Today, Norwegian black metallers Gryla premiere the new track “Banners Soaked in Crimson Essence” at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated second album, The Redeemer’s Festering Carcass, set for international release on March 21st via Iron Bonehead Productions. Hear Gryla‘s “Banners Soaked in Crimson Essence” in its entirety exclusively HERE.
Following close on the heels of last year’s digital-only debut album Jaundiced Hag of the Wood, Norwegian entity Gryla make an even-stronger case for black metal supremacy with The Redeemer’s Festering Carcass. Like that dark-horse debut, Gryla‘s second album features a similar schematic – ripping ‘n’ roiling riffcraft, forward momentum whipped into a continual crescendo, tension and release waging a wondrous war – but a sound that’s strangely classic and modern simultaneously. The work of one prodigiously young Torbjørn Kirby Torbo, Gryla honor early domestic touchstones like Gorgoroth and Dødheimsgard’s respective first albums as well as Kvist’s lone album and Sorhin’s ’90s recordings whilst twisting the knife in different-yet-honorable ways. For one, Torbo’s skewed melodicism nods to the various schools of dissonant BM the past few decades; for another, there’s often a clanging, minimal-is-maximal punkishness that reminds of Bone Awl’s influential tapes or Carved Cross more recently. Put all together – and again, with RIFFS to infinity and beyond – The Redeemer’s Festering Carcass breathes rotten, refreshing life in strident second-wave classicism.
In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Banners Soaked in Crimson Essence” exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. Also hear the previously revealed “The Redeemer’s Festering Carcass pt 2” HERE at Iron Bonehead‘s Soundcloud. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Gryla (Norway)’s The Redeemer’s Festering Carcass
1. The Redeemer’s Festering Carcass pt 1 [7:43]
2. The Redeemer’s Festering Carcass pt 2 [6:38]
3. Banners Soaked in Crimson Essence [6:08]
4. Imposer [6:11]
5. Carnal Beast [6:20]
6. Spewing Fecal Abjurations [7:20]
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