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Poll Results

OptionVotes
years past matter (2012) 4
diotima (2011) 3
krallice (2008) 2
dimensional bleedthrough (2009) 2
ygg huur (2015) 1


j., Friday, 31 July 2015 15:59 (ten years ago)

i enjoy pronouncing ygg huur in my mind

insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 31 July 2015 16:02 (ten years ago)

that is when i eat my brykfuust

j., Friday, 31 July 2015 16:03 (ten years ago)

Pshaw

http://www.mediaboom.org/uploads/posts/2010-06/1275410149_logo_krallice.png

jmm, Friday, 31 July 2015 16:25 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

that is when i eat my brykfuust

― j., Friday, July 31, 2015 9:03 AM (4 hours ago)

I died. my god, j.

octobeard, Friday, 31 July 2015 20:42 (ten years ago)

Diotima is probably my favourite, but i'm a big fan of Years Past Matter too.

borntohula, Saturday, 1 August 2015 12:30 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

it does sound very emo at the beginning

j., Monday, 3 August 2015 14:12 (ten years ago)

lol right? the vocals are very post-hardcore

insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 3 August 2015 15:53 (ten years ago)

i was thinking the band, they're a lot more dug in

j., Monday, 3 August 2015 23:46 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

dude named his clothes that is BALLER

a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 6 August 2015 20:03 (ten years ago)

oh wait

a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 6 August 2015 20:03 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

where do i start w/ Giacinto Scelsi?

dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 8 August 2015 18:52 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRfKurl61mA

a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 8 August 2015 18:55 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

But yeah I find Lamb of God pretty dull for the record

Hamsters of Misfortune (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 8 August 2015 18:58 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

Great moments in "Over Spirits".

EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 9 August 2015 00:55 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

I mean 99.9% of metal and every other form of music (xpost)

like nahhhhh

insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Sunday, 9 August 2015 03:34 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Friday, 30 October 2015 00:01 (ten years ago)

I can't bring myself to pick one.

moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 30 October 2015 08:25 (ten years ago)

Voted for Years Past Matter. I played the crap out of that one.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 30 October 2015 12:05 (ten years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Saturday, 31 October 2015 00:01 (ten years ago)

hmm.

j., Saturday, 31 October 2015 00:38 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

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 (ten years ago)

solex… er wait gimme a second…

j., Saturday, 12 December 2015 20:47 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

YES

Kat?ßas?? (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 1 January 2016 16:01 (nine years ago)

what

moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 1 January 2016 16:31 (nine years ago)

AAAAAAAHHHHH

the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 1 January 2016 17:01 (nine years ago)

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

the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 1 January 2016 17:04 (nine years ago)

Sounds good.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 1 January 2016 19:44 (nine years ago)

eight months pass...

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 (nine years ago)

Yeah, that hit the spot.

Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Saturday, 24 September 2016 22:04 (nine years ago)

i THINK glyptoglossio are taking the piss a bit?

imago, Saturday, 1 October 2016 19:32 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

yeah it's good

imago, Saturday, 1 October 2016 20:27 (nine years ago)

two months pass...

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

ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 9 December 2016 17:53 (nine years ago)

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

increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Friday, 9 December 2016 18:13 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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

Dinsdale, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 13:14 (nine years ago)

oh ffs

a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 13:16 (nine years ago)

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

illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 13:18 (nine years ago)

Man this is good.

BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 15:23 (nine years ago)

this band! wow

who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:30 (nine years ago)

ikr

ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:52 (nine years ago)

nine months pass...

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 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

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

ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 27 October 2017 14:06 (eight years ago)

how is it?

imago, Friday, 27 October 2017 15:04 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

lol there's another one coming too

j., Friday, 27 October 2017 18:24 (eight years ago)

weinstein trippin out

j., Friday, 27 October 2017 18:34 (eight years ago)

music like this makes you believe in inhumanity again

j., Friday, 27 October 2017 18:34 (eight years ago)

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

j., Friday, 27 October 2017 18:39 (eight years ago)

three weeks pass...

#2

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

j., Tuesday, 21 November 2017 20:37 (eight years ago)

This fucking band.

ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 21:59 (eight years ago)

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

ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 21:59 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

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

j., Thursday, 10 January 2019 03:23 (six years ago)

Oh hello

resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 10 January 2019 03:37 (six years ago)

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

j., Thursday, 10 January 2019 03:39 (six years ago)

they should do a whole album of 15-second songs

resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 10 January 2019 05:13 (six years ago)

four months pass...

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

^ first four albums remastered by marston

j., Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:41 (six years ago)

three weeks pass...

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

one month passes...

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

j., Monday, 29 July 2019 21:59 (six years ago)

one month passes...

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

four cuts from ca. '09-'12.

j., Thursday, 5 September 2019 19:18 (six years ago)

one year passes...

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.

woman in the dunes, Friday, 5 March 2021 13:57 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

nine months pass...

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

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 31 December 2021 19:44 (three years ago)

this is the best krallice album wow

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 1 January 2022 21:27 (three years ago)

two weeks pass...

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 (three years ago)

hell yeah. symphonic krallice

gman59, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 17:03 (three years ago)

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

gman59, Friday, 28 January 2022 16:08 (three years ago)

love how they keep switching things up

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

gman59, Friday, 28 January 2022 16:09 (three years ago)

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

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 19:26 (three years ago)

one year passes...

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

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 1 December 2023 13:56 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

eight months pass...

new one is honestly one of the very best yet. last at Colin's studio too im guessing until he finds a new space

https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/inorganic-rites

gman59, Thursday, 29 August 2024 20:50 (one year ago)

tremendous, tremendous album, really worth a lot of listens

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 29 August 2024 21:44 (one year ago)


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