New album, “The Abyssal Terror”, out on October 31st!
Since the arrival of their debut album, Red Dragon’s Invocation, in 2021 and the EP The Oath of the Black Wolf a year later, Orgrel have indeed been feeding the Beast. A band literally out of time, the Italian power-trio hailed the ancient days of black metal – the days too often forgotten, in the late ’90s, when labels like Solistitium, Sombre, and Drakkar began releasing obsidian gems during the genre’s post-sensationalism fallout. Rich with righteous fury and triumph alike, both records synthesized mystical splendor and dizzying delirium into a joint treatise on those too-often-forgotten days, engrossing to the very last notes: reverence, not regression.
And now, Orgrel return to feed that Beast once again, making a bloodpact with the Purity Through Fire stronghold for their third album. Truly titled, The Abyssal Terror is both a summation and an extension of the Italians’ already-considerable strengths. With an acutely vintage flat-yet-full production, Orgrel here rip forth with one bloodlusting anthem after another, stacking invigorating melodicism atop impassioned surge – one where the listener fully feels every last riff, rhythm, and holler deep in their bones. If anything, the preceding EP signaled a slight shift toward dirtier and perhaps less-mystical territory, but The Abyssal Terror rights the balance with gruffer, fuller-throated vocals and, at times, a subtle suggestion of epic traditional metal; in an abstracted sense, the latter could be attributed to a deeper dive into black metal’s oldest roots. Either way, Orgrel once again display an effortless mastery of songwriting and execution, a symbiosis of medieval machismo and feral wanderlust: The Beast shall be fed by The Abyssal Terror!
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