“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. The first single, “Beyond the Horizon”, is available on Bandcamp and YouTube. The band comments: “We wrote and released this song during the lockdown in 2021-22, on the EP Beyond the Mountains. We recorded it again for the live album without having played it live previously, which adds to its frozen-in-time character.”
The tracklist spans early material and later highlights. “Ghosts of Loss”, first heard on the 2017 album “Le passage des glaciers”, has evolved through years of live performances. The closing piece, “No Sacred Ground”, is described by the band as an homage to the pilgrims of doom, the artists and listeners who travel to the heart of underground live music. Physical editions will include a very limited CD in a four-panel digipack and a Maltese cross deluxe cassette.
Tracklist — Gigantes Mortui
- Beyond the Horizon
- Potsdam Glo
- Ghosts of Loss
- Le puits de l’oubli
- La liberté