*Artist: Thumos
*Album: Symposium
*Year: 2023
*Genre: Instrumental Progressive Doom/Post-Metal
*Country: United States
*Format: mp3@VBR276kbps
*Size: 113MB
Tracklist:
1. Phaedrus 05:20
2. Pausanias 05:54
3. Eryximachus 04:20
4. Aristophanes 05:52
5. Agathon 08:50
6. Socrates 07:00
7. Diotima 05:42
8. Alcibiades 10:35
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Total playing time: 53:33
Extended info
“Simply brilliant. Simply unforgettable. Thumos have done the impossible by creating an album that somehow surpasses The Republic. Symposium is a must-listen.“ 10/10
- GBHBL
“The technical proficiency of the project is as always on full display, however there's something different about this release. The artist has expanded their sound to include a dramatic flair, a renewed focus on atmosphere and elements of post-punk/goth rock. These new inclusions encourage the listener to fully immerse themselves in the auditory journey on which they have embarked. If you're an adult with an attention span of more than 3 minutes then you're going to love this album.”
- Cave Dweller Music
“An instrumental juggernaut that is also stunningly beautiful and a delight in its ability to be everything all at once. Symposium is incredible heavy, emotional, a soundtrack to thought, intellect and an ode to ideals, and stunningly executed.” 9.5/10
- The Coroner’s Report
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- Weedian
"Thumos’ Symposium is, in my humble opinion, their best effort to date. The music is put together nicely and writing a review of any of their albums leads me down an educational rabbit hole. I enjoy learning about things I don’t know, and that enjoyment is doubled when it is inspired by cool music like this."
- Third Eye Psych Rock
"The song (Aristophanes) is an arresting post-metal instrumental. It builds slowly from brittle eerie guitars and shimmery synths into braying chords, bowel-loosening bass, and skull-smacking beats.
The twang of the opening guitar motif carries forward, strange and inviting, as another guitar yowls and the drumming becomes increasingly tumultuous. Ethereal eeriness creates a pause, and then Thumos continues working in variations on the song’s main melodic motif, pushing and pulling the volume and switching up the drum patterns, and managing to dig that motif deeper under the skin."
- No Clean Singing
“One of the best parts about the album is the increasingly tense mood the songs creates, but they never let you succumb to them. They lead you gingerly to the edge of the cliff, but never push you over. I very much enjoyed these instrumentals and the shifting moods they created while listening. Anyone who tells you that music without vocals can’t create a vivid listening experience doesn’t know what they are talking about, or aren’t able to feel things in a variety of manners.” 8/10
- Metal Temple
“As one further goes through the pages, one will find eight equally solid, strongly composed, picturesque songs, top-notch production in sound (crisp and concrete), with overwhelming and awe-inspiring/beautiful craftsmanship, musicianship and showmanship, and a release that's genuinely powerful, transfixing & entertaining (surprising) from the moment of play and draws the listener deep within the music and lyrical context.
No favourites or skipping tracks, this needs & demands to listen as one
Very highly recommended -not to be missed.”
- Metal 1 on 1 (UK)
- GBHBL
“The technical proficiency of the project is as always on full display, however there's something different about this release. The artist has expanded their sound to include a dramatic flair, a renewed focus on atmosphere and elements of post-punk/goth rock. These new inclusions encourage the listener to fully immerse themselves in the auditory journey on which they have embarked. If you're an adult with an attention span of more than 3 minutes then you're going to love this album.”
- Cave Dweller Music
“An instrumental juggernaut that is also stunningly beautiful and a delight in its ability to be everything all at once. Symposium is incredible heavy, emotional, a soundtrack to thought, intellect and an ode to ideals, and stunningly executed.” 9.5/10
- The Coroner’s Report
Best Releases This Week
- Weedian
"Thumos’ Symposium is, in my humble opinion, their best effort to date. The music is put together nicely and writing a review of any of their albums leads me down an educational rabbit hole. I enjoy learning about things I don’t know, and that enjoyment is doubled when it is inspired by cool music like this."
- Third Eye Psych Rock
"The song (Aristophanes) is an arresting post-metal instrumental. It builds slowly from brittle eerie guitars and shimmery synths into braying chords, bowel-loosening bass, and skull-smacking beats.
The twang of the opening guitar motif carries forward, strange and inviting, as another guitar yowls and the drumming becomes increasingly tumultuous. Ethereal eeriness creates a pause, and then Thumos continues working in variations on the song’s main melodic motif, pushing and pulling the volume and switching up the drum patterns, and managing to dig that motif deeper under the skin."
- No Clean Singing
“One of the best parts about the album is the increasingly tense mood the songs creates, but they never let you succumb to them. They lead you gingerly to the edge of the cliff, but never push you over. I very much enjoyed these instrumentals and the shifting moods they created while listening. Anyone who tells you that music without vocals can’t create a vivid listening experience doesn’t know what they are talking about, or aren’t able to feel things in a variety of manners.” 8/10
- Metal Temple
“As one further goes through the pages, one will find eight equally solid, strongly composed, picturesque songs, top-notch production in sound (crisp and concrete), with overwhelming and awe-inspiring/beautiful craftsmanship, musicianship and showmanship, and a release that's genuinely powerful, transfixing & entertaining (surprising) from the moment of play and draws the listener deep within the music and lyrical context.
No favourites or skipping tracks, this needs & demands to listen as one
Very highly recommended -not to be missed.”
- Metal 1 on 1 (UK)
Technical info
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File Size : 19.7M
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Comments :
Title=Agathon
Artist=Thumos
Album=Symposium
Tracknumber=05
Year=2023
Genre=Instrumental Progressive Doom | Post-Metal
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