{"id":101890,"date":"2023-10-27T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=101890"},"modified":"2023-11-14T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T14:04:00","slug":"album-review-gravesend-gowanus-death-stomp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-gravesend-gowanus-death-stomp\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAVESEND – Gowanus Death Stomp (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

GRAVESEND
Gowanus Death Stomp<\/strong><\/span>
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\n20 Buck Spin (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The New York City sleaze merchants have returned, scurrying like rats from the sordid underbelly. More heinous tales are spun, tales which scrape the barrel of New York\u2019s alleyways. Urban decay, streetwise scum and blizzards of trash channelled through a blackened grind cacophony.<\/p>\n

The 2021 debut full-length outing from the trio \u2013 Methods Of Human Disposal<\/em> \u2013 was a vile blast indeed, but with Gowanus Death Stomp<\/em> the demented clan has delved further into the inner city misery by peeling back the layers to reveal fetid waterways clogged with animal remains, syringes and gunk and garbage bags bulging with severed human limbs.<\/p>\n

As per the debut outing, this second record pummels you to the ground and mashes your skull and brain through the grates of the drain. With its distorted samples and black plumes of grinding smoke, Gowanus Death Stomp<\/em> stinks of industrial filth as juggernaut riffs are burped out to the slamming percussion which tumbles and rumbles like a subway train on a humid, diseased underground network.<\/p>\n

As \u201811414\u2019 exhibits, Gravesend is the musical equivalent to having your head put in a full cement mixer; a dizzying experience of 16 tracks that spin and whirl like a grit-embraced cyclone. One imagines those squalid New York gutters lined with homeless bodies, litter and fumes as the crushing escapades of \u2018Even A Worm Will Turn\u2019, \u2018Festering In Squalor\u2019 and \u2018Code Of Silence\u2019 unravel like sudden storms.<\/p>\n

Everything in the world of Gravesend is grey and wicked and above all agitated as \u2018Thirty Caliber Pesticide\u2019 rages seemingly uncontrollably alongside the equally maniacal \u2018Carried By Six\u2019 and \u2018Vermin Victory\u2019. Barrages of sickening drums emerge on the harrowing \u2018The Third Rail\u2019 which is grindcore at its most formidable, while \u2018Crown Of Tar\u2019 slows the pace but drags you deeper into the sewer.<\/p>\n

This is pulverising stuff from Gravesend, a band without limitations or mercy as once again the trio leaves us for dead in the street so that the birds and rats can finish us off.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GRAVESENDGowanus Death Stomp 20 Buck Spin (2023)Rating: 9\/10 The New York City sleaze merchants have returned, scurrying like rats from the sordid underbelly. More heinous tales are spun, tales which scrape the barrel of New York\u2019s alleyways. Urban decay, streetwise scum and blizzards of trash channelled through a blackened grind cacophony. The 2021 debut full-length […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5517],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-gravesend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101891,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101890\/revisions\/101891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}