“Kill The Guardian” is the latest single from long-running black metal juggernaut, KRALLICE. The track comes off the band’s new studio album, Scour Order, set for release on September 18th via Profound Lore Records.

Comments band cofounder Colin Marston, “‘Kill The Guardian’ is the other song on the record where all three of us have vocal verses. It was initiated by [cofounder] Mick [Barr] and collaboratively arranged. We call this song “porridger.” It’s soupy and nutritious. Thanks to Walter, Becky, and all at Roadburn for commissioning the new music on this album!”

Stream KRALLICE’s “Kill The Guardian” video HERE. 

KRALLICE is Mick Barr, Colin Marston, Nicholas McMaster, and Lev Weinstein. Their saga began in 2007 in Woodhaven, Queens, New York City as a two-guitar collaboration between Marston and Barr with the intention of making a black metal record. After recording the first album with Weinstein on drums in 2008, KRALLICE quickly became an actual band adding McMaster on bass/vocals and playing its first shows.

The collective continued to record nine albums and three EPs with Marston on guitar, Barr on guitar/vocals, and McMaster on bass/vocals. The style was always dense and polyphonic, but after Years Past Matter (2012) and the Hyperion EP (2016), there was an opening of the sound, with less focus on black metal and hypnotic long songs.

The period of Ygg Huur (2015) through Mass Cathexis (2020) tends to be darker and less predictable musically. By 2017, KRALLICE started a collaboration with Dave Edwardson of Neurosis on vocals. For the Loum album (2017) he contributed all lyrics, vocals, synths, and cover art ideas. Since then, he’s also appeared with vocals on Mass Cathexis and Mass Cathexis 2 (2023).

In 2021, the band released a pivot album in terms of the lineup/instrumentation with Demonic Wealth. This album features Marston on all guitars, synths and songwriting, with Barr as the standalone vocalist and lyricist. Its lofi production, inclusion of synths on every song (including half the songs on the record with no guitar at all), and alternative compositional approach opened the KRALLICE sound further.

The next four albums and EP saw a solid instrumentation change with Barr switching to bass/vocals, McMaster switching to guitar/vocals, and Marston on synths, additional drums, and vocals. Moving from a dual guitar sound to one heavy with synths and only one guitar pushed the sound in a more atmospheric direction, less dense and dissonant than before but without losing those aspects completely.

For this year’s Scour Order, KRALLICE returns to the old instrumentation with Marston and Barr on guitars and McMaster on bass, but Marston’s vocals have stuck around. The new album is raging and dark, dense but also expansive. The band also returns to working with Profound Lore Records (who released the first three KRALLICE albums) after 15 self-releases with help from Gilead Media and P2.

Wrote Stereogum of lead single, “Living Useless Ritual,” “Scour Order only has eight tracks, so if they need to spread those songs across two LPs, then you already know the songs will be crazy long. That’s not really the case with lead single ‘Living Useless Ritual.’ It’s about six minutes, which is Ramones-level compared to a lot of KRALLICE‘s stuff. As always, this band makes dizzy, immersive music. The players are all total virtuosos, but it’s hard to even notice that when you get into the time-warping rush of the sound

Scour Order will be released on CD, 2xLP, and digital formats. Find all preorders HERE, where “Living Useless Ritual” can also be streamed.

Scour Order Track Listing:
1. Agonal Shining
2. Grievous Corrector
3. Kill The Guardian
4. Unceasing Path
5. Living Useless Ritual
6. Indecipherable Divinities
7. Her Green Arms
8. Scour Order

Following the release of Scour Order, KRALLICE will embark on their first ever European tour, set to run from October 8th through November 7th. The band hasn’t focused on touring as much as writing and recording, but over the years there have been tours with Wolves in the Throneroom, Gorguts and Portal, Ludicra, Withered, Vampillia, Pale Chalice, and most-recently Blood Incantation. Krallice has also played the festivals Maryland Deathfest (3 times), Incubate, and Roadburn (who commissioned the new music and its live debut at the 2026 festival).

See all confirmed dates below.

KRALLICE Live:
10/08/2026 Kuudes Linja – Helsinki, FI
10/09/2026 Skanu Mezs Festival – Riga, LV
10/10/2026 Sodas 2123 – Vilnius, LT
10/11/2026 Hydopzagadka – Warsaw, PL
10/13/2026 Berghain – Berlin, DE
10/14/2026 P8 – Karlsruhe, DE
10/15/2026 De Helling – Utrecht, NL
10/16/2026 Desertfest Antwerp – Antwerp, BE
10/17/2026 Die Trompete – Bochum, DE
10/19/2026 Kollektivet Livet – Stockholm, SE
10/20/2026 Dyestad Showroom – Borgholm, SE
10/21/2026 Vega – Copenhagen, DK
10/22/2026 Headquarters – Aarhus, DK
10/23/2026 MS Stubnitz – Hamburg, DE
10/24/2026 Bells Echo @ Eva Refo Church – Leipzig, DE
10/25/2026 Fuchs2 – Prague, CZ
10/26/2026 Hansa39 – Munich, DE
10/27/2026 Forum Stadtpark – Graz, AT
10/28/2026 Arena – Vienna, AT
10/29/2026 Durer Kert – Budapest, HU
10/30/2026 Cukrarna – Ljubljana, SL
10/31/2026 Schlachthaus – Dornbirn, AT
11/01/2026 Valhalla – Basel, CH
11/03/2026 Le Chinois – Paris, FR
11/04/2026 La Malterie – Lille, FR
11/05/2026 Strange Brew – Bristol, UK
11/06/2026 Downstairs @ The Dome – London, UK
11/07/2026 Damnation Fest – Manchester, UK

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