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Scour Order, the anticipated new full-length from long-running black metal juggernaut, KRALLICE, is currently streaming in its fiery entirety. The premiere comes on the eve of its official unveiling, on September 18th via Profound Lore Records.
Marking their 16th full-length, with Scour Order, KRALLICE revisits their old instrumentation with Colin Marston and Mick Barr on guitars and McMaster on bass, but Marston’s vocals have remained. The new album is raging and dark, dense but also expansive. The band also returns to working with Profound Lore Records, who released the first three KRALLICE albums, after independently releasing 12 full-lengths and 4 EPs (with help from Gilead and P2 for various physical versions).
Observes Treble in a deep dive into the record, “If one were to construct tiers of KRALLICE releases, the essential heaters and the developmentally necessary works, this one would sit comfortably next to Dimensional Bleedthrough, Go Be Forgotten, and Crystalline Exhaustion as a top-shelf release, capturing both their progressive acumen and songwriting with an approach to black metal that would have fit perfectly in the exciting and avant-garde middle period of Mayhem’s work. Scour Order is a summation of all of KRALLICE’s work thus far and, brought to bear as one as it is, delivers the band a thrilling start to a new era.”
Writes No Clean Singing, “While the band still employs their signature, seemingly chaotic, compositional style – though there is undoubtedly a carefully calculated order beneath it all – the songs here definitely feel tighter and tauter, spending less time in meditative meandering (although the occasional moment of spaced-out introspection still helps provide a necessary dynamic balance) and more time pushing relentlessly forwards at such a frantic, frenetic pace that tracks like the pulse-raising, riff-driven ‘Kill The Guardian’ (an early highlight, no doubt) and the caustic cascade of ‘Indecipherable Divinities’ (whose melding of the metallic and synthetic puts me in mind of none other than early Oranssi Pazuzu) positively fly by despite their length… destined to be ranked amongst the band’s best works.”
Adds Everything is Noise, “… KRALLICE shows no signs of slowing down, wrapping their signature experimental black metal around the listener like a hungry boa constrictor and refusing to let go. The rawness, the intensity, the technicality have always been core tenets of KRALLICE’s sound and over the last 18 years and 15 albums, there has been no shortage of interesting (even groundbreaking) avant-garde ideas explored through their music – unsurprising given Marston’s myriad of other exploratory projects like Dysrhythmia, Behold…The Arctopus, and the demented Infidel?/Castro!… Scour Order, the group, reminds longtime fans like myself why we gravitated toward them in the first place: we’ve stared into the void, it’s stared back, and now we’re happily married to it.”
Stream KRALLICE’s Scour Order HERE.
Scour Order will be released on CD, 2xLP, and digital formats. Find all preorders HERE.
Scour Order Track Listing:
1. Agonal Shining
2. Grievous Corrector
3. Kill The Guardian
4. Unceasing Path
5. Living Useless Ritual
6. Indecipherable Divinities
7. Her Green Arms
8. Scour Order
Following the release of Scour Order, KRALLICE will embark on their first ever European tour, set to run from October 8th through November 7th. The band hasn’t focused on touring as much as writing and recording, but over the years there have been tours with Wolves in the Throneroom, Gorguts and Portal, Ludicra, Withered, Vampillia, Pale Chalice, and most recently, Blood Incantation. KRALLICE has also played the festivals Maryland Deathfest (3 times), Incubate, and Roadburn (who commissioned the new music and its live debut at the 2026 edition of the festival).
See all confirmed dates below.
KRALLICE Live:
10/08/2026 Kuudes Linja – Helsinki, FI
10/09/2026 Skanu Mezs Festival – Riga, LV
10/10/2026 Sodas 2123 – Vilnius, LT
10/11/2026 Hydopzagadka – Warsaw, PL
10/13/2026 Berghain – Berlin, DE
10/14/2026 P8 – Karlsruhe, DE
10/15/2026 De Helling – Utrecht, NL
10/16/2026 Desertfest Antwerp – Antwerp, BE
10/17/2026 Die Trompete – Bochum, DE
10/19/2026 Kollektivet Livet – Stockholm, SE
10/20/2026 Dyestad Showroom – Borgholm, SE
10/21/2026 Vega – Copenhagen, DK
10/22/2026 Headquarters – Aarhus, DK
10/23/2026 MS Stubnitz – Hamburg, DE
10/24/2026 Bells Echo @ Eva Refo Church – Leipzig, DE
10/25/2026 Fuchs2 – Prague, CZ
10/26/2026 Hansa39 – Munich, DE
10/27/2026 Forum Stadtpark – Graz, AT
10/28/2026 Arena – Vienna, AT
10/29/2026 Durer Kert – Budapest, HU
10/30/2026 Cukrarna – Ljubljana, SL
10/31/2026 Schlachthaus – Dornbirn, AT
11/01/2026 Valhalla – Basel, CH
11/03/2026 Le Chinois – Paris, FR
11/04/2026 La Malterie – Lille, FR
11/05/2026 Strange Brew – Bristol, UK
11/06/2026 Downstairs @ The Dome – London, UK
11/07/2026 Damnation Fest – Manchester, UK
KRALLICE is Mick Barr, Colin Marston, Nicholas McMaster, and Lev Weinstein. Their saga began in 2007 in Woodhaven, Queens, New York City as a two-guitar collaboration between Marston and Barr with the intention of making a black metal record. After recording the first album with Weinstein on drums in 2008, KRALLICE quickly became an actual band adding McMaster on bass/vocals and playing its first shows.
The collective continued to record nine albums and three EPs with Marston on guitar, Barr on guitar/vocals, and McMaster on bass/vocals. The style was always dense and polyphonic, but after Years Past Matter (2012) and the Hyperion EP (2016), there was an opening of the sound, with less focus on black metal and hypnotic long songs.
The period of Ygg Huur (2015) through Mass Cathexis (2020) tends to be darker and less predictable musically. By 2017, KRALLICE started a collaboration with Dave Edwardson of Neurosis on vocals. For the Loum album (2017) he contributed all lyrics, vocals, synths, and cover art ideas. Since then, he’s also appeared with vocals on Mass Cathexis and Mass Cathexis 2 (2023).
In 2021, the band released a pivot album in terms of the lineup/instrumentation with Demonic Wealth. This album features Marston on all guitars, synths and songwriting, with Barr as the standalone vocalist and lyricist. Its lofi production, inclusion of synths on every song (including half the songs on the record with no guitar at all), and alternative compositional approach opened the KRALLICE sound further.
The next four albums and EP saw a solid instrumentation change with Barr switching to bass/vocals, McMaster switching to guitar/vocals, and Marston on synths, additional drums, and vocals. Moving from a dual guitar sound to one heavy with synths and only one guitar pushed the sound in a more atmospheric direction, less dense and dissonant than before but without losing those aspects completely.
And in 2026, KRALLICE enters their next era with Scour Order.
“…Scour Order is a summation of all of KRALLICE’s work thus far and, brought to bear as one as it is, delivers the band a thrilling start to a new era.” – Treble
“…the group reminds longtime fans like myself why we gravitated toward them in the first place: we’ve stared into the void, it’s stared back, and now we’re happily married to it.” – Everything Is Noise
“…destined to be ranked amongst the band’s best works.” – No Clean Singing
“…raw, intense…” – Brooklyn Vegan on lead single, “Living Useless Ritual”
“After half a decade of excursions into lo-fi, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, and synth worship, and a half decade before that of exploration away from avant-garde black metal, KRALLICE is back to as approximate of their original sound as possible. Scour Order doesn’t sound exactly like Krallice or Dimensional Bleedthrough, but such a feat would be regression, seemingly an anemic task for this group.” – Invisible Oranges
“As always, this band makes dizzy, immersive music. The players are all total virtuosos, but it’s hard to even notice that when you get into the time-warping rush of the sound.” – Stereogum on lead single, “Living Useless Ritual”
“The volatile appeal of Scour Order lies in an unstable, uncertain changeability that’s kept uniform by its simplistic lo-fi production. It’s a dichotomy that sustains your interest in exploring the unknown with KRALLICE even as they blaze new trails through the unknown themselves.” – Asphyxium ‘Zine
“Though it manages a long, winding path through its skittering thousand-armed needling riffcraft and foam-heavy rattling Scour Order ultimately reads as a retraction of the studio-bound exploration of the band’s post-pandemic exploration. In this sense those seeking a follow-up to the bizarro world that’d peaked via Inorganic Rites will instead feel the psyche of the band torn back roughly ten years in time into ‘practical’ space and long-developed positions… The spooling-loose mania of the first disc should be reason enough to check this one out yet the taxing delve of the whole thing should prove memorable for the curious and the ‘ready indoctrinated. A high recommendation.” – Mystification ‘Zine
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