New York cult band has reinvented black metal about 20 times already.

Anyone who considers metal nothing but a genre for barbarians should put on Krallice. These New Yorkers make high school-level black metal. Super-technical, with inimitable chord progressions and influences from countless other genres.

But at the time of the magnificent Years Past Matter (2012), the band members decided they had played out black metal. Time to explore new universes. Since then, the band has started experimenting with technical death metal, dark ambient, post-metal, jazz, and electronica. That experimental drive reached its peak on their latest album: the synth-heavy Inorganic Rites. Online review oracle Anthony Fantano even donned his famous yellow shirt for it.

And besides that, they must be the hardest-working band in the genre. In their 20 years of existence, they have released 16 albums. Sixteen! And that’s not even counting the EPs and split albums. Despite this unprecedented productivity, they have played in Europe only a handful of times. But when they do come, they really hit the mark. For instance, their Roadburn show last April was described by Robert van Gijsel (De Volkskrant) as 'a highlight in the history of the festival.'

So, listen to Robert and come see the most progressive black metal band in the world in person. Because if you are a serious black metal fan, you naturally have to be there.