Krallice

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Krallice
Mick Barr from Krallice in 2010
Mick Barr from Krallice in 2010
General information
origin New York City
Genre (s) Extreme metal
founding 2008
Founding members
Mick Barr
guitar
 Colin Marston
Lev Weinstein
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar
 Mick Barr
guitar
 Colin Marston
Nick McMaster
Drums
 Lev Weinstein

Krallice is an experimental extreme metal band from New York City that was formed in 2008.

history

Mick Barr and Colin Marston worked the first time in 2006 for a Split - EP of their respective bands Orthrelm and Behold ... the Arctopus together, both from the environment of progressive metal and Mathcore . With Lev Weinstein, they founded Krallice in 2008. According to Barr, the band name is a fantasy word. In July of the same year they released their self-titled debut album on the Canadian independent label Profound Lore , which was highly praised by the music press.

Nick McMaster, who had already contributed additional vocals for Krallice , finally joined the band as bassist. For the second album Dimensional Bleedthrough , which followed in November 2009, he also designed the cover art. The third album Diotima from 2011, the songs of which were mostly written during the recording for Dimensional Bleedthrough , is considered the best release of the band.

In July 2011 the EP Orphan of Sickness was also made available for free download on Bandcamp , Years Past Matter was self-published and as a download in August 2012. The band also self-published the album Ygg Huur on July 30, 2015 . On the Hathenter label followed in 2016 and 2017 further releases with mostly shorter playing times, including a collaboration with Dave Edwardson from Neurosis .

style

Krallice play fast, technical Extreme Metal with blastbeats , repetitive riffs and complex structures that often create a hypnotic atmosphere. Many songs are longer than 10 minutes. There are influences from black metal , minimal music and progressive rock .

Most of the songs are purely instrumental. The song consists of screams; the lyrics are practically incomprehensible. Mick Barr sees no concept behind the lyrics, they mostly arise in the process of the stream of consciousness . The band renounces the scene-typical, ideological appearance as Satanists with corpsepaint and sees Black Metal as a purely musical form of expression.

Discography

Studio albums

  • 2008: Krallice
  • 2009: Dimensional Bleedthrough
  • 2011: Diotima
  • 2012: Years Past Matter
  • 2015: Ygg Huur
  • 2016: Prelapsarian
  • 2017: Go Be Forgotten
  • 2017: Loüm (with Dave Edwardson)
  • 2020: Mass Cathexis

Singles & EPs

  • 2011: Orphan of Sickness (Download EP)
  • 2011: Traditional (Flexi-Single)
  • 2016: Hyperion (EP)
  • 2016: Hate Power (download single)
  • 2019: Wolf (EP)
  • 2020: The Wheel (Single)

Others

  • 2019: The Wastes of Time (remastered downloads of the first four albums)
  • 2019: Rot and Waste Live
  • 2019: Wolf / Astomatous (Split with Geryon)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Interview at Pitchfork Media (English)
  2. ↑ Krallice at Allmusic (English)
  3. ↑ Dimensional Bleedthrough at Discogs (English)
  4. ↑ a b Diotima at Allmusic (English)
  5. ↑ Diotima at Pitchfork Media (English)