You Would Swear There's Amusement in the Eyes of the Dead

Indeed, too much time has passed since the last post. Frankly, this is due to an overwhelming amount of splendour and amazement. Since the release of Self this November, times have flown by.

The release itself brought everything we could have desired. A packed house, amazing and intense sets by Nefast, Laster and Gnaw Their Tongues (as expected) and an overall feeling that this was the best night of our lives.

Following the release, we played a messy but highly enjoyable set in the depths of night in Leeuwarden. After stunning sets by (a.o.) our old friends Ophis and The Great Old Ones, we spent the rest of the night talking about metal, life and beers, and were surprised to find out the old men in Kampfar could still hold their drinks!

But then things started rolling, and thus, updating become more difficult.

First of all, we were asked to play Eurosonic Noorderslag. This is  huge festival which swallows Groningen during the second week of January. This a booker's festival, where the organisation chooses young (ha!) and promising (huh?) bands to present themselves to international, but primarily Dutch, bookers. We were quite stunned that they'd ask us, since we are the loudest band playing that festival, by far. But then we were told how Amenra and Textures played there, and so we feel less weirded out. But only slightly so.

Then we were asked to play a weekender with our friends in Dragged Into Sunlight, who are touring together with the aforementioned Gnaw Their Tongues to celebrate their joint release N.V., which is surely the most horrid and deprived release of 2015.

On Saturday the 13th of February we will play Het Bos in Antwerp (BE), courtesy of the amazing people of Ondergronds, who we've worked with before. On Sunday the 14th we will be playing at Patronaat. On the first show, we are joined by our buddies of Laster again, who will release an amazing split-recording early 2016, but who have already recorded their new record as well. Expect a completely new set by them.

Besides that, the overall reviews have been amazing. The two negatives we have picked up both stated the same: "TOO INTENSE I CAN'T HANDLE THIS". Excellent. The tapes are down to the last 10 at the label, we've run out of them. LPs and CDs are dwindling fast as well.

2016 will bring amazing shows, huge plans and new tracks. Thanks to all of you for making 2015 a year that far surpassed our expectations. 

As a thank you of sorts, you can now download the Marsman poetry collection we translated, "A Crooked Flower in Cosmos' Flailing Mouth", for free.

See you soon.

ITS SEAMLESS GARMENT RENT.

The base of this band has been here for ten years, and finally we can present our full-length record.

We present the stream of Self, via our friend Jon of Invisible Oranges.

The record can now be pre-ordered through the following links:

LP - Burning World Records

CD- Consouling Sounds

TAPE - Tartarus Records

Each medium has its own artwork, designed by Richard Japenga

This is a culmination of years of work and countless people to thank both in and around our band, hence our immense pride to present you this. Listen, share, comment, please.

The Impending Winter

This week brought two moments of pride, and two harbingers of greater entities.

First, Kim Kelly of Noisey and bad meme fame discussed our opening track, and the first streamable track of 'Self', Absence. And she is positive: " [Terzij de Horde] have distinguished themselves by dint of a captivating, layered sound that blasts a black metal core with fragments of noise and heavy doses of melancholia. It is poetic, cerebral music that channels aggression and catharsis into something fruitful."

Listen here:

Besides that, the first show in support of 'Self' has been announced, we will share the stage of Into Darkness II with our good friends of The Great Old Ones, Gg:ull and Dystopia, as well as Nightbringer and Naglfar, the 28th of November in Leeuwarden.

More streams, more shows soon.

I held a banquet for the elevation of the self

We are proud to present our debut album ‘Self’ in October 2015.

The album focuses on the problem of self. Six tracks explore different ways to live, or fail to live, with self and world. They embody the struggles these paths and strategies create: blindness, suffering, a desire for release, the destruction of self and others as well as the turning towards -or away from- life.

Self as prison, self as a source of power, self as vessel for manipulation by outside forces, self as shield and as inner world, self as medium for Dionysian rapture, self as something to be overcome.

In the six songs that constitute ‘Self’, the rage of black metal is paired with a cathartic destruction as well as a contemplative, sometimes crawling melancholy. Instead of navel gazing or the worship of constructs, ‘Self’ is analysis forced. A cerebral celebration of liberation at all costs and a requiem for spheres rendered apart.

Tracklist:

1: Absence

To compete for such divinity

a phantasmagorical emanation

a man-made sphere of inclusion and exile

2: A Marriage of Flesh and Air

Ripping the fabric in strands tied to naught

to bear the raging worlds within

3: Averoas

A race conscious enough

to know it is vile,

intelligent enough to know

it is insignificant.

4: Contre le Monde, Contre la Vie

To horrors more gloriously vibrant

beyond vistas of fabrication

where wars of psyche and shadow

devour and deform and give birth

5: Geryon - See Extinguished the Sight of Everything but the Monster

Hells exposed and tamed

into hierarchies of fear.

6: Sacrifice - A Final Paroxysm

Opened, turned outward toward death
deranged and outraged
the seamless garment rent

‘Self’ is a collaborative effort, as Burning World Records (gatefold lp), Consouling Sounds (cd) and Tartarus Records (cassette) will each be releasing it on their preferred formats in October.The record has been recorded and mixed at Studio Independent Recordings and mastered by James Plotkin.

The artwork of ‘Self’ depicts ants, consumed by Ophiocordyceps. These parasitic fungi appropriate the brains of whichever host they infect, to manipulate and effectively destroy its self-regulating features. Through this annexation, the ants become empty shells of what they once were, governed by a destruction from within, imposed and irreconcilable.

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A banquet for the elevation of the self

Recordings are done, our first full length, Self , will be released later this year.The album focuses on the problem of self, with each track exploring different ways to live or fail to live with self and world, and the struggles these paths and strategies create: the blindness, suffering, desire for release, for the destruction of self and others, and the turning toward or away from life.

Self as prison, self as a source of power, self as vessel for manipulation by outside forces, self as shield and as inner world, self as medium for Dionysian rapture, self as something to be overcome.

In the six songs that constitute Self, the rage of black metal is paired with a cathartic destruction as well as a contemplative, sometimes crawling melancholy. Instead of navel gazing or the worship of constructs, Self is analysis forced. A cerebral celebration of liberation at all costs and a requiem for spheres rendered apart.

More news soon.