Artist: Gom Jabbar | Pissing Contest
Album: Gom Jabbar | Pissing Contest Split
Release Date: August 18th 2023
Genres: Experimental Grindcore / Noise / Drone/Sludge Metal
Formats: Digital, Cassette
Label: Morbid and Miserable Records
Location: Toledo, Ohio, USA
Length: 18:50
Price: $1 Digital, $9 Cassette
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Message From The Label
Release whatever grasp you have on reality. In the formless void that remains you will experience sound. Morbid And Miserable Records presents… that sound. Welcome to an experimental noisegrind split between Gom Jabbar and Pissing Contest – two Toledo-based projects delving into auditory disorder. Each group has created a 9+ minute track of chaos sourced from a place beyond our comprehension.
– Morbid and Miserable
Gom Jabbar has taken on several forms in the years that they have been together, but for the time being they are an experimental three-piece studio project. Their last release – Spice from 2020 – offered a maddening mix of inspirations including power electronics, powerviolence, black metal, and more. For this split, they recorded the track “Magic in Numbers” which focuses in on a more select set of influences: noise and grindcore.
Pissing Contest on the other hand was conceived of as an improvised studio collaboration focused on grindcore and crust. Most of the group’s initial sessions were released as a self-titled EP in late 2020. Although Pissing Contest has been quietly recording more material, their contribution to this split – the track “X” – was taken from one of their first sessions in the studio. However, X was excluded from the debut Pissing Contest release due to its length and more abstract qualities.
Album Credits
Gom Jabbar
Jackie X – Vocals & Bass
Pat Peltier – Electronics
Jason Wilcox – Drums
Thanks to JC Griffin, Grady, Gabe, Lucy, Lucas, Vision, Kei, Pig Boys, Birb, and Morbid and Miserable
Pissing Contest
Will335 – Guitars
Jason Wilcox – Drums
Teusdae Paxston – Vocals
Guitars and drums recorded in Jan of 2020 by JC Griffin at Lakebottom Recording House
Vocals recorded in Aug of 2020 by Vince at Mount Doom
Mixed and mastered by JC Griffin
Pissing Contest logo by AJ German
Track List:
1. Gom Jabbar – Magic in Numbers (09:20)
2. Pissing Contest – X (09:30)
More About the Album:
| Gom Jabbar and Pissing Contest two of Toledo’s most experimental, unhinged and abrasive musical acts have come together to give you, the listener, and auditory ass kicking. They pull no punches here, doubling down as you beg for mercy. My advice? Just give in and let the music take you where it so desires. It just happens to desire sonic hellscapes laden with crippling feedback and discordant, erratic melodies. Gom Jabbar’s Magic in Numbers delivers and almost alien tone and essence, with the vocals and instrumentals sounding almost familiar, but so distorted and twisted that they couldn’t possibly be of this world. Faded, wild screeches reverberate softly alongside droning, biting guitar and chaotic brass instrumentation. This goes on for a whopping nine and a half minutes before what you assume would be a brief respite. Pissing Contest – X takes things heavier, louder and more unsettling. This is a track that would feel right at home being played opening for Primitive Man. The guitar tones are set between earth shaking heaviness and distortion and wild, crispy technical wailing. The vocals are evil, guttural and raw with an almost cavernous effect to them, with haunting clean vocals darting between. This too comes in at nine and a half minutes of auditory punishment. If you think you can handle 19 minutes of noise laden grindcore, drone and sludge, then let this album be your next challenge. er to stand out, it comes down to song writing ability, where artists can create tracks that are actually memorable and interesting, rather than just showing off their technical skill. Vermilion Dawn is one such project, as Cody Stonebrook gives us technical death metal that is able to actually capture the interest of fans of more traditional death metal and die hard tech death fans alike. The production is high enough that the album even has potential to draw in deathcore fans and yet there’s enough raw aggression and attitude that it also appeals to metal elitists. Listeners will draw comparison to bands such as The Faceless, Rivers of Nihil and Fallujah, while even finding some similarities to Cattle Decapitation. While the album clearly draws influences from these bands, this is not a worship band, as Cody gives more than enough fresh riffs, guitar tones and vocal deliveries in order to stand out as his own unique tech death powerhouse. The guitarwork on the album is easily its greatest draw card, showcasing Cody’s impressive technical ability. Not only is it technically masterful, but it displays a high level of variety of tone and tempo. At no point does the music ever feel boring or repetitive. The same can be said for the vocals, which vary from deeply guttural and highly powerful to raw and bitingly shrieked. If you’re a technical death metal fan in any capacity, you won’t want to miss this one. Boreal Valley is the logical evolution of Vermilion Dawn’s sound and stands to become an underground tech death gem, if not a true classic. |
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