Hirvi - Elk

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 430.

Maasta olet sinä tullut - Earth to Earth

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 429.

Vala - Oath

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 428.

About Grallochery

 

The name of this project was originally supposed to be Crowned Underhound. I even drew a logo for it. One demo was recorded under that name and the material eventually ended up on Your Spine Is a Pierced Snake, the final Vengeful Semblance album. Vengeful Semblance did not become Grallochery. They are two completely separate ideas.

Grallochery as a word is a mixture of Scottish and English. It means gutting a deer. I came up with that name in late 2022 as I was entertaining the idea of having a different kind of black metal project.

I love programming all kinds of drums and some of my private demos have a drum kit in the mix, even though the final version almost never has that. I have never had a physical drum kit, so programming is my way of coming up with rhythms and beats. I've been a hand drummer my whole life.

These albums are a response to those who think black metal is just a blast of heinous crap and the dumbest cliches. I started listening to this type of music in the mid-90s and I've heard enough hyperspeed nonsense, trust me.

Avoiding fast blast beats, religious rhetoric and black thrash, I wrote two albums back to back in November 2023. Reign in Blood is one of my favourite albums, but I'm not interested in recording thrash metal. The sharp guitar tone reminds me of Slayer, Celtic Frost and Darkthrone.

I was supposed to record a cover of Fainted Eyes by Celtic Frost for Vengeful Semblance, but it never happened. Bathory's Son of the Damned was more appropriate for Grallochery.

The vocals were inspired by The Evil Dead. I wanted to achieve that without using a harmonizer. Just my own voice, no doubled tracks or effects.

Grallochery is about the intensity of pre-93 black metal. Crowned Underhound was my 14th black metal album and I'm not sure if I will ever make more.

Crowned Underhound - out now

1. Crowned Underhound
2. Unsung Damnation
3. Grotto Titan
4. Underground Gauntlet
5. Serpent Sword for No Ruler
6. Megatriskeleton
7. Starlit Cerebral Graves
8. Blood Vigils
9. Gorgon Curse
10. Son of the Damned (Bathory cover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQOGqjyYtw4
https://grallochery.bandcamp.com/

The second Grallochery album and the 33rd by Rinta-Perälä. Crowned Underhound is possibly the last release for this project.

Written in dark November 2023. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, December 2023 and January 2024.

Tracks 1-9: Music, lyrics, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.

Dedicated to rabid dogs and demonic warthogs.

Son of the Damned - exclusive Bathory cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Fv_9OAk8M

The second Grallochery album Crowned Underhound is out March 15, 2024.

https://grallochery.bandcamp.com/

Hengen palo - Burning Spirit

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 427.

New track from the second Grallochery album

 

Underground Gauntlet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaRCqwF5ey0

Feral black metal onslaught continues with the second album written in November 2023. This is going to be the last Grallochery release for now.

Crowned Underhound will be unleashed on March 15, 2024.

Härkä - Ox

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 426.

Carnassial - out now

 

01. Carnassial
02. Impaled Firmament Fragment
03. Wound Cut Off
04. Sylvan Doors to the Odd
05. Granite Shepherd
06. Phobic Seizure
07. Progeny Cremated in Her Eyes
08. Utterly Human Path
09. Endochaos
10. Queen of Windswept Aurora

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8TiFmE85EQ
https://grallochery.bandcamp.com

The 32nd album by Rinta-Perälä. Music, lyrics, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.

Written in dark November 2023. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, November - December 2023.

Dedicated to the night atmosphere in Perälä and Gerby.

Progeny Cremated in Her Eyes

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G6ByDaD__c

Carnassial, February 16, 2024.

New project - album out February 16, 2024

 

Wound Cut Off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPAWf8DLDNE

Grallochery is feral black metal with vocals and a drum kit in the mix. Rawness with full clarity.

This project contains some elements from Vengeful Semblance and Vortice Neuro.

Carnassial is the 32nd album by Rinta-Perälä. Written in dark November 2023. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, November - December 2023.

Music, lyrics, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.

Album out February 16, 2024.

Verenhimo - Bloodlust

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 425.

The Tearful Portal - out now

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZqy_t5gAAc

https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/album/the-tearful-portal

1. Seven Truths Rush from the River
2. Poison Apple Frozen in Sand
3. More Than Meets the Mind
4. Ash Candles
5. Realm of No Inner Life
6. Distant Times Deaden
7. Black and White in the Flesh
8. Cognisant Funeral March

No separate category for anti-fascist art

 

I am anti-fascist. Everything I have done creatively and politically has been anti-fascist. There is no need for a separate category when it comes to fighting far-right insanity and dictatorships.

Instead of labeling other people constantly, you have to ask yourself: what kind of approach do you have? How much emphasis do you put on counter-extremism as a way to fight extremism?

Anti-fascist commitment becomes apparent in different ways. It doesn't have to be tattooed on your forehead. Not every ground-breaking album has to be called Fascism Sucks.

Creativity is so much more interesting. It can't just be rhetoric, counter-propaganda or naively black-and-white dabbling. You can't just do the exact opposite of something you don't like.

Anti-fascist art should be a universal movement and a sentiment. The more creative you are, the more you realise how stupid fascism is. All we can do is unite against it.

If you're obsessed with categorising other people, you don't feel anything anymore.