Voidthrone Returns with ‘Dreaming Rat’, Stream “First Blood” Now
Seattle’s dissonant blackened death metal quartet, Voidthrone, is back with a new record. Their upcoming album, Dreaming Rat, drops on May 8, and they’ve just premiered the first single, “First Blood.”
“First Blood” is a dissonant death metal track that mutates into a blackened, intense collapse. You can stream it exclusively over at Toilet ov Hell right now.
Dreaming Rat is structured as a three-part cosmic death ritual. It follows parallel arcs: a solar system burning out, a civilization collapsing, and a parasite spreading. The band traded some of their previous atmospheric murk for a more immediate, frenetic mix this time around. Expect a closer, sharper, and meaner sound.
Vocalist Zhenya Frolov is delivering his most intense performance yet on this album, moving through death-metal lows, black-metal shrieks, and ritualistic howls. The album is a spiraling journey toward extinction, inviting listeners to drift calmly through the chaos, like the dreaming rat on the album’s cover.
Pre-order & Tracklist
You can pre-order Dreaming Rat directly from the band:
Here’s the full track listing:
Arc 2 – The vital present. A universe, a civilization, an idea flourishing into a promised infinity.
- II-I. Homeless Animal
- II-II. Morbid Seagull
- II-III. Ren Omega
Arc 1 – The hopeful past. A maelstrom of violence and optimism.
- I-I. Bergen
- I-II. Dreaming Rat
- I-III. First Blood
Arc 3 – The silent future. An extinguished, lonely death of the physical, spiritual, and cognitive.
- III-I. Surfing the Abyss
- III-II. The Dying Squid
- III-III. Worm Spiral
Credits & Line-up
The album was Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Ronald Foodsack (Voidthrone). Album art by Kiri Yu (kiriska.com).
Voidthrone Line-up:
- Zhenya Frolov – Vocals, Japanese Otamatone
- Ron – Guitar, Jaw Harp
- Gavin Brooks – Fretless and Fretted Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Guitar Solos
- Josh Keifer – Drums, Vibraslap, Didgeridoo, Spoons
What People Are Saying
“Wild blackened death metal FFO Deathspell Omega, Krallice.”
– Flight of Icarus, Metal Trenches
“Disorienting, disturbing, and even terrifying…combining head-spinning intricacy, unsettling dissonance, and raw emotional intensity.”
– No Clean Singing
“A unholy hybrid of black metal and jazz.”
– Metal Epidemic
“Voidthrone are consummate masters of what I’ve taken to referring to as ‘Moral Distress Metal.’ They lurch from genre touchstone to genre touchstone, but that anxiety-inducing wrongness is always front and center.”
– Ghuughra (Bandcamp Review)
“Frantic death metal that feels like the bugs that always crawl under your skin.”
– Herman (Bandcamp Review)
About Voidthrone
Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Voidthrone plays dissonant blackened death metal. Their sound is belligerent but meticulously arranged. Their music is intentionally disorienting and feral, evolving through releases like Spiritual War Tactics (2016), Kur (2018), and 2022’s Metaphysical Degradation.
Dreaming Rat arrives May 8. Get ready.
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