Thy Art Is Murder have signed to UNFD (Australia/NZ) for the release of their new album, ‘Holy War’. The album is due for release on 25 June.
This album is the follow-up to 2012’s ‘Hate’, which debuted at #35 on the ARIA Charts – the highest chart position ever for an extreme metal outfit in Australia. The band has spent the last few years selling out shows across the UK, USA, Australia and Germany.
Guitarist, Andy Marsh says: “Finally the cat is out of the bag! Late last year, we entered the studio in secret to create our follow up to Hate, free of expectation and public pressure. What we came out with was a reaction to things going on around the world that crawl under our skin, that make us feel sick to be alive. Musically it is darker, faster and more technical than anything we’ve done in the past and it hits hard lyrically. We wrote about concerns of ours, real issues, hardships that people are facing around the world today. Of course it wouldn’t be a Thy Art record if a lot of those affairs weren’t rooted in religion somehow, and what better way to sum up the state of all things than by entitling our album – Holy War. This is our war on racism, homophobia, child abuse, animal cruelty and all evil born of religious immunity, indoctrination, and ignorance. It is ultimately a push for secularism and humanism. Without it, we will be left in the hands of mad men.”
Pre-Orders for Holy War will launch on April 24th, with the album out in Australia on June 26th.
Track Listing
1. Absolute Genocide
2. Light Bearer
3. Holy War
4. Coffin Dragger
5. Fur and Claw
6. Deliver Us To Evil
7. Emptiness
8. Violent Reckoning
9. Child Of Sorrow
10. Naked and Cold
