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Abandoned By The Sun

by Mater Thallium

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1.
Sudden Dereliction 08:14
2.
Suicidium 02:00
3.
Exiled Witness 05:49
4.
Maternal Mortality 06:44
5.
Fear Of Water 06:28
6.
Mother Free 05:41
7.
Purgatorial Membrane 02:38
8.
Finite 09:31

about

Mater Thallium was formed in 2013 as as a celebration to iconic bearers of dark rock music — Candlemass, King Crimson and Black Sabbath — by two members of the legendary burlesque rock unit Procosmian Fannyfiddlers.

Mater Thallium’s eponymous debut-album from the same year was a full-on symphonic doom rock album. After this was released, it became clear that what initially was meant to be a one-off project had taken on a life of its own. Mater Thallium felt like a real band, and the quartet immediately started work on what has become the far more progressive and adventurous concept album ‘Abandoned By The Sun’.

The opening track, ‘Sudden Dereliction’, establishes a link to the previous record, but hereafter the music moves in multiple, unexpected directions, showcasing great melody lines, and a high degree of diversity, underlining the sadness and despair of the libretto’s protagonists.

‘Abandoned By The Sun’ reads as a non-linear narrative, its focal point being the dubious disappearance of a 15-year old girl. The idea projected is that nothing can be worse than to lose someone dear without getting any answers. Mater Thallium explores the inter-human mechanisms at work when a person vanishes without a trace. The girl’s disappearance secures a downward spiral and a grave ripple effect that threatens to ruin the lives of everyone close to her. The album’s finale, ‘Finite’, offers a glimpse of what really happened that fatal day, though leaving the listeners sufficient interpretive space.

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released August 18, 2014

Geir Venom Larzen - guitars, drums, backing vocals
Erik Andas - bass, backing vocals
Hakon Markussen - keyboards, backing vocals
Petter Falk - lead vocals

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Mette Jensen - vocals, flute

All titles by Larzen, Andas, Markussen, Falk

Recorded, mixed & mastered by Rhys Marsh at Autumnsongs Recording Studio

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