OUT NOW! Norilsk - “Gigantes Mortui” (Hypnotic Dirge Records)

“Gigantes Mortui” celebrates Norilsk’s first ten years with new live-in-the-room versions of songs from across the catalogue, recorded with the stability and chemistry of the current line-up. Tom Hansen and Matt MacIvor joined in 2016 and 2017, and the band revisited its discography to re-arrange material with the live feel these tracks have gained on stage. The result presents their atmospheric death doom songs with an immediate and organic sound. The first single, “Beyond the Horizon”, is available on Bandcamp and YouTube. The band comments: “We wrote and released this song during the lockdown in 2021-22, on the EP Beyond the Mountains. We recorded it again for the live album without having played it live previously, which adds to its frozen-in-time character.”