Canadian doom metal force NORILSK continue to build anticipation for their new live album, “Gigantes Mortui”, due November 7th via Hypnotic Dirge Records. The album’s fourth single, “Le puits de l’oubli”, is now available.
"“This is a great, long, epic Norilsk song. It has a bit of everything, from desolate rhythms in the beginning to black vibes in the middle, and a few consecutive endings. This is...
Ahead of the November 7, 2025 release of “Gigantes Mortui” via Hypnotic Dirge Records, Canadian doom metal band NORILSK presents a third preview from their upcoming live rehearsal album. The newly shared track, “Ghosts of Loss”, first appeared on the 2017 album ‘Le passage des glaciers’, originally featuring Pim Blankenstein (Officium Triste) as a guest vocalist.
Having performed “Ghosts of Loss” on stage for several years, the band...
NORILSK will release “Gigantes Mortui” on November 7, 2025 through Hypnotic Dirge Records.
The band is sharing the second song “Potsdam Glo” and launching physical pre orders. Most songs on “Gigantes Mortui” have appeared on stage over the years. NORILSK revisited its catalog to arrange the material with a live feel. The songs were first recorded as a two piece by Nic Miquelon and Nick...
“Gigantes Mortui” celebrates Norilsk’s first ten years with new live-in-the-room versions of songs from across the catalogue, recorded with the stability and chemistry of the current line-up. Tom Hansen and Matt MacIvor joined in 2016 and 2017, and the band revisited its discography to re-arrange material with the live feel these tracks have gained on stage. The result presents their atmospheric death doom songs with an immediate and organic sound....
