Radiance, by Thundering Hooves

Radiance

by Thundering Hooves

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dainton what i could hear sounded like an amazing version of Tribulation but song 6 just skipped on the CD Favorite track: Danse Macabre.

spectral_grøøve_HM2 What a great album ! The production's quality is excellent ! True blackened terrific music here ! Woaw !! and all those frozen bewitching melodies are just perfect. Well executed music ! the whole album is awesome !
I really hope you will press it on vinyl !
keep it up guys ! cheer up for this amazing release ! Favorite track: A Howl from the Cloister.

mourner This album provides everything (extreme) metal has to offer. Even more so than Vestiges. But both are simply fantastic and you don't want to pass on either of them. Don't come crying later 😉 The songs are well written and they go everywhere Thundering Hooves deem necessary. Iron Maiden guitars in a black metal song? No problem. So, tagging their music as black heavy metal of death is not a trick. It's just the way it is. Favorite track: The Key.

Keith B This is a full step up from ‘Vestiges’, which was also fantastic. Dense, majestic blackened metal of the highest calibre. Favorite track: The Key.

YomaBarr Loved their first album and this is even better. Wild!

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1.	Embers 05:30	buy track
2.	A Howl from the Cloister 04:46	buy track
3.	Radiance 06:04	buy track
4.	The True Death 05:07	buy track
5.	Danse Macabre 05:47	buy track
6.	The Key 07:28	buy track

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Thundering Hooves take you on another epic journey into the unknown darkness, with a backing track of huge galloping guitars and snarling black metal chaos, with their second album "Radiance" released on Mercenary Press.

On their first album “Vestiges”, while still remaining anchored in the extreme, Thundering Hooves placed their own take on the black metal sound within the wider heavy metal context, borrowing heavily from doom, death and older heavy metal sounds. “Radiance” sees the band fully embracing this traditional heavy metal heritage, woven together with the coarse and aggressive black metal thread which has always run through their music.

Lyrically, the tracks draw inspiration for a range of writings, predominantly gothic and folk horror, as well as psychogeography, blending these with personal experiences and moulding them into a warped yet coherent aesthetic that fits the archaic world that the band is trying to conjure through their music. A Howl from the Cloister is loosely based on the novel “The Monk” by Matthew George Lewis (1796), which chronicles a monk’s descent into vice and depravity after a life of rules and excessive discipline, while “Danse Macabre” alludes to Ingmar Bergman's classic 1957 film "The Seventh Seal".

Overall this marks a step up for Thundering Hooves, and sees the band indulging in more ambitious and dynamic song writing. From the use of guitar harmonies and recurring melodies to sudden blasts of pure speed, this is album is an unashamed celebration of all things heavy metal.

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released October 7, 2022

All songs written, performed and recorded by Thundering Hooves
Additional vocals on "A Howl from the Cloister" and "Radiance" by Jo Chen
Re-amped, mixed and mastered by Ben Jones
Cover art and layout by Katie Vicary
Calligraphy by Entitatem Null Arts

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Black Heavy Metal of Death

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New full length album out autumn 2022

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