Published: February 12, 2025

Norilsk are also from Canada , although their name comes from the homonymous city in northern Siberia . Antipole is the title of their fourth album, released on February 7th.

The North Americans' proposal is rather stratified, thanks to the presence of different musical influences. Strong of a carpet of riffs inspired mainly by doom and post-metal, they thicken the sound by equipping themselves with a cavernous and deep growl, ...

Published: January/February 2025 Issue

Canadian doom extreme metallers Norilsk started this career when Outrage A.D. vocalist and musician Nicolas Miquelon and drummer Nick Richer started the band in 2012. They have released four albums; including 2015’s The Idea of North, 2017’s Le Passage des Glaciers, and 2018’s Weepers of the Land, all on Hypnotic Dirge Records. It’s been a long seven years, but they’re back with their new album, Antipol...

Published: February 11, 2025

The chilling embrace of winter is something that metal has long sought to embody in many of its different forms, and it would be wrong for anybody to claim that there has been quite a bit of success especially in the worlds of doom and black metal. When done right, the great snows are done immense justice and loads of intrigue are brought to the table as many themes of sorrow, death, and beyond can be encapsulated in the intensi...

Published: February 11, 2025

By quirk of circumstance, Antipole is the third French-language album I’ve reviewed in a row. Norilsk break the trend in one way, however, as they are Quebecois, not French. Antipole is also not a debut (as my other 2025 subjects have been); far from it, Norilsk being a fairly established name in the Canadian death/doom sphere. With an approach that broadly leans towards the grit and grime of the two genres—rather than the gran...

Published: February 5, 2025

Canada’s own Atmospheric Doom/Death/Post-Metal entity returns with another imposing album, exploring the concept of duality, flowing between slow and faster songs while highlighting the contrasts in death and doom.

Named after Siberia’s northernmost city, Норильск in Russian, home to the world’s largest heavy metals smelting complex, Gatineau/Hull, Quebec-based Atmospheric Doom/Death/Post-Metal band Norilsk blends...

Published: January 3, 2025

Here we have the fourth album from Quebec’s Norilsk. To start off, here’s a cool and totally useless story: When I was a kid my parents, sister and I went to Maine from Michigan and went through Canada to get there. When we got to Quebec we stopped and ate at a little restaurant I can’t remember the name of anymore. My dad and I ordered a pizza like we always do, and to this day that pizza is the best I’ve ever had. Quebec...

Published: January 19, 2025

From Bandcamp, “NORILSK is known for its unique take on winter doom, where cultures and nordicity provide a backdrop for addressing other deeper concepts such as loss, mental illness, or identity with the land. On its new album “Antipole,” the artist explores the concept of duality. The album flows between slow and faster songs, and highlights the contrasts in death and doom, with its beauty and tragedy, harshness and fragility, ...