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i enjoy pronouncing ygg huur in my mind

that is when i eat my brykfuust

Pshaw

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

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.

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.

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

that is when i eat my brykfuust

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

I died. my god, j.

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

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

Hard choice between Diotima and YPM... the latter's the best/most cohesively written but Diotima has Telluric Rings

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

it does sound very emo at the beginning

lol right? the vocals are very post-hardcore

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

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.

dude named his clothes that is BALLER

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.

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.

feel like you'd dig the new one joan crawford

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.

I tried listening to the new one and, again, failed to see what is special about this band.

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.

Just out of curiosity, what do you mean by "mediocre vanilla bullshit?" Like Lamb of God or...?

where do i start w/ Giacinto Scelsi?

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

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

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

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...

Great moments in "Over Spirits".

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.

i do not agree that their musicianship is superior. composition on the new album falls on the gorguts side of things, fwiw

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

like nahhhhh

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.

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

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I can't bring myself to pick one.

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

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

hmm.

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."

solex… er wait gimme a second…

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

YES

what

AAAAAAAHHHHH

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

Sounds good.

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

Yeah, that hit the spot.

i THINK glyptoglossio are taking the piss a bit?

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.

yeah it's good

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

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

I'm surprised at how consistently great this band is though I probably shouldn't be.

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

They basically turned into a tech-death band on their last full length, but a really fucking good one

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

oh ffs

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

Man this is good.

this band! wow

ikr

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

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

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

how is it?

I think it's fucking amazing but I'm not a good person to ask honestly

lol there's another one coming too

weinstein trippin out

music like this makes you believe in inhumanity again

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

#2

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

This fucking band.

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

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

Oh hello

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

they should do a whole album of 15-second songs

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

^ first four albums remastered by marston

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.""

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.

that is a for-real deep idea, I think a lot about mono myself

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

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

four cuts from ca. '09-'12.

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.

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

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.

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

this is the best krallice album wow

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

hell yeah. symphonic krallice

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

love how they keep switching things up

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

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

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

New Krallice is always good, new surprise Krallice is even better!

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

tremendous, tremendous album, really worth a lot of listens