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GAWTHROP “Kuboa”
GAWTHROP “Kuboa”
By Dr. Abner Mality
Emerging from the unlikely domain of South Korea, GAWTHROP are bound and determined to be the absolute opposite of the disgustingly sugary, commercial and infantile K-pop scene that has ruined the country for many heavy rock fans. This is the five-alarm kimchee of the metal world, a mass of fermenting, rotting organic matter that will blow your stomach apart. And I’m telling you right now, I am here for it!
This is super thick and gooey sludge metal of the most sickening kind. Imagine a collision between the doomier moments of Japan’s COFFINS and the slowest, ickiest CHURCH OF MISERY. There you have GAWTHROP, who just keep tossing sludge riffs on top of you until you suffocate. The guitar sound is MASSIVE, the bass disgusting and the vocals push the element. But throughout it all, the power of the riff prevails and keeps this from being just a lot of feedback and noise. Things kick off with the ugly trudge of “Bulbocapnine” (whatever the fuck that is) and they don’t deviate for the next six tracks. Don’t expect any breathing room, NOLA style blues, acoustic interludes or synth diversions here (although eerie church organ pops up a time or two). The only track where there’s a shred of melody is “Jumbo”, which has a touch of the Gothic to it.
This is about as simple as metal can get yet it is devastatingly effective. Heavy seems an inadequate word to describe “Kuboa”...get yerself some sludge kimchee right here!
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