{"title":"Krallice - Scour Hour","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"krallice-scour-hour-2lp","title":"Krallice - Scour Hour 2LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore I take the too long path of attempting to contextualise Krallice to the uninitiated I would like to  state that ‘Scour Order’ is a record with the ability to transport, escape, modify my mental state like no other album so far this year. It’s an immense, engulfing album and to these ears feels like a triumph of human creative potential! \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKrallice formed in Queens, New York circa 2008. It’s a time I associate with an expanded embrace of and participation in extreme metal, or more specifically black metal, to a let’s just say, a cosmopolitan audience. There’s a certain amount of dialogue and music from the period I came across (insert post-metal, IPA-metal, graphic design metal, true\/false distinctions etc) that I’d like to forget. Thankfully Krallice sit above any cynical nonsense and have forged a path that in my musical mind map is situated as near to King Crimson in the 1980s, Gorguts from Obscura onwards and the eccentric world of prog\/math\/noise rock I’d associate with Load Records, Laddio Bolocko, Hella, The Psychic Paramount etc, as I would Black Metal. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf course Krallice evoke the transcendent atmosphere of Weakling and early Ulver albums, ‘Scour Order’ being a return to and dizzying expansion upon this territory, but I have a feeling the things that make me enjoy Krallice so much might frustrate proper black metal fanatics. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis (and most) of their records have a very lively, almost jazz-y band-in-a-room feel, where the collaborative unit dynamic and indispensability of each member feels at odds with the individual-in-solitude black metal trope. Love it or hate it, Krallice are unique and relentlessly dedicated. 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