Blackened Death Crew, VOIDTHRONE, Returns with ‘Dreaming Rat’ in May

Blackened Death Crew, VOIDTHRONE, Returns with Dreaming Rat in May!
“First Blood” Single Premiered!

Seattle (WA) – Dissonant Blackened Death Metal quartet, Voidthrone, returns with Dreaming Rat, their most unhinged and trenchant record yet!

The album’s first single, “First Blood,” has been premiered by Toilet ov Hell. A dissonant death metal meat-slab that dissolves and mutates into a blackened, transcendent collapse, click to stream it at:

toiletovhell.com/exclusive-track-premiere-voidthrone-first-blood

Structured as a three-part cosmic death ritual, Dreaming Rat follows a triptych of parallel arcs: a solar system burning through its lifespan, a civilization collapsing under its own complexity, and a parasite replicating itself across language, culture, and flesh. The band trades some of the prior atmospheric murk for a more immediate, frenetic mix—closer, sharper, and meaner. 

Vocalist Zhenya Frolov delivers his most insane performance yet, retching through death-metal lows, black-metal shrieks, and ritualistic howls as the album spirals toward extinction. The listener is invited to drift calmly and unflinching through the maelstrom, like the dreaming rat on the album’s cover.

FFO: Imperial Triumphant, Deathspell Omega, Krallice, Ulcerate, Portal, and the absolute heat death of the universe.

Dreaming Rat will be released on May 8.
Pre-order: voidthrone.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-rat

Track Listing:

Arc 2 – The vital present. A universe, a civilization, an idea flourishing into a promised infinity.

1. II-I. Homeless Animal
2. II-II. Morbid Seagull
3. II-III. Ren Omega

Arc 1 – The hopeful past. A maelstrom of violence and optimism.

4. I-I. Bergen
5. I-II. Dreaming Rat
6. I-III. First Blood

Arc 3 – The silent future. An extinguished, lonely death of the physical, spiritual, and cognitive.

7. III-I. Surfing the Abyss
8. III-II. The Dying Squid
9. III-III. Worm Spiral

Credits:

Produced / Mixed / Mastered by Ronald Foodsack (Voidthrone).
Masters: 24-bit / 44.1 kHz; vinyl premaster on request.
Album Art: Kiri Yu (kiriska.com)

BIO:

Hailing from the rain-soaked muck of the Pacific Northwest, Voidthrone crafts dissonant blackened death metal that is as belligerent as it is meticulously arranged. Intentionally disorienting and feral, their unconventional music has evolved from the raw Spiritual War Tactics (2016) and the avant-garde churn of Kur (2018) to the sharpened, atmospheric density of 2022’s Metaphysical Degradation.