As the cold season returns, Hypnotic Dirge Records is proud to announce the brand new studio album by Canadian death doom band Norilsk.

The quartet has assembled a brand new chapter in the band’s discography, building on the characteristics that made Norilsk what it is today while offering something undeniably contemporary. The new album, Antipole, picks up where 2022’s EP Beyond the Mountains left: with its slow doomy riffs, cold melodies, recognizable death growls, and a hint of post-metal atmosphere brought by a dual guitar interplay. While offering rewarding surprises to those who have been following the band since its beginnings, this album is also a major step forward for the band, and an ideal point of entry to anyone new to the band or death doom in general.

Norilsk is known for its unique take on winter doom, where cultures and nordicity provide a backdrop for addressing other deeper concepts such as loss, mental illness, or identity with the land. On its new album Antipole, the artist explores the concept of duality. The album flows between slow and faster songs, and highlights the contrasts in death and doom, with its beauty and tragedy, harshness and fragility, light and darkness, reality and fiction, and its gravity and ethereality.

Tracklist:
1 – Antipole (8:05)
2 – D’ombre et de glace (l’asphyxie) (4:47)
3 – Locus Sanctus* (6:07)
4 – Nunataks (5:27)
5 – La chute du géant (10:42)
6 – La fonte (5:08)
7 – Un chant pour les morts (7:18)
*DigiCD exclusive

Released: February 7, 2025
Release Type: Full-Length Album
Playing Time: 47:34
Genre: Death-Doom Metal
Quantity: 500 Copies
Packaging: 4 Panel Digipack with 12 Page Booklet

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