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\u201cFor years, whenever we were together on the road or in the studio, we often had late night conversations about making music that was dark and apocalyptic but also contrastingly fragile and ambient, encompassing the different moods of music that we both love…\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n The greatest, most enduring music often emerges from a meeting of mercurial minds. When it comes to Shane Embury and Russ Russell and their new project TRONOS, the two have worked closely for decades and have long since established an instinctive creative rapport. Best known as bassist with Napalm Death but also a prolific collaborator across the heavy music world, Shane is renowned for his eclectic musical tastes, while Russ is widely acknowledged as one of the most original and idiosyncratic producers in music today. After deciding upon the core ideals of their new venture, the task creating the music for what is now TRONOS\u2019 debut album \u201cCelestial Mechanics\u201c sent these two maverick extremists into mind-altering cosmic realms. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe concept was born way before we even hit the first note,\u201d recalls Russ. \u201cWe talked of the end of the human race, the quest to explore outer and inner space, the extension of life and consciousness through space travel, energy transference through meditation and ultimately through death… how would the human race live on? In some far-reaching space craft or just by leaving our bodies behind? After many conversations we decided we should really give it a try, so we got together for a weekend and two songs were born. It came really easily and was exactly what we had in our heads so we decided to go for the whole album.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n Not just an inspirational combining of Russ and Shane\u2019s talents, but a multifarious experiment in collaboration, TRONOS has been pieced together slowly over the last couple of years, evolving from that original shared idea into something truly ground-breaking and thrillingly unfamiliar. From the churning riffs and ethereal atmospheres of epic opener \u201cWalk Among The Dead Things\u201d onwards, this is plainly a record that owes very little to anyone else. \u201cThis is a look at the universe from a few different angles,\u201d states Russ. \u201cWhile I think some of our influences are there quite transparently, I can\u2019t think of an album that\u2019s put them together quite like this before. It\u2019s a trip. It really is, in every sense. There are sequences mapped out to the rhythms of the brain and body, oscillations that enhance the journey of the music by stimulating multiple facets of the mind. It\u2019s dark and brutal and ventures deep into nightmares but it\u2019s also hugely uplifting at times. I’m convinced it\u2019s the sound I will hear when I depart this Earth.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n A bold endeavour designed to broaden minds and embolden hearts, TRONOS is also a ferocious extreme metal record, albeit one shrouded in bewildering ambience and lysergic fog. Proudly left-field but with firm roots in avant-garde extremity and psychedelic sludge, it\u2019s a record with spectral grit and ornate disquiet hidden in its dizzying, deftly-assembled layers. Such is the strength of the material on this wildly eccentric slab of heaviness, that despite being conceived as a studio-based project, both Russ and Shane are sufficiently enthused by the whole experience to already be making tentative plans to unleash TRONOS on stage. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe hope at some point to be able to play a show here and there,\u201d avows Shane. \u201cIt has to be a visual experience with projections, so we won\u2019t be playing whole tours. It has to be a special thing that comes together every so often. As we continue to write more music, we hope it will continue to expand beyond just live performances into experimentation and collaborations through other mediums, too.\u201d A collision between two unstoppably creative heroes of the metal underground, TRONOS is much more than a simple side-project. This is the sound of the human psyche being fired deep into the heart of the sun. This is the sound of intergalactic madness. This is the sound of what lies beyond: irresistible, terrifying and beautifully, brutally alien. This is TRONOS. Get ready for lift-off.<\/span> \u201cIt\u2019s birth, life, death, rebirth,\u201d Russ concludes.<\/p>\n \u201cThe universal cycle, the extension of mankind, the end of days, trapped in unending nightmares, tears of joy, fear, hatred and sorrow. Essentially, although we as a race on this planet are truly fucked, there is hope in Utopia… an unheard whisper in space… \u2018Everything is gonna be OK…\u201c<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text]
\nInstead, with a supporting cast including metal drumming legend Dirk Verbeuren, Voivod frontman Denis \u2018Snake\u2019 Belanger, vocalist Erica Nockalls (The Wonder Stuff) and no fewer than three legendary bass players \u2013 Faith No More\u2019s Billy Gould, Troy Sanders and death\/thrash icon Dan Lilker \u2013 the likes of succinct throat-ripper \u201cThe Ancient Deceit\u201d and menacing slow-burner \u201cA Treaty With Reality\u201d represent the organic creation of a multi-faceted musical world: one that deigns to unearth the cosmic truths behind our very existence while conjuring euphoria from the most warped and wild of sonic ingredients. <\/span><\/p>\n\n
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