Thoughts Of Ionesco Releasing New EP "Skar Cymbals"

Long-defunct group Thoughts Of Ionesco will release a first new studio recording since 2001 this June via Corpse Flower Records.

Recording a first ever record when two thirds of the band members were still in high school and breaking up when most were barely twenty-one-years old, it's a wonder that this infamous Detroit outfit even lasted the few years it did. Confrontational to audiences, uninterested in record labels, exceedingly dark and heavy, the band played music that was once referred to by Alternative Press magazine as, "the ultimate realization of pain through sound."

Over the years, the guys reappeared on the Detroit music scene with new bands: Hoen in The Holy Fire and Leaving Rouge, Miller in the Holy Fire, and Repa with Paradise. Seventh Rule eventually collected the band's recorded output into the compilation "The Scar Is Our Watermark." Issued in June 2006, the album also included a bonus in-depth documentary DVD that chronicled the band's brief, volatile career with live footage and interviews.

Now, Thoughts Of Ionesco returns with the band's first new recorded material in nearly two decades. Titled "Skar Cymbals," the four-track EP was captured and mixed by Jeremy Mendicino with Dave DeCristo at Signal Kitchen in Burlington, Vermont in March 2017 with additional tracking by Gabe Doman at Pharmhouse Studio in Dearborn, Michigan, and the whole acerbic package then mastered by James Plotkin (OLD, Scorn, Khanate, Khlyst et al).

"Skar Cymbals" will be unleashed via Corpse Flower Records on June 23rd on limited color vinyl and digitally. Pre-orders are now online here and the track listing is as follows:

1. The Alt. Light
2. Culture Of The Eternal Snake
3. Salutations
4. Scar Symbols