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Crucial Blast
Gnaw Their Tongues 'Collected Atrocities 2005-2008'
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Crucial Blast
Gnaw Their Tongues 'Collected Atrocities 2005-2008'
£11.99
Sought-after early material and rarities.
For nearly a decade, Dutch avant-black / doom entity Gnaw Their Tongues'named after a particularly evocative passage from the Book of Revelation'has infected the underground with a uniquely disturbing brand of chaotic heaviness. Fusing malevolent, rumbling doom and rabid, noise-damaged aggression with blasts of fearsome orchestral power and industrial pandemonium, and draping these lurching, hellish dirges in an oppressive atmosphere thick with horror and despair, the intensely nightmarish music of Gnaw Their Tongues defies easy categorization.
It's the sole work of architect and madman Mories, also known for his work in Cloak of Altering, Pyriphlegethon, De Magia Veterum, Aderlating, Mors Sonat, Pompidou, Dimlit Hate Cellar and others. In 2007, before the release of the band's Crucial Blast debut, An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood, Gnaw Their Tongues crawled into the black metal / industrial underground via a number of ultra-limited Eps which quickly went out of print, and are now sought after by fans of the band's abject, blackened horror.
Collected Atrocities 2005- 2008 is a double-disc anthology that gathers together essential, outof-print early recordings from the first three years of the project's existence, compiling the Preferring Human Skin Over Animal Fur, Horse Drawn Hearse and For All Slaves... A Song of False Hope EPs, the material from the Static Hymnal compilation, and other rarities from the bowels of the Gnaw Their Tongues archives.
"...a prime example of this twisted genius at work - while Collected Atrocities as a whole never relents in pushing the boundaries of what the dark ambient genre can achieve when placed within the creative hands of one as devilishly talented and morbidly creative as Mories. This one is a perfectly uneasy listen. 5/5" - RUE MORGUE MAGAZINE
"...some of the most harrowing and tension filled sounds this side of hell's blackest pit. Deep, orchestral cues of ambiance clash with propulsive sound frequencies, frenzied screaming and some of the bleakest samples put to record, all in order to instill the uneasiest of feelings within the hearts and minds of all who dare listen." - EXAMINER.COM
Track Listing:
Disc One:
1. For All Slaves... A Song of False Hope I
2. The Uncomfortable Silence in Between Beatings
3. A Fiery Deluge
4. My Womb Is Barren and I Want Revenge
5. Aderlating
6. For All Slaves... A Song of False Hope II
7. Body Bouquet
8. Slaves
Disc Two:
1. The Behemoth Crawls Ashore
2. Horse Drawn Hearse
3. Another Study in Bleakness and Despair
4. Prefering Human Skin Over Animal Fur
5. Spasming and Howling
6. Glorification of Rats
7. Circles of the Abyss
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