posted 04/01/2007 (Sun) @ 11:29 am
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Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth (2006)
The warlord’s ghost in the machine
- The Folding Road
- Chapels
- From The Aisle
- Dead Mountain Mouth
- White Walls
- Badlands
- Greek Beds
- Asleep On The Forest Floor
- Warm Woods
- Lake Of Virgins
This is basically the sound of tuning an FM radio from inside a 1980s mainframe. A soundtrack to uploading Genghis Khan’s consciousness to digital memory. The crazies in Genghis Tron spend equal time sounding like 65 Days of Static crossbred with Gregorian chant as they do thrashing the bejesus out of their guitars and vocal chords, Blood Brothers style, as if the end is truly near. Call them the Panic! At The Disco of grindcore.
Surprisingly, it’s actually not too bad. The album’s brevity should be praised, as anything in this vein much longer than thirty minutes or so runs the risk of biting the listener’s ears right off. Length makes the record more palatable for replay value.
Considering that the vocals are as indecipherable as the next death metal band’s, “Dead Mountain Mouth” is really an experiment in texture. Square wave wind chimes; too-perfectly-in-time, rabid-fire techno house drums; and digitally-created choral mirages play lieutenants to the raw meat guitars. If musical schizophrenia is your bag, you’ve arrived. Where, exactly, is another question. Simultaneously the past and the future?
Probably not, but it’s an interesting listen nonetheless.
Tags: electronica, experimental, grindcore, metal
