Today, Purity Through Fire sets October 31st as the international release date for Griiim‘s shocking debut album, Pope Art, on limited digipack CD + DVD set. Although a seemingly new name, Griiim is another horrifying manifestation of multi-discipline artist Maxime Taccardi, musically known for his polarizing work in K.F.R. Here with Griiim, he presents a different but equally nightmarish face, one that stares back at you with eerily hateful tension, a reflection of the face staring at him. A staggeringly dense and sprawling work, Pope Art is as much about sensation – diseased, decaying, but utterly “new” its oldness – as it is about music. As such, Griiim is born from the urban decay of society, a musical nightmare taking influences from the most depraved black metal to the darkest corners of industrial, electro, ambient, and rotten hip-hop. With Maxime Taccardi’s characteristically challenging touch, Griiim is meant to be the sonic equivalent of the filthy streets and asphalt areas of his native Paris, France. Composed and recorded by entirely by Taccardi, Pope Art is crucially completed by a visual BAD TRIP divided into 12 parts, which he likewise directed, filmed and edited entirely himself. Just like the album’s musical component, it’s meant to be watched in the dark at maximum volume… It is very unlikely, if not impossible, you will hear nor especially see an album like Griiim‘s Pope Art this year, or next, or the year after or… Guest performances by Mütiilation’s Meyhna’ch and Obskuritatem’s O simply grind the filth deeper into the earth, waiting for its eventual (and HORRIFYING) excavation. Beware… In the meantime, see & hear the eerie video for “The Church of Negation,” featuring the aforementioned Meyhna’ch of Mütiilation here: |
Cover art, courtesy of Taccardi, and tracklisting are as follows: |
Tracklisting for Griiim’s Pope Art 1. Intro 2. Welcome to My Nightmare 3. My Name is Max 4. God is Love But I’m Hate 5. The Church of Negation (feat. Meyhna’ch) 6. Solitude in Heaven 7. Šizofrenija (feat. O) 8. As Long As You Hold the Knife 9. Guiding the Flesh 10. Speech 11. As Long As You Hold the Knife Part II 12. A New Kind of War 13. I Ain’t Going Down 14. I’m Upset (Epilogue, feat. Kristen) |
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