Our debut album "The Elk" (LifeForce Records)

[jipchen]

I think it's somewhere between post-metal and post-rock with crust, hardcore and some black metal influences (though only very little on this album).
The album will be released in August 26th (EU) and September 3rd (North America) through LifeForce Records.
https://www.facebook.com/Thraenenkind

You can preorder the album and CD+shirt bundles here: http://www.impericon.com/en/advancedsearch/result/?q=the+elk
CD, CD + black shirt, CD + charcoal shirt

Here's a short biography if you're interested: http://www.lifeforcerecords.com/main/artists/thranenkind/

 

[egan.]

Sounds cool man.

 

[Melb_shredder]

Loving this! \m/ Wish the drums were a bit louder, they seem really behind in the mix, even for this genre. But really cool music

 

[jipchen]

Thanks guys, glad you like it.

And yes, unfortunately I agree the drums are a little too quiet - though they are intentionally behind the rest, but I might have overdone it.
I mixed this well over a year ago, and recently we added drums to one of the (then) instrumental songs, but I didn't have the time nor energy to redo all mixes.
By now I would've made quite some different mix choices, I guess we all know that feeling

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

Fucking loving this, kinda reminds me of Martyrdöd, which is a good thing. Love the shirt design, too, but the preorder link doesn't seem to work for me!

 

[Vicioushead]

Very nice. When that heavy part comes in its HUUUGE!

 

[Vicioushead]

Also, what does the band name mean?

 

[jipchen]

Thanks Jarkko, that means a lot Never heard of Martyrdöd before, but looked them up and realized I'll see them live in two weeks @ Fluff Fest which is cool haha.
Weird, the link doesn't work for me either (it does on facebook, but not from this forum). Probbaly the umlaut (ä) in the name. I changed the link, the search term is "the elk" now.

If anyone's interested and the link still doesn't work, here are the individual ones:
CD, CD + black shirt, CD + charoal shirt


@Vicioushead: Thanks! I honestly thought this wouldn't appeal to anyone here, but glad to see I was wrong.
The name is german - actually, "Thränen" is an old, outdated form of "Tränen" (tears) - and could be roughly translated as "child of tears". It's hard to translate though because you can interpret it different even in german as it is kind of a neologism. It could be a crying child, or a child who causes other creatures to cry, a child born in tears, etc.

 

[Vicioushead]

I'm much more interested in stuff like that than I am modern metal. Thanks for the explanation. The name caught my eye.

 

[jipchen]

Hope you guys are pre-ordering the shit out of these awesome shirts. I just ordered one myself

 

[jipchen]

Our label just posted a track-by-track teaser for the album, feel free to have a listen

 

[jipchen]

Our double-vinyls are finally here, and they look mindblowingly good imho

 

[AboutBlank]

Is the shirt design heavily inspired by Hannibal(Series)?

 

[Ataraxia2320]

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[jipchen]

Is the shirt design heavily inspired by Hannibal(Series)?

Ha, not from our part at least. Don't know about the designer but none of us has seen the Hannibal series. It's supposed to kinda show an impersonation of nature (or at least someone living very close to nature) dying because our civilization doesn't care about pollution, climate change, acid rain, dying forests, etc.

Wow, the vinyls look amazing.

=) Thanks

If you guys are interested in getting the double LP:
Clear/Splatter: http://www.s-c-r.de/shop.php?&search=Thraenenkind&viewitem=scr-vl020-2

Black: http://www.s-c-r.de/shop.php?&search=Thraenenkind&viewitem=scr-vl020-1