Name: Magus
Brand: Thou

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SBR205lp-C4

Colour

Gold

Colour details

Transparent Tan

Discogs ID

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2024-02-23

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

843563170892

Total Cap

Gold LPx2

SBR205cd

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Artist

Thou

Genre US

Metal

Label US

Sacred Bones Records

Thou is a sludge/doom metal band hailing from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Formed in 2005, the band has been making waves in the heavy music scene with their unique sound and intense live performances.
The current lineup consists of Matthew Thudium, Andy Gibbs, KC Stafford, Mitch Wells, Tyler Coburn, and Bryan Funck. With three guitarists providing a wall of crushing riffs, a solid bass foundation, thunderous drums, and powerful vocals, Thou creates a sonic experience that is both haunting and cathartic.
Influenced by bands like The Body, Indian, Cough, YOB and Grief among others; Thou has carved out their own niche within the genre. Their music combines elements of sludge metal with doom metal to create an atmosphere that is dark and brooding.

Newest Listed Items

Though often lumped in with New Orleans sludge bands like Eyehategod and Crowbar, Thou shares a more spiritual kinship with '90s proto-grunge bands like Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden (all of whom they’ve covered extensively, both in the studio and onstage). The band's aesthetic and political impulses reflect the obscure'90s DIY hardcore punk found on labels like Ebullition, Vermiform, and Crimethinc. From 2004 through 2016, the band has released four full-length albums, six EPs (some bordering on full lengths), two collaboration records with The Body, and enough material spread out over splits to make up another four or five LPs. While sonically, Magus may be a continuation of Thou's previous album Heathen, thematically it stands as a stark rebuttal, a journey beyond the principles of pleasure and pain. It is more the culmination of these distinct EPs, which all orbit some internal black hole. FFO alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as agony, reason as disease.

Magus

Music US

Discover Magus by Thou. Available in CD and LP formats. A culmination of distinct EPs, exploring themes of alienation, decay, and awareness as agony. From Sacred Bones Records.