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The Great Acceleration

by Terminalist

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Gojira Blume
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Gojira Blume Blackened sci fi thrash? Maybe, maybe not. Let's see what lies at the end of the wormhole.
paramourcat
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paramourcat As a big fan of sci fi and metal, I knew I had to pick this one up as soon as I learned of it! A relentlessly awesome blend of thrash, black, and death metal that pulls from an obscure philosophy I'd never heard of before and classic sci fi themes of abandoning everything we've known for the unknown of the void. I'll have to investigate dromology further. As a bass player myself I can't get enough of the excellent melodic bass solo at the end of Invention of the Shipwreck. Check it out! Favorite track: Invention of the Shipwreck.
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The entire Album is great, their sound perfectly matching the theme. Thank you and great work.
Jeff
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Jeff fucking everything. This shit rules. Favorite track: Invention of the Shipwreck.
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cardiacade Heavy thrash/death with progressive leanings. It's excellent and needs to be heard!
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1.
Stagnation is dead Buried by motion Washed away by the wave of progress Demanding devotion Militarized machinery An unstoppable force Advancing perpetually and Altering the course Relentless Alteration Magnified Domination Temporal compression A new source of addiction Spatial reinvention Casting off past restrictions In defiance of the rule of law In defiance of the gravity of all In defiance of the shackled world In defiance we shall unfurl Relentless Alteration Magnified Domination Relentless Alteration Rejection of Determination Clutching the torch Illuminating the earth Initiate the venture Of this aerial expansion All things Promethean Engulfing flames of rapture An indestructible line In the trajectory of mankind Faster than lightning Condensing speed The aeropolitics of a new age are dawning Greet to all the great ascension A mesmerizing totality To lift us higher Clutching the torch Illuminating the earth Initiate the venture Of this aerial expansion All things Promethean Engulfing flames of rapture An irreversible line The dawn is near
2.
Weapons of artillery Projectiles over the sky Mechanics of supremacy As the launching missiles fly high Unleash the mass destruction The function automatized Regression is not an option Warfare nuclearized We come ever closer To the point of the terminal Abandon our settlement To watch over the sky Revolution is the movement The politics of overdrive An expanding evolution of Liberation through the machine War is velocity Velocity is war The downfall of civilization Will undertake our transformation Out and beyond is where we go Nothing left behind Onto the next plane of life The remnants left to die Dispatch of travelers To colonize distant space Leading us into the future Of the human race We come ever closer To the point of the terminal Last site of settlement Is in the realm of the sky
3.
The rise of a new chronotopia Exploration with extended vision Shapeshifting with the blink of an eye Moving across the blackened sky Behold the ascending deity Processing from here to eternity An apotheosis commanding the sphere Collapsing all known frontiers Knowledge to power Power to movement Movement to mastery Of all-encompassing cosmology Emancipation Of forces kept beneath Revelations Illuminated by aerology Intergalactic travels In interstellar dimensions Discovery of orbs to seize System override as we further our reach The great acceleration Light chaser of augmented speed Transcend known territory Exceed temporality Isolation on the outer realms Detached at the helm Blasting through the darkened space To suppress the memory trace A life-long desire For gains and rewards Becoming the speed Transforming the world To abandon home To be a passenger of time To travel across To proceed the climb A life-long desire To see something last Only movement is stable To the iconoclast To abandon hope To surrender to time To travel even further To reach the sublime Through the astral body Swarming on the celestial planes Repress relativity To gain a full omnipresence Reach the end of the multiverse Warping through interstellar dimensions Bending time on the way To the cosmological limit The invention of the ship The invention of the shipwreck The invention of the ship The invention of the shipwreck The invention of the ship The invention of the shipwreck The invention of the ship Is the invention of the shipwreck
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Revolve In orbit Dissolve Into madness Detect the turmoil immanent The psychic realm of dissonance The frenzied mind Of a cosmonaut All dreams are nightmares Conjuring a fraught despair Twisting with screams and shouts Breathe in, breathe out Estranged Reflection The mirror Projection Synchronize the distorted mind Escape the fear of life gone blind Escalate to alienate To deconstruct and recreate An immense act of pride To go against the cosmic tide To break these chains Of the human state Scanning the cerebral flex The psychological complex Altering the design Leaving the reflection behind Wires, receptors fuel the change The neural network rearranged Ascending the flight of stairs Breathing in the air
5.
Dromocracy 09:13
Traveling with the speed of light Accelerating time Traveling through a space unknown A refuge in flight Mass mobilization An expansion of terrain On a mission beyond the Terrestrial domain A cult of ferociousness Of violence and madness The survival of the fittest The survival of the fastest As crises increase In force and speed The politics wither Wither and retreat A sentence for death For the end of reproduction As we reach the point of Planetary destruction Traveling with the speed of light Accelerating time Traveling from a space war-torn Hypermodern life The logic of war As the very essence Magnified to obliterate As we intensify the process History progresses at the Speed of its weapons A prophet of the apocalypse Riding on the waves of time Hail the new New machine Bringer of Monstrosity Hail the new New machine Leader of Dromocracy

about

The world is ruled by speed. Speed which drives history forward in a state of ever-increasing acceleration. Such is the central claim of dromology; a theory of speed originated by French philosopher Paul Virilio (1932-2018).

It is on this premise that the new Danish-American metal band Terminalist base their conceptual universe. On their debut album, ‘The Great Acceleration’, they bring the dromological philosophy together with their own science fiction narratives as they describe a world in crisis and a planet in collapse being abandoned in favor of colonization of space.

Terminalist formed in 2018 and debuted a year later with the EP ‘Abandon All Liberties’, followed in 2020 by the single ‘Voyagers’. The four-man band harken back to the traditional and technical thrash metal of the late 1980's, bringing it up to date by fusing it with black metal blast beats, death metal growls and grandiose prog rock concepts. The result is modern in its concoction, yet retro in its appeal; a style the band itself has dubbed hyperthrash.

Terminalist use the lens of dromology to describe the duality of technology and to investigate Virilio’s thesis that the invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck, continuing the thrash metal tradition of political criticism and pessimism about the future. Yet, Terminalist fit in among a new generation of metal bands using the genre’s monstrous sounds to illustrate the downfall of modern society in favor of something new and unknown. This is conveyed in a sound which is fast and aggressive, melodic and dynamic, catchy yet technical.

‘The Great Acceleration’ was recorded and produced by Lasse Ballade (Konvent, Alkymist, Deiquisitor, Slægt, Orm) at Ballade Studios in Copenhagen during the summer of 2020, mastered by V. Santura (Triptykon, Dark Fortress) at Woodshed Studio in Germany, and the artwork is created by Ryan T. Hancock. The album will be released on May 7, 2021 on vinyl, tape and digital formats via Indisciplinarian.

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released May 7, 2021

Music and lyrics written and performed by Terminalist

Emil Hansen: Vocals, guitars
Morten R. Bruun: Guitars
Kalle Tiihonen: Bass, backing vocals
Frederik Amris: Drums

Recorded at Ballade Studios, Copenhagen
Produced and mixed by Lasse Ballade
Mastered by V. Santura
Artwork by Ryan T. Hancock

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Hyperthrash project based in Copenhagen.

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