| Today, medieval black metal mavericks Grylle stream the expanded vinyl version of their striking debut album, Les Grandes Compagnies. Set for international release on November 20th via Antiqstream the expanded vinyl edition of Grylle‘s Les Grandes Compagnies in its entirety here: |
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With their first demo, 2014’s Monstres et Merveilles,
Grylle brought to life a new metal genre: simply, let’s call
this medieval black metal. Not that the genre did not exist
thematically or musically from a technical point of view; surely, plenty
recordings past and present could be qualified as “medieval black metal,” but
within quotation marks. But so far, by contrast, Grylle is the
first and only to play black metal without the use of a single distorted guitar
– only medieval instruments, truly making their Medieval Black Metal appellation
authentic in every sense of the word. Unfortunately, that first Grylle demo suffered from quiet sound and a messy production and mix, and while imposing the style, it lacked some rhythmics and variations. Although another demo came a year later, Les Nuits Sur Les Monts in 2015, all that is now in the past with the band’s modern-classic full-length, Les Grandes Compagnies, grandly receiving a new double-LP vinyl version courtesy of the Antiq stronghold. |
| Led by frontman Hyvermor, here with Les Grandes Compagnies do Grylle present a new kind of epic & raw medieval music mixed with black metal and rock. No more happy instruments, no more Renaissance Faires; only sadness and bitter anger remain, boiled with a passion and vision beyond compare. In a manner most idiosyncratic and devilishly anachronistic, the album’s lyrics are historically based in the present times but turned in a medieval way, mixing personal memories, experiences, and deeds. The imagery is not left aside, with a great gatefold made to remind one of the beginning of mass printing, and now including two vinyl-exclusive (and surprising!) bonus tracks. To say there is a totality here on this 75-minute monument is an understatement to end all understatements. Hark, for Grylle‘s expanded-vinyl Les Grandes Compagnies is the first and FINAL word on medieval black metal! Antiq is a label dedicated to the fully coherent concept of making music through sound, image, video, and attitude. They have been putting their entire existence into it since 2009. Over the years, Antiq have been identified as producers of not only perfectly coherent lyrics and themes through music, but also conceptual art and, of course, the manufacturing of beautiful objects. The label tries as much as it can to work with French creators, and if possible, with the smallest and most serious structures. Cover and tracklisting for the new vinyl version are as follows: |
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Tracklisting for
Grylle’s Les Grandes
Compagnies A1. En la Forest dennuyeuse tristesse A2. Les Dernières Fées de France A3. France qui te veult mal B1. Gothique Anjevin B2. Hommaje a la Pomme de Pin B3. Loz en Croissant C1. Que chacun sonje a se pourvoir! C2. Les Guerres Picrocholines C3. Quand je bois du vin clairet D1. Le Pacte des Villes D2. Wir Zogen in das Feld |