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Greetings! Narrow House is a Ukrainian metal band which was started in 2009 as an atmospheric funeral doom project, providing a unique musical and psychological experience for local underground scene. The band has performed with Skepticism, Cemetery of Scream, Apostate, Mournful Gust, Stoned Jesus, and other significant doom metal acts during this time. narrow-house-promo1-800.jpg The first album of the band titled “A Key to Panngrieb” was published in 2012 by Solitude Productions, one of the biggest doom metal labels in the world. It was well received by the audience, making it an extremely promising start for Narrow House. After completing the debut album, band took a new musical direction, combining various doom metal subgenres (traditional, stoner, funeral etc.) into completely unpredictable mix. “Thanathonaut” is the latest work of the band. It's being tracked, mixed and mastered at the famous Ukrainian Morton Studio. The releases produced by this studio have been published by AFM Records (Germany), Spinning (Japan), BlueFreya (Australia), The Leaders (Greece), BadMoodMan Music (Russia), Moon Records (Ukraine) etc, and are being distributed worldwide by EMP, Nuclear Blast and other global retailers. narrow-house-front.jpg The artwork for this album was created by French photographer and digital artist Christophe Dessaigne. His illustrations have been used for covers of many books including works of Stephen King, Agatha Christie, Margaret Atwood and other well-known writers. “Thanathonaut” promises to be an original album featuring many instruments unusual for metal music, including live saxophone, cello, and double bass. The track list of the album will consist of 10 songs. thanayjonaut-back-7.jpg To promote “Thanathonaut” the band has already started to publish studio video diaries called "Thanathonaut Recording Chronicles". The first issues of these diaries can be found on bands YouTube channel: GRUIi1MvBgI RcSW0TOA1d4 aTA8VP5xhVI

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Thanks! So, it’s been a while since the last studio diary was published, but no worries, as today another "Thanathonaut Recording Chronicles" chapter is up! This time we will give you some more details about special instruments we have used to record Thanathonaut, vocals, and even beautiful guest musicians. Be ready for some other surprises too. uKGspjJVePk You can find all previous chapters at our channel as always.

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2013 will end soon, and so is our epic studio diary. We have already showed you how we handled guitars, strings, saxophone and vocals. The fifth installment of "Thanathonaut Recording Chronicles" will finalize our recording process with drums and keys, giving you a few more audio samples from the upcoming album. Watch this and get ready for something completely special! _JeDbn8H9yM

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We have given a short interview regarding the past, present, and the future of Narrow House:

We are waiting patiently for the reaction of the audience since the new album is quite different comparing to the first one. Some new material has been already created, but additional feedback wouldn't hurt so we know we are heading in the right direction. This time we have put considerably bigger effort in promoting our new material and I expect that we will be able to increase our audience significantly with "Thanathonaut" release.
Check out the full interview over here. More to come.
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Check out yet another interview with us:

We used to compile our live program into one piece in the past. So pauses between our actual tracks were filled by ambient music, and as a result we had something like one hour long song. We even tried to arrive when the music was already playing. This was making very strong atmosphere, a lot of people in the crowd looked like put into the trance. Now we shifted from this approach to shorten songs and having explicit beginnings and ends between them, but we still use video playbacks taken from some art-house or apocalyptic movies.
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I've participated in "Withered Hands Podcast", and I should say that this was quite an interesting experience:

One of the key members of the band both in the past and future “Yegor” is chatting with us all about the old and the new. Whats happened, whats been happening, and where Narrow House are heading. As always this show contains 2 songs by the band in question. These 2 songs are The Vitreous God (Стеклянный Бог) from the debut album A Key To Panngrieb and then theres a new track called Crushing the Old Empire which will be featured on the upcoming release “Thanathonaut”
Want to hear a new track from the upcoming album before everyone else? Check out this podcast right over here. Our thanks to the host of the show, Silencer, for bringing us in. PS. the volume of the podcast jumps sometimes.
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Have been waiting for this for a while now: "Thanathonaut" is out! It is already available in the official Solitude Productions store. Still, in case you want to buy it from the band (we are going to produce a special edition) — please wait a bit longer.Meanwhile here what some people who already listened to "Thanathonaut" have to say about it:

"If Narrow House is any indication of the doom metal scene in Ukraine, then let me hear more of it." — Flemming Gabin
"Thanathonaut elects to take a wholly different path, incorporating everything from traditional heavy metal-like guitar riffs, to tinny-sounding saxophone, to a bow’s staccato swipe across a cello. The end result is something of an anomaly and, as a result, pushes doom metal’s envelope as we know it." — The Metal Advisor
"The production sounds very professional" — Dark Underground Music Zine
You can stream "Thanathonaut" in all its glory on our bandcamp page.
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Thank you! Check out the promo of limited edition of "Thanathonaut": b8735jkX-Mg Regular version of Thanathonaut is 10$, limited one - 15$. Shipping should be around 6$. PS. if anyone is interested there's also an option to order all Narrow House albums at once. Just add 5$ and I will add A Key to Panngrieb to the package as well. Have a few left.

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