History Music / Krallice

** ''Porous Resonance Abyss'', without abandoning their SignatureStyle, is heavily influenced by Music/{{Rush}} circa ''Music/{{Signals}}'', ''Music/GraceUnderPressure'', or ''Music/PowerWindows'', plus by Music/{{Vangelis}}' ''Film/BladeRunner'' soundtrack (which had already clearly influenced the title track of ''Crystalline Exhaustion'' and "Arrokoth Trireme" from ''Psychagogue'').

** Finally, "This Forest for Which We Have Killed" on ''Go Be Forgotten'' is a cover of the TitleTrack of obscure U.S. black metal band Beastlor's [[https://beastlor.bandcamp.com/album/this-forest-for-which-we-have-killed demo]]. Beastlor is actually an old Mick Barr solo project and it was his suggestion to re-record the song with Krallice.

* LongRunnerLineup: They've been together for twelve years now and have had the same lineup for eleven of them. (Barr and Marston formed the band in 2007; [=McMaster=] and Weinstein joined in 2008.) ZigZagged in that while they've stayed the only permanent band members, Dave Edwardson of Music/{{Neurosis}} has joined them on both ''Loüm'' and ''Mass Cathexis'', and Barr, Marston, and [=McMaster=] have swapped roles on recent records.

A [[ProgressiveMetal Progressive]] BlackMetal {{supergroup}} from Brooklyn, NY, consisting of Colin Marston (Music/{{Gorguts}}, Behold the Arctopus, Dysrhythmia, etc.), Mick Barr (Orthrelm, Octis, etc.), Nicholas [=McMaster=] (Bloody Panda, Geryon, etc.), and Lev Weinstein (Bloody Panda, Geryon, etc.). Krallice has gained a substantial amount of critical acclaim for its blend of BlackMetal, ProgressiveMetal, and MathRock. Krallice's songs tend to be [[EpicRocking long]] and unusually technical by black metal standards, with around half of them exceeding ten minutes and featuring particularly clean production for the genre. The band has been likened to "Steve Reich playing very dense ProgressiveRock". They have also earned comparisons to Music/{{Weakling}}, although Krallice focuses more on ProgressiveRock song structures and less on DroneOfDread than Weakling does. As of June 2022, the band has released twelve full-length studio albums, one full-length live album, three [=EPs=], and three singles.

** ''Porous Resonance Abyss'': "I" (10:09), "II" (6:58), and "IIII" (21:18) - so, yet again, the entire album except "III".

* EpicRocking: Nearly all of their songs. Particularly prime examples are "Forgiveness in Rot" (15:21), "Monolith of Possession" (18:43), and "IIIIIIIIIIII" (16:41). They dialled this back a bit on ''Ygg huur'', but the songs on ''Hyperion'' and ''Prelapsarian'', apart from "Hate Power", are back to being close to a typical length for them (note, however, that ''Hyperion'' was recorded before ''Ygg huur'', despite its later release date). Excluding intro tracks, interludes, and covers, the number of tracks they'd released through 2016 that ''don't'' top the six-minute mark can be counted on one hand ("The Mountain", "Idols", "Engram", "Hate Power"). 2017 gave us a few more ("Rank Mankind", "Retrogenesis", "Failed Visionary Cults", "Chaos of the Living"), but both albums they released that year still have more songs that fall into this trope than not. (It should be noted that their average song length has decreased slightly since their first few albums, though.) For the record, a complete list of songs above six minutes:

** Both "Psychagogue" and "Reprisals of Destiny" mention Ukrainian-French philosopher Rachel Bespaloff as an inspiration for their lyrics. The quote "there are no covenants between men and lions" in the latter is also taken almost verbatim from ''Literature/TheIliad'' (in 22:262, Achilles says, "Ὡς οὐκ ἔστι λέουσι καὶ ἀνδράσιν ὅρκια πιστά,"[[labelnote:Romanization]]Os ouk ésti léousi kaí andrásin órkia pistá[[/labelnote]] meaning "There can be no covenants between men and lions").

** Both "Psychagogue" and "Reprisals of Destiny" mention Ukrainian-French philosopher Rachel Bespaloff as an inspiration for their lyrics. The quote "there are no covenants between men and lions" in the latter is also taken almost verbatim from ''Literature/TheIliad'' (in 22:262, Achilles says, "Ὡς οὐκ ἔστι λέουσι καὶ ἀνδράσιν ὅρκια πιστά," meaning "There can be no covenants between men and lions").