Sludge/Doom Metal beloveds Thou have just unveiled a chilling new video for their song “The Changeling Prince,” a cut off of the band’s upcoming fifth full-length studio album Magus, which will be dropping on August 31 via Sacred Bones Records.
“We shot this video on the hottest day of summer in a small room in New Orleans with one, barely working, AC unit,” said bassist and director Mitch Wells. “We want to thank all the punks, hunks, and freaks who came out to help us get this done. Every person in the crowd was important, and we more than appreciate them putting up with the heat, our lack of competence, and listening to the same song all day long.”
According to their press release, Magus is a stark rebuttal to the themes of 2014’s phenomenal Heathen, adventuring into the deepest levels of both pleasure and pain. The album will stand as a culmination of the sounds that the band has been teasing in their recent three EPs, The House Primordial, Inconsolable and Rhea Sylvia. The band itself describes the record as “[for fans of] alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as agony, reason as disease.” Needless to say, Thou fans have much to look forward to.
Thou has been one of few bands with a nearly flawless discography. With their 2007 debut LP Tyrant, their 2008 sophomore record Peasant and 2010’s Summit, Thou has made waves with their unrelentingly angry and depressive sound within the sludge metal community. And with 2014’s Heathen, the band really blew into the metal mainstream, with an extra dose of nihilism and misanthropy to really push the band’s aesthetic. Between all of their albums, EPs (some of which border on LP length) and splits, there is plenty of material to explore for a new Thou fan.
Check out the video for “The Changeling Prince” below.
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