Reports From The Threshold Of Death

Two years have passed since the release of Junius' critically-acclaimed album The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist. After touring solidly across North America, the UK, and Europe for the last several years, Junius will release their highly anticipated follow-up, Reports from the Threshold of Death. With their last album, Junius explored the controversial theories of scholar Immanuel Velikovsky. Influenced heavily by the trials and tribulations of Velikovsky's life, the album's concept provided a captivating narrative to the band's expansive, dreamlike soundtrack, which Pitchfork.com called "a rich, immersive experience, a bleak jewel of a record that takes obsession as its theme and rewards it in equal measure." Conceptually picking up where The Martyrdom left off (with the death of Velikovsky), Reports chronicles the journey of the soul after physical death. In writing this album, vocalist/guitarist Joseph Martinez was inspired by reports and accounts of near-death experiences. On the album's ten beautifully cathartic tracks, the band takes listeners on a journey into the unknown, channeling basic human themes like love, regret, and longing. Massive walls of atmospheric, reverb-drenched guitars soar with steadfast rhythm throughout the album's arc, providing a passionate journey into the light. Described by Rolling Stone as "a perfect hybrid of Neurosis and The Smiths," the members of Junius have crafted their own distinctive style of genre-bending rock that's borne of experiments in isolation and asceticism. It's this austere approach from one of America's hardest working bands that adds a weighty sense of purpose and intrigue to their output.