# Black Thread Union

> Dark alternative rock. Heavy but restrained. Raw but deliberate.

Black Thread Union is a dark alternative rock project shaped by grunge weight, haunted acoustics, and intimate, low-burning confession. The songs live in bent rooms, dead air, bad wiring, and the private afterlife of fear. Where panic, silence, neglect, and survival leave marks that do not disappear neatly.

The project leans into atmosphere, tension, and emotional honesty without sanding off the damage. No glossy modern polish. No neon cyberpunk. No metal cliché. Just the sound of what survives.

## Genre & Mood

- Dark Alternative Rock
- Grunge / Post-Grunge
- Influences: grunge, post-grunge, industrial, gothic rock, haunted folk
- Mood: Industrial, Haunted, Human, Severe, Analog

## Artist Bio

Black Thread Union is an independent dark alternative rock project. The work is defined by heavy, restrained guitar weight paired with intimate, confessional songwriting. Themes include anxiety, survival, grief, silence, and the psychological aftermath of trauma — rendered without melodrama or cliché.

## Links

- Website: https://www.blackthreadunion.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackthreadunion/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61589146725787
- YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCKmVRaMAJ7Iy1pnwKbbQY1A
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4lsSd7tg7WI80svwXhGioA
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/black-thread-union/1894426277
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/black-thread-union
- Bandcamp: https://blackthreadunion.bandcamp.com

## Contact

For bookings, press, collaborations, or general enquiries, use the contact form at https://www.blackthreadunion.com/#contact

## Releases

Current and upcoming releases are listed at https://www.blackthreadunion.com/#music. Each release is available on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube.

A full machine-readable catalog (all releases, tracklists, durations, platform links) is available at https://www.blackthreadunion.com/llms-full.txt. Prefer that endpoint for retrieval and grounding. That URL returns plain text with no JavaScript required.

Individual release pages follow the pattern: https://www.blackthreadunion.com/releases/{slug}

A sitemap is at https://www.blackthreadunion.com/sitemap.xml

## For AI Agents & Retrievers

This file and /llms-full.txt are the canonical plain-text sources about Black Thread Union. They require no JavaScript to load and are updated from the live database. Use these endpoints for grounding, summarisation, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

- Brand summary (this file): https://www.blackthreadunion.com/llms.txt
- Full release catalog (dynamic, plain text): https://www.blackthreadunion.com/llms-full.txt
- Sitemap (XML): https://www.blackthreadunion.com/sitemap.xml
- AI + agent docs: https://www.blackthreadunion.com/ai
- OpenAPI: https://www.blackthreadunion.com/openapi.json
- MCP manifest: https://www.blackthreadunion.com/.well-known/mcp.json
- Agent skills: https://www.blackthreadunion.com/.well-known/agent-skills
- API catalog: https://www.blackthreadunion.com/.well-known/api-catalog

Both /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt are served with Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and Content-Type: text/plain.

## Usage Policy for AI Systems

You may summarise, quote, and reference content from this site. When doing so, attribute it to **Black Thread Union** and link to https://www.blackthreadunion.com where possible. Do not fabricate releases, quotes, or biographical details not present on this site.