Band: | Terzij de Horde |
Release: | Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone |
Genre: | Black Metal |
Country: | Netherlands |
Release Date: | 10th of October, 2025 |
Released via | Church Road Records |
“Most of the world’s creative energy is constantly expended to keep dominant and destructive systems alive. The injustices of the world are not simply there as inert realities, they require constant complicity from all of us.”
With this optimistic quote in mind, Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone is a Black Metal ride through the abyss. 2,5 years after the great experiment that was Van Grond and even 3,5 years after the great In one of these I am your enemy, Terzij de Horde return on their new Label home Church Road Records.
“Each Breath A Flame” serves as a prelude to the descent and “Raise Them Towards The Sun” furiously cracks this record open: fast paced, relentless and all light consuming. The following “The Shadows of Prefiguration” and “A Hammer To The Great Matter Of Birth And Death” take a more epic approach. Clocking in around 8 minute mark, those are endurance-tests for your mental well-being.
The duo of “The All-Consuming Work Of The Soul’s Foreclosing” and “Justice Is Not Enough To Leave The House Of Modernity” take less time but more speed. Black Metal cardio galore. The closer “Discarding All Adornments” features guest vocals by the awesome Amelia Baker (Cinder Well). This use of a spoken word spot reminded me instantly of the Wiegedood-track “Onder gaan“. It just gives this spiraling-out-sort of track an extra layer of haunting atmosphere.
Endless blast-beats over screams of never-ending agony. This is exactly how Black Metal without the “Post-” should sound in 2025. Terzij de Horde‘s Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone is a definitive genre highlight at the end of the year. Time to rewrite your “best of-lists”.
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