Video for “The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water Part II” from our debut album “All that will burn is already on Fire”.
The race is nearly over; our wild-eyed, frantic sprint towards oblivion. With barely a backward glance at the ravaged paradise that sheltered us, or compassionate thought for the innocent in their billions, trampled beneath our feet. Gripped by an innate madness which has fed upon our base desires, like a parasitical tape-worm of the soul, we sprint faster, out-running the desperate clutches of hope, until we burst through the finishing tape and plummet into the void. Finally, there is nothing left to kill and all that will burn is already on fire…
Forged with passion, grit and determination, All That Will Burn Is Already On Fire is the debut album from Sheffield’s Terminal Sun – an overpowering, all consuming vision of the end. ‘Catastrophic Error’ beckons us forward into the darkness with newsreel reports of the Chernobyl disaster and an underlying sense of foreboding and menace, a growing unease that then detonates, reforming itself into the thick, muscular riffs of ‘AZ5’ - a mechanistic march with a seething, scalding core of organic matter; man and machine in imperfect, broken dissonance. The passages of fierce and fiery energy, the staggering, lurching, unnatural riffs and the shocking solos that dance across their armour plated surfaces are immediately impressive, towering presences…but All That Will Burn… has many different elements, unsuspected angles and hidden hollows of dreaming quicksand. This darkness is deeper than you think. These surprising shadows are not only found in the obvious alternatives of the lonely melodies of ‘Macready’s Last Stand’ or the haunting atmospheres of ‘The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water Pt.1’; they also lurk within the morose mutations of ‘Metamorph’ and in the tribal hymn to an incinerated past and non-existent future that eats at the heart of ‘All That Will Burn Is Already On Fire’. Indeed, every passage in this tale of waste and error possesses more than you might first imagine – all concluding in the staggering, epic collision of death, doom and black metals that is ‘The Space Between Two Deaths’ – a magnificent summation of this final journey into the night.
Adorned in the dramatic photography of Jakob Vegerfors, All That Will Burn Is Already On Fire will be released on July 6th, bringing a new, enthralling shade of blackness to the extreme metal world – fusing sub-genres to construct a monstrous monolith to mankind’s folly. Building upon the fetid foundations laid down by preceding EPs, Threads and Metamorph, this powerful and prophetic album heralds the unremitting darkness that once fallen will never end. Prepare to stare into the dying light of the Terminal Sun.
The story so far…
Hailing from Sheffield, England’s ‘steel city’, Terminal Sun are purveyors of uncompromising, unconstrained extreme metal. Having started to carve their name into the collective consciousness of the underground scene with two well received EPs, 2019s Threads and 2021s Metamorph, the time has come for Terminal Sun to unleash the complete and enthralling power of their full length debut album. Drawing inspiration from across the extreme music spectrum – the bulldozing power of death metal, the crushing weight and melancholy of doom, the bleak, obsidian atmosphere of black metal – and shaping these things into their own unique vision of the end, Terminal Sun have created the consuming darkness of All That Will Burn Is Already On Fire…
With All That Will Burn… Terminal Sun have created an album of immense force that hits with jarring impact, yet also harbours deceptive depths of secrets and shadows. The riffs and rhythms are implacable and punishing, bold and brilliant, a war march, a breathtaking charge, a lurching, agonised progression from wound to wound. Yet within the space of a sudden intake of breath you can go from staring down the barrel to staring into the black, still waters of memory and reflection. There is a cold and lonely beauty hidden within this decimated sonic landscape, scarred by incendiary violence. From ‘The Liquidators (And The Liquidation Of The Consequences Of The Chernobyl Accident) with its electric solos and stampede into inevitable oblivion, to ‘Parallels’, that speaks the language of the dead to cold, forgotten ghosts; from the pounding darkness of ‘Metamorph’ and the unstoppable riffs of ‘AZ5’ to the barren ice fields of ‘Macready’s Last Stand’ – and finally to the grand summation of the magnificent ‘A Space Between Two Deaths’…All That Will Burn Is Already On Fire has such sights to show you.
Terminal Sun have honed their skills and uncovered the dark heart of their sound, grasped the true essence of what they were born to be through live performances with the likes of Ingested, Ultimas, Ba’al and The Crawling, playing everywhere from the smallest clubs to the huge Bloodstock Open Air festival with Kreator and Judas Priest. All of that experience, hard won understanding and insight can be found in All That Will Burn Is Already On Fire. Out July 6th, adorned in the dramatic photography of Jakob Vegerfors, this is Terminal Sun’s soundtrack to extinction.
Track Listing:
1 – Catastrophic Error
2 – AZ5
3 – The Liquidators (And The Liquidation Of The Consequences Of The Chernobyl Accident)
4 – Metamorph
5 – Macready’s Last Stand
6 – All That Will Burn Is Already On Fire
7 – The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water Part I
8 – The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water Part II
9 – Fragments
10 – Parallels
11 – The Space Between Two Deaths