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mick barr (orthrelm, etc..) the prog-guitar sorcerer started a black metal band called krallice. colin marston of dysrythmia fills in on rhthym guitar, and liv weinstein of bloody panda is behind the kit. im real excited about this. ive always though mick would be perfect in some kind of extreme metal band, and this shit is definitley legitimizing that thought. listening to a the track 'wretched wisom' right now, i can already tell this is gonna be a very neat project. sorta like a mid period darkthrone, with some of the ambient sounds popular in contemporary american black metal (leviathan, wolves in the throne room, xasthur), maybe evenj a tiny bit of hardcore influences, and of course a progressive bent. barr's lead guitar is of course mind blowing as usual, no denying he is one of the most innovative and skilled guitarists in the world right now, and this stuff is some of the coolest riffs hes ever come up with. his vocals are surprisingly great, raspy shouts that remind me of the classic black metal vocalists. very cool stuff. im loving it.

i wonder if mick's buddy and extreme metal lover weasel walter will ever join up with these guys. ive read in iterviews that they love collabing together (which they have on thier 10 inch with hillmer, and the luttenbachers records 'cataclysm' and 'spectral warrior mythos'), and a brutal progressive black metal band would seem a perfect place to do it.