Bong - Announce New Album, Release Trailer
UK based drone doom priests Bong have announced that their eighth full length album titled Thought And Existence will be out on May 4th, 2018 via Ritual Productions, their longtime collaborators making it their sixth full length for the label.
The label stated: "A continuation of Bong's metaphysical sounds, the new album will take the listener on a spacious voyage that resonates with the works of the band's past, yet this offering is especially striking and stunning. Bong feel ever so omnipresent on here, continuing their revered ability to transform time through their sublime sonic textures. As all listeners of this rite will attest, the band's stellar meditative and mystical drone, amplified by the essential and ritualistic hue of the drums, permits our imagination to be heightened. New realms of perception and existence open up, even if only for the duration of the rite; the power of this listening experience subverting the laws of time and space itself.
The first track manifests as an aura of luminosity and transcendence whilst simultaneously stirring a foreboding and solemn sentiment that we are sentient, mortal beings forever teetering on the edge of complete darkness and the 2nd track inspired by Borges' immaterialist fiction of the same title, sees percussive rolls and fills being especially noticeable, making this one of Bong's most upbeat and rhythmic tracks. Yet, both songs remain grounded in the hypnotic and mesmeric reverb that only Bong know how to channel.
The album artwork echoes this philosophy. Ancient star maps, planispheres and the oldest astronomy charts of the skies are known for being persistently accurate in their arrangement and predictions of the constellations. This too rings true for Bong's sound with Thought And Existence seeing the band stick with their original Orion belt trio formation. Bong's rites have continuously harboured high praise for their ability to take followers into the otherworldly ether."
The album was recorded and engineered by Mark Wood at The Soundroom, Gateshead during September 2017 and mixed and mastered at XL Recordings Studio, London during December 2017, courtesy of John Foyle (Bobby Womack, Sampha, Damon Albarn) and Adam Richardson (11Paranoias, Ramesses, Ancient Lights). Check out the album trailer below.
Tracklist:
01. The Golden Fields
02. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
The label stated: "A continuation of Bong's metaphysical sounds, the new album will take the listener on a spacious voyage that resonates with the works of the band's past, yet this offering is especially striking and stunning. Bong feel ever so omnipresent on here, continuing their revered ability to transform time through their sublime sonic textures. As all listeners of this rite will attest, the band's stellar meditative and mystical drone, amplified by the essential and ritualistic hue of the drums, permits our imagination to be heightened. New realms of perception and existence open up, even if only for the duration of the rite; the power of this listening experience subverting the laws of time and space itself.
The first track manifests as an aura of luminosity and transcendence whilst simultaneously stirring a foreboding and solemn sentiment that we are sentient, mortal beings forever teetering on the edge of complete darkness and the 2nd track inspired by Borges' immaterialist fiction of the same title, sees percussive rolls and fills being especially noticeable, making this one of Bong's most upbeat and rhythmic tracks. Yet, both songs remain grounded in the hypnotic and mesmeric reverb that only Bong know how to channel.
The album artwork echoes this philosophy. Ancient star maps, planispheres and the oldest astronomy charts of the skies are known for being persistently accurate in their arrangement and predictions of the constellations. This too rings true for Bong's sound with Thought And Existence seeing the band stick with their original Orion belt trio formation. Bong's rites have continuously harboured high praise for their ability to take followers into the otherworldly ether."
The album was recorded and engineered by Mark Wood at The Soundroom, Gateshead during September 2017 and mixed and mastered at XL Recordings Studio, London during December 2017, courtesy of John Foyle (Bobby Womack, Sampha, Damon Albarn) and Adam Richardson (11Paranoias, Ramesses, Ancient Lights). Check out the album trailer below.
Tracklist:
01. The Golden Fields
02. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
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On the last album they got a lot more percussive and increased the vocal presence a good deal too. Seems this is going more in that direction as well. I'm a big fan of the new approach, adds more dimensions to the music and really lets Dave Terry shine more as a frontman.
---- I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go. ~ II. VII
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