Gnaw Their Tongues - Genocidal Majesty (2018)
Gnaw Their Tongues are pretty damn
prolific for a one-man group, having put out a dozen albums (not
including splits and side-projects) since self-releasing his first LP
back in 2006. Keeping up that pace, GTT's first album for 2018
launches out from its start with howls, monstrous bass, and an
enveloping sense of doom, compressing the massive-feeling music into
just a little over half an hour of material. Electronics augment the
nasty vibes, generating unstable fields of disturbance and high-speed
percussion that ramp upwards into harder and harsher power.
Industrial strength solvent for the nerves, high-pressure doom,
nightmare factory recordings, and a big dose of unhinged,
unrestrained maddened outpouring come together with fantastic
results, while titles like “The Doctrine of Paranoid Seraphims”
lure in unsuspecting listeners expecting something symphonic.
Not something which will appeal to
everyone (thank goodness), Genocidal Majesty
finds GTT continuing to experiment, but doing so with the confidence
and dependable underlying technique that comes from having been at
this for over a decade, with no signs of compromising the effort or
earnestness of the various approaches he's taken in that time. The
demonic passion which consumes GM
at times (during “Cold Oven”, for instance) puts a long list of
extreme metal groups to shame with how fiercely it comes at the
listener, and the coatings of programming do nothing to get in the
way of that assault. High-grade audio pain, intense and superb.
~ Gabriel
For Fans Of; Boyd Rice, Iron Justice,
Skin Chamber, Sunken, White Darkness
~
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