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Woe Of Tyrants Title New Album Set April Release Date

AdamAdam Posts: 11,533 balls deep
edited February 2010 in Off Topic
Woe Of Tyrants have set “Threnody” as the title to their new album which has now been scheduled for an April 13th release date via Metal Blade. The track listing for the outing runs as follow:

01 – “Tetelestai”
02 – “Creatures Of The Mire”
03 – “Venom Eye”
04 – “Tempting The Wretch”
05 – “Threnody”
06 – “Bloodsmear”
07 – “The Venus Orbit”
08 – “Lightning Over Atlantis”
09 – “Singing The Surrender”
10 – “Descendit Ad Inferos (The Harrowing Of Hell)”

Speaking on the themes of the new album band frontman Chris Catanzaro offered the following:

“Well 2009 proved to be a monstrous one for Woe of Tyrants. It was a year of accomplishing goals such as releasing our debut Metal Blade album, touring with bands we’ve grown up listening to, and meeting thousands of awesome people all over the country. As we embark into 2010, our goals have shifted up a few gears.

We have a brand baby spankin’ new record that we finished recording at the end of 2009 with Jamie King producing, and to embrace the cliché “this is the most epic brutal stuff we’ve ever done and we’re stoked on it!” The album is entitled Threnody. Now for those of us who do not know what that word means right off hand (I had to look it up as I was reading a passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson long ago), a threnody is a song or hymn inspired by the grief of losing someone you love.

The album tells a story of a non-specific individual traveling between planets searching for answers, while paralleling Satan’s fall from grace to damnation at the same time. We all experience a change at some point as we travel through life, albeit not of the same magnitude as Lucifer, that will render us either content, or disgusted. When disgust is the feeling, then we begin to miss our former self as if they were an entirely different person.

I’d like to be clear that I’m not referring specifically to Christians, or Muslims, or Amish or whatever else the kids are doing these days. Threnody, as we are using it, is a story of grief over losing oneself. This album will surprise those familiar with our band, and hopefully surpass any preconceived notions of those who are listening to us for the first time.

If you have expectations for this record to sound like our last two albums, it doesn’t. Well, a little like the others, as we still prefer playing leads over doing breakdowns, and we still wish we were Wintersun or Decapitated. But for the most part, this record is new territory for us and we are excited to unleash it.

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