If you guys like Thrice then you'll love to hear that they are almost all finished up in the studio and their new cd "Vheissu" will be coming out in the fall. This is the rambling posted on the official Thrice website:

Thursday, Jun 16, 2005 by Dustin
Hello again. We have decided on a title for the new record. It will be called "Vheissu." The following is a very transparent look at the reasons for choosing this title, because it is pulled from an email I wrote to Nick our manager and Dave who is doing the art for the record.
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We have decided to name the new record, "Vheissu," and I will attempt to summarize why.

The one thing we knew was that we wanted to have a one word title. I brought Vheissu to the table a long time ago because I had always thought it was a beautiful word, and it had no definate meaning in the book it is from (V by Thomas Pynchon, though that is not the word's origin), but was more a loose collection of myths. Something else that I think we all appreciated about the name, is that it is not loaded for most people. They will see it, or hear it, and it will not have any meaning right away, and therefore it can simply come to represent the songs on this record and to title them without coloring them, almost as a number would. But then beneath the surface, there are a lot of interesting, if obscure, references to Vheissu in the book (and in critiques of the book) which create a general sense of mystery, which is something we all value I think. Without going to deeply into these references, these are some of the meanings which we have extracted from them.

One of the references speaks of Vheissu being a code name for Vesuvius, the volcano. Virgil cites Vesuvius as the entrance to the underworld, and in the book this is fleshed out and it is hinted at that there is a ancient race of people, who have access to underground tunnels that lead underneath all nations of the earth.

Riley noted how he felt that we are now (and always it seems) standing at the verging of many different tunnels or pathways that lead to completely differenct places. Riley named this phenomenon "Standing at Vheissu," which the more I think about seems to hold the same sentiment as Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken," but with the darker imagery of underground laberynths (and who doesn't like underground laberynths.) In the poem, the speaker chooses a path, and laments the knowledge that he will probably never be back at this point, to make a different decision, or to see where the other path led, but notes that his decision will have "made all the difference," though what difference no one will ever know.

Two other ideas stuck out to me. One being that I see the tunnels underneath us all, as a metaphor for another reality that is quite close to us, but without our knowledge of it most of the time, ready at any moment to break though and interupt our ideas of what reality is. A metaphor for the possibility or miracles in short. In the book it is said of the tunnels that "below the glittering integument of every foreign land there is a hard dead-point of truth."

Also I liked one critics etymological dissection of the word Vheissu when he says this. "If "Vheissu" encodes anything, it is a pun--"Wie heisst du?," which is German for "What is your name?" or "What are you called?" This seems appropriate since one of the themes devoloping in my lyrics for the record is the ways in which we define ourselves. I think a key to who we see ourselves as is names; both given and those we give ourselves, both domestic and other wordly. The ways in which we define ourselves and ultimately live are, I think, heavily influenced by the names we recieve, and the names we give to others.
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Hopefully this sheds some light on the reasons for choosing Vheissu. Since we got it from print we really don't know if there is a correct way to say it, but we say it "vee-sue." There is a lot more out there to dig through if you want. Also, as a warning, the book "V" is very very strange, and not a very fast read.
lovedustin

thrice sucks man

Hahaha, nice man. But anyone for all the other people who like good music, Vheissu is set to come out in stores on September 27th. And they released their album cover.

thrice_-_vheissu.jpg (193 KB, 3 downloads) Vheissu Sept 27

The release date got pushed back to Oct.18, unfortunately.

Did anyone catch the new songs they've been playing at Warped? (Image Of The Invisible and The Earth Will Shake) They made it sound like this is going to be one hell of a good CD.

yeah so i hear, too bad it got pushed back, but im so excited

Well i've heard samples of every song on the new cd. And it something different from anything they've written. But i love it already. I've heard the full version of the earth will shake, and almost all of the image of the invisible. If your in the thrice alliance you can hear the earth will shake in the music section. But get stoked guys, this albums going to be amazing.

There's also a live recording going around of another new song. I'm not sure what the song is called, but if you read the "Vheissu Biography" on Thrice's website it's the one that they talk about in it that has the Japanese music box. If anybody doesn't have it already and wants it then let me know (but be warned, the quality is horrendous). MSN: lunatik008@hotmail.com

I'm pretty sure this is going to be high up there in my favourite releases of 2005.

It's called just that, Music Box. But i haven't heard it yet. I'm going to see Thrice in Seattle in October so hopefully they'll play it.

Holy damn, this CD is so different, but I'm loving it. WOW.

Yes, by far the best cd Thrice has released. Stand and Feel your Worth is amazing, so is Red Sky. I'm so stoked!

ya, im deffinitaly pumped for Vheissu, its gonna be sweet, especially Hold Fast Hope, sweet song. Notice how this album is alot different from the rest though? it has a new direction almost, its good. dont get me wrong, the old ones are still great, but this new one looks awesome, so im counting the days.....

Tranquil, I have the new cd, so if you want the files I can send them to you on msn. My e-mail is Riley_marcotte@hotmail.com.

Well, i have it most of it too, but i gotta know, how did you get ahold of it?

It's been all over the internet since last week.

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