Golers
South
Mountain Style
14 Track
Album
Unrest
Records
Originally
self-released on CD in 1999.
Released
February 2005
Written for Ramzine
Golers – Vancouver Canada
Links:
Genre: Hard-core Crossover Thrash with a
Punk edge
Biography:
“Founded
in 1998 the GOLERS have built up
momentum over the course of 4 albums and many tours. 1999's "South
Mountain Style" ushered in the classic Goler sound combining most, if not all extreme metal styles with
punk and thrash into one cohesive sound. Next up was 2004's "2nd
Generation", which showcased a slightly more polished sound and with these
two albums they began to gain a following in their hometown of Vancouver BC and
surrounding cities. 2009 saw the release of their 3rd album "Backwoods
Messages" which has helped spread the Goler
word further!”
~~~~~~~~~~
On
first seeing the name ‘Goler’ I had
visions of the band being mad soccer fans but after a bit of research found out
the shocking truth behind the band’s name. In Annapolis Valley Nova Scotia, on
one hill - South Mountain, lives the clan of impoverished, inbred hillbillies,
ignored or shunned by the people in the valley below for two hundred years. Few
have much schooling, most are unemployed, and they keep almost entirely to
themselves.
Two
solitudes side by side, until one day in January 1984, Sandra Golder, aged
thirteen, burst into tears in class. When her teacher took her out into the hall
to ask her why she was crying, a gruesome story of incest and sexual abuse
began to emerge. Within hours the story had spread to the principal, a social
worker, and finally the police. Within weeks a fully-fledged scandal had been
unleashed on the valley: sixteen adults, men and women from the Mountain were
charged with hundreds of allegations of incest and sexual abuse of children as
young as five. It gradually became clear that this had been going on for
generations, a cycle endlessly repeated.
It’s
typical for a metal band with punk edged blends to want to choose a name that
shocks and Golers are no exception
to the rule. Their particular brand of crossover thrash and punk works equally
well by creating a shocking barrage of extreme madness.
Each
track boasts its own theme of descriptive ‘tongue in cheek’ muses that scream
of vengeful aggression. It is no surprise that the track titles will cause you
to smirk especially at the title ‘Slippin’ on Urine’ that conjures up a really
funny image in the mind, although the song itself is quite scarring with its
evil fast and lurid tones.
The
music embraces its punk theme and exploits it to the full. Together they breed
stupendously rousing rhythms that fuse with constant beats and flavoured
emotions.
The
energy they exude is typical and so not covering any new ground but despite
that the band have produced a core of powerful tracks that reach boiling point
in an instant.
The
track ‘Golers’ starts off in a
hillbilly style straight from the South and soon turns into a mutantion of
scarring rhythms that fascinate and hold an extremely aggressive streak.
If
you love crossover thrash with punk edge then ‘Golers’ are the way forward!
Track List:
Hoe
Basil
(The Luckless Seal)
Slippin’
on Urine
Numbskull
Prehistoric
Future
Golers
This is
not a test
Outhouse
Fuckrace
Salt Lick
Pork
roast
Stump
Murf’s
Law
Coleman
S.M.S
Members:
Cecil -
Bass
Cranswick
- Drums
Henry
"The 1st" – Guitar/Vocals/Engineer
"Chainsaw"
Charlie – Vocals/Guitar
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