You can now sample Thesyre's discography on our new SoundCloud account.

They offer a much better interface, loads a lot faster and allows us to upload much more music than the dreadful Myspace everyone uses these days.

Many people got in touch recently, praising our return to an independent status. While it won't make things easier for us on a monetary level, it will allow us to at least get connected directly with our supporters: You! Your feedback and support will be even more important from now on.

It seems our decision to share our music for free also proved a good idea since we already registered over 200 downloads in the last 2 weeks. Feel free to download all you want on our MP3 archive, hosted on MediaFire (no access code, no questions asked, no passwords and no limit). I'll try to add new content soon!

Some wisdom on overpopulation

"In the annals of human bungling over our wholesale destruction of our environment, the follies will be recorded as first hinging on a strawman (global warming) until people noted that, at the root of all problems, was one we have denied for its social unpopularity for too long: Overpopulation"..

Read more.

The future of Thesyre, final conclusions

Since the release of our latest album “Résistance” (Osmose, 2009) and after thinking for a while about the future of the band, we came to the conclusion that our priorities as a band were simple:

We enjoy writing, arranging and recording music but we hate the idea of performing it onstage and on tour. We are creators, not entertainers.

We liked collaborating with labels over the years (and some obviously did a better job than others) but there will be no satisfying recording deals for us anymore. We’re going independent!

You’ll also notice we’ll now have limited stocks of physical copies from now on. Instead we’ll be giving you free access to download our music via our website.

If you feel like it, you will still be able to support us directly by buying our limited physical releases (Tape, CD, LP), merchandising items or simply making a donation after downloading.

Are we committing commercial suicide? Maybe. Who cares? We surely don’t! Let’s cut the middleman and reach out to the right people directly.

We embrace the revolution of the music industry!

Ars longa, vita brevis.

Triptykon "Eparistera Daimones"

Former Celtic Frost's main man Tom Gabriel Fischer resurfaces with it's new band Triptykon. Two tracks from the band's debut can be heard here:

"Abyss Within My Soul"

"A Thousand Lies"

Alex Jones' Fall of the Republic

Watch the full documentary and make your mind about it:

Master's Hammer just released its new album "Mantras".
From the samples I heard they've lost none of their originality. I already ordered the Digipak from their website. You can also order various packages including the LP, Digipak and/or a T-shirt. Hopefully an American distro will stock the LP soon (to make the postage fees more tolerable for us abroad).

Burzum's next album title changed to 'Belus'

Read more here.

The future of Thesyre, part 2

We are thinking about the future of Thesyre. We will release new music, that's for sure. On which format, on which label, when, where... We need to answer those questions before letting you know what will happen. Whatever the outcome, the future looks bright!

Climate change — it happens, with or without our help.

Read more on  Dr. Roy Spencer's website.

Is equality necessary?

"Society itself needs to stop insisting that in America, anyone can be president, CEO, groundbreaking scholar, or musical genius because the reality was always that only the rare few get to rise above the rest. Because equality was always no more than comforting illusion, the rest of us in all our great numbers are lost to history forever. I believe we can choose to be adult enough to accept this understanding of our own limitations, ditch the collective ego drama culture, and move on to things better in life than fantasy delusions of humanistic grandeur."
www.amerika.org

Burzum "Den Hvite Guden" coming this spring

Read more on Burzum's website.

Alex Birch @ Corrupt.org

As the Far Right is gaining ground in Europe, many people now want to put racism, white slavery and intergalactic terrorism back on the agenda again. But before we wage war against racism, let's just acknowledge a few things. Read more

Great news from Master's Hammer here.

More reviews

Two interesting reviews covering Thesyre's latest full-lenght releases, namely "Exist!" and "Resistance", can be found on the A.N.U.S. (American Nihilist Underground Society) website.

Read on!

Nocturnal Cult review of "Resistance"

Nocturnal Cult

With Resistance we have the fourth and most complex full length album from Quebec's Thesyre.  After an electronic intro of squealing guitar feedback, a digitized voice, and a martial bass guitar the album kicks into high gear with Hymne Au Merite.  A groovy black n' roll track that illustrates Thesyre's expanded arsenal, whether it be a black metal melody, an "almost Gregorian" chant, or a swirling guitar lead.  Par Une Froide Nuit D'Octobre is a painting of dissonant yet somber sonic textures.  A confident black metal march forms the backbone of the bass heavy Laique et Souverain.  A gang chorus shouts over a thrash riff and the pulsing bass guitar never relents.  With each track, a new angle, a new approach.  Such is the case with the doomy, slow riffs on De Realisme et De Nihilisme Actif.  The steady double bass and clean vocals support each other's transcendental misanthropy.  Eric's raspy gurgle is distinctive and embodies a bleak callousness.  Le Grande Noirceur is a beautiful instrumental which is a tranquil medieval melody played on clean guitars and further expresses the diversity of this album.  Twisting the melody somewhat and erasing its folkish roots is Afin D'en Finir Avec Le Judgement Des Dieux, a nostalgic lean into the abyss where I can discern even some extremely subtle references to some old Stockholm styled Swedish death metal.  Finally, the album's philosophical grimness culminates on the title track where a muted pounding beat and faded, digitized vocals are washed out by a rising tide of noise.  On Resistance Thesyre has developed an album of totalitarian might, utilizing groove heavy black n' roll and an overall militant attitude.  Resistance is Thesyre's best work to date and sees them improving upon their own individual sound to create a unique identity within an underground awash with clones.  Resistance strikes a truly subversive chord.   

Different shades of darkness:

MAGMA


JANNICK TOP (Infernal Machina)

New Darkthrone online

I know it's a fake created to mock the band but, you'll have to admit it, the people behind this nailed it perfectly!

Simply amazing!

Another proof there's no need for screams, screeching guitars and high-speed blastbeats to create dark music:

The Grand Dumbing Down

Stupid people reproduce faster and in greater numbers than intelligent people. A male idiot having sex with a female idiot will most likely generate another idiot. Kids ape what people around them are doing so having stupid parents to imitate won't help any stupid kid to get any better with time...

Heard about this? It's true! I see it everyday. I experience the dumbing down of society all the time.

We are doomed!

What are we doing to solve the problem? We help them! We pay their rents, buy them food and raise their kids with our taxes. We're spending resources, time and efforts to make sure they'll all feel good and safe. We entertain them and sell them all kinds of cheap crap to make them happy. We let them become an important part of our economy by reaping taxes out of the cigarettes and alcohol we sell them and which they buy with the money we give them.

BUT...

We are the real idiots here. We accept such things like if there was a higher power handling everything and as if we had no way to overcome the grand dumbing down. We accept this as our inevitable fate.

If this is all we can do about it, then we deserve all of it. We all deserve to be slaves to this system if we cannot come-up with a solution.

I have many solutions. You probably have a lot of other solutions...

Now try getting elected with those solutions as your political agenda.

Try to tell people around you about the radical enterprises we must undertake to make sure the next generation will not be as dumb as the previous one.

Tell supid people they shouldn't reproduce at such a rate, that they shouldn't be the ones bringing new life on earth.

You will be demonized by the same people 'secretly' thinking stupid people breeds stupid kids.

I've been, am and will always be demonized for saying so but I'll stand my way! If this is the only thing I can do I will. If I cannot stop the movement I will at least tell other people about it.

We need to spread the idea that we can change the situation or we'll soon have to accept the fact we'll never be able to do anything about it. Maybe there's already nothing to do about it. I'll stand my way, anyway...

On the future of Thesyre

Here's an update on the band's activities:

1) I am writing new songs and looking to resume rehearsals soon. The new material I come up with so far sounds like a cross between our latest album "Résistance" and elements from the early albums (a slightly more hardcore/punk  and less mid-tempo feel). I'd like to give it a stronger voivodian feel as well as adding industrial elements. We're also talking about more more vintage synth in our songs. I have no lyrics written yet but lots of ideas and a general 'concept' to work with.

2) We are free agents at the moment, meaning we are not signed to any label. I am not sure if we want to sign with another label anyway. We consider the options out there so if you have a label or if you know of an interested label, get in touch (replace (at) with @ in the address). Note that we are considering putting our next material online (MP3) and making it available for free, while also pressing hard copies both in CD and LP format. The packaging should be a bit more intricate this time.

3) I am discussing with another band (I like a lot) to release a 7" someday.

4) We're getting asked if we'll ever print new tshirts soon and the answer is yes...soon. How soon, no idea yet. Interested manufacturers, distros or labels can get in touch.

There we go!

On reunions and rediscovering your roots...

You've all witnessed it online and inlife: bands reunite or return to a more 'aggressive' sound these days.

Every single band who broke-up in the last decade considers reforming now (well, almost all of them - thanks to Coroner for NOT doing it, they remain one of my best memory from the thrash era). Most bands are either reforming or "returning to their roots" because there's some money to be gained, simple!

Consider why most of them disbanded back then (and please forget about the musical differences...there's always something else outside the official press releases) and you'll realize there's no way they could 'resolve those issues' unless there's a paycheck motivating the musicians. Some of those bands realize that they've become much bigger than they were back when they broke-up and, understandable or not, they cannot pass over the opportunity to finally get a decent paycheck for a few gigs.

What is more alarming are the bands recording new albums, rehashing the good old test and tried formula and trying to cash-in as much as they can while the reunion trend goes on. Some fo those albums are just aweful and lack the energy and passion their previosu releases offered. Some of them come up with decent follow-ups but eventually break-up again on tour, realizing they couldn't 'resolve the issues' even with a fuller bank account. Names might be poping in your mind and I do not need to name any of them here...except for those two:

Both Metallica and Megadeth recently came up with 'back to their aggressive roots' sub-par albums and they're doing anything to make you think they're glad to sound a bit more aggressive now.

Megadeth in 2009 is simply overrated but it seems neither Dave Mustaine, its band of hired guns or their label, Blabberunner...oops Roadermouth...anyway...wants to face it. There's still money to be made with the name and everyone will cash-in what they can on it. I've seen the new Megadeth CD in the stores (it looks really bad, on all aspects). I've heard the album in advance (it's really nothing that interesting for a band this old and promising that much to their fans) and it's obvious I will not buy it to fund this farce that is Megadeth now.

Same goes for Metallica who came-up with an album sounding anything but aggressive. I've seen the new Megadeth CD in the stores (it looks really bad, on all aspects). I've heard the album in advance (it's really nothing that interesting for a band this old and promising that much to their fans) and it's obvious I will not buy it to fund this farce that is Metallica now (sound familiar?) It sounds like old men aiming at reviving the past and, well, it's not convincing at all for me. Playing fast and messy, sounding a little dirtier and tunning your instruments lower won't betray the fact that the anger and the fury which fueled your early years is gone now and you cannot revive it unless you truly feel it. Millionaires rarely feel anger towards the world which finally made them rich...

They're selling-out arenas again but who's there? Kids who missed them in their prime and mostly people who got fooled by this 'return to the roots' tendency. Parents wants their kids to witness the bands which meant so much to them in the 80s but outside the nostalgia and trendy aspect of the event, there's little to gain from both of these once well-respected bands. It's like AC/DC in the 90s: they've lost it but people aren't ready to let them go and neither do they.

People like reliving their past and are ready to pay for it, even if it's a sub-par version of it.

Reality is that the bands they liked in 1988 are all aging rockers now, aiming where the paycheck is the thickest and hoping the trend will go one for a few more years before they retire for good.

Had to get this out of my chest. Thanks for reading.

Thesyre interview in Archaic Magazine

"We’re dealing with an egalitarian obsession which we rarely witness in history. This might make us feel more ‘modern’ or ‘advanced’ but I am pretty sure it’s not an avenue that will win us anything on the long run"»

Read on!

Thesyre vs. downloading

I have been asked by some people if I minded that most of Thesyre's albums were available for free as MP3 via various torrent and p2p sites. Unlike people making a living out of their bands (or trying to make a living, should I add), I have very little interest in record sales and getting a steady income from selling CDs. In all honesty I'd openly welcome anyone to upload our entire discography anywhere on the web, for as long as the files are well encoded and that there is a link to our website (or to this Blog). The more people discovering our music the better! We are definitely not a 'popular' band and we only rely on word-of-mouth so far to reach new supporters; If MP3 is the way to go then so be it! Download my friends! If you feel like supporting us, then buy a CD, a LP, a Tshirt (some more will be printed someday) or just tell your friends about us.

The only concern I have with this whole issue is toward those crappy sites selling MP3 of our music and ripping us off completely. There are a bunch of them and there is not much we can do to prevent it. These sites are selling our music illegaly and are making a profit out of ripping both you and us. If you'd like to get our music either buy it directly from us (see the 'store' link) or an affiliated label or mailorder. If you want MP3s of our music, then make sure you get them from legal sites or, better, get it for free online (do your homework on file sharing and don't ask me where to get the links, please!).