Gnod’s now twenty year journey through spiritual and audial exploration has been driven by relentless curiosity, magpie irreverence and a fierce countercultural imperative, their project has always refused to acknowledge all or any rules and boundaries, internal or external. The band continue this trajectory with the announcement of a trilogy of new records called Chronicles Of Gnowt, which will be released over a year period. Vol.1 of this triptych will be hitting your ears on 10th April, then Vol.2 will be released in October, and Vol.3 in April 2027. Below this article you can watch the incredible video made by Parlay Droner & Krem ôn’ Wo͝ol for “Shadow Mirror”, the first track to be revealed from Vol.1.
What began as a 6 day trip into a residential studio setup in Hellfire Studios with producer John ‘Spud’ Murphy (Lankum, Black MIDI etc) resulted in a triptych of records under the ‘Chronicles Of Gnowt’ banner, all embellished by the vivid surrealist paintings of Portuguese artist Joâo Alves. Driven as always by the power of repetition as well as Gnod’s alchemical marriage of the maximal and the minimal, this first chapter is a travelogue which delves into pastoral tranquillity (as on ‘Three Trees Parts 1&2’) just as adeptly as expansive Earth-tinged riff monoliths (‘All Tunnel No Light’). The closing epic ‘Ekstasis’ in turn reaches a hallucinatory vista where kraut-tinged experimentalism meets Swans-style intensity. Yet all the while, this record sounds like no one but Gnod.
Chronicles Of Gnowt Vol.1 will be released on April 10th via Rocket Recordings. Pre-orders are now available here.
