Gnaw Their Tongues-Abyss Of Longing Throats
- By Patrick Wooten
- Jul 25, 2015
- 5 min read
Track 1. Lick The Poison From The Cave- Something dark, and epic grows with a furious wonder. It almost seems as if it's building up to something. Something slams in the back ground. Very faint drumming can be heard. Vocal screams of pain and agony are heard. It sounds like something that would fit quite well with a horror film, something dark and VERY evil. Feel's like pure noise that just could blacken any soul, though it's powerful. There's a creepy yet cool atmospheric intensity about it that I do like, even though the actual music is very subtle and low in the mix. The bass guitar humming and the church bell ringing tell you for sure that the shit has most definitely hit the fan. Things change up, becoming a whirl wind of rotating dark senses. It's as if something foreboding is surrounding you, attempting to strike and consume you. The drum beat's are very slow, but if you actually listen to the music, thoroughly you can get what's going on, fucked up, however quite compelling.
Track 2. Through Flesh- Full epic and deep vocal chants reign the track to begin with along with a wicked yet thumping bass line. The music itself takes aboard a subtle yet insane musical flavor, one tinged with a suspense. It's almost like your listening to what would be a horror movie in progress, this is the kind of music that would be needed in a Haunted Attraction of Horror film. It teases and provokes the darkest parts of your soul and craziest corners of your mind. The music seems like out of this world echo's of subtle heavy beats, but thrown here and there. You can make out an actual distortion, which to me is thrown into the mix at a great point. This 'music' if you want to call it that is more about a conveyed feeling than straight up songs, they seem more like a canvas of overly creative works, or horror if not straight up soul snatching suspense. The themes are dark and violent, a completely vile necropolis waiting to be explored. Perfect mood music for Halloween, very much a sense of dread overall, the track ends with a grinding yet halting feedback sound, its as if the transmission of haunting noises has... DIED.
Track 3. Abyss of Longing Throats- Slowly but surely fading into the scene here. A cataclysmic assurance that the shit is about to hit the fan. A subtle existing music makes it's self known, drums, and some distant melody. Though farther back in the track you can make out harrowing and delightful atmospheric tones. it's as if your set out upon a long shitty journey through hell's throat. Let's make something clear with this music you can not understand the words. But the 'sound' of the music itself is complicated and powerful. Quite possibly the weirdest metal band I have ever listened to. Shrieks echo about, something is being said, though your not sure just what. At the halfway point of the track, it takes upon a new formulation but for how long. Clear vocals are heard, speaking of dark and dangerous happenings. A dreadful delight of music can be heard, though it's minimalistic in nature. A very fuzzy bass guitar is what I think I hear along with some aggressive drumming. The shrieking continues on as if this person thinks someone on this world cares about what they have to say, or how they might feel, maybe it's just their way of radiating pain, illness, and frustration upon the world.
Track 4. From The Black Mouth Of Spite- The track seems to pick up where the previous left off, with that weird electronic shuttering noise that just zips and dies. It's almost like something dead has come back to feed upon the living, in the most macabre sense possible. Faint and creepy screaming can be heard in the track. Very eclectic melodies reign over the track, though they are thrown about in such a way that you cant even begin to understand them, other than they are dark, grotesque and baring plenty of dread. If anything this track feel's like a prolonged tragic dose of pain an torture upon some poor soul. Dark foreboding melodies along with heavy tapping drum beats cascade in the background of the track along with occasional fuzzy distortion and banging metal. The music itself is an odd yet eclectic nonsense that has a beautiful sense of well timed horror about it.
Track 5. The Holy Body- You begin to sense that these tracks are all connect from start to end. The same theme trickles from one to the next. A fading and consuming sound of shock simmers over your ears occasionally, brining about spine tingling apprehension. A close call, if not a near melt down of societal proportions. An over reaction, perhaps, a complete break down, that's just how the vocals which are screaming and or even having a fit, seem to convey outwards onto the listener with a complete sense of madness. A fuzzy electronic beat is sort of the back bone for this track, it waivers about with a loose tension. Static builds slowly, until a suspenseful moment is summoned at just the right time. Everything that you have been waiting for, is here. Everything that you have been wanting for is now. The darkness, the sick, an all out grotesque showing of death, thunder, and plight. A complete honest and thorough piece of blunt work. A dirty force of music, that has a mood which would make the darkest nights jealous of it's honest and flavor filled macabre death. The overtones of helpless ness, are mere after thoughts as you listen on you feel like the victim, but at the same time, the feeling of death itself becomes quite the liberating thought. As you realize that the person screaming, all they really seek is freedom from the hell in which they are barred within tightly.
Track 6. And They Will Be Cast Out Into Utter Darkness- It's almost like you walked onto a battlefield of total utter destruction. You can't make sense of the actual music one bit. It is VERY chaotic, menacing and violent. Subtle drumming can be heard. A total sense of dread has overtaken the track, perhaps this is what HELL sounds like. Probably the most evil shit I've heard. I have not exactly been enjoying this, though the dark themes are interesting, the actual music no to so much. It's slow dull and you never get into it. Its almost as if a murderer is drawing out a suspenseful ending in order to bring on something catastrophic and dynamically fucked up. You can hear just a monumental amount of excess screaming as if complete agony is going on in every direction that your ears turn towards.
Track 7. Up Into The Heavens Down Into The Circles Of Hell- Very low growls that are nearly not audible are barely heard, along with a very low trudging groove, if that's what you'd like to call it. The familiar screaming from the earlier parts of the album returns. Along with an extremely fast tapping sound which I will assume is the drums. The melody if my ears are not lying to me, is a slowly outreaching one that screams of impending doom. And you suddenly get a chill up your spine, as you just know that the end is near, some epically spooky music begins a subtle crawl within the track. Overall with this album I have not enjoyed the music, well maybe some of the screaming, but that's it. The dark themed atmospherics I have enjoyed in places, it has a very dark, 365 day a year Halloween feel to the entire album, gritty as shit, as dark as can be, though, not exactly 100% for me. 5/10
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