US Total Occultic Mechanical Blasphemers T.O.M.B. are back with their seventh full-length album which is due to hit the streets on December 2nd. Titled “Terror Winds”, the album is a follow up to 2020’s “The Thin Veil”, which marked the beginning of the legendary band’s collaboration with Norway’s Dark Essence Records.
It is an album imbued with spellbinding symphonic ambience and necromantic noise soundscapes that sees T.O.M.B return to their graveyard roots of old, raw Black Metal. The band has released an official visualizer for its new single “In The Ugly Dark”, which, according to the band, serves as a very apt window into the heart of “Terror Winds” itself.
“ ‘In the Ugly Dark’ serves as a introduction to the fierce song writing style representative throughout the new six song album. Its scorching guitar sound and barbaric drum beats coincide with the concept of a darkness unknown or experienced within the limitations of human existence. It is an experience that will transport the listener back to the glory days of extreme dangerous Black Metal.”
“Terror Winds” carries with it the authentically dangerous feel of early 90s Black Metal, combined with a powerful wave of ambient keyboards and classic T.O.M.B. noise. The album was recorded live at the Ossuary Studios in New York City and mastered by Tore Stjerna at Necromorbus Studios in Sweden. Cover artwork by Nestor Avalos.
Over the band’s 20+ years of history, T.O.M.B. has continuously crossed the boundaries of extreme music by crafting together elements of Dark Ambient, Doom, Death Industrial and Power Electronics into a unique style of terrifying Black Metal noise. It is a style that has earned the band a well-deserved place as one of the top innovators of modern-day Black Metal.
“Terror Winds” track listing:
- Terror Winds
- In the Ugly Dark
- Wraiths
- Hatred to All
- Frost Tyrants
- Reincarnation
You can listen to “In The Ugly Dark” in the following video:
