Gollum – The Core
Posted on April 14, 2009 at 8:00 am by admin
In the world of extreme music, boundaries always need to be pushed. Faster. Louder. Heavier. Slower. Unfortunately, some of these pushes to the extreme end up being superficial.
So what does Gollum have for us? Well, it starts with some insanely heavy southern rock and good old 80’s rock made insanely heavy, but after that it gets weird. Strange harsh grooving, big spaces with bass slogging along up to tremolo picking a little bit of blast beating. At times, the down tuned morass gets a little like nu-metal with integrity.
The vocals are equally as strange, coming off as members tag teaming each other. A strangled high croak that sometimes comes close to Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth, then there’s also a lower bark that’s a dead ringer for Randy Blythe from Lamb of God. There’s other noisier vocal experiments within the album, but those are the most used elements.
So what is “The Core”? I always say that music this different that’s able to fire on all cylinders is the equivalent of expanding ones mind without the drugs.
Released April 14th, 2009
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Buy this album at Amazon.com and Amazon.ca
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