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hmm.

One of my favorite recent conversations at work involved this nice, slightly older woman telling me, proudly, that her nephew played in a black metal band called Skrillex. "Wait, no, that's not it. Krallice, I think it's Krallice."

solex… er wait gimme a second…

http://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/hyperion

YES

what

AAAAAAAHHHHH

I am loving this shorter-release thing they're doing lately

Sounds good.

I heard this recently, it's one of Mick Barr's pre-Krallice bands that sounds a lot like Krallice but more a lot more immediate.

https://ocrilim.bandcamp.com/album/oldest

There still lots of dissonant shredding though

Yeah, that hit the spot.

I have some of his older stuff too

Annwn 1+2 by Ocrilim is peak Branca-metal imo. No drums, bass or vox to distract from the monolithic guitar symphonies. Sometimes hard to sit all the way through them, mind you.

Anyway I was pointed towards this insanity today, thougt I'd share:

https://glyptoglossio.bandcamp.com/releases

It's one of the 3,000 bands Colin Marston's in currently and it's fucking bonkers. I don't know how much I like it but it certainly makes an impression.

New Cleric coming soon is the Marston-affiliated thing I'm most pumped for

oh shit that's finally happening? I'd occasionally check to see if Cleric were up to anything but I hadn't done that recently

gonna have to open a key man policy on marston for the sake of all metal

i THINK glyptoglossio are taking the piss a bit?

Love that Glyptoglossia thing. Just what I look for. It IS kind of goofy/comic at the same time that it is bent and intense, as it should be.

yeah it's good

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/12/07/504663786/vikings-choice-krallice-hate-power

yeah i'll be done with my 2016 eoy list next february. :)

I'm surprised at how consistently great this band is though I probably shouldn't be.

I'm surprised at how I never pay attention to Krallice because I should really like them, but listening to this - did they go Voivod at some point? This is deathy and thrashy, which is a-ok

They basically turned into a tech-death band on their last full length, but a really fucking good one

https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/prelapsarian

oh ffs

Dec 31: 80-minute Krallice/Mesarthim collab destroys metal

Man this is good.

this band! wow

ikr

They've recently announced TWO new albums are to be released in the not too distant future, one of which has Dave Edwardson from Neurosis on vocals and synths for the whole thing!

Fuck I love this band

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/lo-m

how is it?

I think it's fucking amazing but I'm not a good person to ask honestly

lol there's another one coming too

weinstein trippin out

music like this makes you believe in inhumanity again

if i heard right one of these is a christmas song, that's so festive

#2

https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/go-be-forgotten

This fucking band.

I really like the use of keyboards on the newest one!

it's funny how for all their monotony every song is full of like 3-second bits that if they were in a normal rock song from the 70s or 80s would be the most exciting and memorable bit in the whole thing

https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/wolf-ep

Oh hello

can't believe they went a whole year with no releases

they should do a whole album of 15-second songs

https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/the-wastes-of-time

^ first four albums remastered by marston

in case you've been wondering like me…

https://www.facebook.com/krallice/posts/statement-regarding-the-re-master-from-krallice-guitaristengineer-colin-marstoni/2465194723552256/

Statement regarding the re-master from Krallice guitarist/engineer, Colin Marston:
""I decided to re-master the first four Krallice albums for the vinyl reissues. As a music fan, I'm suspicious of the term "re-mastered," because it usually means the new version will have more treble and more compression (i.e. "louder") than the original, even when those treatments negatively affect the sound. It is important for music makers and music consumers both to understand that loudness is not an inherent quality of sound recordings; it's always relative and ultimately at the discretion of the listener. A heavily compressed ("loud") album can still be listened to quietly. Understanding this has freed me from the psychological insecurities of considering comparative loudness and has allowed me to make decisions that only improve sound when mastering.
These Krallice reissues are a rare case where the re-masters actually employ LESS eq and compression than the old masters. So this is a revision with the goal of letting more of the original character of the recording/mix shine through, rather than trying to "update" the sound, or make it more "competitive." Let's remove competition from music and allow it to be what it is fundamentally: unique and genuine personal expression.""

I totally support the general sentiment. Music that’s not aimed at radio should be mixed as richly and dynamically as possible. On the other hand, of course, I’ve been thinking lately that in the era of phone listening, a lot of music could benefit from a return to mono.

that is a for-real deep idea, I think a lot about mono myself

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/krallice-mega-feature/

https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/rot-and-waste-live

four cuts from ca. '09-'12.

New album Demonic Wealth out today.

Isolation recording sessions:
Drums recorded at the Mouth 3 on a phone
Vocals recorded in the car by the swamp
Bass recorded.
Guitars, keyboards, other bass, reamping, mixing, mastering at Menegroth the thousands cave.

Half way through my first listen and I'm digging it quite a bit. The super lo-fi production suits the material quite well.

lol didn't see that bit about the recording process.

posted this in metal 2021 but should go here too. nice companion video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGsRiUHYwZw

This one kind of opens up immediately - I'd recommend Demonic Wealth for someone looking for a first dip into Krallice. The prominent synths give the whole thing this lovely hazy vibe.

i totally missed that demonic wealth came out. it's incredibly awesome

this is the best krallice album wow

Another new one "Crystalline Exhaustion" coming out January 28. Members are switching up instruments on this one with Nick McMaster playing guitar and Mick Barr on bass, as well as Colin being on synths only. Here is the 14-minute title track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-NLJjtdh-U

hell yeah. symphonic krallice

https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/crystalline-exhaustion

love how they keep switching things up

Mick Barr - bass, vocals
Colin Marston - keyboards, additional drums, vocals
Nicholas McMaster - guitar, vocals
Lev Weinstein - drums

huh i guess this is two masterpieces in a row for krallice

New surprise Krallice album dropped
https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/mass-cathexis-2-the-kinetic-infinite

New Krallice is always good, new surprise Krallice is even better!