We’ll do our best to avoid any cheap dinosaur references in regard to the new video and single,”Flesh Eternal,” from Scottish trio Tyrannus. The name actually translates into “lord,” “monarch” or “tyrant” and these dudes—Callum John Cant (lead vocals/guitars), Alistair Harley (bass/guitars/backing vocals), Alasdair Dunn (drums/backing vocals)—are offering up a fresh track and accompanying moving pictures from their upcoming second album,Mournhold. The video, a very tightly shot, red/pink-tinted B&W performance video, was filmed and edited by Ryan Chapman, with additional filming and lighting provided by Jordan Harvey. The track itself is a powerful post-punk-leaning composition built around the pulsing rhythm section and enhanced with well-placed guitar arpeggios and distorted chords. It builds to a black metal-inspired explosion before returning to the post-punk pounding.
Mournhold was produced, recorded and mixed by Scott McLean at Neon Fable Studios in Edinburgh. Mastering was done by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege. It’s set for release on vinyl, cassette and digitally via True Cult Records on May 15. Place your preorder here.
Callum John Cant described the new track as such:
“‘Flesh Eternal’ is a song that digs under the concept of romantic love and goes into the primal body horror which results from the feeling of yearning being taken to its most extreme. We often look at the people we want to be with and love and make proclamations of ‘together forever.’ This is a sardonic take on that concept where the saying is taken literally and the results of flesh between two people merging physically.The composition represents everything Tyrannus is and has been in our style of aggression and atmosphere building, and shows starkly that we will pull from unexpected sources where appropriate.
For this song, I pulled on my personal love for post-punk and wrote it to be very focused on the relationship between the bass guitar and drums, with the guitars and vocals acting as delicate layers increasing in intensity with the lyrics and the song’s progression. The heavy post-punk influence gives the song the intimacy which the lyrics convey in their imagery before exploding into full blown black metal fury. That tension of the cherished familiar corrupting into something painful and deeply unsettling is exactly what Tyrannus and our album, Mournhold, is built to achieve.”
