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Even
Less is
the latest full-length from Louisiana sludge grind assassins, GRISTNAM.
Featuring
former members of haarp and Omean, GRISTNAM lives by the
grind-groove-repeat ethos spewing out billowing odes of revulsion, disease and
chronic disenchantment. Out now on Housecore Records, Even Less is
a duel bruiser that features five tracks from their 2013-issued Release
1 EP and six new violent requiems.
In
commemoration of its release, today Cvlt Nation is hosting streams of
"Guilt Runs Red," and "Copperhead" gushing, "Some
music just doesn't have that 'feel good' factor, but instead has the make you
feel sick to your bones feeling! This is the case with New Orleans' GRISTNAM -
they are not trying to make friends with their brand of head-lock-of-death kind
of sludge... this band sets out to punish the listener from the getgo. GRISTNAM succeeds
in creating an album that is full scathing hate for all that is fucked up in
this world... Pick up this diseased piece of sludge."
Feel
the wrath, courtesy of Cvlt Nation, at THIS LOCATION.
The
cumulative sound of a society gone rotten, The Sludgelord likens Even
Less to, "an uppercut wrapped in barbed wire to the unsuspecting
jaw, mixing together Superjoint Ritual, Eyehategod, and as much whisky and
pills as they could find on the nearest truck stop bathroom floor,"
further observing, "The album smacks of anger and pissiness, grinding like
early Eyehategod, with a sound that just pumps the blood up... a perfect
balance between sludge and grind, with a deep, nasty tone, and a speed that
isn't thrash, but a headlong rush of metal to the side of the head." Said
Skulls 'N' Bones, "with roots in hardcore and grind, not to mention the
expected sludge, GRISTNAM trudge through Even Less with
reckless intensity... the music wallows in ugly anger, and each composition
gnaws like an electric knife hitting bone. By the time frontman Shaun
Emmons bellows, 'Mark my words, a funeral is coming!," on the
album-opening 'Etch And Burn,' it is clear that these guys mean business."
Zero Signal Magazine calls Even Less, "a beast of an
album," noting bluntly, "GRISTNAMwill tear you from ass to
front," while Thisisbooksmusic.com opines: "These guys sound like the
New Orleans metal bastards they are, taking in the kind of crunch and dirges
that come from some of the best metal bands out of the south, but also adding
in a thick hardcore punk spirit that results in songs with a number of
different texture and tempo changes. They remind of bands like Bone Dance, The
Dillinger Escape Plan, and Retox, but with their own richness that will help
keep them low and high at the same time."
Even
Less is currently available on
orange wax (limited to 300 copies) and cassette (limited to 100 copies) via
Housecore Records at THIS LOCATION.
Source: Earsplit
PR
