Description

Black vinyl with insert

In 2009, Black Math Horseman released their debut album, Wyllt. The band’s music was unlike almost everything that existed at the time. It was hypnotic doom, heavy, sonic alchemy that seemed to emanate from another time, another place. The members—vocalist/bassist Sera Timms, guitarists Ian Barry and Bryan Tulao, and drummer Sasha Popovic—had somehow tapped into heavy music’s collective subconscious. A European tour, along with appearances at Roadburn and Primavera Sound, solidified Black Math Horseman’s reputation as a mesmerizing live band. Then, just a few years later, they were gone. When we came together initially as a band, we had no goals aside from seeing if we could make beautiful music together, Timms explains. We made a demo, which turned into an album because it was liked. And then we became a working band that was being asked to play shows and tours. But we had never discussed what the long-term goals of the band were. There became a schism between some members wanting to become a professional band and others wanting to remain in the creative center of the rehearsal space. Those disagreements led to the band dissolving. In 2018, the members of Black Math Horseman reconvened. At first, the conversation was about how we were all in different places now, and could we even go back to being that band that we were?”Timms offers. It feels like it’s been a thousand years since we wrote that music. Since then, I’d gone in a very different direction and barely even listened to heavy music anymore. So, initially we just got back together as friends to see what would happen. Maybe we’d write completely different music now—and we were all open to that. But that’s not how it worked out at all. When we started jamming again, we didn’t sound any different, Timms says. We discovered that the music that comes from us four together is something that we have no control over. It just happens. It’s a recipe that’s beyond us. As of 2022, Black Math Horseman have re-emerged from the fog of time and memory with a stunning new comeback release. Their self-titled follow-up to Wyllt makes it seem as if the band never stopped playing together. A trance-inducing journey to the center of humanity’s inner turmoil, Black Math Horseman is meant to be listened to as a single, continuous composition. Conceptually and lyrically, the record continues the storyline from Wyllt, which follows the mysterious character known as the Black Math Horseman. Music wise it comprised of four chapters that seam into one, Black Math Horseman sees Timms and company heightening the tension and atmosphere of their sound, creating something more experimental and ultimately heavier with their comeback release.

Track list:
1. Black Math Horseman
2. Boar Domane
3. The Bough
4. Cypher