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Band: Terzij de Horde
Album: ‘Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone‘
Released October 10th, 2025
Genre: black metal, hardcore
Location: Netherlands
Review
We have operated the Antifascist Black Metal Network for just a little over four years now, since around the middle of 2021, as an effort to help popularise and organise those in black metal who wanted to take an active stance against not only fascism per se, but also against manifestations of exploitation and oppression in general, coming from whatever part of the spectrum. We believe our experience has yielded mixed results: on the one hand, the results in terms of actual organisation for struggle are insufficient for the task at hand, and the contradictions of capitalism have only become more acute, deadly, and explosive. On the other hand, however, we have managed to, in a way, bring a series of bands under our “umbrella”, scene veterans and new artists alike. Today we again feature one band that has a special place in hearts: Terzij de Horde, from Utrecht, Netherlands, and their visceral, vitalistic black metal/hardcore fusion.
We don’t say this lightly. ‘In One of These, I Am Our Enemy‘, their 2022 full-length, blew us away musically and visually with an amazing cover art, and sat comfortably in many AOTY lists. Since then, the band became more famous, had more partners, but unlike what commonly happens in these cases, their politics have only become more explicit. ‘Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone‘, their new album, already begins kicking the door by asking:
“Do we dare to crawl out
of a history of cowardice,
out of shadowed towers
At supremacy’s heart?”
This album gives voice to our constant struggle for survival in a world which is collapsing on multiple levels. It doesn’t point to despair, though, but towards hope and the possibility of fighting back against capitalism. Where ‘Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone‘ surveyed the horizon and steeled itself for battle, ‘Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone‘ calls us forward and gives us weapons to organise from below. The tracks here and mostly shorter than before, but no less furious; there’s even a track with clean vocals, courtesy of Amelia of Cinder Well – clean vocals which are being sung live by none less than Charlotte Wessels!
Terzij de Horde took three years to bring us this monstrous wonder, and it’s definitely worth it. But even if it’s not your musical cup of tea, take heed, because, indeed, our breath is NOT ours alone!
Other links and platforms:
BC: https://terzijdehorde.bandcamp.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/terzijdehorde/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/terzijdehorde/
TW: https://twitter.com/terzijdehorde
Website: http://www.terzijdehorde.nl/