THOU 'Magus'

'Magus' is THOU’s first full-length since 2014’s '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 sound—noisy drone, quiet acoustic, and melodic grunge—all of which is incorporated into the new LP, subsumed in the band’s 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.