The first full-length from expansive, brilliant German epic metallers-on-’70s folkrockers! A glorious intermingling of epic metal, epic doom, acid folk, folk, folk rock, Krautrock, renaissance fair-styled music and ’70s rock, Germany’s GRENDEL’S SŸSTER may have no identifiable and convenient genre tag, yet on their first studio album, "Katabasis into the Abaton", the band weaves a dynamic, potent spell untethered to anything but their own creative whims.

Formed in 2015 after a series of impromptu jam sessions tucked away in the Vosges Mountains region in France, GRENDEL’S SŸSTER - comprising vocalist Caro, guitarist/songwriter Tobi, drummer Till and bassist Simon - proceeded to release the "Night Sea Journey/Sayings of the High One" single in 2017, which was followed by the "Orphic Gold Leaves/Orphische Goldblättchen" EP a year later. Cruz Del Sur Music subsequently signed the band in 2020 and reissued the 2019 "Myrtle Wreath / Myrtenkranz" EP, which brings us to "Katabasis into the Abaton".