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Terrifying Angels Follows Coming Up To Consciousness
Terrifying Angels follows Jon Courtney's discovery of its name, builds on the 2024 album Coming Up To Consciousness, and draws on the listed musical and narrative influences.
Jon Courtney found the name Terrifying Angels after attending an Easter church service in Berlin last year. The new album follows the 2024 album Coming Up To Consciousness. Greg Jong appears on the album and contributes co-writing, while Paul Mullen also contributes in the same way. Kenny Fitzgerald provided the meditative piano section that opens Below Radiance.
Terrifying Angels retains elements of classic progressive rock while moving in a heavier direction. The album was partly inspired by a long-standing love of grunge groups including Nirvana, Mudhoney and Smashing Pumpkins. Spin Like Fire, Haywire Heart and Rumination Ruin emerged from a more angry energy. Black Arrow Acrobats was inspired by a dream in which Courtney was chased by strange ninja-type acrobatic beings.
The album concerns encounters with powers that appear to offer salvation and the fact that transformation is never gentle. Its narrator confuses salvation with safety and learns that the powers saving him are also the powers destroying him. Terrifying Angels is currently on sale.
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