Thou Announce New Album "Umbilical"

Today, Baton Rouge-based extreme metal genre benders THOU have revealed the details of Umblical their forthcoming full-length due out May 31st via Sacred Bones. As indicated on first single "I Feel Nothing When You Cry" the band have embraced the familiar sound of 90's DIY hardcore punk this time around. Check out the track below, but first take a minute to read a statement directly from the band.

"They've called us anarchists, criminals, foreign meddlers, lunatics, dispossessed, relativists, utilitarians, egoists, passion maximizers, ascetics, negators of everything. Clearly, the "Thou" experiment is never going to appeal to audiences who demand that art rigorously enforce a coherent and righteous worldview. 

And yet, are we not ourselves constrained by our own rigid morality? In those quiet moments of deep contemplation, when the bargains and concessions are thoroughly examined, when we yield before the Judging Eye--what is the summation of our choices? If the unspoiled self beyond the immensity of time were given voice, what pronouncements would be made? What would such an internal audit yield? What undeniable character would be revealed?

This record is for the radicals, the crackpots, the exiles who have escaped the wasteland of capitulation. This record is for the militants and zealots refusing to surrender to comforts, to practicalities, to thirty pieces of silver. And this record is most especially for the weaklings and malingerers, burdened by capricious indulgence, hunched by the deep wounds of compromise, shuffling in limp approximation, desperately reaching back towards integrity and conviction."

- Thou 

Umbilical will be released across all digital platforms and available in stores May 31st via Sacred Bones. All vinyl editions come with a black 7” featuring the tracks "I Feel Nothing When You Cry” and "Unbidden Guest”, which are also available on CD and digital products. Pre-orders are available HERE.

Umbilical Digital & CD Track Listing: 

1 - Narcissist's Prayer
2 - Emotional Terrorist
3 - Lonely Vigil
4 - House of Ideas
5 - I Feel Nothing When You Cry
6 - Unbidden Guest
7 - I Return as Chained and Bound to You
8 - The Promise
9 - Panic Stricken, I Flee
10 - Siege Perilous

Umbilical Physical Track List:

LP Side A
1 - Narcissist’s Prayer
2 - Emotional Terrorist
3 - Lonely Vigil
4 - House of Ideas

LP Side B
5 - I Return as Chained and Bound to You
6 - The Promise
7 - Panic Stricken, I Flee
8 - Siege Perilous

7" Tracks
1 - I Feel Nothing When You Cry
2 - Unbidden Guest

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