Grimming will release their first album, Jagatod, on 26 March through Napalm Records, and the first song off it, Pankh, is out now.
The record is written entirely in Styrian dialect and runs on the history and folklore of the region the band comes from, which is also where the label sits. Pankh takes the witch trials that reached Austria between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, and the torture chair of the same name that was still in use in the 1720s. Elsewhere the album covers 1816, the year without a summer, on Zwoa Joah, the Black Death on Pesthigl, a barn fire on Stodlbrond and an avalanche on Lahn.
"Initially, we wanted to venture more into traditional Florida death metal," the band said of the writing. "Ultimately, that is barely audible on the album. We put in a lot of melodies and bet on groove and midtempo, additionally borrowing some elements from black metal."
The band formed in 2024 and has released exactly two songs before this one, Lindwurm and Wüdschitz, the second of which came with the Napalm signing last year. On the strength of those two they opened for 1914 on tour and played Ragnarök. They are named after the mountain above their town.