Today, Norwegian black metallers Gryla stream the entirety of their highly anticipated second album, The Redeemer’s Festering Carcass, at the No Gleaming Light YouTube channel. Set for international release on March 21st via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Gryla‘s The Redeemer’s Festering Carcass 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 leadup to its international release this Friday, hear The Redeemer’s Festering Carcass in its entirety exclusively HERE, courtesy of the No Gleaming Light YouTube channel. 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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