GROMS Is Playing Nordicfest!!!

[Kerrick]

Woah!  Dang I wish I could be in Norway this November...  I'm very curious if this is just a one-time deal or maybe they're reuniting and hopefully making more music?

Nordic Mission is VERY proud and happy to announce that GROMS will play at this year's Nordic Fest 2019 in Oslo, Norway!

This is a dream come true, since GROMS was among the very pioneers of Christian extreme metal in Norway and Europe, playing their pure heavy oldschool death metal.

Groms (Official) released their only album "Ascension" in 1994, and the band has not performed live since 1996!

Do NOT miss this!
~ God Rules Over My Soul ~

http://www.nordicfest.no/

[Wolfform]

I saw this on their instagram! One day I want to travel there for Nordic Fest, too bad last the time I traveled there was July lol
My friend kept recommending this band and I follow them on band camp but haven't listened to them yet! Need to get on that.

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[Kerrick]

I'm surprised you haven't listened to them before! They're a "classic" in the scene. Their album is very difficult/$$$ to find now, though possibly with them playing Nordicfest, it'll get re-released? That's pure speculation but who knows. Regardless, they play some solid death metal with slight doomy touches. While it's not totally my style [I usually prefer more doom or progginess in my death metal] I still enjoy listening to their album from time to time. I'm curious to hear how they sound now and if their style has changed any, like Vardoger's did with their re-formation.

[Wolfform]

Listening to a couple tracks, definitely like it....

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[Kerrick]

Right on. They seem like a band you'd probably dig.

[MetalPioneer]

This is pretty cool. Last time I tried to buy the album it ended up being a bootleg, unfortunately...

Perhaps this means that they will also do another reissue of their music.

[Kerrick]

^I wonder if my copy is a bootleg or not... How do you tell? (Mine's the green and red cover.) I got mine directly from Rad Rockers though I've heard they sold some illegitimate copies of stuff. Interestingly, Rad Rockers is thanked in the liner notes haha.

[MetalPioneer]

^I wonder if my copy is a bootleg or not...  How do you tell?  (Mine's the green and red cover.)  I got mine directly from Rad Rockers though I've heard they sold some illegitimate copies of stuff.  Interestingly, Rad Rockers is thanked in the liner notes haha.

I also got mine from Rad Rockers back in the day. Does it have just one sheet in the front for the album art?

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but if so it's probably a bootleg

[Kerrick]

I don't remember... and all my CDs are packed away in boxes still from our move. I'll check once I finally get to unpack 'em! (That'll be a while though since I first gotta finish the flooring which takes very long...) Dang though, probably so. I think it was like $4 though so not that big of a loss or anything.

[Kerrick]

Ascension is getting re-released!  I had a feeling this might happen... 

25 years ago, 4 young men from Kristiansand, Norway released their debut album "Ascension". The band was called GROMS (acronym for God Rules Over My Soul), and their music was pure and heavy death metal.

Quite a surprise to many people, since the development from their previous thrash assault was huge! During this period, the black metal movement was getting exponentially bigger, so a death metal band with Biblical lyrics was very special!

Nordic Mission is therefore VERY proud to present a re-release and re-master of "Ascension" to be released November 15th! A lot of work has been put down by Rune Hansen and Karl Baltazar to restore the ORIGINAL cover art to be large enough for a LP version, and to make this a historical release we have been crawling down ancient crypts to find pictures, interviews and other goodies from the past.
In addition to making the album available on all digital platforms, the following formats will be available:

1. A double exclusive digipak CD edition: 1 CD with "Ascension" and 1 CD with "Turn" (the band's debut 4 song demo digitalized for the first time!)
The CD set comes with a 20 page booklet containting lyrics, tons of pictures, linernotes written by Yngve Moum Jacobsen of Heavymetal.no, and both old and new thank-you lists.

2. A vinyl LP exclusively limited to 330 units, including 100 copies on colored LP and the rest on black LP. It contains a gatefold cover with all lyrics, and a huge 4 page booklet with pictures and linernotes.

Get ready for pre-order options coming soon with even more goodies for you to order!

[Wolfform]

You beat me to it!

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[Kerrick]

Yeah I'm sneaky like that.

[MetalPioneer]

This is pretty cool. Last time I tried to buy the album it ended up being a bootleg, unfortunately...

Perhaps this means that they will also do another reissue of their music.

[Kerrick]

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