Pombagira to Release Flesh Throne Press on March 23
Originally announced for release last fall, the sixth album from UK doom/drone psych experimentalist duo Pombagira is now set to arrive as their Svart Records debut on March 23. The two-piece’s last work, 2013’s Maleficia Lamiah (track stream here), plummeted into deep reaches of dronescaping, and it seems that going by the 13-minute title-track posted below that Flesh Throne Press will follow suit and expand on those ideas, the band’s evolution having been ongoing since their first release now eight years ago and traceable in the vocal progression and movement toward heavy doomadelia in that time.
It’s also a double-album, so expansive might just be the key idea on Flesh Throne Press, but we’ll see how it goes when it shows up, and if Pombagira get out for more shows in support. More to come as I hear it, but in the meantime, if you were, say, putting together a massive list of 2015’s anticipated releases, Pombagira would be a fitting candidate for inclusion.
If that was a thing you were doing, say.
To the PR wire:
POMBAGIRA REVEAL DETAILS OF THEIR UPCOMING SIXTH ALBUM, FLESH THRONE PRESS, TO BE RELEASED VIA SVART RECORDS 23RD MARCH
Pombagira return with their sixth album since their inception in 2007. Flesh Throne Press sees the band expanding on themes covered in their previous double album release Maleficia Lamiah. Recorded in July 2014 across two intense weeks the band put down over 80 mins of material all of which will be made available on the double CD and double album, both of which will be released by Svart Records on 23rd March 2015.
Musically, this album projects the band forward with a mind-expanding purpose for exposing the body to a varied compositional range. When it is heavy, it obliterates in an avalanche of riff making, and when in full tilt, it is only matched by the orchestral quality produced by tracking six amps and cabs for every guitar take.
More concise in its delivery than Maleficia Lamiah, the overall cerebral effect upon the listener is apocalyptic. It will not only rattle you to the very core of your being, but it also wills the listener to a plane where an inner meditative pose can be sustained. This is accomplished by way of the heaviest songs Pombagira have written to date, and by injecting stripped down undistorted constituents to the proceedings. Surfacing in standalone songs as well as being interspersed amongst those heavier tracts of progressive expansiveness, the band this time around present to the listener their most exact example of musical uniqueness. Coursing with the undulations of textural juxtaposition, Pombagira make firm their claim of being a truly original band without compare.
Retentive themes regarding the dead and the necromantic discourse for conversing with ancestors both forgotten and the fallen is here enfleshed. In many ways this album solidifies a connection between the written word composed within Peter Hamilton-Giles’ soon to be published “Grimoire of the Baron Citadel” through Three Hands Press, and the ongoing ritual work to serve the forgotten and fallen. Flesh Throne Press actually refers to the visceral experience of the grave dirt which presses in on the flesh during the initiatory procedure.
Embodying both aspects of ingress and egress, this new album will present a more psych-o-delic side to Pombagira’s music, as they find innovative ways to evolve their sound. In an attempt to bind the sorcerer to the spirit entourage that comes from taking every deviation, Flesh Throne Press explores the ‘nightside’ like no other.
http://www.pombagira.org.uk
http://www.pombagira.bigcartel.com/
http://www.svartrecords.com/
