Industrial/glam act Terminal has released an album of instrumentals, The Hush Of Cannons Cold, on Metropolis Records. The first seven tracks on it have previously appeared as brief interludes across the previous two albums by the South African group but have been remixed and developed into full-length pieces by collaborators who represent a variety of acts from across the industrial, EBM and darkwave scenes: Flesh Field, iVardensphere, Stahlschlag, Evestus, Spankthenun, Railwrx and Searching For Survivors.
The act also included an all-new track, "From The River To The Sea [Palestine Will Be Free]", a relentless miasma of mystical Eastern scales and punishing industrial beats that close out the album.
The results are stylistically diverse, from slamming club tracks to neo-classical musings. "More than one artist expressed that this was a unique challenge for them", states Terminal's head, Thomas Mark Anthony. "In many cases, the first thing a remixer does is delete everything but the vocal track. With no vocal track, they had to change their approach right out of the gate. They all rose to the challenge."
The album title is from the song "Testify", which appeared on the group's most recent full-length release, The New Republic (2023).
Terminal is the work of singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Mark Anthony, a lifelong anti-apartheid and civil rights activist over a life lived in South Africa, Canada and the USA. His music is the soundtrack to a world unbalanced, reeling, spinning out of control and running out of time, allying industrial music and glam rock with trace quantities of dark techno, synthpop and raw machine recordings. Each Terminal song is a broadside against the atrocities of lost humanity and the devastation of our planet.
David Ross Phillips (drums) and Sonia Weimann (bass/keyboards/vocals) have recently joined Antony (vocals/guitar) for upcoming live performances. Link
TERMINAL - Releases The Hush Of Cannons Cold
- Details
- Written by: Jerneja
Related articles
-
XANDRIA - Announces New Album Eclipse And Reveals First Single “The Shannon’s Home”
German symphonic metal titans Xandria, return with a bold new chapter as they announce their upcoming studio album, Eclipse, set for release on 7 August via Napalm Records. The record... -
TRELLDOM - Launches Video For "When This Was Young"
Following the recent release of their current opus …by the word… on 29 May via Prophecy Productions — and coinciding neatly with the vinyl editions finally reaching shops across both... -
ANATOMY OF HABIT – Offers First Cut From Forthcoming Fifth Full‑Length Paired Sentinels
Chicago's avant‑garde post‑punk/doom vanguards group Anatomy Of Habit return with Paired Sentinels, which the band will issue independently on 31 July. The entrancing new work marks... -
BLACK MAGNET - Issues New Single "Keep It Downtown"
Following their acclaimed third record, Megamantra, an extensive tour with Author & Punisher, and further activity, Midwestern US industrial metal outfit Black Magnet present their first...
-
ILLUMISHADE
"I think we longed for a band where we could be there from scratch and form everything the way we want." - Fabienne Erni -
NNHMN
"We're fucking vampires, you know? The desire to stay young forever is always there. But alienation — that definitely comes from being a non‑human person." - Lee Margot -
KATATONIA
"It's a dark album. According to me, it's the darkest yet in our discography. It's also very suggestive, very introverted, less direct, and might be less friendly..." - Daniel Moilanen -
IAMX
"It's my kind of duty to provoke people and to make sure they feel something — to dance, cry, do whatever they feel. I do motivate them, because that's my purpose." - Chris Corner
Copyright © All Rights Reserved. Powered by Terra Relicta


