i enjoy pronouncing ygg huur in my mind
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 31 July 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
that is when i eat my brykfuust
― j., Friday, 31 July 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
Pshaw
http://www.mediaboom.org/uploads/posts/2010-06/1275410149_logo_krallice.png
― jmm, Friday, 31 July 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
I loved the first record. Wretched Wisdom->Cnestorial is such a great song pairing. Things digress a little too far into Crom-Tech/Orthrelm territory on records 2-4. That said, Ygg Huur is a nice surprise. At first listen, the songwriting is superior and the shorter run times give each piece a more distinct character.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Friday, 31 July 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
Loving Ygg Huur so far. Had the pleasure of seeing them play it live the other night. Was awesome and they're tighter than ever but I'm going with Diotima. Probably their proggiest and the one that I find myself playing the most these days.
― gman59, Friday, 31 July 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link
i've still never heard the s/t, made headway into the distinctness of 'dimensional bleedthrough' after 'years' came out though
i will probably go w/ diotima just for pure majesty's sake but really they have a fascinating sameyness
― j., Friday, 31 July 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link
― j., Friday, July 31, 2015 9:03 AM (4 hours ago)
I died. my god, j.
― octobeard, Friday, 31 July 2015 20:42 (eight years ago) link
Diotima is probably my favourite, but i'm a big fan of Years Past Matter too.
― borntohula, Saturday, 1 August 2015 12:30 (eight years ago) link
Bleedthrough is the only one I never really got into, killer band. Leaning towards YPM but I haven't duugg into the new one yet
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Saturday, 1 August 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
Hard choice between Diotima and YPM... the latter's the best/most cohesively written but Diotima has Telluric Rings
― Hamsters of Misfortune (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 1 August 2015 20:42 (eight years ago) link
years past matter was the first thing i heard from these dudes that i really liked. diotima was nice but never really held my attention. new one is prob my favorite already from like five listens
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Sunday, 2 August 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
it does sound very emo at the beginning
― j., Monday, 3 August 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
lol right? the vocals are very post-hardcore
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 3 August 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
i was thinking the band, they're a lot more dug in
― j., Monday, 3 August 2015 23:46 (eight years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20904-ygg-huur/
Krallice named Ygg Huur for a three-piece suite by late Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi, remembered most for his creeping, miniscule movements around a single pitch. His original Ygg huur suggests the slow, barely wavering drones of Yoshi Wada's earth horns or Glenn Branca's guitar symphonies, except limited to a single cello. It is a fitting reference point for what Krallice has become. On these six songs, they de-emphasize the rock'n'roll role of riffs to the point that this music works as sets of ever-shifting rhythms, gilded by slight fluctuations in pitch. "Wastes of Ocean" scans like a competition to see who can navigate constant changes of pace the best; even the vocals are forced to slip between the stop-and start volleys. During "Over Spirit", Barr, Marston, and McMaster move so rapidly and exactly between each note that the guitars and drums trade places; the drums provide the movement as the amplified strings provide the more stable framework. A colossus, Ygg Huur reflects the accretion of a thousand minute decisions, not unlike the microtonal work from which it takes its name.
― j., Thursday, 6 August 2015 05:32 (eight years ago) link
dude named his clothes that is BALLER
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 6 August 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
oh wait
I had Years Past Matter on my Amazon Wish List for ages but never picked it up. Now there's only one copy and it's going for $100. Meh.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 8 August 2015 11:04 (eight years ago) link
I've only ever heard Diotima (which I got when I was briefly on Profound Lore's mailing list). It's always a little better than I remembered it, but I never like it well enough to look any further.
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 8 August 2015 12:08 (eight years ago) link
feel like you'd dig the new one joan crawford
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 8 August 2015 16:34 (eight years ago) link
I haven't listened to the new one on good speakers or headphones yet but YPM is definitely my favourite of the others, and is among the standout albums of the 2010s for me.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 8 August 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link
I tried listening to the new one and, again, failed to see what is special about this band.
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 8 August 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
The complex and (mostly) engaging compositions and the incredible musicianship make them pretty special to me. Apart from that I find their best stuff quite visceral and emotive. Definitely a cut above all the mediocre vanilla bullshit that I sift through on almost a daily basis, they're the best extreme metal band around right now imo. Nick McMaster's definitely one of my favourite bassists too.
― Hamsters of Misfortune (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 8 August 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
Just out of curiosity, what do you mean by "mediocre vanilla bullshit?" Like Lamb of God or...?
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 8 August 2015 18:51 (eight years ago) link
where do i start w/ Giacinto Scelsi?
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 8 August 2015 18:52 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRfKurl61mA
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 8 August 2015 18:55 (eight years ago) link
I mean 99.9% of metal and every other form of music (xpost)
― Hamsters of Misfortune (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 8 August 2015 18:55 (eight years ago) link
But yeah I find Lamb of God pretty dull for the record
― Hamsters of Misfortune (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 8 August 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link
I was just looking for a frame of reference. I'll have to give this another shot in a week and see if it seeps in.
Anyway for Scelsi I remember liking Natura Renovatur and Anahit. But Canti del Capricorno (vocal stuff) was exhausting...
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 8 August 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
Great moments in "Over Spirits".
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 9 August 2015 00:55 (eight years ago) link
man ok I'm open to Krallice being a better band than they seem like to me but the musicianship is not, in any way, inarguably superior to like 90% of metal. the bar for entry is pretty fuckin high in most death metal and in a fair bit of black metal.
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 9 August 2015 00:58 (eight years ago) link
i do not agree that their musicianship is superior. composition on the new album falls on the gorguts side of things, fwiw
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Sunday, 9 August 2015 03:29 (eight years ago) link
like nahhhhh
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Sunday, 9 August 2015 03:34 (eight years ago) link
i mean they're excellent musicians, but they would have to be to play the stuff they're writing (and iirc both marston and barr have other projects that are even more technical). that's not at all the point of krallice though, to me they're a compositionally ambitious band that also knows when and how to rock.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 9 August 2015 03:51 (eight years ago) link
http://darkforcesswing.blogspot.com/2015/08/always-has-been-krallice-at-stone-and.html
hank shteamer reflecting on krallice's last 10 years after a ygg huur show
― j., Saturday, 22 August 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 30 October 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
I can't bring myself to pick one.
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 30 October 2015 08:25 (eight years ago) link
Voted for Years Past Matter. I played the crap out of that one.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 30 October 2015 12:05 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 31 October 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
hmm.
― j., Saturday, 31 October 2015 00:38 (eight years ago) link
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."
― Capitalism Is A Death Cult And Science Is A Whore (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 12 December 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link
solex… er wait gimme a second…
― j., Saturday, 12 December 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
http://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/hyperion
YES
― Kat?ßas?? (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 1 January 2016 16:01 (eight years ago) link
what
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 1 January 2016 16:31 (eight years ago) link
AAAAAAAHHHHH
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 1 January 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
I am loving this shorter-release thing they're doing lately
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 1 January 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link
Sounds good.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 1 January 2016 19:44 (eight years ago) link
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
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 24 September 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that hit the spot.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Saturday, 24 September 2016 22:04 (seven years ago) link
I have some of his older stuff too
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 25 September 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
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.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link
New Cleric coming soon is the Marston-affiliated thing I'm most pumped for
― imago, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
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
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
gonna have to open a key man policy on marston for the sake of all metal
― j., Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
i THINK glyptoglossio are taking the piss a bit?
― imago, Saturday, 1 October 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Saturday, 1 October 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's good
― imago, Saturday, 1 October 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/12/07/504663786/vikings-choice-krallice-hate-power
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 9 December 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
yeah i'll be done with my 2016 eoy list next february. :)
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Friday, 9 December 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
I'm surprised at how consistently great this band is though I probably shouldn't be.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 9 December 2016 18:33 (seven years ago) link
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
― Dominique, Friday, 9 December 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
They basically turned into a tech-death band on their last full length, but a really fucking good one
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 9 December 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/prelapsarian
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 13:14 (seven years ago) link
oh ffs
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 13:16 (seven years ago) link
Dec 31: 80-minute Krallice/Mesarthim collab destroys metal
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 13:18 (seven years ago) link
Man this is good.
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 15:23 (seven years ago) link
this band! wow
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
ikr
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:52 (seven years ago) link
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
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/lo-m
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 27 October 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
how is it?
― imago, Friday, 27 October 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
I think it's fucking amazing but I'm not a good person to ask honestly
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 27 October 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
lol there's another one coming too
― j., Friday, 27 October 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
weinstein trippin out
― j., Friday, 27 October 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
music like this makes you believe in inhumanity again
if i heard right one of these is a christmas song, that's so festive
― j., Friday, 27 October 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
#2
https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/go-be-forgotten
― j., Tuesday, 21 November 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
This fucking band.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
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
― j., Wednesday, 22 November 2017 04:24 (six years ago) link
https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/wolf-ep
― j., Thursday, 10 January 2019 03:23 (five years ago) link
Oh hello
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 10 January 2019 03:37 (five years ago) link
can't believe they went a whole year with no releases
― j., Thursday, 10 January 2019 03:39 (five years ago) link
they should do a whole album of 15-second songs
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 10 January 2019 05:13 (five years ago) link
https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/the-wastes-of-time
^ first four albums remastered by marston
― j., Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
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.""
― j., Saturday, 29 June 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
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.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 29 June 2019 01:52 (four years ago) link
that is a for-real deep idea, I think a lot about mono myself
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 29 June 2019 03:04 (four years ago) link
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/krallice-mega-feature/
― j., Monday, 29 July 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/rot-and-waste-live
four cuts from ca. '09-'12.
― j., Thursday, 5 September 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
New album Demonic Wealth out today.
Isolation recording sessions:Drums recorded at the Mouth 3 on a phoneVocals recorded in the car by the swampBass 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.
― woman in the dunes, Friday, 5 March 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link
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
― gman59, Friday, 5 March 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
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.
― jvc, Friday, 12 March 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
i totally missed that demonic wealth came out. it's incredibly awesome
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 31 December 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
this is the best krallice album wow
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 1 January 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link
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
― woman in the dunes, Monday, 17 January 2022 18:13 (two years ago) link
hell yeah. symphonic krallice
― gman59, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 17:03 (two years ago) link
https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/crystalline-exhaustion
― gman59, Friday, 28 January 2022 16:08 (two years ago) link
love how they keep switching things up
Mick Barr - bass, vocalsColin Marston - keyboards, additional drums, vocalsNicholas McMaster - guitar, vocalsLev Weinstein - drums
― gman59, Friday, 28 January 2022 16:09 (two years ago) link
huh i guess this is two masterpieces in a row for krallice
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 19:26 (two years ago) link
New surprise Krallice album droppedhttps://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/mass-cathexis-2-the-kinetic-infinite
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 1 December 2023 13:56 (five months ago) link
New Krallice is always good, new surprise Krallice is even better!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 December 2023 14:57 (five months ago) link