ALBUM RELEASE: Norilsk - Antipole
Posted by Hypnotic Dirge Records on Friday, February 7, 2025 Under: Norilsk
Today - the new Norilsk album Antipole is released! Always an exciting time when we can finally share the full album with you all.
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Listen to the album in full at the Bandcamp link below - the album is available for unlimited streaming and name-your-price" download as always, and of course LP's, CD's, bundles and exclusive merch is also available!
Main Store | Canada/US Store | Bandcamp
Album notes:
Main Store | Canada/US Store | Bandcamp
Album notes:
The quartet has assembled a brand new chapter in the band’s discography, building on the characteristics that made Norilsk what it is today while offering something undeniably contemporary. The new album, Antipole, picks up where 2022’s EP Beyond the Mountains left: with its slow doomy riffs, cold melodies, recognizable death growls, and a hint of post-metal atmosphere brought by a dual guitar interplay. While offering rewarding surprises to those who have been following the band since its beginnings, this album is also a major step forward for the band, and an ideal point of entry to anyone new to the band or death doom in general.
Norilsk is known for its unique take on winter doom, where cultures and nordicity provide a backdrop for addressing other deeper concepts such as loss, mental illness, or identity with the land. On its new album Antipole, the artist explores the concept of duality. The album flows between slow and faster songs, and highlights the contrasts in death and doom, with its beauty and tragedy, harshness and fragility, light and darkness, reality and fiction, and its gravity and ethereality.
Tracklist:
1 – Antipole (8:05)
2 – D’ombre et de glace (l’asphyxie) (4:47)
3 – Locus Sanctus* (6:07)
4 – Nunataks (5:27)
5 – La chute du géant (10:42)
6 – La fonte (5:08)
7 – Un chant pour les morts (7:18)
Norilsk is:
Nic Miquelon: Vocals and bass
Nick Richer: Drums and backing vocals
Tom Hansen: Guitars
Matt MacIvor: Guitars
All songs written, arranged and performed by Norilsk.
Lyrics by N. Miquelon.
Mixed and mastered by James Plotkins (Plotkinsworks).
Drums recorded and mixed at Wolf Lake Studios by Mike Bond
with assistance from JP Sadek.
Drums edited and mixed in The Bond Cave.
Guitars and bass recorded by Tom Hansen.
Vocals recorded by Topon Das at Apartment 2.
Artwork by Adam Burke (Nightjar Illustrations).
Band photo by Nick Richer.
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In : Norilsk
