(written by Islander)

“The Australian band Tyrannic have already established themselves as a weird and wild force to be reckoned with, harnessing together elements of classic doom and savage black metal, but not really beholden to any genre constraints in their haunting and harrowing explorations of Death and what lies beyond.”

That’s how we began our premiere of a song from Tyrannic‘s second album Mortuus Decadence almost exactly three years ago, an album we called “a fierce and frightening leap forward from what they’ve done before.”

And now, three years later, we return to Tyrannic with another song premiere, this one the title track to their new album Tyrannic Desolation that will arrive on November 22nd via Iron Bonehead Productions. Have they made another leap forward? Well, as today’s song will clue you in, concepts like “forward” and “backward” may be inapplicable to the current music of Tyrannic, which instead often seems to leap way off any mapping of directional coordinates.

But “weird” and “wild” are adjectives that definitely still apply — in spades — and you definitely won’t forget that “desolation” is right there in the song’s name. Continue reading »