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Gorr - Tolv I Talet - Reviewed By Metal Digest! Monday December 27 2021, 10:27 AM

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Gorr - Tolv I Talet - Reviewed By Metal Digest ! Check it out here at this link: https://metal-digest.com/2021/12/22/gorr-tolv-i-talet-ep/

Think of the cold, cold north, now venture out in a boat over the cold, cold sea and to the cold, cold windswept island of Gossen off the cold, cold coast of cold, cold Norway. Are you feeling cold yet? This is where Gorr hail from, well, one half of them anyway, the other lives in sunny Southern Carolina in the US, but in the short existence of three years, Gorr have managed to release not only two full albums, but now they’re releasing their second EP ‘Tolv i talet’.

Even by Norwegian standards, ‘Tolv i talet’ is a cold album, it could bring the snow and howling winds to Abu Dhabi as Gorr draw on inspirations from the atypical, almost obligatory Norse mythology to feelings of isolation, despair, and regret. Pretty much standard black metal. Yet, what makes ‘Tolv i talet’ actually very interesting are the local stories, the local histories of Gossen and what it is like living in such a harsh and extreme location. This is all packaged up into a wall of sound, a battering ram of blast beats and tremolo picking whilst Skuggimaðr delivers demonic shriek after shriek like a real harbinger of doom with the band having all the markings of Watain, Kampfar and Vried.

Those well versed in the ways of black metal will find plenty to enjoy here, whilst there is nothing really here which Gorr haven’t attempted before or even black metal as a genre and the band do this sound very, very well. ‘Tolv i talet’ proves that the creative well of Gorr is far from dry and this EP provides an excellent stop gap between what can only be assumed as the next Gorr album. - Metal Digest

Release Date: December 1, 2021

FFO: Watain, Kampfar, Emperor, Vreid

Black metal from the north west coast of Norway! Gorr was founded in the late dark months of 2019 by Skuggimaðr after he heard the old story about the local king named Gorr. The story about him and the locations for it suited perfectly as inspiration for a black metal project that was still a “wanted child” but not yet born. The location is where Skuggimaðr lives and is an island on the north west coast of Norway called Gossen, and this heavily inspires both the music and the lyrics. After the first EP Hateful Wind joined Gorr and Gorr has since then been a two headed act. After two black metal albums, Gorr wanted to play around a bit more with styles and incorporate elements from death metal and doom into the music. This time they even got some help from lyrics writer Synnøve Holdhus, who also is Skuggimaðrs wife. This ended up in a small album with themes and feelings ranging from old Norse mythology into local stories with big losses and struggles from Gossen and the harsh nature surrounding it.

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