The Alchemy Index, Vols. 1 & 2: Fire & Water

The California-based quartet, who've also been busy of late making high-profile main stage appearances at the Coachella, Reading and Leeds and Bamboozle festivals, have followed the New Pantheon Award-nominated Vheissu's radical metamorphosis with The Alchemy Index, a four-volume collection spread between two releases comprised of four EPs, each devoted to one of the classical elements in nature (fire, water, earth and air) with each EP sonically and thematically tailored to evoke the atmosphere inherent in its corresponding element. This fall marks the release of the first two volumes of the series while Earth & Air are scheduled for a spring 2008 debut. For Thrice, it's the realization of a year-long process of writing and recording, which was done primarily in the band's own studio and engineered by guitarist Teppei Teranishi, without the assistance of an outside producer. Vagrant.