GRYLLE

On November 10th internationally, Antiq is proud to present Grylle‘s highly anticipated second album, Egrotants, Souffreteux, Cacochymes, Covidards.

Grylle is a band formed in 2013 in France. As soon as the first songs were published on the mesmerizing demo Monstres et Merveilles in 2014, the band claimed a radical style: medieval music (flutes, lute, medieval drums) with black metal vocals. 

No use of synthesizers nor samples, neither any guitar: modern instruments are all banned. The lyrical theme of Grylle finds inspiration in the current social and political situation to write chronicles of our time through a medieval approach and a satirical point of view.

Following the demo came an album literally making the consensus: Les Grandes Compagnies in 2019. Black metal howled in French, played on lute and drummed with a metal drumkit. After a couple of years working with talented musicians and traditional artists, Grylle finally reveals its long-awaited new album: Egrotants, Souffreteux, Cacochymes, Covidards. 

Here on Egrotants, Souffreteux, Cacochymes, Covidards, we talk about plague, diseases, and strange afflictions: themes that still nowadays sow panic through their constant walk of death, depicted through the medieval point of view that made Grylle one of a kind. Expect nothing less than black metal as it would have been made in the Middle Ages after the Great Plague fear: brutal, inventive, and without compromise. Nevertheless, elegance and majesty shine on this album, as depicted by the beautiful illumination of the cover created by the medievalist painter Miho Kuroyanagi. The musicians and guests take medieval black metal to the highest level of authenticity and creativity.

Musically, the base is that of a power-trio: fast and bizarre lute melodies by Hyver (Véhémence, Hanternoz), swinging and inventive bass with a ’70s prog approach by KK (Passéisme, Paroxysm Unit), and flamboyant and luxurious drums led by Cadavre (Cantique Lépreux, Mêlée des Aurores, Forteresse live). Above it, some strange and uncommon instruments are psalterions, flutes and pipes, Sarrazin guitar (or citole), and brass sections. And then, harsh vocals as you know Grylle‘s Hyver and La Griesche are capable of, enhanced by rare-but-angelic choirs.

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.

 In the meantime, hear the brand-new tracks “Grande Marche des Covidards” and “Mauvais Sang” here:

Aforementioned cover artwork and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Grylle’s Egrotants, Souffreteux, Cacorhymes, Covidards
1. Grande Marche des Covidards
2. Mauvais Sang [3:27]
3. Moribon Flétri d’Orgueil [4:59]
4. Réservement de Confortale Présence [7:00]
5. Le Tropique du Cancer [3:58]
6.  Queresle des Diables sur la Savance du Mort [7:16]
7. Le Triomphe de la Mort [6:16]

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On November 20th, Antiq is proud to present Grylle‘s striking debut album, Les Grandes Compagnies, on vinyl LP format. 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.   In the meantime, stream the entirety of the original CD version Les Grandes Compagnies, released earlier this spring here:

Cover and tracklisting for the new vinyl version are as follows:

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

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