Zapowiedź debiutu IZRROD

 

Today, Signal Rex announces July 14th as the international release date for Izrod's highly anticipated debut album, Sarajevski Odisej, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Although "new" in name, Izrod are hardly newcomers. Hailing from the ever-fertile Bosnian scene, the four men behind this shadowy collective have largely helped put the small country on the international black metal map - first with Cave Ritual over a decade ago and then with Void Prayer thereafter, with both bands belonging to the incredibly prolific Black Plague Circle cabal. The latter band ceased activities last year, but a rebirth was no doubt brewing...

At last, it is here with Izrod and the band's first full-length, Sarajevski Odisej. Those who've been following these four men should surely recognize the sonic shift that's been bubbling since 2019; although not drastic by any stretch of the imagination, Izrod nevertheless marks a dramatic new epoch for them. Sharpened to a gleaming clarity that somehow reveals ever more dirt roiling beneath the surface, Sarajevski Odisej builds blazing-skyward songwriting that seemingly shifts in impossible ways. Serpentine melodies twist in and out of actually-tuneful dissonance and the coiling violence surges with triumphant fire, all while almost-jazzy interludes dot the landscape with class - and menace. Likewise for the leads: ripping and ecstatic, they are soulful and soul-sundering. When witnessed from a wider whole, IZROD take plausibly-pro BLACK METAL in a direction that both honors the artform's most ancient ways and the brazenness to not be shackled by more-underground-than-thou thinking. Sonic parallels can be drawn to the original orthodox movement of the mid-2000s or more recently the Icelandic scene spearheaded by Misþyrming. But truly, IZROD are their own masters, and Sarajevski Odisej is but the first audial evidence of that mastery.

In the meantime, stream Sarajevski Odisej in its entirety HERE at Signal Rex's official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Izrod's Sarajevski Odisej

1. Prokleto gorje [8:42]

2. Crno srce grmi bijesno [4:53]

3. Siva smrt [9:49]

4. Tibet više nije Tibet [6:49]

5. Sarajevski Odisej [6:10]

6. Od zime, vlage i muke [7:03]