Triptonus – Terra

 

 

Triptonus – Terra
StoneFree Records / Noisolution – 2025
Instrumental, Rock,
Rated: ****

Triptonus. Yeah and indeed… They don’t sound like anybody else. And Terra… Terra sounds like the Earth cracking open under your feet, slow, loud, alive. They’re from Vienna, but they don’t belong to a place. They belong to the universal heartbeat. They belong to the pulse. To the deep hum underneath. Their new album, Terra, is less a collection of songs and more of a living, breathing ritual. It doesn’t ask for your attention, it takes it.

The Triptonus six don’t need a singer. The instruments speak. They shout, they whisper, they ache. Percussion that moves like blood through veins, restless and relentless. Guitars that aren’t so much played as unleashed. Electronics that shimmer like heat across a desert road. It’s psychedelic, it’s heavy, it’s wide-open, gigantic and searching. Terra is the sound of falling in love with elemental chaos.

Take Sultana. Seven minutes of motion. No lyrics. No mercy. The drums come first, rushing, urgent. Then the guitars rise up like a storm with no warning. It builds. It breaks. And in the center… a quiet desert bloom. A psychedelic drift. But not for long. It shifts again, gets sharp around the edges, like it’s smiling with a knife between its teeth.

And then there’s Terra itself. Thirteen minutes. It doesn’t play; it unfolds. Starts soft, gentle hands, strange colors, a feeling like the sky just inhaled. And then, snap, something inside it turns. Breaks. The light fades. The guitars snarl. Everything swells and buckles under the weight of something sacred and savage. It’s loud. It’s towering. It’s frightening in a very beautiful way. Then just… stillness. The silence afterward feels earned.

This album doesn’t want your approval. It wants your surrender. Triptonus have made a record that’s not afraid to wander, to transform, to feel. Terra is grounded in earth but always reaching for the beyond. It’s not perfect. It’s not polished. It’s real. So put on your headphones. Lay down in the dark. And let it pull you into the deep. Underneath Terra... 

(Written by JK)

Only one song available on Bandcamp at this moment...



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