Terrestre is an instrumental trio from Madrid that blends Post-Rock, Stoner and Post-Metal. Their sound can be considered subtle Post-Rock, although it features very powerful riffs combined with Progressive structures, resulting in a journey of intensity and dynamism in each of this new six tracks.
“Maere” is a conceptual album that marks the return to the spanish Post-Rock band, Terrestre, a trio that has remained in the shadows of the european underground scene, defending its music against local references that have had more international recognition, such as Toundra or Jardin de la Croix. The band also draws from major global Post-Rock influences, such as Russian Circles, Mogwai and Shy Low, among others.
Terrestre defends the possibility that music itself, without words, can be a meta-narrative of the current world in deep systemic crisis. On this third album, the spanish trio unfolds an instrumental soundscape that moves between the placid and the abrupt, the ethereal and the forceful, the continuous and the syncopated, framed in a rather disturbing and somewhat dark general atmosphere.
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The title album comes from “Mare” (“Maere” in Old English); a type of demon or nocturnal creature that presses on your chest while you sleep, causing nightmares. A myth that takes different forms in various folklores, such as Germanic and Slavic traditions.
“It symbolizes the dark times we live in; a world that is seeing its worst nightmares come true, in the form of dystopias, through all those global threats (climatic, repressive, war, genocidal, pandemic…), all of them crossed by greed, individualism, ecpathy, and dehumanization,” the musicians describe.
In “Maere” we can find cuts like “(H)umo” which is a song composed of two parts that transform something as simple as a fleeting thought into uncontrollable rage struggling to explode. The sounds are articulated with defined riffs that lead through different moods: determination, disruption, transitory madness, suffering, anger with brief moments of restraint, calm, soliloquies, instability, and the inevitable explosion generated by loneliness and the repression of emotions ultimately leading to emptiness.
Another track “Planck,” references to Max Planck, the founder of quantum physics theory. This track refers to represent, in the band’s terrms: “the growing power of transformation of the human being through science and its application.”
We also find cuts like “Fosil”: the heaviest song on the album, with some parts that resemble Doom Metal. This song refers to “the remains of beings that have long since disappeared” […] like a petrified reminder that everything that has lived will eventually die and, ultimately, disappear completely leaving only the evidence of its existence which entropy has respected (for now).”
Belgian LP Edition available via Dunk! Records
USA LP Edition available via A Thousand Arms
Spanish LP Editioncoedited by Muerte Matar Records (Santurtzi, Bilbao), Nooirax Producciones (Madrid), Noizeland Records (Madrid), Hombre Montaña (Nigrán, Pontevedra), Lengua Armada (Madrid)
Tracklist:
01. (H) (03:01)
02. Umo (06:54)
03. Lamprea (04:38) (1st single)
04. Maere (06:12) (2nd single)
05. Planck (07:18)
06. Fósil (07:48)
Lineup:
Luis Granda: Guitar
Iñaki García: Bass
Carlos Prieto: Drum / Raúl Jiménez (2024)