GNAW - Horrible Chamber

I was ready to slaughter this album, having had the displeasure of obtaining a copy of Gnaw's first album, but already at first listen I had no reason to anymore. This album is a horror chamber soundtrack, torture music really and quite enjoyable ghastly though it isn't comparable to any Stalaggh/Gulaggh nightmare but still.

Having said that it's still the sludge and doom tracks that are the highlights of the album. I had a instant vision of a early Black Sabbath demotape, marinated in alcoholic puke, then sundried and looped. That's how nicely distorted the Gnaw take on the doom/sludge genre sounds. Overall Horrible Chamber is a mixture of death/dark electronic ambient and distorted guitars that reach their peak in "Vulture".

One the negative side is how quickly the amount of vocals start to wear me out. Alan Dubin weird vocal style was great back in O.L.D. days and still is but he is just everywhere on this album and when the tracks have different noisescapes colliding the vocalist should have the sense and respect to shut up once in a while or have his voice dug into the track. [Seventh Rule]
- Sigurður Harðarson

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