Australian metalers Temtris will release their new album “Ritual Warfare” on April 30th via Wormholedeath.
This will be the band’s sixth full length album from which you can watch a lyric video below…
Biography
Before the turn of the Millenium, on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia, there was a popular ‘heavy rock’ band well known for having a young woman with an ‘astonishingly loud and powerful voice’ and a guitarist with ‘amazing versatility’. The band was called ‘Labyrinth’ and the two musicians in question were Genevieve Rodda and Anthony ‘Fox’ Roberts. Labyrinth eventually came to an end having recorded a number of demos and an independently released E.P. – ‘Escape Reality’. Genevieve and ‘Fox’ as he was now commonly known, decided to pursue their shared passion for heavy music in a larger scene and Sydney seemed like a good place to find the musicians they needed for the direction they wanted to go…
In late 2003, ‘Temtris’ entered the studio with the intention of recording an E.P., but things went so well that they came out the other end with a full album, ‘THRESHOLD’. Only 100 copies were produced and the CD was only available at shows.
A deal was struck with new Independent Australian Heavy Metal label BATTLEGOD PRODUCTIONS, and in 2008 Temtris released ‘MASQUERADE’, a much darker album than it’s predecessor.
SHALLOW GRAVE was released in 2014. The album itself was another impressive step up for the band, with tracks such as ‘Slave to the System’, and ‘Shallow Grave’ quickly achieving high rotation on metal radio stations worldwide. A much larger scale tour ensued, culminating in a performance that earned them rave reviews in front of over 1,000 metalheads in support of German metal legends ‘Accept’ at Sydney’s Factory Theatre.
In 2016 Temtris released ENTER THE ASYLUM, a ‘themed album’, where every song represented a room (and it’s inhabitant) in an asylum. Fans and metal radio alike quickly embraced new tracks such as Mind Games, Empty Room, Phoenix, and the title track Enter the Asylum.
Barely pausing to draw breath, Temtris charged into 2018 with another full-length album. First came the track ‘Run’, complete with windswept video, released on vinyl with a bonus b-side of Paradise Road (from Threshold). Then came the album – RAPTURE – awarded ‘Australian Metal Album of the Year’ by Global Metal Apocalypse.
Temtris filled venues across Australia and supported touring bands such as Ensiferum, Girlschool, Loudness, Metal Church, and Marty Friedman throughout 2018/19.
Temtris will headline New Zealand’s SMASHFEST heavy metal festival to kick off 2020 and then… well stay tuned, because things are just starting to get interesting…
