Locrian - End Terrain

Experimental metal trio LOCRIAN are a prophetic voice of decline and a pioneering force in the world of metal. LOCRIAN's sonic tapestry weaves elements of black metal, ambient, and experimental music, creating a genre-defying experience that pushes the boundaries of conventional metal norms. Their new album End Terrain set for release on April 05, is the proper follow-up to 2015's Infinite Dissolution (Relapse Records) and continues in the vein of LOCRIAN's distinguishable sonic blueprint brought forth from said release along with such albums as the Relapse Records released Return To Annihilation and The Clearing/The Final Epoch. 2022 saw the return of LOCRIAN making their return on their Profound Lore debut New Catastrophism which saw the trio explore and return back to the more experimental side of their roots.

End Terrain is the group's most direct and concise work to date. More complex and layered than anything in the prolific trio's catalog, End Terrain is a concept album exposing a vision of a future earth consumed by waste. An apocalyptic landscape, inhabited by a generation who despise their parentage and a dying breed fully aware of the wasteland they have left. Mountains of trash and an uninhabitable planet, endless and dead. End Terrain is about inertia and regret, about the future and a mirror to the present, about mourning and extinction.

A seamless and harrowing blend of experimental, post-rock, and post-metal, End Terrain is the perfect manifestation of modern, forward-thinking experimental music pushed to a maximalist conclusion.