Dear Desolation
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18th August 2017 |
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2016-2017 |
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CD, MP3 download, vinyl |
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10 |
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running time |
38:17 |
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Studio (s) |
Graphic Nature Audio, Belleville , New York |
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Dear Desolation is the fourth studio album by the Australian deathcore / technical death metal band Thy Art Is Murder , which was released worldwide on August 18, 2017 via Nuclear Blast . It is the first album after the re-entry of their singer Chris "CJ" McMahon.
background
McMahon announced after the release of the previous album Holy War in 2015 that he was leaving the group due to personal problems. Before that, a split EP with Fit for an Autopsy and The Acacia Strain was released exclusively on vinyl in 2016 . The band completed several concert tours in 2016 with former Molotov Solution singer Nick Arthur. In January 2017, McMahon got back on track after being treated for drug addiction and getting married.
production
The album was produced by Fit-for-an-Autopsy guitarist Will Putney , who also did the mixing and mastering . The album was recorded at Graphic Nature Audio in Belleville , New York . The guitar tracks were recorded in November and December 2016, shortly after CJ McMahon's return to Thy Art Is Murder was just a matter of form.
The cover artwork, which shows a lamb sucking milk from the teats of a wolf , was designed by Eliran Kantor, who has already designed album covers for Hatebreed , Iced Earth , Sodom and Testament .
Track list
| # | title | composer | length | Remarks |
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| 1. | Slaves Beyond Death | 3:44 | • Music video | |
| 2. | The Son of Misery | 4:18 | • Music video | |
| 3. | Puppet Master | 3:15 | • Music video | |
| 4th | Dear Desolation | 3:21 | ||
| 5. | Death Dealer | 4:08 | ||
| 6th | Man is the enemy | 3:28 | ||
| 7th | The Skin of the Serpent | 3:58 | ||
| 8th. | Fire in the Sky | 4:10 | ||
| 9. | Into Chaos We Climb | 4:05 | ||
| 10. | The final curtain | 3:50 |
promotion
Music videos
With the re-entry of singer Chris "CJ" McMahon, No Absolution, a song that originally was a B-side of the previous album Holy War from 2015, was released as a stand-alone single with a music video. In mid-June 2016, a music video for Slaves Beyond Death was released that was to be rated as the first foretaste of the new album. To Puppet Master is another music video was released on August 18, 2017th The group previously released a video called The Son of Misery .
Concert tours
In July and August 2017, shortly before the release of the album Dear Desolation , the group played an Australian tour, which was accompanied by Cursed Earth , Deadlights and Alpha Wolf . In mid-May 2017, the group announced the Dear Desolation Europe Tour , which will take place between September and October through several European countries, including Germany , Austria , Switzerland , Scandinavia and the United Kingdom . Oceano , After the Burial and Justice for the Damned appear as opening acts . Before that, the band completed the Double Homicide Tour between August 21 and September 23 with the Polish metal band Decapitated as co-headliners. This tour went through the United States and Canada . As opening acts occurred Ghost Bath and Fallujah on. Despite the arrest of the band Decapitated, whose members were charged with first-degree kidnapping and later for rape, Thy Art Is Murder ended the entire concert tour.
Between February 14 and 18, 2018, the band will tour Australia again, with the band being accompanied by Emmure , Fit for an Autopsy and again Justice for the Damned.
success
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According to the Metal by Numbers column of the American music platform Metalinsider.net , Dear Desolation was able to sell almost 6,500 times in the first week of sales in the United States , which meant 95th place in the US album charts . Although Holy War , released in 2015, was able to place higher in the US charts, Dear Desolation had the band's best sales start. In the Australian album charts, the album was able to place two places higher than its predecessor. This enabled the group to consolidate the unofficial title as the first extreme metal band ever to achieve a top ten position in the national album charts .
In Germany , Thy Art Is Murder was once again able to reach a listing in the album charts and experienced a significant increase. The album debuted at number 29, but only stayed there for a week before the work left the charts again. Thy Art Is Murder was charted for the first time in Austria and Switzerland , where the album was placed on 28 and 42 respectively and also dropped out of the charts after a week.
Dear Desolation received further chart listings in New Zealand (7th place), Scotland 1 (90th place) and in Belgium , where it was able to enter both Flanders (97) and Wallonia (106).
Awards
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Rock Sounds Albums of the Year 2017
- 47th place
Press reviews
Dear Desolation was largely perceived positively. Markus Eck wrote for the Sonic Seducer wrote that hardly any other deathcore band manages to convey the attributes of this musical genre as skillfully and homogeneously as Thy Art Is Murder . The musicians continue on this album “their bloody line in the most efficient and blatant way”. Jan Wischkowski from Metal.de is of the opinion that the long-term effect of the album is much longer than on Holy War . There are more and more highlights to be found again. The band's typical combination of Technical Death Metal with massive breakdowns , the typically gloomy setting and the brutal vocals of singer Chris McMahon, as well as the dark-looking guitar solos can be found again on the album. This is what the critic calls The Son of Misery , which Wischkowski believes could have been found on the second album Hate . Manuel Berger makes comparisons to the Polish death metal band Behemoth , but complains that Thy Art Is Murder have a significantly limited compositional vocabulary compared to the Poles. The lack of variety on Dear Desolation is also criticized, which especially comes to the fore if Death Dealers and Fire in the Sky were played directly one after the other. However, according to the reviewer from Laut.de, this hardly disturbs a listener, because the group works on what they dead at the premier class level, so there is hardly a band that is more focused and uncompromising to work, which makes the musicians stand out from the rest of the world Scene stand out.
Timon Krause from the German online metal magazine Powermetal.de sees deathcore due to the "countless interpreters who always sound the same and endless, tired live slaughter." However, it is Thy Art Is Murder who stoically raise the flag of the dying genre high into the sky. The ten songs on Dear Desolation offer little variety, but still manage to show all American colleagues where the hammer hangs. However, the first blast bars in Slaves Beyond Death are reminiscent of Meshuggah and the song Death Dealer seems doomy. In his conclusion, the critic writes that one should stop using deathcore in the same breath as Thy Art Is Murder, since the musicians themselves meanwhile deny the term. Is compared Dear Desolation with Behemoth, Cannibal Corpse and The Black Dahlia Murder , with some one of the mentioned bands are even more varied than Thy Art Is Murder. Philip Zimmermann of FUZE Magazine described Dear Desolation as "a balanced mix" of their last two works Hate and Holy War and described the work as a "wet dream of any deathcore connoisseur." The songs on Dear Desolation all build on each other, so the overall concept of the album seems to be perfectly in tune. In the final sentence of his review, he referred to the work as Jennifer Lawrence among the deathcore albums. Pascal Staub from Stormbringer.at was of the opinion that the musicians could develop and improve their distinctive sound, which he made out in the significantly higher tempo variations and the incorporation of further atmospheric melodic moments, as well as even "fatter breakdown and go-off parts".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Kielty: Metal Hammer : Thy Art Is Murder Frontman CJ McMahon Quits: McMahon cites low income and emotional pressure for ending 6-year stint ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Music : "Vocalist CJ McMahon Returns To Thy Art Is Murder, Band Drop New Track"
- ↑ a b Alexandra Michels: Rock Hard : Thy Art Is Murder: 'Puppet Master' clip released
- ↑ Vince Bellino: Decibel : Interview: Thy Art Is Murder's CJ McMahon On New Album, Deathcore, Touring With Decapitated
- ↑ a b Blabbermouth.net : THY ART IS MURDER Releases Video For New Song 'Slaves Beyond Death'
- ↑ Blabbermouth.net : THY ART IS MURDER To Release 'Dear Desolation' Album
- ↑ Rock Hard : Thy Art Is Murder show 'The Son Of Misery' clip
- ↑ Tom Williams: Music Feeds : Thy Art Is Murder announce 2017 Death Sentence national tour
- ↑ James Weaver: Distorted Sound Magazine : Thy Art Is Murder announce European tour
- ↑ Zanae Zukowski: Metalinsider.net : Thy Art Is Murder announce North American co-headlining tour with Decapitated
- ↑ Zanae Zukowski: Metalinsider.net : TSA agents allegedly damaged Thy Art Is Murder's gear
- ↑ Tom Williams: Music Feeds : Thy Art Is Murder announce 2018 national tour
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: AU - US - DE ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - AT - CH
- ↑ Matt Brown: Metalinsider.net : Metal By Numbers 8.30: Steven Wilson has a bone to pick with the charts
- ↑ Chart tracking: NZ - BE (F) - BE (W) - SCO
- ↑ Rob Sayce: Rock Sound : Rock Sound Top 50 Releases of the Year 2017: 50-41
- ↑ Markus Eck: Sonic Seducer : Thy Art Is Murder - Dear Desolation Critique
- ↑ Jan Wischkowski: Metal.de : Thy Art Is Murder - Dear Desolation criticism
- ↑ Manuel Berger: Laut.de : Thy Art Is Murder - Dear Desolation Critique
- ↑ Timon Krause: Powermetal.de : Thy Art Is Murder - Dear Desolation Critique
- ↑ Philip Zimmermann: FUZE Magazine : Thy Art Is Murder - Dear Desolation Critique ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Pascal Staub: Stormbringer.at : Thy Art Is Murder - Dear Desolation Critique
