{"id":63774,"date":"2017-03-27T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=63774"},"modified":"2017-03-27T12:41:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T17:41:55","slug":"exclusive-track-premiere-norse-cylic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/exclusive-track-premiere-norse-cylic\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive Track Premiere: Norse – “Cylic”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Way back in early 2015<\/a>, I entreated you fine feathered Toilet folk to take a trip to Australia with me to witness the deadly dissonance of\u00a0Norse<\/strong>. In our third ever edition of Mini-Reviews, I described Norse’s then current EP\u00a0Pest<\/em> as “a hyper-caffeinated cup of sinister black metal laced with multiple shots of dissonant espresso and strained through a used, bloody filter.” Today I have the distinct pleasure of giving you a second shot of the oily poison with “Cylic,” an exclusive track from Norse’s upcoming full-length\u00a0The Divine Light of a New Sun<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Although you’ll typically see Norse described as “dissonant black metal,” that’s really only partially true. Like\u00a0Imperial Triumphant<\/strong>, another skronky band commonly (and somewhat dubiously) placed within the black metal canon, Norse play a pneumatic and mechanical perversion of extreme metal that truthfully draws equally from both death metal and black metal.\u00a0Pest\u00a0<\/em>featured a healthy smattering of blast beats, but the riffs were as tributary to the cavernous death metal fauna endemic to Australia (think\u00a0Portal<\/strong>,\u00a0Aethyrvorous, Miserist<\/strong>, etc.) as they were to more\u00a0outr\u00e9 black metal acts like\u00a0Wolok<\/strong> or\u00a0Gergovia<\/strong>. By synthesizing all these various influences, Norse had concocted a nasty little EP as offputting as it was captivating.<\/p>\n