Black/death band Drouth to release new album 'The Teeth of Time' in May • GRIMM Gent

Portland’s blackened death-mongers DROUTH return this spring for the release of their 3rd album, The Teeth of Time, out May 16th with Eternal Warfare Records. The band’s long-awaited follow-up to 2020’s acclaimed Excerpts From a Dread Liturgy, is an intense, doom-ridden record wrought with torment and turbulence.

Commenting on the record, the band says:

“We are proud to present The Teeth of Time, a culmination of several years of blood, sweat and pain. It is a nightmare made manifest, and we are both eager to share our creative work and grateful to the many people who helped make it possible.”

DROUTH shares the first new track, “False Grail,” from the impending record. First revealed at InvisibleOranges.com, the song is an ominous foreboding of the sonic hellscape unfolding within The Teeth of Time.

Stream “False Grail“:
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Bassist Matt Solis, says of the new song:

“‘False Grail’ is actually the last song we wrote before heading to the studio to record the album. It came together relatively quickly based on ideas that Stikker brought in—he had it pretty well fleshed out, but we made some arrangement adjustments together and expanded the closing doom section to really emphasize the dynamic shift in the song. We also knew we wanted string accompaniment in that section, so we had Eva Vonne from Isenordal add layers of mournful viola after the initial tracking was completed.”

Vocalist/guitarist Matt Stikker adds:

“Lyrically, the song is a nightmare reflecting the disconnect between the true and projected self and the increasing tension between those poles that we’re all experiencing. The map is not the territory, but when the map prefigures and gradually dictates the territory, our agency is threatened forever.”

Pre-Order The Teeth of Time: https://drouth.bandcamp.com

The Teeth of Time Tracklist:
1. Hurl Your Thunderbolt Even Unto Death
2. False Grail
3. The Teeth of Time
4. Through a Glass, Darkly
5. Exult, Ye Flagellant

Portland’s Drouth formed in 2012, originally under the name Contempt before changing their moniker following the release of their 2014 EP Skinwalker. The band stirred the local scene with their potent mixture of black metal, death metal, doom, and crust, and went on to release another EP, Vast, Loathsome (2015) and two albums Knives, Labyrinths, Mirrors (2017) and Excerpts From a Dread Liturgy (2020). Their follow up, The Teeth of Time was recorded and mixed with legendary engineer Billy Anderson (Neurosis, Cattle Decapitation) and mastered by Justin Weis (Agalloch, Hammers of Misfortune) and features five tracks of vicious, melodically adventurous black/death metal spread across 40 unrelenting minutes.