Thou kicks off a huge slate of west coast tour dates tonight riding high on another prolific year of incredible new music with five new releases in 2018 (I Have Become Your Pupil (Split with The Hirs Collective), The House Primordial, Inconsolable, Rhea Sylvia and Magus. The band is hitting the road with MJ Guider, and other like-minded bands like Lingua Ignota, Blood Incantation, Many Blessings, Euth and more followed by more midwest and east coast dates in 2019, a residency at Roadburn 2019, and much more next year. Among the current tour dates will be special “quiet” dates where the band doesn’t quite play unplugged, but chilled out is a good description. Don’t miss your chance to see one of the most vital bands in all of heavy music perform live in your town. Continue reading
For those in the know, Baton Rouge’s Thou are a special act. Truly an underground cult, Thou have captured hearts with their intense and emotive brand of sludgy post-metal that isn’t afraid to usher in new dynamics, forms or influence throughout. After pivotal highs of Heathen (Gilead Media) and collaborative efforts with The Body, it would be several years before they emerged again as a recording band, only to offer an unprecedented four new releases this year. First of all were three EP releases that represented a different thread to their sound, leading to the full-length effort Magus (Sacred Bones), an album which could well be their pinnacle.