Gorehound
Obsolete
10 Track Album
Released 2nd January 2013
Recorded live on Dec. 6, 2012; outside at The Art
Institute of Austin in Round Rock, TX.
Gorehound – Cedar
Park, Texas
Links:
https://www.facebook.com/Gorehoundband
Listen and Buy Here:
http://gorehound.bandcamp.com/
Genre: Metal/Punk/Thrash
In the bands own words:
“A small band
from Cedar Park, TX with a big sound. Located just outside the capital city of
Austin, TX. GoreHound is something
very different in the music scene, a new breed of Texas Thrash. We've been
playing together for about four years now. We changed our name about three years
ago from AN OBAMINATION to GOREHOUND.
We recently finished our first live LP and in post-production for our split
with Clandestine Grave. We are also in post- production for an 8 track self-produced
studio album”
Obsolete
“You are
obsolete Mr Wordsworth!” So it would seem according to Gorehound. This track starts off quite ambient and sparse and then
turns into a ferocious frenzy of distortion incorporating a fast gnarly vocal,
and regurgitated scales of riffing eventually smooth out into a slower
more melodic haze, but no sooner done than the samples start over shouting “Obsolete!”
Walkers
More grind than
punk or thrash this track. It simply obliterates as it thunders into action and
combines with a hateful vocal entourage, slowing to a near standstill. The rhythms twist into a frenzy further on in
the track and turn into a throbbing array of beats and a highly recommended
listen.
Burnt Lands
More samples
created giving everyone a lesson in English and Science. A garbled frenzy of
venomous vocals emanate from the speakers like a winding snake amid some
confident rhythms that stand solid and strong with an ambient peppering of
riffs.
Saboteur
A fast frenzy
of kick beats push forth with sinewy riffage played at an amazing pace and not
overused. The vocals are rasping and damming
in structure that offers something quite pleasing to the ear.
Inmates
A more melodic
sway to this track – if it had hips it would be moving them put it that way!
And no doubt when played live could cause a lot of neck wreckage! It never
loses intensity through-out and builds further into one amazing track.
Entranced
More samples –
Sound of an old car chugging into existence and a voice saying: “I knew a guy
who had a car like that once, fucking bastard killed himself in it, son of a
bitch was so mean you could have poured boiling water down his throat and he
would have pissed ice cubes!” The drum beat is constant and simply explodes as
the vile, vindictive vocals come to the forefront in dominating fashion as the
infused mayhem continues.
Charge
Yet more
samples on the same theme of transport. This is thrashing fantastic as a
build-up emerges and vocally demonic. No
escaping the power this track creates as it thunders through the speakers,
slightly slowing to allow a melodic whimper to scurry past and then delving
back into the downright brutal it continues with the speed of an express train.
Great track!
Desperado
Tripping the
light fantastic this blisters as it whizzes past your ears as well as through
them and will leave scorch marks! This whole album is expertly recorded and
produced considering it is played live it is crystal clear! The pummeling is
simply superb just as the riffing and the vocal scathing. It comes together in
a superb melting pot of bone crushing extremity.
Supersonic
Suicide
Frenzied array
of fiery pulsation that houses a more punk like vocal and just as damming
musically too. This track would gain you points on a licence if it was a car on
the motorway! Gnarly and vindictive passages of crazed metal just keep pounding
the aural with extreme ferocity.
Rugburn
This is like a
carry on from the last track, just as frenzied and powerful with scathing, punishing
rhythms that cry out amid a vengeful screeching vocal and powerful riffs.
Damming and superb.
To Sum up:
This album
conforms well to its extremes and houses some of the most powerful frenzied
riffs and pummeling drum beats known to man. Vocally huge and intense. It belongs in the insanity department of the
local mental asylum as it will send you into a void of unrest, well there’s no
sleeping through this barrage of extremity – no way on earth! Fast-paced and
crazed ridden it is a superb live album despite not hearing any of the crowd so
that must have been edited out, for obvious reasons.
It has a slight
sprinkling of melodic contour which is quickly overpowered with skull crushing
intensity and punchy addictive riffing.
Not for the faint of heart – this album will cause serious damage to the
neck and you may end up with a few knots in your hair from your wind-milling
adventures! The only down side is perhaps there is a little too much use of
samples however they do add to the tracks and give a nice slant and so
redeeming themselves somewhat, but otherwise a superb live album.
9/10
Track List:
Obsolete
Walkers
Burnt Lands
Saboteur
Inmates
Entranced
Charge
Desperado
Supersonic Suicide
Rugburn
Gorehound
Members:
Ryan McIrvin - Rhythm Guitar/Backing Vocals
Jacob Hardin - Lead Vocals
Chris Myers - Lead Guitar
Scott Brouillette - Drums/Backing Vocals
Produced by Gorehound
Mixed & Mastered by: Chris M.
Album Art: Scott B. & Chris M.
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