Maere by terrestre
On Terrestre's third album, the Madrid trio deploys an instrumental soundscape that moves between the placid and the abrupt, the ethereal and the forceful, the continuous and the syncopated, framed in a general atmosphere that is rather unsettling and somewhat dark.
Delving into the balance of influences between postrock, postmetal, stoner and even doom, the songs were written after the line-up change that Carlos Prieto brought to the drums in 2020. “Maere”, the song that gives its name to the album, was written a long time ago during a brief stint with Andreu Bozada in charge of the drumsticks, and has been recovered and rearanged to the new formation.
The name comes from “Mare” (“Maere” in Old English), a kind of demon or night creature that presses on your chest while you sleep, causing nightmares and that takes different forms in different folklores, like Germanic and Slavic.
It symbolizes the dark times we live in, in a world that is beginning to see its worst nightmares become reality in the form of dystopia, stalked by new climate, repressive, war, genocidal, pandemic threats, all of them crossed by greed, individualism, ecpathy and bringing back old ghosts that were thought to have been overcome.
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Credits
Luis Granda · Guitar
Iñaki García · Bass
Carlos Prieto · Drums
All songs written and performed by Terrestre,
except Maere, written by Terrestre and Andreu Bozada.
Recorded, mixed and mastered between January and April 2023 by Adrián Hidalgo in Lasting Noise, Madrid
Design · Mario C Vaises
Belgian edition released on Dunk! Records
United States edition released on A Thousand Arms
Spanish edition released on Muerte Matar Records, Nooirax Producciones, Noizeland Records, Hombre Montaña and Lengua Armada
License
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.
Instrumental trio between postrock and postmetal, with hints of stoner.
We make noise, loud drums, loud amps, everything crunches, delays and stuff. Neck pain.
Luis - guitar
Iñaki - bass
Raúl - drums