SENZAR RELEASE "PYRE OF THROES"

 

PRESS RELEASE:

SENZAR – PYRE OF THROES

LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE

RELEASE DATE: MARCH 21st 2022

Tattered fragments of the fabric of reality, we grasp for threads to draw us once more into the pattern. Drifting motes of light in the darkness, buffeted by the currents of air, fading sparks seeking only to dance our way back into the fire. In the spaces between the lines of the secret language, in the breaths between the syllables we glimpse the truth. Through word and ritual we reach for the final transformation; an inversion of miracles, a retracing of steps, an incineration of hypocrisies and a return to the heart. An ending of beginnings and an ending of endings, we cast the agonies of birth and death, the masks of deceit, into the flames of the pyre of throes...

The music of Senzar stands on the outside, but not looking in – looking further into the distant reaches of the night. Their full length debut, Pyre Of Throes, follows on from their 2018 untitled EP, wandering still further into an all consuming occult labyrinth of sound. The raw vocal invocations of Trevor McLave lead you onwards through starlit corridors and shadow shrouded chambers while malevolent melodies slip like cold knives beneath your skin. Intense, furious attacks burst open into grand frescoes of haunting twilight shades. Riffs bite and twist while full, rich bass tones wander a path all their own and everything locks, then drifts, then locks again. The lights of familiarity and complacency glimmer on a horizon that becomes ever more distant, then, one by one, flicker and die. In the cold embrace of songs like ‘Zenith’ and ‘The Sadness Will Last Forever’ you race under strange skies and mysteries unravel in your wake. Dissonant and alien, yet melodic and enticing the contradictions of Senzar entwine to create a new unnerving harmony. This is a band that follows their own lonely path, preferring the unbroken snow beneath the leafless trees to the mud and rubble of the well trodden road.

The origins of Senzar’s darkness lie in the Dublin death metal band Coldwar, whose final album, Pantheist, was released on Candlelight Records in 2014. Three members of the final Coldwar line-up remain together in Senzar, forging a new, dynamic course through increasingly tempestuous waters. Recorded at Trackmix Studio by Michael Richards (Cruachan, Graveyard Dirt, Putrefy etc) and adorned in the artwork of Sean Fitzgerald (Abaddon Incarnate, Coldwar, Sacrilege etc) Pyre Of Throes is a remarkable, individual and powerful creation, a true achievement of vision and imagination. When it is released on March 21st it will bring with it an opportunity to look deeper into the dark and a chance to journey into the vastness beyond the light.

Line-up:

Trevor McLave - Vocals

Steven Anderson - Bass

Paul Nash - Guitar

Martin McElhinney - Drums

Genre: Dark Blackened Metal

For fans of: Altarage | Primordial | Mayhem | Akercocke

Further Information: 

www.facebook.com/senzarband/