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

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OLD MAN GLOOM The Ape Of God II LP

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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 second Ape Of God disc delivers even more extreme experiments in feedback-fueled sorcery and high-frequency drone, the very beginning of the album consisting of a piercing tone that is slowly surrounded by bursts of granular static and random glitches, building to the imminent arrival of the band's titanic droning sludge-metal. As that opening suggests, this is the more experimental of the two albums, with longer tracks that tend to center around sprawling riff-scapes of Neurosis-esque apocalyptic sludge. Still skull-cavingly heavy, though; tracks like "Burden" will be fawned over by those aching for Isis's massive atmospheric heaviness, though this ultimately finds itself heading into a spacier, more psychedelic direction, flecked with lots of abstract electronic noise. "Predators" is more in the vein of the previous disc's churning mathy chug, though the rollicking, almost Hammond-like organ accompaniment certainly gives that song its own peculiar trippy taste before it ends up decaying into a crushing wall of over-modulated distortion laced with bits of odd operatic drama and stretches of evil, doom-laden slowcore. The whole direction seems more surreal compared to the other disc, the crushing angular sludgy heaviness often giving way to weird spoken word parts and bizarre Pattonesque vocal weirdness, expansive droning ambience populated with foghorn-like blasts of distant maritime gloom, surreal minimal soundscapes that sound like environmental recordings from the wilderness of some distant alien world, while the epic closer "Arrows To Our Hearts" unfurls into haunting, saurian prog-metal, almost like a dreamier, more solemn Tool at times, awash in glimmering droning guitars, soulful layered vocals and swirling sheets of electronic drift   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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