Mares of Thrace is a Canadian doom metal band from Calgary, Alberta.
[1] They are most noted for their album The Pilgrimage, which was a longlisted nominee for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize.
[2] Originally consisting of vocalist Therese Lanz and drummer Stef MacKichan, the band released their debut album The Moulting in 2010,[3] and followed up with The Pilgrimage in 2012.
[4] After The Pilgrimage, however, the band went on hiatus for a number of years as Lanz was under increasing time pressures in her primary job as a video game developer;[1] they reunited in 2017 to begin recording new material, but MacKichan was forced to drop out due to a family matter, and the band went back on hiatus until Casey Rogers, a bandmate of Lanz's in a different project prior to Mares of Thrace, offered to fill in on drums.
[5] Lanz and Rogers completed recording on the band's third album, The Exile, which was released in 2022 on Sonic Unyon.