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Orthrelm

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United States · formed 2000 · last active 2012

Orthrelm are an American avant-garde metal duo from Washington, D.C., Mick Barr on guitar and Josh Blair on drums, specializing in intricately composed guitar-drum instrumentals of vast complexity that straddle extreme metal, avant-garde jazz and progressive rock. Their 2005 album OV, a single 45-minute continuous piece recorded by Colin Marston, was released on Mike Patton's Ipecac Recordings and is regarded as a landmark of post-modern experimental composition.

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    OV (2005) was released on Ipecac Recordings; hub edge to the Ipecac anchor. (A further Tzadik tie exists only via Barr's solo work, not the band itself.) source ↗

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    Both credited to freelance artist Victoria Vogl (Discogs artist id 2263979): Krallice's Wolf/Astomatous split (2020, artwork on the Krallice side, "Infantry Regime") and Orthrelm's 2nd 18/O4 Norildivoth Crallos-Lomrixth Urthiln (2002, cover) and OV (2005, cover art). Pairwise artwork tie per the 2026-08-07 ruling (PROTOCOL rule 7) — Vogl is not an atlas band member so there is no anchor band. (This pair also carries a member edge — Mick Barr in both — recorded separately.) source ↗

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