Release Date June 26th, 2026
Format LP/CD/Digital
Genre Avant-Death Metal
Origin USA
Thætas formed in New York City in 2015 and developed through the cramped, dissonant end of brutal death metal. The band’s early path includes a self titled 2016 demo and the 2017 split “Schizma,” followed by the debut album “Shrines To Absurdity” through Maggot Stomp in 2020. Its current lineup is drummer Nick Crifo, guitarists Terrell Grannum and Patrick Hawkins, plus vocalist and bassist Cory Peterson. From the demo onward, the band has treated brutal death metal as unstable material, breaking conventional riff cycles with dissonant intervals, warped harmonics, and rhythmic dead ends.
“Shrines To Absurdity” introduced that method in a rawer form, while the years since have reduced the lineup to four members and widened the role of bass within the arrangements. Live activity across New York and the surrounding region has remained part of the band’s development. Its discography is compact, local, and marked by long gaps between releases, which make this second album a substantial point in a history stretching over a decade.
Six years between full length releases has not changed the basic attack. It has widened the angles, tightened the rhythmic collisions, and brought the stranger ideas closer to the surface. Grannum and Hawkins trade knotted riffs, scraped chords, and sudden low register turns, while Crifo treats tempo as unstable ground. Peterson’s bass remains prominent beneath a cavernous vocal
performance, giving the band a physical low end amid all the crooked movement. This is New York death metal stripped of street level swagger and redirected through paranoia, dislocation, and a taste for structures that seem ready to buckle.
Released by Profound Lore Records, “The Irredeemable Age” packs nine songs into a little over half an hour. The album was tracked independently, then mixed and mastered by Colin Marston, with Jon Zig supplying the cover art. Marston separates the scraping chords, metallic bass clank, and violent drum accents, preserving an organic edge around the sudden rhythmic turns. The low end remains blunt, while the guitar detail stays distinct during the most crowded sequences.
Song titles point toward social collapse, drained hope, failed history, and digital infestation, and the musical language answers with dissonance, crooked harmonics, abrupt tempo shifts, and low slung rhythmic figures. The playing is exact and restless, aimed at physical impact as much as disorientation and its compact construction maintain momentum through material that could have become shapeless.
Several spins expose small guitar accents, bass movement, and drum choices buried inside the initial assault. At times, the constant pivots make separate songs bleed into one another, especially when a promising riff disappears before its impact fully registers. A few transitions come across as blunt splices, leaving more admiration for the motion than attachment to individual hooks. “The Irredeemable Age” remains a tense, warped, and disciplined avant-death metal album, trimmed to its essential damage.
|7.5
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