Gnaw Their Tongues - Abyss of Longing Throats (Crucial Blast) 2015
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In the four years since Per Flagellum Sanguemque…, Mories has been a busy lad, with splits, collaborations, several albums under the Seirom and Aderlating banners and a constant clearing of the vaults all ensuring that the foul taste never quite left our mouths. Still, the acrid bite of copper is redoubled with Abyss Of Longing Throats, a harrowing heptaptych that puts the oft-utilised tag of ‘anti-music’ to rest. In other words, this is the most musical and structured GTT work to date, one swollen with morbid grandeur as cinematic waves of synth and drone sweep over blistered landscapes of martial percussion and the retches, moans and curses of Mories.
Given the project’s reputation, the atmosphere throughout is unsurprisingly suffocating, the clanking industrial doom of The Holy Body verging on Khanate levels of intensity while the decidedly more straightforward black metal is a remorseless blast of air in what is otherwise a lightless vacuum, but once again it’s Mories’ use of negative space and minimalist, creaking malevolence that ties the whole thing together. As a brave and uncompromising musical force, GTT has never been anything if not ambitious, but Abyss…, from its languorous pacing to his rigorousattention to detail, is a striking work of horror.