OLD MAN GLOOM The Ape Of God I LP crushing avant-sludge metal Converge Isis NEW

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OLD MAN GLOOM The Ape Of God I LP

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*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
    Now available on both gatefold CD and limited-edition vinyl in letterpress jacket with oversized booklet.
    Always my favorite of all of the bands that came out of that Boston metallic hardcore nexus, Old Man Gloom were also always the strangest, taking the sort of pummeling mathy metallic heaviness that the members' other bands were known for (Isis, Converge and Cave In) and combining it with a heavy dose of post-industrial abrasion a la something you'd get from the old HeadDirt catalog. The band's latest offering certainly delivers more of that quirky, occasionally proggy metallic crunch, still rife with those otherworldly noise textures that laced previous albums and still teeming with their weird alien/simian obsessions, but with Ape Of God the guys in Old Man Gloom deliver twice the damage, releasing two nearly identical-looking full-length discs that each features a completely different recording, comprising two halves of a sprawling, demented art-metal whole...
    The first Ape disc is ultra-heavy stuff, for sure. Lurching, down-tuned sludge is carved into mathy, twisted forms, that metallic heaviness at the center of the album's sonic assault, but they surround it with gales of cracked electronics and ghostly electronic ambience, gleaming black drones and squalls of manic glitchery surfacing throughout the pummeling math-metal battery. Eerie female singing (courtesy of Mammifer's Faith Coloccia) gets distorted into a ghostly, grating blur that's smeared across the beginning of opener "Eden's Gate", which leads the band into the album's first blast of jaggedly angular heaviness. From there, strange sample-laden soundscapes materialize beneath the churning, chugging riffage and turbid, almost tribal-tinged drumming, and massive slow-moving dirges sprawl out beneath stunning choral vistas. Punishing, almost power electronics-grade feedback lashes violently against the frenzied math-metal of tracks like "Promise", only to give way to expanses of smoldering, volcanic noise and crumbling electro-acoustic garble, long stretches of grainy, gritty electronics that strongly resemble the harsh noisescapes of artists like Vomir or The Rita. Then there's also some of that spooky, Western-tinged atmosphere that you'd find on previous albums, appearing here in the subtle, moody guitar shadings and watery melodies that occasionally peer through Ape's grim apocalyptic churn. And also as before, the band interjects the occasional blast of speed among the mostly slower tempos, with the shorter tracks "Never Enter" and "Fist Of Fury" erupting into a strange, drone-draped blast of avant-hardcore. By "Simia Dei", these elements finally all come together, a crushing, elegiac wall of 'gazey heaviness laced with seraphic beauty and bone-rattling tribal drumming, easily one of the most gorgeous tracks I've ever heard from Old Man Gloom. Top-notch experimental math-metal/avant-drone from these guys, as always.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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