Black Grail "VIIII" CD

Today I present the latest release from Chilean “ultra hardcore black metal” band, Black Grail.

Five tracks of obsidian South American rawness, whose ritualistic, regal and funereally paced exterior of doomy dark riffs cloaks an underlying chaotic menace, with explosions of gnashing wildness that rupture the sinister composure.

Formed in 2005, BLACK GRAIL are one of the great gems of the oft-overlooked Chilean black metal underground. While much of the focus (rightfully) on the country’s long-running/reigning blackthrash idiom, there’s existed a parallel paradigm less populous but no less potent, and there BLACK GRAIL have dug their evil trench with dogged resolve. Distinctly Chilean style of black metal still, but VIIII could equally sit comfortably alongside the cult likes of Funereal Presence, Cultes des Ghoules or, further back, Germany’s mythical Martyrium.

Sample: youtube.com/watch?v=fg4xtVtHsxQ