
The New Republic
by TERMINAL
Follow-up to the critically-acclaimed debut album Blacken the Skies (2021), The Terminal formula of industrial glam has been updated with "more industrial, more glam." Thomas Mark Anthony makes his case for being the genre's best lyricist, weaving grand themes of power, zealotry and corruption through complex rhyme and anthemic choruses. Picking up where the previous album left off in its excoriation of society's dangerous hypocrites, the first line of lyrics on the new album is "How many guns would Jesus buy?" Plato's Republic provides the album's title and its theme--that an unjust society is a doomed society, that democracy in itself is no defense against demagogues or tyrants. The Goth community will find much to like here with Anthony's sonorous baritone more prominent in the mix and lyrics pondering existential themes of religion and mortality.
The album is dedicated to Dave Heckman
released August 25, 2023

Blacken The Skies
by TERMINAL
TERMINAL is the soundtrack to a world unbalanced, reeling and spinning out of control, running out of time. A barely stable alloy of industrial music and glam rock, with trace quantities of dark techno, synthpop and raw machine recordings, each TERMINAL anthem is a broadside against the atrocities of our lost humanity. Hard-hitting lyrics address the amoral decay of authoritarian regimes, the devastation of our planet, and our spiral into a dark dystopian future.
TERMINAL is the work of Thomas Mark Anthony, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Hailing from Pretoria, South Africa and long-time resident of Canada, Anthony is a lifelong anti-apartheid and civil rights activist. Joined by the US-based TERMINAL Live Unit, the trio puts on a powerful and confrontational live show, with Anthony serving as vocalist/guitarist.
released February 5, 2021