After offering various kinds of death metal on the label this year – blackened death, dissodeath, tech death, prog death, post-punk death – we’re happy to offer a more brutish form of death metal and Thorn doesn’t disappoint in that regard. Their corpulent grooves are sure to satiate your primal cravings. Check out two of their songs from their latest album AT THIS LINK.
Thorn has a knack of churning out punchy, rotten death metal hymns rife with some nasty, lurching grooves. The album will have the listener rocking back and forth in its asphyxiating grasp like a pin-pricked voodoo ragdoll. The stench of sickness is thick and pervades the entire recording. Brennen has come up with meatier, denser, chuggier songs on this record while retaining the band’s primal essence and there is more death metal than doom found on this recording. There are still moments where gleaming leads come in and brighten up the proceedings but it remains a dark, fetid and glutinous affair through and through. The corpulent grooves stand out the most and form the bulk of this recording. If you like the idea of death metal sounding massive, ponderous, and packed with heaving, earth-rumbling parts, this album is most certainly meant for you.
For fans of – Mortician, Fumes, Wharflurch, Fluids, Intestine Baalism, Retching
Line up info –
Cover illustration by Arifullah Ali (KanvasKarat)
Mixing/Mastering by Daniel Bonofiglio (Fumes, Gutvoid, Intestinal Hex, Grotesque Mass, Internal Infestation)
All music and lyrics written by Thorn*
*Guest solo written and performed by Daniel Bonofilgio on track 4
*Guest vocals performed by Ryan Fairfield on track 7
Thorn is Brennen Westermeyer
Track listing –
1. Ooze Maelstrom
2. Entombed in Chrysalis
3. Quartersawn Remains
4. Zombifying Mold
5. Haunting Gale
6. Gloaming Corporeal Form
7. Nebulous Womb of Eternity
Release date – August 8th, 2025