{"id":48900,"date":"2016-05-25T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=48900"},"modified":"2016-05-25T12:55:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T17:55:44","slug":"dank-gorguts-review-pleiades-dust-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/dank-gorguts-review-pleiades-dust-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Dank Gorguts Review: Pleiades’ Dust EP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Skronk pioneers Gorguts<\/strong> have just released an EP called Pleiades’ Dust<\/em>,\u00a0consisting entirely of one long<\/span> song. So how does it fare? Quite well dear reader, but I recommend hitting the bong first for maximum listening pleasure. Join me in this quest.<\/p>\n

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Though I won’t claim to be a huge Gorguts fan (I have little to no experience prior to this decade) I did greatly enjoy Colored Sands<\/em>, the band’s comeback album back in 2013. Aside from that, the most experience I had was spinning\u00a0fan-favorite Obscura<\/em>\u00a0no more than\u00a0a handful of times. So when the metal world collectively rejoiced at the prospect of 33 more minutes of Colored Sands<\/em>-esque material, I simply thought, “more of a great thing might just bore me, I’d rather hear them pushing the envelope a little more” and chose not to\u00a0investigate. A few weeks later, Toilet sage Christian Molenaar<\/a> corrected my way of thinking by explaining that: “33 more minutes of Colored Sands<\/em>-esque material is exactly what [he]\u00a0wanted… and they delivered!”<\/p>\n

The first step to remedy my mistake was to pick up a physical copy of the album because I’m familiar with band leader Luc Lemay’s great obsession to detail, whether it’s in the song compositions or the sound quality of the final product itself. A digital copy of Pleiades’ Dust<\/em> wouldn’t be sufficient for maximum enjoyment of this particularly tricky sub-genre of metal:\u00a0SKRONK<\/em><\/a>. In fact, when I was at the\u00a0local FYE in line to purchase my copy of the album, the Cute Young Sales Girl<\/strong> (CYSG) inquired about the genre of music that I was about to enjoy, and asked for a definition of this skronk; to which I replied:<\/p>\n

“It’s dissonant death metal, the riffs are composed of notes that do not strive to be ‘pretty’ sounding. A riff may contain some notes that flow very well together, then the guitarist will surprise the listener by switching to a note that does not sound natural. It makes the ‘SKRONK’ sound when shifting from one note to the next unexpected one.” [Then I made a goofy, contorted facial expression when I switched to that crazy note.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It got me thinking, “I essentially told CYSG that it’s a terrific death metal band playing music that doesn’t sound ‘good’.\u00a0How preposterous.<\/em>” But it holds true, there’s an intrinsic beauty about dissonant death metal that’s not “pretty,” but definitely requires a greater attention to detail in order to enjoy. Skronk is most certainly an “acquired taste” in the world of music; a casual listener might pass it by simply because of its lack of generally-accepted beauty. But that\u00a0also propels this particular trend into enthusiast<\/em> territory: somebody who enjoys this style of music is REALLY going to enjoy it, and do his\/her best to seek out other bands that sound similar.\u00a0[Editor’s Note: Skronk and dissonance are not interchangeable terms. There can be dissonance in conventional riffs and song structure, but\u00a0skronk traditionally implies a lengthy technique that defies conventional structure and style.]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Absorbing new material from a band like Gorguts will be greatly enhanced with a dank state of mind; so I chose to rip a bong and head out on a long-ish car ride to\u00a0listen with the volume way up and the windows way down. Make sure your car ride is approximately 30 minutes, because you are going to want to enjoy the entire thing in one sitting, taking in the dynamic shifts in volume from whisper quiet tom tapping to\u00a0earth-shaking double bass that requires<\/em> sub-woofers. [Editor’s Note:<\/strong> don’t drive impaired, dummies.]<\/strong><\/p>\n