MUSK OX - Releases The Third Album

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Published on Wednesday, 07 July 2021 23:21

Written by Jerneja

The elusive Canadian chamber folk trio Musk Ox independently releases its third full-length Inheritance on 9 July on CD, LP, and digital formats.  Formed in 2006 by guitarist Nathanael Larochette, Musk Ox’s enchanting self-titled debut was released in 2009 and received unanimous acclaim from Decibel, Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, and Terrorizer among many others, an astonishing feat for a meditative collection of completely acoustic elegies to the Canadian wilderness. That same year, cellist Raphael Weinroth-Browne joined Musk Ox and the two began performing live while collaborating on new material. After two years of meticulous composing, Musk Ox welcomed violinist Evan Runge to round out the lineup, an obvious choice as Larochette and Runge were already bandmates in the instrumental chamber metal quartet, The Night Watch.

The overwhelming and unexpected reception of the project's debut set the stage for Musk Ox to make a lasting statement with their ambitious second album Woodfall, a sixty-five-minute, five-part suite for classical guitar, cello, and violin. Displaying the stunning contributions of Raphael Weinroth-Browne (cello, composition) and Evan Runge (violin), Woodfall pushed the project conceptually and musically, landing the album on numerous year-end lists, including The Needle Drop’s Top 10 Canadian Albums of 2014.

With the release of their third full-length Inheritance, Musk Ox has reached new levels of expression, blending nature folk intimacy, classical precision, post-black metal atmosphere, and progressive metal intensity into a sweeping set of captivating instrumental odes to the past, present and future. Get fascinated by "Memoriam", the first single from the Inheritance record, in the player below. Link

Inheritance tracklist:
1. Inheritance (Part 1 – Premonition)
2. Inheritance (Part 2 – Hindsight)
3. Memoriam
4. Ritual
5. Weightless

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