After the conceptual trilogy consisting of previous albums “Moonlover” (2015), “Starmourner” (2017) i “Self Loather” (2021), on “Rose Thorn Necklace” Ghost Bath begins a new stage. According to the announcement, the fifth longplay of the Northern Dakota formation is to be the most intense and intraosphereal achievement of German pupils of the German Nuclear Blast Records, in which percussion blasts go hand in hand with melancholic reflection again.
Ghost Bath: “Rose Thorn Necklace” – between fantasy and reality
“‘Rose Thorn Necklace’ is both beautiful and grotesque. It blur lines between fantasy and reality, exploring the contrast of something delightful and repulsive. I made every effort to not stop – both musically and in terms of texts – and here is the effect; depressive Black Metal with authentic emotions, exceptional melodies and multi -layered clays” – The values of the new material are calculated Dennis Mikula alias Namelessvocalist and leader Ghost Bath playing the guitar and keys.
The new Ghost Bath album is already piloting the title single “Rose Thorn Necklace”. You can see the filmed music video below:
The recordings took place in the studio Heaven and Heller (drum parts) under the watchful Mike Hellerwhich he played sessionly on the drums, and in a private studio Dennis “Nameless” Mikuli. Mix and mastering in your California studio The Atomic Garden He took care of Jack Shirleya specialist cooperating with, among others with the same sound Deafheaven, Wolves in the Throne Room Whether Wiegedood. The author of the cover “Rose Thorn Necklace” is the Latvian artist Ksenija Tarasova. In the song “Needles” He played on the piano as a guest Rafael “Chewie” DobbsChilean musician who gives every day as a guitarist in thrashmetal Detoktor from Hamburg.
Let’s add that Ghost Bath is currently taking a route around North America alongside the melodic Doom / Deathmetalowców from Finnish SWALLOW THE SUN.
The album “Rose Thorn Necklace” will premiere on May 9 (CD, two vinyl versions, digitally).
The group – founded in 2012 in the city of Minot, Dakota North – is an undertaking under the leadership of Dennis Mikula, nicknamed Nameless (vocal / guitar / keyboards), which originally claimed that Ghost Bath was from … Chongqing in central China (this issue was finally explained in 2015).
First EP and debut album “Funeral” (2014) released independently. Since 2016, Ghost Bath has been associated with the German Nuclear Blast Records in the colors of which he released the conceptual album trilogy “Moonlover” (2015; original version by Northern Silence Productions), “Starmourner” (2017) i “Self Loather” (2021), and is currently preparing for the premiere of the new longplay “Rose Thorn Necklace”.
Stylistically, Ghost Bath ranks in the Depressive (Post) category Black Metal, in which the genre guitar tremols and grades of drum blasts are accompanied by melancholic melody and keyboard moody.
For nearly a decade, alongside the leader and the main creator of the music of Ghost Bath, a bass player Josh Jaye and guitarists Timothy Church and John Olivier; All three are also involved Stone Marrow from Minneapolis.
Ghost Bath – details of the album “Rose Thorn Necklace” (tracklista):
1. “Grotesque Display”
2. “Rose Thorn Necklace”
3. “Well, I tried drowning”
4. “Thinly sliced heart muscle”
5. “Dandelion Tea”
6. “Vodka Butterfly”
7. “Stamen and Pistil”
8. “Needles”
9. “Throat Cancer”.