Artist: Grima
Title: Nightside
Label: Napalm Records
Cat #: NPR1356DGS
Release Year: 2025
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Digisleeve

Nightside is the sixth full-length studio album from the Russian atmospheric black metal band Grima.

"With 10 years of scene-stealing experience behind them, looming stars of Siberian atmospheric black metal, GRIMA, will release their sixth album and Napalm Records debut, Nightside, on February 28, 2025. After several shows across Europe (one with highly-uprising German death metal force Kanonenfieber), the band is set to honour the spirit of the Siberian Forest, Taiga, with their impending next chapter. 

While fans of their deep, melancholic sound can look forward to tales like in “Flight Of The Silver Storm” and “The Nightside”, Grima also showcases focused effort and skill on the album’s more brief, accessible offerings. “Beyond The Dark Horizon“ and “Curse Of The Void” are as dreamy and complex as their big brothers, but also satisfy as more direct black metal anthems. The band shows a wide range of variety: The first single “Skull Gatherers” is infused with the mesmerizing cold of the Siberian evening wilderness, constructed with folk instruments like the Russian accordion bayan but Grima also uses death metal-like growls in their delivery on “Impending Death Premonition”. 

Mixing, mastering, and helming the album’s clear, powerful sound is black metal-experienced producer Vladimir Lehtinen. The two driving forces behind the band’s unique sound, Vilhelm and Morbius, both deliver different aspects of the band’s impactful, massive guitar riffs, leads and melodies, while Vilhelm also soars as a vocalist. Guest musicians Vlad (drums) and Serpentum (guitars) also join the fold both in the studio and on stage. In addition to their unforgettable sound, the band’s eerie, piercing look – towering like living trees with intimidating carved wooden masks and branched fingers – adds another haunting element to their brutal yet beautiful output.With their mysterious visual aura and intriguing sound, on Nightside, GRIMA continues to prove themselves as an unmissable band to watch within the genre."

Recommended if you like: Agalloch, Wolves In The Throne Room, Saor, Drudkh, Windr

Track Listing:
01    Intro (Cult)
02    Beyond the Dark Horizon
03    Flight of the Silver Storm
04    Skull Gatherers
05    Impending Death Premonition
06    The Nightside
07    Where We Are Lost
08    Curse of the Void
09    Mist and Fog
10    Outro (Memories of a Forgotten Home)