threatful unconsciousness
Living before the dinosaurs and listening how the world rumbles. Always loved thunderous songs, but the whole album - this is absolutely stunning.
Favorite track: Laurasia-Gondwana.
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• 12-page booklet with lyrics
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SUPERCONTINENT Black T-Shirt
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Black t-shirt featuring the front artwork of our "Supercontinent" LP.
Artwork by Stefan Thanneur (Chaos Echoes, Ocre).
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Thecodontion logo by Andrew Cunningham (Malthusian, Wreck of the Hesperus).
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Limited edition of 100 copies, released by Dybbuk Productions (Israel). Artwork by Stefan Thanneur (Chaos Echoes, Ocre).
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Lithostigraphic structural arrays reveal
the supercontinent's existence often disputed
a three fold stratigraphic similarity leads
to reconstructions of ancient latitudes
extensional faults during felsic volcanism
both coeval with impact layers
paleomagnetic data showing igneous complexes
of what could have once been part of the same
a pattern found in Precambrian cover sequences
granite greenstone belts show evidence
of meteorite impacts into spherules of glass
akin to lunar soil carbon chondrules
traced in the membrane organelles of eukaryotes
coded in the blue algae of Cyanophyta
molecular clocks and fossil photosynthesis
biomarkers have found their way through rocks
to discover the missing Archaean link
between twin transcontinental basins
two cratons drifting apart from each other
across four billion years wide oceans
Protolithic shields once close together
Near each other until the Mesozoic break-up
Younger continental assemblage
Three of a kind now far apart
Up to the Siderian era range
When Ur joins Nena and Atlantica
On early Earth's archaic tectonics
Three worlds collide
The Zimgarn hypothesis surfaces
Extensive carbonate platforms develop
Differing magmatic signatures
Primordial magnetism affected
Expanding continuing stabilisation
Intracontinental within the southern margin
Ur, the longest-lived landmass
Yet it remains hopelessly obscure
Kenorland located at lower latitudes
until tectonic magma plume rifting
The Baltic Shield over the equator
joined to the Canadian forming an unity
its nexus near the Fennoscandian shield
transition point to two-layer core
findings of earlier continents indicate
contradicting adjustment theories
during the Siderian and Rhyacian periods
protracted fissures manifested
by mafic dikes and sedimentary basins
bimodal deep convection splitting common
no longer a supercontinent, a divide
at two-point-fortyfive Gya, a breakup
speculation based on the margin
spatial arrangements of Laurentia
drifting assemblies flow together
toward the subsequent amalgamation
southwest and northwest portions
of the Canadian Shield at opposite ends
temperatures plummeting abyssal
banded iron formations indicating anoxia
nevertheless, photosynthesis still unbound
stabilizing climates new levels
Proto-cratons containing
the Earth's continental blocks
welded, amalgamated
sutured with orogens
twelve-nine-hundred kilometers
along the north-south axis
four-eight-hundred kilometers
along the east-west axis
mountain range formations
South America was rotated
edges extending into
the brinks of Scandinavia
outgrowth via accretion
key continental margins
forming a magmatic belt
along southern limits
anorogenic activity
forming anorthosite suits
marked by the emplacement of
igneous northern hemisphere
continental configuration
based on radiating dike swarms
also known as Columbia
Nuna, completed by global collisions
Her womb was barren
Uncolonized dry land
No inhabitants on her interior rings
Ultraviolet light hindering life
Rainfalls increase volcanic rocks weather
Low threshold triggers extreme glaciation
Tectonic activity nourishing marine environment
Neoproterozoic orogeny unknown longitude
Rifts spread to warmer litosphere
Ocean floors come up
Eustatic water levels rise
Parallel shallower seas
Zero parallel location during the Cambrian
drifts assemble and break her up
Silurian volcanism reforming Laurasia
they are coiled close together
Iapetus rafts terranes to be added back
Neo-Tethys pushes them across the Equator
microcontinents and blocks amalgamate
unknown if they originated on her shores
lycopods invade and dominate the tropics
terrestrial pteridophytes colonize rapidly
Baragwanathia flora occurs in two strata
replaced by Archaeopteris and giant moss
Rheic closure, ocean currents reroute
Gondwana rotates clockwise, Australia shifts
south to more temperate coordinates
coal-forming forests form from ice melting
now petrified voltziaelan conifers evolve
extinct glossopterids reach peak diversity
plant-vertebrate-insect ecosystem results
hexapods codevelop, therapsids arrive
Plate tectonics paramount in the formation
of later landmasses and habitats
lifeforms adapt to chasms and earthquakes
shaping the various stages of Pangaea
Traversodonts thrived where others struggled
spore plants replaced by gymnosperms
few marine animals known to exist
ammonites, brachiopods, massive reefs
Lystrosaurus, Cynognathus and ferns fossils
Mesosaurus found in coastal regions
distribution ranging from polar to equator
glacial deposits of the same age and structure
drastic climate change after reconfiguration
warm tropical air and water transfer halted
atmospheric circumpolar currents
Antarctica cools down to a frigid state
deterioration of the northern section
contributed to the Permian Extinction
beetles and cicadas wiped away
acid oceans dissolving benthic species
Hemisphere-sized ocean
gigantic single-celled organisms
trade winds create westward flows
four currents of subtropical gyre
about
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After releasing a demo ("Thecodontia", 2018) and an EP ("Jurassic", 2019), Italy's bass-driven black/death metal prehistoric beast THECODONTION is back with its first full length album, "Supercontinent". Thus far, the band's material has been uncompromisingly fast-paced and length-wise short, featuring their signature distorted double bass attacks and blistering bass solos. With "Supercontinent" THECODONTION move towards a more atmospheric and intricate direction, with tribalistic drumming, slower and lengthier riffing, and wailing reverb-drenched leads, all played on bass except for a baritone guitar guest solo on "Laurasia-Gondwana". Their blast-beating fury is nevertheless always present, this time around with a lot more variety in the riffing department. There are also four mostly non-metal instrumental segments in the forms of intro, interludes and outro, in which THECODONTION further expand their sonic palette, with bass ambience explorations and atmospheric rock leanings.
As the album title suggests, "Supercontinent" is a conceptual voyage through various stages of ancient Earth's continental drift phase, from the earliest known supercontinent ("Vaalbara") to the most recent one ("Pangaea"). Extensive researches with an almost scientific approach have been made for the lyrical department; and yet there is a strong pursuit for a certain vivid imagery, with poetic descriptions of ancient lifeforms populating the planet during the various geological eras, and cataclysmic events leading to the break up and collision of landmasses. The four instrumental non-metal songs feature short poems about superoceans: enormous bodies of water which surrounded these continental assemblies.
On the visual front, the concept is perfectly embodied by the phenomenal artwork of Stefan Thanneur (CHAOS ECHOES), with a colourful representation of the final supercontinental stage and climax of the record: Pangaea surrounded by the Panthalassa Ocean.
THECODONTION's "Supercontinent" is an atmospheric death metal sonic journey and another step for the ever-developing and evolving sound of this archaic entity.
12" LP edition out via Repose Records (UK)
Digipak CD edition out via I, Voidhanger Records (IT)
Thecodontion (pron. Te-co-don-tee-on) is a Prehistoric Metal of Death band from Italy formed in 2016 and about prehistory, fossils, and geologic periods. NO GUITARS - ONLY DEATH!
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Cavernous,torturous,black doom sludge!
This is the aural equivalent of being lost inside one of John Martin's vista's.Heaven and Hell as one.Essential purchase! Michael Carter
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never been a big death metal fan but this is actually super accessible for the genre, has fun concepts, and personally i'm always a fan of albums with short tracklists and huge runtimes (for individual songs) Great time, good jumping on point for newbies too. alienasu