GASKET

GASKET     "Gasket"

By Dr. Abner Mality

If you like your hardcore crustier and dirtier than a warthog's asshole, Baltimore's GASKET is for you. This band came out of nowhere and did a drive-by on me with their self-titled debut. 

To say this is to the point is a massive understatement. The album does its dirty work in well under a half hour, with the longest track coming in at an epic 2:53. GASKET doesn't need any more time than that, so thank God we didn't get excruciatingly drawn out PRIMITIVE MAN dirges. Although these guys are every bit as dirty and sludgy. While most strongly rooted in hardcore, this will have a lot of appeal to lovers of death metal and sludge. Imagine aggressive hardcore with the swampy sound of EYEHATEGOD, breakdowns that are beyond HATEBREED and an almost HELLHAMMER approach to riffing that is caveman to the max. And oh yeah, the singer screams like he's in the middle of an aneurysm. Lots of feedback adds to the fun.

This album starts out nasty but gets thicker and more intense the further in you go. Early cuts like "Die Trying"  and "Carousel" have a lot of the classic NYHC attack, but "The Clod", "Nailed Down" and the bone-shaking "Bricksucker" bring the sludge, with some REAL breakdowns that put most kiddie deathcore to shame.

This is the  sonic equivalent of a smash and grab operation, recommended to those who like their music REALLY ugly.

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GASKET