Dead Mountain Mouth is the hotly anticipated full length follow-up to Genghis Tron's bold 2005 debut EP, Cloak Of Love. Recorded at Godcity Studios with Kurt Ballou (Converge), Dead Mountain Mouth moves beyond the rapid-fi... more »re electro/grind genre splicing of Cloak Of Love and forms something new, something more cohesive and fluid, an arcane union of digital dreams and brutal heaviness, where speedcore outbursts blossom from clouds of maximum beat-driven bliss and futuristic metalcore riffage seethes from your speakers. These ten gloriously dense, triumphantly catchy jams soar through vast valleys of immense crush and wonderfully alien vistas of 8-bit wizardry unlike anything you've heard before.« less
Dead Mountain Mouth is the hotly anticipated full length follow-up to Genghis Tron's bold 2005 debut EP, Cloak Of Love. Recorded at Godcity Studios with Kurt Ballou (Converge), Dead Mountain Mouth moves beyond the rapid-fire electro/grind genre splicing of Cloak Of Love and forms something new, something more cohesive and fluid, an arcane union of digital dreams and brutal heaviness, where speedcore outbursts blossom from clouds of maximum beat-driven bliss and futuristic metalcore riffage seethes from your speakers. These ten gloriously dense, triumphantly catchy jams soar through vast valleys of immense crush and wonderfully alien vistas of 8-bit wizardry unlike anything you've heard before.
"i'm not even sure what to say about this album that hasn't been said. this is one of the most ecclectic, intense, aggressive, soothing, catchy, melodic, retardedly heavy, and dancable albums i've ever heard. actually i'm pretty sure it's the only album i've ever heard to which all of those adjectives even apply. it's also excellent, easily album-of-the-year material. if you've ever thought that maybe, just maybe, playing pig destroyer's and boards of canada's entire discographies simultaneously might not be a bad idea, buy this immediately. actually, f-ck that, if you in any way enjoy intelligent grind, metal, or mellowed-out ambient brain jams, preferably all three, buy this immediately."
Faster than a humming bird's heart exploding
Peter K. | PA | 05/05/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"There's no band quite like Genghis Tron. seriously how many grindcore bands have samples and breakbeats? Brilliant. With a band as creative as Genghis Tron the sky is the limit.
Dead mountain mouth has some of the fastest heaviest stuff you'll hear. but it also has some really beautiful ambient parts that not only add to the eclectic sound of the album but really adds that extra push when they smash your skull after a quiet pretty interlude.
Seriously this album will rock your face off if you buy it. Genghis Tron deserves more credit than they get. One of the most innovative and talented bands I've heard in a long time. Buy this along with their EP Cloak Of Love, your mind will be blown."
Beautiful follow up
hedpesteve | rome...ny | 06/09/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"insane drum machine action combined with furious riffing and ambient sounds. these guys go from sounding like the most extreme grind band to like background music to a nature channel, and it f*cking rules."
The warlord's ghost in the machine
Luke Rounda | Lawrence, KS | 04/01/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This is basically the sound of tuning an FM radio from inside a 1980s mainframe. A soundtrack to uploading Genghis Khan's consciousness to digital memory. The crazies in Genghis Tron spend equal time sounding like 65 Days of Static crossbred with Gregorian chant as they do thrashing the bejesus out of their guitars and vocal chords, Blood Brothers style, as if the end is truly near. Call them the Panic! At The Disco of grindcore.
Surprisingly, it's actually not too bad. The album's brevity should be praised, as anything in this vein much longer than thirty minutes or so runs the risk of biting the listener's ears right off. Length makes the record more palatable for replay value.
Considering that the vocals are as indecipherable as the next death metal band's, "Dead Mountain Mouth" is really an experiment in texture. Square wave wind chimes; too-perfectly-in-time, rabid-fire techno house drums; and digitally-created choral mirages play lieutenants to the raw meat guitars. If musical schizophrenia is your bag, you've arrived. Where, exactly, is another question. Simultaneously the past and the future?
Probably not, but it's an interesting listen nonetheless."
Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
