Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Orcrypt: British Fantasy Black Metallers Streaming New Album Balrog & Roll in full

British Fantasy Black Metal trio Orcrypt is releasing their 2nd album Balrog & Roll today, on October 31st 2020. The band is now streaming the upcoming album on Black Metal Promotion. The album will then be released via Death To Music Productions both digitally and on limited CD. Pre-order your copy here: https://www.deathtomusic.com/product/orcrypt-balrog-roll/

Lyrically the album explores the darkest aspects of Gary Gygax’s Dungeons & Dragons, J.R.R. Martin explains: “Dungeons & Dragons is filled with darkness, corruption and evil. Ultimately for a lot of people the appeal of either Dungeons & Dragons or Black Metal is that it gives the opportunity for power fantasies, cathartic release and getting in touch with something deep, dark and primal. We have just merged the two.”

You can stream the full album through Black Metal Promotion on YouTube (link below).

Line-Up:
J.R.R. Martin - Vocals
Sammael - Guitars
Ugluk - Drums & Bass

Orcrypt formed in 2010. Inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the early demos of the Norwegian Black Metal masters, they recorded and released their first demo The Mirkwood Massacre that same year. In 2015, Orcrypt unleashed their debut album. Influenced as much by Ralph Bakshi as J.R.R. Tolkien, and mastered to cassette, Mercenaries of Mordor was an unrelenting lo-fi assault of droning underground Black Metal. But then, they vanished... and resurrected.