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Genres: Black Metal, Blackened Dark Ambient, Drone, Doom, Industrial
Label: Crucial Blast

Mories is back with another album full of terror-fueled and terrifying sounds under his Gnaw Their Tongues banner.
It’s really difficult to describe GTT’s sound as far as genre goes, because there is a lot of different things coming together to create the album. There is definitely black metal and dark ambient, but there’s also a little bit of drone/doom going on, and some industrial embellishments, reminding me of Skinny Puppy’s darker stuff at times.
The black metal is not your average Scandinavian fare, nor even American styled. It’s more like True Mories Black Metal, really. His vocals are tortured, his songs all explorations to the shroud of death on this album, and the ambiance throughout is deep, dark, and fucking horrifying, with the keys and strings coming more to the foreground over the vocals.
If you’re into Aderlating and haven’t checked Gnaw Their Tongues yet, or if you’re a fan of GGT already, just get the CD. You won’t regret it.
9 out of 10.

Gnaw Their Tongues on MySpace.

Genres: Black Metal, Dark Ambient
Label: Crucial Blast Records

Crucial Blast sent me a package with two CDs in it, Nekrasov and Gnaw Their Tongues. I checked out Nekrasov, and by the song titles and artwork inside I thought it would be pretty much straight ambient.
I was totally wrong.
Half of the album is really chaotic, evil sounding black metal, while the other half is wonderfully done dark ambient. But unlike most bands who write albums that are half-one-genre-half-the-next and splitting the tracks into what would be a Side A and Side B, Nekrasov split it up into black metal song, dark ambient, black metal, dark ambient, etc. A nice change-up.
The music itself is also a nice change-up. It seems that Nekrasov is actually trying to be original, and succeeding at it. It’s still black metal and dark ambient, but I can’t hear another album from a more known band when I listen to this. It’s pretty much 100% new for me, and I like it.
Aderlating, Gnaw Their Tongues, and Wold fans would probably enjoy this.
Add in some awesome artwork from Exotic Corpse, all in a sexy digipak, and you’ve got an awesome blackened package that you should not miss out on.
My favorite tracks are “We Are Just An Indifferent Interpretation of the Black Plague”, “Pre-Fetal Non-Mantra”, and of course, the title track with it’s epic length of nearly seventeen minutes.
8 out of 10.

Nekrasov on MySpace.

Chrome Leaf Records are firing up some disturbing new releases for 2010. The first to be released is the foul and utterly terrifying split LP between Australian noise terrorists NEKRASOV and  ADERLATING. This LP release will be limited to 300 copies only, on translucent dark green with silver splatter wax.

As one might expect from such a union, this split LP shall surely be one of the most frightening releases of 2010, punishing the listener with each act’s depraved experimentation within black metal, dark noise and ambient sub-musical territories. Australian one-man unit NEKRASOV embraces Nothing as a state and rejects Nothing as a value. NEKRASOV was initiated in 1997 to direct those to the black pain at the body’s core. The hell unleashed by the unit here is severely haunting; their lone track clocking in at a mammoth 24:42 in length… And that’s all before you even get to the wretched B-side of the split. From within the same dimly-lit hate cellar and born of the same dismal mind as Gnaw Their Tongues, the cavernous suffocation delivered by ADERLATING bursts forth with low frequency horror, nausea-inducing 20khz drones, fistfucking distorted tape-hiss and raped soundscapes, while the lowest and vilest of demons provide a diabolical orchestration. This is purely demented, scathing, metallic bliss.

The ADERLATING/NEKRASOV split LP release date is February 9. Here is the tracklisting for the split:

1. Nekrasov “Qualities of being Futile and Valueless” [24:42]
2. Aderlating “Chalice of Abalam” [10:15]
3. Aderlating “Ritus Orgia Sanqin” [6:24]
4. Aderlating “Dog Semen” [6:23]

Other upcoming releases from the Chrome Leaf banner this year include a 7″ picture disc of PORTAL’s Lurker At The Threshold EP on May 4th, and a one-sided mLP repress of PROSANCTUS INFERI’s Desecration In Excelsis [release date TBA]. Also in the works is the anticipated new DEADSEA epic two-song full-length, with a final album title, album info and release date to be announced shortly. In the meantime, DEADSEA will be appearing at the free Scion Rock Fest in the band’s hometown of Columbus, Ohio this March, alongside heavyweights Shrinebuilder, Pelican, D.R.I., Cannibal Corpse, Saviours, Brutal Truth and more (http://www.scion.com/rock/).