Krallice

Born in New York in 2007, Krallice brought together Colin Marston and Mick Barr, soon joined by Nick McMaster and Lev Weinstein, in a lineup that began within black metal before pushing the genre toward more experimental and technical territory. Krallice developed a dense sound built on intricately detailed tremolo guitar work, shifting rhythms and long compositions with complex structures, with a constant focus on melodic layering and harmonic tension. The band emerged with Krallice in 2008 and refined this approach on Dimensional Bleedthrough (2009), Diotima (2011) and Years Past Matter (2012). After a period in which members also pursued other New York metal and experimental projects — notably Dysrhythmia, Behold… The Arctopus, Orthrelm and Gorguts in Colin Marston’s case — Krallice resumed a steady release pace with Ygg huur (2015), Prelapsarian (2016), Loüm and Go Be Forgotten (2017), followed by Mass Cathexis (2020), Demonic Wealth (2021), Crystalline Exhaustion and Psychagogue (2022), Porous Resonance Abyss (2023) and Inorganic Rites (2024). Across this discography, Krallice has evolved its black metal into an increasingly abstract, dissonant and progressive compositional language, without abandoning the intensity or the extreme roots of its beginnings.