Mammon’s Throne Dish Out Extreme Doom in “Return us to The Stars”

This Melbourne crew has a sound that looms large, like a mighty shadow engulfing your senses, full of fiery beats, fearsome roars, witchy riffs, and grim atmosphere. A sound that can best be summed up by the rarely used (but quite fitting) tag extreme doom. Behold, MAMMON’S THRONE!

“Who is Mammon?” you may be wondering. Only one of the seven crown princes of Hell! The word came into popular use following Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, which warns about the dangerous trap of greed. You know, that thing about the love of money being the root of all evil. Mammon also played a role in the Spawn comic books and the DC universe, so there’s that.

Now we return to Mammon’s Throne for yet another profane offering of damning downtuned devastation. Following 2020’s Forward Unto Flame, which came out during peak pandemic panic, we have five songs crafted during the turbulent years that followed. Today, Doomed & Stoned premieres the opening track off Mammon’s Throne. The band had this to say about it:

We wrote “Return us to The Stars” to tell the tale of a ritual being performed. We set it amidst the backdrop of a desolate desert, largely devoid of life and water, where the only seas are the endless sands that lay before weary emissaries of ancient, forgotten gods.

Every song on the album is about some sort of ending. Be it the end of a life, a kingdom, humanity, or an entire world, and “Return us to the Stars” is a last ditch and terrible ritual to ancient gods in the hope to ascend to the stars and leave a dying world.

We structured the song to slowly build from a somber funeral march towards the blackened ferocity of the final eldritch and chaotic moments of the ritual. The interlude where clean guitars take focus and the rhythm section stops, symbolizes the eerie moments of being in the eye of a great and powerful storm of energy.

Out April 1st on Brilliant Emperor Records, Mammon’s Throne is a wicked genre melter, with elements of funeral doom, death, black, and post-metal in the vein of Serpentine Path, Graves at Sea, and Unearthly Trance (pre-order here). I recommend mixing it up on a playlist with the band’s Australian compatriots Motherslug, Lucifungus, Holy Serpent, Potion, and Lamassu.

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Melbourne extreme doom metal band Mammon’s Throne return heavier and darker with their second, self-titled full-length album.

After relentless touring following the success of their 2020 debut album ‘Forward Unto Flame,’ released on vinyl through Black Farm Records, Mammon’s Throne have established themselves as a force to be reckoned within the Australian live music scene.

On their latest offering, haunting funeral doom melodies meet crushing sludge and death grooves before taking flight in searing blackened crescendos all accompanied by a chilling and diverse range of vocal styles and a furious drumming assault.

The album is slated for an April 2023 release through Brilliant Emperor Records on multiple formats and has been mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege Mastering Studio.

Mammon’s Throne is: Matthew Miller (Vocals), Amesh Perera (Guitars), Sam Talbot-Canon (Bass) & Nick Boschan (Drums)