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Krallice Krallice is an American black metal band formed by New York City musicians Colin Marston, Mick Barr, Nick McMaster and Lev Weinstein. They play an experimental, highly technical style of black metal. The band has released twelve studio albums a ...

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. The album was recorded before Nick McMaster had joined the band so he only appears as an additional vocalist on the recording and the bass guitar was played by both Marston and Barr.

Recording

Colin Marston recorded, mixed and mastered the album in his studio Menegroth, the Thousand Caves in

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. Though the band initially intended to use a

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approach, the music was too dense to come out successfully. The album was recorded on 2" tape with multiple

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and guitar layers. Marston describes it as "pure and ambient" as a contrast to the buzzy trebley guitar and fake

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found on some older black metal. The guitars were doubled with different tones and recorded in the same room as the amps so that

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proliferates the recording. The bass guitar was run through two amplifiers, one slightly dirtier than the other. The drums were tuned as low as possible and recorded from a distance to give a loud sound with no reverb or triggers.

Reception

In a review for

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, Phil Freeman called ''Krallice'' "an album full of high-speed shifts and sudden left turns, as guitar solos erupt out of the riff-storm like a demonic dolphin leaping from a lake of lava, or the band suddenly halts what had seemed like frantic, headlong momentum to begin playing an entirely different riff." A reviewer for ''

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'' stated: "The results are hard to grasp, but strangely addictive. Krallice would have made a marvelous soundtrack to ''Pi''." Dead Rhetoric's David E. Gehlke commented: "a six-song stormer that is as frenetic and memorable as anything to pop out of the underground the last 12 months... Highly recommend, essential, etc. and so forth –Krallice is the USBM album of the year." A writer for the Metal Detektor described the album as "a superb black metal record," and wrote: "With this debut, Krallice have risen to and arguably surpassed Wolves in the Throne Room like levels of elite American black metal brilliance, and once again shows that Profound Lore... is a truly elite label." A reviewer for Burning Ambulance portrayed the album as "a six-song explosion of hoarse screams, avalanche-like blast beats and stunningly intertwined guitar riffs," and remarked: "Each track erupted in virtuosity—solos rocket out of nowhere, riffs took sudden sharp turns. It was breathtaking, but impossible to absorb or decipher without multiple focused listens."

Track listing

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Credits

;Krallice *

Mick Barr Krallice is an American black metal band formed by New York City musicians Colin Marston, Mick Barr, Nick McMaster and Lev Weinstein. They play an experimental, highly technical style of black metal. The band has released twelve studio albums a ...

- vocals, guitar, bass guitar * Colin Marston - guitar, bass guitar *

Lev Weinstein Lev Matveyevich Vainshtein (also "Vaynshteyn" and "Lew Weinstein"; 12 March 1916 – 25 December 2004) was a Soviet world champion and Olympic bronze medalist in shooting. Early life Weinstein was born into a Jewish family from Yekaterinbur ...

- drums ;Additional musicians *

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- additional vocals ;Other * Colin Marston - recording, mixing, mastering *

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- cover artwork * Karlynn Holland - band logo

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Krallice (Album) 2008 debut albums Krallice albums Profound Lore Records albums Albums produced by Colin Marston