THOU and EMMA RUTH RUNDLE's collaborative album 'May Our Chambers Be Full' out today on Sacred Bones

EMMA RUTH RUNDLE & THOU’S COLLABORATIVE ALBUM: MAY OUR CHAMBERS BE FULL OUT TODAY ON SACRED BONES LISTEN & SHARE: BANDCAMP, SPOTIFY, APPLE

Album Artwork | Photo By Craig Mulcahy  “Rundle is no stranger to heavy music, but she provides a gloomy and dreamy counterpoint here, singing gentler sections before Thou pull everything into darker territory. It also just sounds huge.” STEREOGUM "Rundle really teases out the melodic gloom thats always underpinned Thou while Thou sets her up as this cathedral shaking front person" Lars Gotrich for NPR “one of the year’s best records” DUSTED “The juxtaposition of Rundle’s long distance melodies and Bryan Funck of Thou dredging up his guts to scream into the sky shows two sides working together to create something surprising and new.” THE FADER "rich and expansive... Emma and Thou's respective approaches to music latch together like puzzle pieces on this album. Emma's metal adjacency makes Thou a perfect band to add a little more weight to her music, and Thou's flirtations with melody and atmosphere allow Emma to immediately assimilate into their world...some of the most exciting guitar-based music released this year." BROOKLYN VEGAN “Ancestral Recall already hints towards an album of the year contender: the way Rundle’s delay-heavy wails float atop Andy Gibbs and Matthew Thudium’s guttural grind is utterly spell-binding.” GUITAR WORLD “Thou’s crushing sludge metal intertwines with Rundle’s own stylistic guitar playing and singing, and they trade off on vocals on the lead single 'Ancestral Recall'. The results are something new and adventurous for both parties.” CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND “haunting, monolithic” REVOLVER “behemoth...one of the best songs I've heard this year” METAL INJECTION “a concise, cathartic, heavy album with an emotionally affecting core” TREBLE “There’s plenty to latch onto, whether it’s the neck-rending riffs, the snarling/soaring vocals or just wanting to vibe out and let the darkness envelope you; it’s a display of artistry, the antithesis of bands who just want to game the Spotify system with two-minute bangers. Painstakingly created in 12-hour practice sessions across months and cities, seven musicians working toward one goal has been well and truly achieved.” KERRANG! “monstrously heavy and beautifully delicate. It is abrasive yet also melodic. It is riff-laden but the music exists in support of the absolutely faultless songs. It often feels both bleak and euphoric.” GHOST CULT MAG “emotional and enchanting” MXDWN “A stunning expression of force, fragility and fortitude” HEAVIEST OF ART  “The result is unanticipated and stunning...This collaboration sees its principle figures not only bringing their talents to the table, but stepping outside expectation for a surprising push into sonic shape-shifting and a greater melodic good.” METAL HAMMER “The whole LP would be a great release for either artist, but it's the brilliant convergence of sensibilities that sets it apart in the landscape of alternative metal...an excellent entry point for any would-be Thou fans, and a potential game-changer for Rundle ones.”  LOUD AND QUIET Thou and Emma Ruth Rundle’s (appearing courtesy of Sargent House) groundbreaking collaborative album, May Our Chambers Be Full sees its release today via Sacred Bones as part of the label’s Alliance Series. May Our Chambers Be Full is available across all digital platforms today however its physical release has been pushed to December 4. For updates and more info, go here. LISTEN & SHARE MAY OUR CHAMBERS BE FULL BANDCAMP, SPOTIFY, APPLE While their solo material seems on its face to be quite disparate, both prolific groups have spent their lauded careers lurking at the outer boundaries of heavy scenes, each having more in common with DIY punk and its spiritual successor, grunge. The debut straddles a similar, very fine line both musically and thematically. While Emma’s standard fare is a blend of post-rock-infused folk music, and Thou is typically known for its downtuned, doomy sludge, the conjoining of the two artists has created a record more in the vein of the early ’90s Seattle sound and later ’90s episodes of Alternative Nation, while still retaining much of the artists’ core identities.  The visual art accompanying this work was created in collaboration with preeminent New Orleans photographer Craig Mulcahy. The faceless, genderless models are meant to emphasize this pervasive state of ambiguity and emotional vacillation, the images falling somewhere between modern high fashion and classical Renaissance.

Press Photo By Craig Mulcahy  Thou: Web, Instagram, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes Emma Ruth Rundle: Web, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple