Canadian death/doom metal band Norilsk to release their new album »Antipole« on February 7th via Hypnotic Dirge Records!

Gatineau, Quebec based atmospheric death/doom metal band Norilsk has announced their new album, »Antipole«, which will be released on February 7th, 2025 via Hypnotic Dirge Records.

Pre-orders will go live this Friday December 13th upon video premiere for the first single »D’ombre et de glace (l’asphyxie)«.

Courtesy of Hypnotic Dirge Records:

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.

Cover artwork created by Nightjar art of Adam Burke (Loss, Bell Witch, Hooded Menace).

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well