1. The Changeling PrinceB2. Sovereign SelfB3. Divine WillC1. In The Kingdom Of MeaningC2. Greater Invocation Of DisgustD1. Elimination RhetoricD2. The Law Which CompelsD3. Supremecy