Polish black/death metallers CRIONICS have issued the following update:

"Crionics has just completed works on the production of it's new EP, entitled N.O.I.R. The recording session took place at Cracow's Shindler Factory Studio and the material was then mixed and mastered by Wieslawscy Bros. at Hertz Studio in Bialystok.

Considering many changes within the band over the last year - both in the line-up and the music itself - with N.O.I.R, Crionics begins a new chapter in it's history...

After the departure of War-A.N. and Darkside, their vacancies were filled by Quazarre (guitar/vocals) known from DEVILISH IMPRESSIONS and ASGAARD while the drums were taken over by Paul of VADER and SOUL SNATCHER. The new bass player for Crionics is Brovar, who had recently worked with BLINDEAD.

As far as the music itself is concerned - the band didn't change much its direction but decided to take advantage on Quazarre's impressive vocal skills to expand Crionics' creation with clean vocal parts. There are also special guest appearances on the album by Vogg of DECAPITATED and Peter of Vader. Both took part in the recording of RAMMSTEIN's 'Moskau' cover. Vogg recorded parts of accordion while Peter did the German vocal parts of the song.

Second cover song is 'Blashyrk (Mighty Ravendark)' by IMMORTAL where Vogg laid down tracks of acoustic guitar.

N.O.I.R. tracklisting:

'NarcotiQue'

'Scapegoat (Welcome to Necropolis)'

'Perdition'

'Blashyrk (Mighty Ravendark)' (Immortal cover)

'Moskau' (Rammstein Cover)

After concluding the cooperation with British label Candlelight Records, for which Crionics released three albums, the band's management - Creative Music - is currently negotiating a new deal with a few European labels.

The last Crionics album is Neuthrone, released back in 2007."

A video report from the N.O.I.R recording sessions can be seen below. Check out shots from the N.O.I.R photo session at this location.

More on the band at this location.