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artist: Gryla
title: The Redeemer's Festering Carcass
year: 2025
genre: Black Metal
type: Album
label: Iron BoneHead Productions
language: English
rel. date: 2025-00-00
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:40:17
size: 92.4 MiB / 6 tracks
rip date: 2026-05-15
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/gt5aghtpss8bb
tracklist:
01. The Redeemer's Festering Carcass Pt. 1 7:43
02. The Redeemer's Festering Carcass Pt. 2 6:38
03. Banners Soaked in Crimson Essence 6:06
04. Imposer 6:11
05. Carnal Beast 6:20
06. Spewing Fecal Abjurations 7:20
release notes:
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 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.