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Black Trillium Post “Haunted Oceans” Video; The Fatal Shore out Now

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In my never-ending bid to not be egregiously behind on the whathaveyou quotient of any given day, news and such, I got this note a little bit ago from Sydney, Australia’s Black Trillium, whose dark, darker, darkest debut album, The Fatal Shore, was released at the end of last month. At five tracks and 39 minutes, it’s a surprisingly consumable bit of deathly-doom, and though so many of its points of inspiration — you don’t need me to list the names if you’re reading this, I’m sure — have a tendency toward overstatement, Black Trillium‘s relative expediency of purpose is an asset working in their favor. Add that to atmosphere, progressive-style patience and a willingness to be unremittingly grim in atmosphere and, well, you got yourself some quality death-doom.

If you don’t feel up to taking on the whole record, they’ve got a video for “Haunted Oceans” streaming now. Both are at the bottom of this post. Dig if you dig:

black trillium the fatal shore

Sydney’s doom/death act, Black Trillium unleash their debut album ‘The Fatal Shore’.

‘The Fatal Shore’ is available to order now via the duo’s Bandcamp and through all the major online outlets

Jump in now and take a hit from their latest video clip for the track “Haunted Oceans”

While there may only be 5 songs within Black Trillium’s debut album, coming in at 39 minutes in length, this epic voyage covers a lot of ground. The opening track ‘Conviction’ instantly descends upon the listener with dark meaty riffs, thunderous drums & bass driving right into deep powerful growls letting you know you have just stepped into new surroundings. As the track moves along the dynamics change through a display of riffs, clean & angry vocals, lead guitars and soaring choruses to completely dropping away into mellow acoustic guitars offering a false sense of security before opening back up to the darkness. Running out with menacing guitars and vocals reminiscent of the screams from a psych ward, Conviction sets the stage for what’s to follow through the next 29 minutes of audio.

“The Fatal Shore” and all of its tracks are inspired by Australia’s dark convict history and follows a prisoner arriving in Australia and the displacement that occurs. When going through the album’s song titles Conviction, Banished, Diseased, Haunted Oceans & The Fatal Shore, and then listening to the lyrics being sung one really does get the sense of a story being told throughout the album. These are not just a bunch of songs placed together but a well-crafted and laid out journey which really engages and draws the listener in.

The band have not only captured a story but have placed themselves in the shoes of those who had been banished to a new land, but while writing they also visited various sites around the country including a convict cemetery in Port Macquarie and penal sites on Cockatoo Island to Port Arthur in Tasmania – all to get a true sense of the despair experienced by all those who were imprisoned.

Overall, The Fatal Shore is littered with tonnes of powerful dark chunky riffs crossing between death, doom & sludgy type vibes intertwined with sections of clear open atmospheric acoustic guitars blended into moments of black metal, blast beats, and all the while combining together the aggressive & clean vocals stylings provided by both of the album’s creators, Zach Carlsson & Simon Skipper.

If you’re a fan of bands like My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Celtic Frost & Agalloch then ‘Black Trillium’ should definitely be in your hit list…

Black Trillium is:
Simon Skipper (guitar, vocals)
Zachary Carlsson (vocals, bass)
with
David Schneider (drums)

https://www.facebook.com/BlackTrilliumBand
https://www.instagram.com/black_trillium/
https://blacktrillium.bandcamp.com/

Black Trillium, “Haunted Oceans” official video

Black Trillium, The Fatal Shore (2020)

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