THEY GRIEVE is a two piece post-metal band from Ottawa, Canada featuring ex-members of Alaskan and Stay Here. Pulling from minimalist drone and monolithic doom, they cultivate expressions of urgency, tension, and weight.
“THEY GRIEVE is a two piece post-metal band from Ottawa, Canada featuring ex-members of Alaskan and Stay Here. Pulling from minimalist drone and monolithic doom, they cultivate expressions of urgency, tension, and weight.
Their debut EP, "I Made My Sacrifice Accordingly", finds its conceptual starting point in Canadian author Timothy Findley’s novel "Pilgrim". In exploring the psychological and emotional contours of loss, grief, and memory, the record forms a seamless first-person narrative: "I Made My Sacrifice Accordingly" is the personal lamentation of a figure in anguish. The singular narrative resonates with the long-form composition — both elements coming together to produce an eclipsing phenomenology of grief.”
Filmed on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples of the WSÁNEĆ (Saanich), Lkwungen (Songhees), Wyomilth (Esquimalt) Nations, as well as the Xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
2018.