Voidthrone Premiere Their Full Album “Dreaming Rat” – Out This Week

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Dissonant blackened death metal quartet, Voidthrone, have joined forces with No Clean Singing for the premiere of their forthcoming album, Dreaming Rat. It comes ahead of the record’s official release on May 8. Keep reading below to find out more.

Photo credit: DiGruccio Photography

Pre-order Dreaming Rat here: http://voidthrone.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-rat

Structured as a three-part cosmic death ritual, Dreaming Rat follows a triptych of parallel arcs: a solar system burning through its lifespan, a civilization collapsing under its own complexity, and a parasite replicating itself across language, culture, and flesh. The band trades some of the prior atmospheric murk for a more immediate, frenetic mix—closer, sharper, and meaner.

Vocalist Zhenya Frolov delivers his most insane performance yet, retching through death-metal lows, black-metal shrieks, and ritualistic howls as the album spirals toward extinction. The listener is invited to drift calmly and unflinching through the maelstrom, like the dreaming rat on the album’s cover.

Dreaming Rat tracklisting:
Arc 2 – The vital present. A universe, a civilization, an idea flourishing into a promised infinity.
01 II-I. Homeless Animal
02 II-II. Morbid Seagull
03 II-III. Ren Omega
Arc 1 – The hopeful past. A maelstrom of violence and optimism.
04 I-I. Bergen
05 I-II. Dreaming Rat
06 I-III. First Blood
Arc 3 – The silent future. An extinguished, lonely death of the physical, spiritual, and cognitive.
07  III-I. Surfing the Abyss
08 III-II. The Dying Squid
09 III-III. Worm Spiral

Hailing from the rain-soaked muck of the Pacific Northwest, Voidthrone crafts dissonant blackened death metal that is as belligerent as it is meticulously arranged. Intentionally disorienting and feral, their unconventional music has evolved from the raw Spiritual War Tactics (2016) and the avant-garde churn of Kur (2018) to the sharpened, atmospheric density of 2022’s Metaphysical Degradation.

Line-up:
Zhenya Frolov – Vocals, Japanese otamatone
Ron – Guitar, jaw harp
Gavin Brooks – Fretless and fretted bass, acoustic guitar, guitar solos
Josh Keifer – Drums, vibraslap, didgeridoo, spoons

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