Mater Thallium "Abandoned By The Sun"

Country: Norway
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock, Doom
Label: Autumnsongs Records
Release date: August 18, 2014
Tracklist: 
ACT I
1. Sudden Dereliction (8:15)
2. Suicidium (2:01)
3. Exiled Witness (5:49)
4. Maternal Mortality (6:45)
ACT II
5. Fear Of Water (6:29)
6. Mother Free (5:41)
7. Purgatorial Membrane (2:38)
8. Finite (9:31)

Line-up: 
Geir Venom Larzen — guitars, drums, backing vocals
Erik Andås — bass, backing vocals
Håkon Markussen — keyboards, backing vocals
Petter Falk — lead vocals
   with
Mette Jensen — vocals, flute

Description/Reviews: 

‘Abandoned By The Sun’ is a non-linear narrative, its focal point being the dubious disappearance of a 15-year old girl, her disappearance securing a downward spiral and a grave ripple effect that threatens to ruin the lives of everyone close to her. The idea projected is that nothing can be worse than to lose someone dear without getting any answers
Opening track, ‘Sudden Dereliction’, establishes a link to the previous record and the album’s finale, ‘Finite’, offers a glimpse of what really happened that fatal day, though leaving the listeners sufficient interpretive space to make up their own minds. In-between these bookends, the music moves in multiple, unexpected directions, showcasing great melody lines, and a high degree of diversity, underlining the sadness and despair of the libretto’s protagonists.
On ‘Abandoned By The Sun’, Mater Thallium explore the inter-human mechanisms at work when a person vanishes without a trace.
This is old-school heavy progressive rock, with a twist of doom, topped with flourishes of Scandinavian folk music.

Media/Samples 
Exiled Witness

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