Track By Tracks: Nixil/Drouth - Toward Dead Temples (Split) (2026)
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NIXIL
1. Never Rise Again is a culling song, intending to sever the head of the great lion serpent of burgeoning theocratic fascism. May the oppressor and his lackeys in all their forms be struck down by the swiftly swinging blade of the reaper! May their worthless husks fall and rot where they lie!
2. Bloody Footsteps on the Path of Bones is an invocation of the personal daimon for strength and guidance through the ordeals of the Great Work and the personal exile that accompanies the quest for true spiritual advancement.
3. I Am Not Here describes the experience of feelings of loss of self and personal insight gained through a long immersion in anhedonia.
DROUTH (by Matt Stikker)
4. Cathartes Aura:
This song was based on some ideas we started working with while we were still writing the songs for our LP "The Teeth of Time." It ended up being a track that's pretty representative of the different facets of our sound—some prominent leads, intertwining guitars, two vocals, and a good handful of changes and curveballs rhythmically. There's a mix of fast, slow, and in between, and the drumwork is, as always, the oil that smoothly transitions the Drouth machine between musical ideas. The layering of the guitars at the end is the type of arrangement we worked with Billy Anderson on to give our recordings with him a different and more grandiose flavor than what we'd done previously. All in all, it's a song that gives a broad cross-section of our sound.
5. The Outer Church:
With this one, we almost ended up approaching it as a physical test, trying to push ourselves to sustain the tempo and ferocity for the duration of the song. We have a lot of influences and try not to shape our sound too consciously when we're writing, preferring to develop material organically and go where the riffs take us. A lot of times, that's in a colder and more atmospheric direction, but this song is one where the death and grind simmering in our collective subconscious really came out, and we embraced it as a challenge. Some of Pat's most impressive drumwork on this track, and a featured performance by Eva Vonne on viola to help climb the scaffold to the guillotine ending.
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