Third Island

[ochoill]

Post-Metal / Doom / Post-Rock / Sludge.  Based in Limerick.  Going since 2015, first as a three-piece with drum machine, and now with added drummer since 2018 and a guitarist less since 2020.  A few of ye might have heard or seen us before.

Releases:
Dusk (2016) (EP)
Hourglass (2017) (Single)
Omelas (2018) (Album)
Live In Limerick (2019) (EP)
Unspeakable (2019) (Album)
LIVE II (2021) (EP)

Updates:  Soon.

Usual sites:
Website // Bandcamp // Youtube // Spotify // Facebook // Instagram // Twitter

Cheers for suffering my spam.

[ochoill]

Quick bump as the EP is online now, and can be found for download and streaming at: https://thirdisland.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-limerick

Main post edited to match.  Hope ye enjoy it!

[astfgyl]

Quick bump

Should have given it the slow one

[ochoill]

It gets a slow bump now 

The live EP launches on streaming today - if you haven't given it a go yet, you'll find it on Spotify, Apple Music, and

Youtube.  Still up on Bandcamp for streaming & download too.

Thanks again for checking it out.

[ochoill]

After a year of writing, we will soon release of our new album, Unspeakable.

The second full length by Third Island, Unspeakable is themed around a selection of short stories by H.P. Lovecraft, with each song lyrically following a different story.  Musically more organic than previous releases - being written and recorded with a live focus - it uses the doomy post-metal of earlier material as a template and explores more stripped back and melodic passages on top, taking a more refined approach to the style without compensating their usual oppressive heft.

Available on CD and Download 29th November 2019.  Preview tracks and launch show details coming soon.

Cheers for your support.  Links to old material while ye wait are in the top post.

[Eoin McLove]

Nice artwork.  It looks similar in style to the last Chaos Echoes.

[ochoill]

Nice artwork.  It looks similar in style to the last Chaos Echoes.

Cheers, just looked up that, it's in the same vein alright!  Had a few nice abstract pieces chosen for it that will make it into the inner sleeve too.

[Pentagrimes]

Looking forward to hearing this for sure. Lots of potential on the previous stuff and the live ep was my favourite to date.

[ochoill]

Looking forward to hearing this for sure. Lots of potential on the previous stuff and the live ep was my favourite to date.

Ah thanks!  It's definitely more live feeling than before, and there's a good chunk of clean passages in it - thanks to writing with a drummer now it's easier to try jam out dynamics than plan them in, if that makes sense.  Should have a song up in a little while anyway.

[ochoill]

Right in time for our album launch next week, you can now hear one of our new songs, "Ward", at the links below.  Cheers for listening!

Bandcamp

Youtube

[ochoill]

We've put up another song this morning, "The Colour", you can stream it at the links below as usual.  CD preorders, merch, all the usual up on the Bandcamp page too if anyone is interested.  Cheers!

Bandcamp

Youtube

[ochoill]

Full album now streaming on Bandcamp, CDs and Downloads available too.  If you're in Limerick come out to our Launch gig with Coroza, Slung from a Tree, and Skellig.
Cheers for checking it out!

[ochoill]

Been a while since I posted here but sure, if anyone is looking, we reduced all our CDs/Downloads/Tees/Bundles and made older releases free downloads on bandcamp, for the day that's in it.  You can check them out here: https://thirdisland.bandcamp.com/
New music otherwise in process, slated for next year at the current rate.  Cheers for listening.

[ochoill]

Small bump with updates:

Unfortunately, our guitarist/vocalist Liam left the band in early 2020, amicably, and is now releasing music as StillColdAir - give it a lash if you're a fan of the lighter end of our work, or post-rock/shoegaze in general.

The remainder of us decided rather than look for someone else, we'd reorganise it as a three-piece.  We are currently writing new material but delayed thanks to 2020, so in the meantime we wanted to release five of our old songs, live off the floor in our Jamspace, self recorded with the new formation back in June last year.  We release this tomorrow as "LIVE II" for free/pay as you like on Bandcamp.  Digital release only.  Art and notes below:





I'll post the link again in the morning when it's up.  Hope ye enjoy it!

[Emphyrio]

Pity about that John. Keep on truckin' anyway.