{{Infobox album | name = Chilgasal | type = studio | artist = Pakk | cover = Cover of Pakk's album Chilgasal.png | alt = | released = {{start date|2021|10|21|df=y}} | recorded = | studio = | genre = * Post-rock * post-metal | length = 49:22 | label = Mirrorball Music | producer = * Pakk | prev_title = Salpoori | prev_year = 2017 | next_title = | next_year = | misc = }} '''''Chilgasal''''' ({{Korean|칠가살|hanja=七可煞}}) is the second studio album by South Korean post-rock band Pakk. The album was released on 21 October 2021.<ref name=vop>{{cite news |last1=Seo |first1=Jeongmingab |title=[서정민갑의 수요뮤직] 팎(PAKK)이 연주하고 노래하는 2021년의 샤먼 음악|url=https://www.vop.co.kr/A00001601730.html |access-date=2023-10-06 |work=Voice of People |date=2021-11-03 |language=ko}}</ref><ref name=donga>{{cite news |last1=Lim |first1=Heeyoon |title=[임희윤 기자의 죽기전 멜로디]납량특집! 도깨비 파티에 다녀오다|url=https://www.donga.com/news/Opinion/article/all/20220721/114558876/1 |access-date=2023-10-06 |work=The Dong-a Ilbo |date=2022-07-21 |language=ko}}</ref> The album was nominated the Best Rock Album at the 2022 Korean Music Awards.<ref name="kma">{{Cite web|url=https://koreanmusicawards.com/project/%ED%8C%8E-%EC%B9%A0%EA%B0%80%EC%82%B4-%E4%B8%83%E5%8F%AF%E7%85%9E/|title=팎(PAKK) [칠가살 (七可煞)]|website=Korean Music Awards|access-date=2023-10-06}}</ref><ref name=vogue>{{cite news |last1=Ahn |first1=Geonho |title=한국대중음악상을 기다리며|url=https://www.vogue.co.kr/2022/02/24/%ed%95%9c%ea%b5%ad%eb%8c%80%ec%a4%91%ec%9d%8c%ec%95%85%ec%83%81%ec%9d%84-%ea%b8%b0%eb%8b%a4%eb%a6%ac%eb%a9%b0/ |access-date=2023-10-06 |work=Vogue Korea |language=ko}}</ref>
== Background == The name of the album was influenced by ''Chilgasal'', the seven punishment types that the Heroic Corps regulated as a part of the independence movement and the liquidation of pro-Japanese group during the Japanese occupation.<ref name=mydaily>{{cite news |last1=Kim |first1=Seongdae |title=음악으로 써 내려간 시사평론, 팎 '칠가살'[김성대의 음악노트]|url=https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=117&aid=0003558943 |access-date=2021-11-29 |work=My Daily |date=2021-11-29 |language=ko}}</ref> The track in the album ''Infectious Gest (손 (損))'' is a song about the COVID-19 pandemic, which depicts the COVID-19 as a guest who has damaged everything.<ref name=kotpa>{{cite news |title=김대인|url=https://webzine.kotpa.org/seven-sub?mod=document&uid=3749 |access-date=2023-10-06 |work=Webzine Gongjindan |language=ko}}</ref>
== Critical reception == The selection committee for the Korean Music Awards Kim Seongdae described the album as "the album that digs into the dark and humid social aspects of Korea and accuses them by music", and nominated the album to the 2022 Best Rock Album.<ref name="kma"/>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | title1 = Contagion | note1 = "여역 (癘疫)" | length1 = 2:17 | title2 = Prematurely | note2 = "요 (夭)" | length2 = 6:02 | title3 = Pseudo | note3 = "사 (似)" | length3 = 4:33 | title4 = Infestation | note4 = "충 (蟲)" | length4 = 6:43 | title5 = Brutal White | note5 = "참 (獑)" | length5 = 5:41 | title6 = Charging Innocence | note6 = "판 (判)" | length6 = 4:29 | title7 = Infectious Gest | note7 = "손 (損)" | length7 = 6:03 | title8 = Entreat | note8 = "도 (禱)" | length8 = 9:21 | title9 = Ritual for Contagion | note9 = "여제 (癘祭)" | length9 = 4:13 }}
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Category:2021 albums Category:Pakk albums Category:2020s Korean-language albums