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artist: Norilsk
title: Beyond the Mountains
year: 2022
genre: Metal
type: EP
label: Hypnotic Dirge Records
language: English
rel. date: 2022-05-13
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:15:35
size: 39.20 MB
rip date: 2025-08-05
source url: https://www.deezer.com/album/316411247
tracklist:
1. Beyond the Horizon 7:33
2. Intro - Officium Triste Part II / Mountains of Depressiveness 8:02
release notes:
Released on the tipping point at the end of the world, Beyond the
Mountains is a death-doom offering that speaks to the fragile overlap
between the nostalgic old world and a dark new chapter in history. It is
released in 2022 both as a tribute to the doom-death scene and an omen
of things to come.
In 2019, Netherlands melodic doom-death godfathers Officium Triste were
celebrating their 25th anniversary. The band invited a number of artists
around the world to participate in a tribute album, where Norilsk
contributed with opening track 'Intro Officum Triste (Pt II) / Mountains
of Depressiveness.' With its desolate coldness and relative austerity,
the cover song and its lyrics represent the stripped-down essence of the
genre, which remains as relevant 25 years later.
'Beyond the Horizon' was composed in the spirit of the 90's classic
doom-death bands, and recorded during the same session. The song is
about the Inuit High Arctic Relocations in Canada, a mid-20th Century
tragic event that occurred when Canadian authorities forced a number of
northern communities to relocate in the High Arctic, a 'place of
darkness,' and deliberately slaughtered their sled dogs. This
displacement had deep impact on the Inuit traditional way of living, and
still has ongoing consequences in northern communities today.
Acknowledging the extremely dark context of 2022, including the
mountains of mental illness brought by the pandemic and the forced
displacement brought by the war, Canadian doom-death band Norilsk is
releasing this digital EP as a symbol of support, and hope for better
things to come.