Body Collaborations, by The Body & Thou

Body Collaborations

by The Body & Thou

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Jordan Vauvert Mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix quatrillions de tonnes : Gojira nous aura appris qu'il s'agit de la masse du soleil mais ça peut aussi convenir pour ce Body Collaborations. Déjà parce qu'elle réunit Thou et The Body, soit les deux entités les plus massives du sludge/doom metal. Ensuite parce qu'elle comprend non pas une mais deux collaborations, lui donnant une dimension monolithique. Enfin parce qu'elle repousse les frontières de l'extrême en incluant noise, dissonances et sons industriels. Favorite track: Manifest Alchemy.

Anurag Shivach A lot of good songs on this collab. It's hard to pick a fave, just class! Favorite track: Her Strongholds Unvanquishable.

peter schmidt this is quickly becoming one of my favorit collaborations albums both artists are well represented through the hole album and combine they have made a great album Favorite track: Lurking Fear.

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	1.	The Wheel Weaves as the Wheel Wills 05:19
	2.	Manifest Alchemy 05:29
	3.	In Meetings Hearts Beat Closer 06:31
	4.	Coward 04:58
	5.	Her Strongholds Unvanquishable 07:22
	6.	The Devils of Trust Steal the Souls of the Free 02:08
	7.	Terrible Lie 04:11
	8.	Beyond the Realms of Dream, That Fleeting Shade Under the Corpus of Vanity 05:11
	9.	He Returns to the Place of His Iniquity 02:15
	10.	Lurking Fear 06:35

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This is not a split album, but rather a collaboration between The Body & Thou.

The Body and Thou are bands with Southern roots that have been pushing the boundaries of heavy metal for over a decade. Both have maintained relentless touring schedules, a dedication to DIY ethics and aesthetics, and a commitment to push their respective brands of extreme music into previously unexplored territories. You, Whom I Have Always Hated is a new collaborative release that showcases both bands’ unique abilities to create music that is emotionally effecting and unrelenting.

On You, Whom I Have Always Hated, each band’s distinctive elements shine through and combine to create something more visceral than the sum of their parts. While the groups have different approaches to live performance and stylistic nuances, they share general creative ideas and have a history subsumed in themes of alienation, melancholy, and despair. They describe the new collaboration as “a twilight dungeon crawl exploring the winding, ruined halls of Mad King Duro’s Castle, best friends at your side, enemies crushed beneath your heels, mysteries solved, and treasures found.”

The CD and digital versions of the release combine recordings by long time Thou engineer James Whitten (originally released only on LP as Released From Love on Vinyl Rites) and new material recorded by Seth Manchester and Keith Souza of Machines with Magnets, long-time engineers for The Body. In keeping with Thou’s tradition of 90s worship and The Body's knack for ingenuity, the release includes versions of “Terrible Lie” by Nine inch Nails and “Coward” by Vic Chesnutt. The remainder was written collaboratively in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and then further refined on their 2014 tour together. The tour culminated in a performance at the Gilead Metal Fest in July. The Body and Thou plan to reunite in the latter half of 2015 for some more D&D and possibly even some touring.

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released January 27, 2015

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