. .  
.
.
.         . .
.
... Home | Reviews
SEARCH 
.
.   .
.
Home
Reviews
Latest Reviews

Prong's X - No Absolutes

Rabid Flesh Eaters - Reign of Terror

Coffins/Isla Split

Haken - Affinity

Be'lakor - Vessels

Valdur - Pathetic Scum

Messa - Belfry

Die Choking - III

Sailing to Nowhere - To The Unknown

Black Anvil Interview

Six Feet Under - Graveyard IV The Number of the Priest

Destroyer 666 - Wildfire

Onslaught - Live at the Slaughterhouse

Rotten Sound - Abuse To Suffer

Venomous Concept - Kick Me Silly: VC III

The Great Discord - Duende

Arcana 13 - Danza Macabra

Die Choking - II

Obsidian Kingdom - A Year With No Summer

Thy Catafalque - Sgurr

Denner Shermann - Masters of Evil

Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth Review

by Hobo

.
"The Folding Road" starts off with some maniacal blasting with some brief touches of Nintendo style 8 bit ambience, then jumps straight into some industrial metal style polyrhythms and beats. As always the synth bass hovers around in the background. We then get a brief space of synth and ambience which develops into a slow breakdown.

My first thoughts are Genghis Tron have made a very obvious attempt to better meld elements of all the genres they play with. Instead of fairly disjointed passages jumping around everywhere, we have glimpses of electronics and ambience within riffing and blast beats. The songs themselves are more mature in their development, instead of being thrown together in a fairly adhoc fashion.

"Chapels" kicks in with a very extreme death/grind passage only to fall away into some electronic atmospherics, which builds up into a killer mid-paced break down. Synth keyboards match the guitar riffs as the distortion fades out signaling the end of the song. "From the Aisle" begins with an unhurried clean guitar riff and whispered lyrics while noise swirls around in the background. At around two minutes in this progresses to another slow hammering distorted passage which eventually dissipates into electronic noise.

The title track "Dead Mountain Mouth" thrashes through a series of math like licks and passages, spotted occasionally with blast beats or electronic ambience and some clean lyrics before bursting into a melodic crescendo of harmonizing guitars and synth. For the first part "White Walls" is a total s***fight of break beats, peculiar choruses, and melodic chords before turning a nice progressive breakdown into double bass induced madness. Everything soon dissipates into some electronic clap beats with some nice complementary clean guitarwork. "Badlands" takes the lead from white walls with some more electronic beats and ambience in a short interlude type track.

"Greek Beds" kicks and screams for a while before settle into a catchy little mid tempo guitar riff. Breaking down into a slower off-beat type passage, the song slowly progresses towards the end with some synth accompaniment to the guitar, underscored with a barrage of double bass. "Asleep on the Forest Floor" begins slowly and calmly, before settling into an effortless guitar riff, which rolls along slowly with much electronic ambient interference before becoming engulfed in wall of static. "Warm Woods" similarly is predominately a electronic track, with guitars coming and going continuously playing a similar riff as electronics jump around sporadically and progress into another crescendo.

Definitely a big change from the first album, not the concept, but the execution. Instead of being fairly ad-hoc and start/stop, these electronic elements are much more blended with the entire progression and structure of the song. The album is extremely more complicated, but in saying that, it is also less identifiably broad in terms of genre-hopping -as everything is far more cohesive. Most of the intense spastic s*** is crammed into the first four tracks - so some of the latter tracks were a bit of a letdown as I waited patiently to have my head blown off again.

That being said this is still a brilliant album, but it is so eclectic, so diverse and so eccentric, it' going to take me a long time to rationalize what I have heard. The main genres played with seem to be grind, death, hardcore, mathcore and of course a large suit of electronics. If you were intrigued by the debut EP, you will enjoy this. If you have more Agoraphobic Nosebleed or f*** I' Dead leanings, this will suit you too.


CD Info and Links

Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth

Label:Crucial Blast
Rating:8.9

Preview and Purchase This CD Online

Visit the official homepage

More articles for this artist

tell a friend about this review

.

The Pit Your turn to get in the pit with your thoughts about this review and CD


They call you
What do you think ?:



Posted by Hobo:
It rules.



...end



Thrash Worthy Link



.
.
antiMUSIC - iconoFAN - Rocknworld - Day in Rock - Rock Search - thrashPIT - iconoSTORE
.
Thrashpit is presented by Rocknworld.com - Part of the antiMusic Network

Tell a Friend about this page - Contact Us - Privacy - Link to us

Copyright© 1998 - 2007 Iconoclast Entertainment Group
All rights reserved.
No Part of this site may be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in any form.
Please click here for legal restrictions and terms of use applicable to this site.
Use of this site signifies your agreement to the terms of use. Updated 12-19-99