Australia’s extreme metal titans Thy Art Is Murder have announced they’ll release their earth-scorching fifth record, Human Target, on July 26 via Human Warfare. The band also released the confronting first single / video of the same name. Pre-order the album here
Australia’s most brutally alarming cultural export since George Miller’s Mad Max franchise makes music that serves as a loud last gasp against the ever-encroaching void. It’s a blazing light of nihilistic despondency before the final darkness. Fusing authentic crushing death metal with blackened fury and flashes of knuckle-dragging stomp, Thy Art Is Murder exorcise the pangs of mortality and the pains of socio-political trauma.
Privatised prisons enforce police states, where nonviolent offenders languish for decades. Pharmaceuticals numb the mind. Social media distracts the spirit. All while the very planet lurches toward an inevitable climate disaster that will extinguish humanity. ‘The Nightmare of Human Organ Harvesting?’ That’s not a gruesome song title from some forgotten old-school death metal record. It’s a headline from the Wall Street Journal and also the theme of the first single & title track from the record which explores the practice of organ harvesting in China, where the World Health Organization found a huge discrepancy in the number of organs volunteered by donors and the number of organs transplanted into the wealthy.
Right before Thy Art Is Murder release Human Target, the band will tear down the east coast of Australia for a quick run of headline shows before heading back to Europe. Joining them on the Life In The Crosshairs Tour will be Justice For The Damned, Dealer and Wither.
Tickets on sale now
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