The album to end the summer. Mater Thallium's second progressive and adventurous concept album.

The album to end the summer. 'Abandoned By The Sun', by Mater Thallium.

Mater Thallium was formed in 2013 as as a celebration to iconic bearers of dark rock music -- Candlemass, King Crimson and Black Sabbath -- by two members of the legendary burlesque rock unit Procosmian Fannyfiddlers.

Mater Thallium's eponymous debut-album from the same year was a full-on symphonic doom rock album. After this was released, it became clear that what initially was meant to be a one-off project had taken on a life of its own. Mater Thallium felt like a real band, and the quartet immediately started work on what has become the far more progressive and adventurous concept album 'Abandoned By The Sun'.

The opening track, 'Sudden Dereliction', establishes a link to the previous record, but hereafter the music moves in multiple, unexpected directions, showcasing great melody lines, and a high degree of diversity, underlining the sadness and despair of the libretto's protagonists.

'Abandoned By The Sun' reads as a non-linear narrative, its focal point being the dubious disappearance of a 15-year old girl. The idea projected is that nothing can be worse than to lose someone dear without getting any answers. Mater Thallium explores the inter-human mechanisms at work when a person vanishes without a trace. The girl's disappearance secures a downward spiral and a grave ripple effect that threatens to ruin the lives of everyone close to her. The album's finale, 'Finite', offers a glimpse of what really happened that fatal day, though leaving the listeners sufficient interpretive space.

Track Listing

• Sudden Dereliction
• Suicidium
• Exiled Witness
• Maternal Mortality
• Fear Of Water
• Mother Free
• Purgatorial Membrane
• Finite

Additional Details

Label: Autumnsongs Records

Genre: Progressive Rock

Language: English

Run Time: 47:05 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 02/10/15

UPC: 7071245142490