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Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky
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Hardcore Black Metal from Utrecht, Netherlands. Fuck Nazis. 'Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone' out now. Shows and more: https://cutt.ly/DMw1Y1w
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November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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And part 2: #blackmetal #hardcore #antifascist #folk
This image provides thematic context for Terzij de Horde's track Discarding All Adorntments. This is part 2 of 2. The image reads: The track’s core moment features beloved folk singer Amelia Baker of Cinder Well. She provides strings for the track, and in her narration speaks to the powers that are to be abandoned and the promise of rebirth. After this core moment, the track shifts to blast beats, a hypnotic riff, and a mantra calling for the discarding and forsaking of all adornments, before once again ending with Amelia’s strings.
October 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Finally, the album's epic closer, DISCARDING ALL ADORNMENTS, featuring Amelia Baker from Cinder Well. Context, part 1:
This image offers thematic context for the track Discarding All Adornments by Terzij de Horde. This is part 1 of 2 images. The text reads: The record’s closing epic. The track focuses on the Sumerian myth of the descent into the underworld by Inanna, the goddess of love, war, fertility and wisdom. To make this journey, she has to discard all of her adornments, each symbolizing a form of her power. She is eventually reborn as the light of the morning star. The descent of Inanna is a call to lay down the powers of elites and hegemony so that the world can be reborn.
October 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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And part 2:
This is part 2 of the description of the Terzij de Horde track Justice is Not Enough to Leave the House of Modernity. The image has text that reads: A profound engagement with the depth and mystery of existence is required. The track reflects both the frustration with this imprisonment, and the deep desire to be swept up by the darker winds of a greater and deeper world.
October 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Today's track context is for JUSTICE IS NOT ENOUGH TO LEAVE THE HOUSE OF MODERNITY, the penultimate track that takes a reflective step back. Part 1 of 2 of the description.
This is part 1 of the description of Terzij de Horde's track Justice is Not Enough to Leave the House of Modernity. It is an image that reads: This track steps backward into the darkness. The track’s title was inspired by the project ‘The House That Modernity Built, which in turn drew its inspiration from Audre Lorde’s expression that ‘the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house’. A desire for justice will not provide enough strength, energy and inspiration to break humanity out of the confines of a modernity that chokes the life out of the world.
October 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Election day in the Netherlands. THE ALL-CONSUMING WORK OF THE SOUL'S FORECLOSING is about how much creativity and energy is constantly being poured into keeping oppressive systems alive.
Image describing the thematic context to the Terzij de Horde song The All-Consuming Work of the Soul's Foreclosing. The image reads: Most of the world’s creative energy is constantly expended to keep dominant and destructive systems alive. The injustices of the world are not simply there as inert realities, they require constant complicity from all of us. There is a gigantic outpouring of effort to close off the soul and instrumentalize life. The music reflects this great creative outpouring of energy and evaporative power. The track’s protagonist, a ‘soothsayer in a court swarmed by soothsayers’ reflects the pain of endless creativity being sucked back in to fortify existing structures.
October 29, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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A HAMMER TO THE GREAT MATTER OF BIRTH AND DEATH is a track about impermanence, loss of control and grief:
This image has text that provides thematic context for the song A Hammer to the Great Matter of Birth and Death, which goes as follows: A track about losing loved ones, about failing to hold on to our own lives while they slip away. The title of the track refers to the admonition that is called out in the Zen tradition: ‘Great is the matter of birth and death. Everything is impermanence, passing quickly. Be awake to every moment.’ In some Zen temples, monks hit a block of wood that has this admonition on it to call others to the meditation hall. The track is dedicated to the memory of Michiel Eikenaar, friend of the band and singer of Nihill and Dodecahedron.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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And thematic description, part 2:
This is an image that contains a thematic explanation of Terzij de Horde's third track off their new album. It's part 2 of 2 parts. It reads: This transmutation is a threat, because it opens us up to a world that is infinitely larger, more challenging and more invigorating than what the powerful want us to experience in our disempowerment. ‘The music and energy of ‘The Shadows of Prefiguration’ have a vengeful intensity to them, the album taking a darker turn after the previous track.
October 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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THE SHADOWS OF PREFIGURATION is our most vengeful track, in theme and musical tone. Part one of a two part explanation.
This is an image that contains a thematic explanation of Terzij de Horde's third track off their new album. It's part 1 of 2 parts. It reads: Prefigurative politics are about making a desired future something that can be experienced in the present. Much of this future is built in the shadows of power, in underground networks and communities. Long term strength and capacities form the backbone for revolutionary action when the time is right. The fight against capitalist fascism is long and requires deep roots. There is a need for an alchemical transmutation of the world from the chokehold of modernity to something that is more truly connected to life.
October 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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RAISE THEM TOWARDS THE SUN is a song about courage and cowardice, developing the theme from the opening track further (with alt text):
Image with text providing context for Terzij de Horde's song Raise Them Towards the Sun. The image says: This track builds on the introduction’s challenge, offering a call to shake off comfort and cowardice while others suffer and die around us. The track fully introduces the album’s emotional core of anger and grief, demanding responsibility and courage in a violent and deeply entangled world. ‘As we sift through the ashes and raise them towards the sun’ as a phrase refers to honouring those crushed by uncaring elites, while also challenging the tendency not to act, and only mourn the victims when it is too late. The track’s building sense of melody reflects the anger, grief of the lyrics, but also the call for a strengthening of the heart.
October 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Reposting all of these with alt text actually. This is the context for our intro, EACH BREATH A FLAME:
Terzij de Horde's first song, Each Breath a Flame, explained: This is the album’s introduction, mixing 90s metalcore influences with a volcanic wall of sound. Part of the soundscape was created when Terzij de Horde visited the Documenta Institute for a combined performance and lecture. The gigantic open structure of the Documenta Halle had a very unusual resonance, and the band recorded the reverberation of drums through this building. The track starts with a challenge: ‘do we dare to crawl out of a history of cowardice, out of shadowed towers at supremacy’s heart?’
October 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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We've had some excellent conversations recently (in interviews and at the album listening event) about the themes of the album's tracks, and we wanted to share these directly with you as well. We'll share context for one track each day, and make a thread:
October 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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And this is happening this week! Come have a beer with us at Kromme Haring, listen to the album together, hear what it's all about, check out some art.
October 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Terzij de Horde in Dutch newspaper NRC with the journalist wondering where the anti terror squads or lawsuits were, given that he saw our Antifascist Action flag on stage and 'antifa' has been designated a 'terrorist' organization in the NL. A toothless ruling, so it's still funny. For now.
October 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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On Saturday December 6th we will be playing our vinyl release show for OUR BREATH IS NOT OURS ALONE, together with the legendary @betonnie.bsky.social and the unbridled rage of Teardrinker. Get on it! www.tivolivredenburg.nl/agenda/54467...
October 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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This was a very special moment - we were joined on stage by the amazing Charlotte Wessels for Discarding All Adornments. She brought so much magic to it.
October 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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We played our album release show at Soulcrusher yesterday, playing the almost all of the new album, and holy shit. A packed venue and the most powerful energy. What a fucking cool moment. Video by Esther Maria.
October 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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We're still proud that @johanvanhattum.bsky.social guested in Bloodborne.
October 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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If you have enough points in Insight, you can see the Amygdalas everywhere on the buildings in Yharnam
October 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Our SOULCRUSHER show is one of two very special shows happening this weekend:
October 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Very excited to announce that we will be joined on stage by the amazing Charlotte Wessels this Friday at SOULCRUSHER for a unique rendition of DISCARDING ALL ADORNMENTS, the final epic off our album that is released this Friday. See you there!
October 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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More music incoming next week.
September 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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We're playing Soulcrusher this year, and will present our new album there. Very excited to play this amazing lineup. See you there!
September 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Next week. Get ready.
August 13, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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As you have seen everywhere now, we have been asked to play a festival filled with friends, at our favourite hangout dBs on aug 30th and 31st. We will headline the Saturday stage, but both days offer so many bands that we love.
July 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM