Lover

"The sensible is always worried

and looking for prominence;

the lover is always lost

and without a prominent sense."

Mawlana Rumi, To Be a Child Again

Unenvuodatus - Dream Shedding

 

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

Drawing 431.

Wraithfire

 

1. Choristers of Noctum
2. Mountain Ash Downfall
3. Incubus Skin Tower
4. Whispering Zephyr
5. Shattered Warmaster
6. Smoke Circle Eye
7. Cold to the Dragonish Bone
8. Three Horns of the Umbra

The third and final Grallochery album.

Dedicated to the 2024 solar eclipse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DuilsqFl_8

https://grallochery.bandcamp.com/album/wraithfire

Cold to the Dragonish Bone

 Second advance track from Wraithfire. May 17, 2024.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3M55pLt1NY

Shattered Warmaster

Shattered Warmaster, from Wraithfire, May 17, 2024.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3FJQdGSovU

Final Grallochery album will occur on May 17, 2024

 

Grallochery was originally created in 2022 as Crowned Underhound. Musically it always represented raw and energetic black metal influenced by pre-93 bands like Celtic Frost, Bathory and Darkthrone.

The third and final album is called Wraithfire and it will be out on May 17, 2024. The music was written during one night, April 8. Even though I didn't personally see the solar eclipse, I felt an urge to write unsparing black metal songs one more time.

This year is not going to be as packed as 2023, but I already have more works planned.

https://grallochery.bandcamp.com/

About Grallochery

 

Unused logo for Crowned Underhound.

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.