NEWS: Tyrannus begin to rot?

Produced, recorded and mixed by Scott McLean at Neon Fable Studios in Edinburgh between January and June 2025 before mastering by Brad Boatright (Obituary, Internal Bleeding, Creeping Death) at Audiosiege, a new album from Tyrannus will surface from the black depths on 15th May via  Athens Greece based label True Cult Records. Dubbed “Mournhold“ it is said to be toxic blend of 80’s Thrash, Black Metal and Post-Punk with “Flesh Eternal” the second piece of evidence around that. Pre-orders are available over at bandcamp.

The band comment: “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”